On one hand, I’ve often cringed at some of the wokeisms in movies and TV shows. Not because they bother me in essence, but because of how the right can now capitalize on woke sentiments, paint progressives as evil, and gain impressive tribal followings as a result. It’s similar to the kind of feelings I get when I see adults, like DJ McNasty, calling people names and bullying people, calling so many women “nasty”, while his tribe comes together, laughs and jeers along with him.
I’ve spoken up against the depth of wokeism to my daughters, and they were perplexed by my “attitude”. While they’re typically not vocally feminist or woke… it’s not like they wear it on their sleeves. It’s an inner drive for them, to act progressive and act the part in their chosen professions. They grew up, half Japanese, seeing prejudice even here in progressive, northern California. And my ex now very successful in Tokyo is still facing that kind of prejudice just because the progressiveness she gained here rubs off in Japan, along with being so successful as a female, as they’re still “behind” the curve of progressiveness in Japan, even in a relatively cosmopolitan Tokyo.
These issues of prejudice have been systemically present for hundreds of years. Men have always made the rules and enforced them. It’s been that way for so long that it’s in human nature which is not easy to update. Look at the blowback now. I used to be comfortable with the general concept of progressiveness, but the seemingly instinctive blowback has taken us backwards, empowering aggressive conservativatism to the point of threatening democracy.
So currently, I’m just baffled by both sides’ stubbornness and predicaments. I have no idea if/how we’ll ever get past these true crises, at least not soon. Jeebus, I had no idea the right would be so afraid of melting into non-existence, like, umm, snowflakes.
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