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0 pointskelseyfrog1y ago0 comments

The article missed the biggest opportunity to be curious by avoiding the question: What if they're right?

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karaterobot1y ago· 1 in thread

> But by the same token we should not automatically reject everything the woke believe... It would be a mistake to discard them all just because one didn't share the religion that espoused them. It would be the sort of thing a religious zealot would do.

To be fair, he does say the above, which is close enough. The problem with asking "what if they're right" is that there's no single formulation of beliefs shared universally by such large and diverse group, so you can't consider whether they are right or not, only whether each individual expression is.

rukuu0011y ago

But there’s this statement as well:

> Racism, for example, is a genuine problem. Not a problem on the scale that the woke believe it to be…

The whole idea of woke (in the non pejorative sense) is that you’ve done the work to perceive the actual problem.

That statement shows that he hasn’t, which I think undermines the good parts of the essay.

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mikkelam1y ago· 1 in thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mmskXXetcg

anonfordays1y ago

This is a fantastic response. Wokeism is a pseudo-religion, and Dawkins's response to the in vouge religion is timeless.

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