Nov 19th, 2017, 09:05 PM
Un-Sanitize Your “Wokeness”

Black Lives Matter. Image Credit: Flickr/Ella
Why liking and sharing feel-good “woke” videos is unhelpful and needs to stop.
You have likely seen the viral video. A tense moment between rival protests that can degenerate into violence — or a flash mob dance-off ends with a black man embracing a Nazi as an olive branch.
Sweet, right? Wrong.
This moment, and its subsequent virality in online spaces, is exactly what I dislike about moderate politics in the age of necessary resistance… (To read more, click here, or download Un-Sanitize Your _Wokeness_ _ Peacock Plume)