>"He defines wokeness as “An aggressively performative focus on social justice.” By doing this, he concedes that the woke are correct (implying that differences between groups are a problem worth solving), but just thinks the way they’re going about it is the problem. "
I generally agree with Erik here, but to some extent both of these people are missing part of the point, or at least the severity of it. Wokeness is an anti-equality movement that aims to take away rights from already disadvantaged and marginalized people.
For example, in Australia, it's now illegal to have any single-sex gay spaces or meetings. Gay dating apps are banned because trans people demand access. Lesbian bars and parties are illegal because woke people call exclusive same-sex attraction "bigotry". A man sued a lesbian dating app to gain access and won. Gay people now have to have their meetings - both online and in person - in secret again, like they did 50 years ago, because woke people have successfully campaigned against gay people having rights.
Children are sterilized and mutilated because woke people are willing to risk someone's life to make sure they fit precisely into one of two 1950s gender norm boxes, and if anyone doesn't conform they'll come after them with a scalpel. Yarden Silveira died in agony at the age of 23 with his intestines spilling out of his fake vagina onto a hospital bed because woke people told him he wasn't allowed to not conform to a gender box, and had to get surgery to fit into one.
Male rapists are placed in women's prisons, because woke people fought for the "right" for male rapists to be locked up with women so they have access to more victims to rape. Women's sports doesn't exist anymore because woke people demanded that men can cheat by competing in the women's division.
Woke people tell young gay and autistic people they were born in the wrong body and have to mutilate it or kill themselves. My friend (a lesbian) was manipulated into going on testosterone by woke groomers and regrets it but can never undo the damage to her body.
Back before Creative Cloud was a subscription, to get Creative Suite in Australia, it was cheaper to book a flight to America, a hotel for three nights, buy Creative Suite there, and a flight home, than to just pay the markup Adobe gave us as punishment for being Australian.
Hah! Fond memories of getting my first macbook air. At the time cheaper to fly to NYC and pick it up from the Apple Store (with the Edu discount of course) than to buy it in Ireland.
What's the best alternative?