This post is misunderstanding what "wokeness" is and where its core is really located. Biden can't "sister-soulja" a figure like Harald Schmidt without insulting his most important constituency: the rich liberals. If a Schmidt-firing becomes frontpage news (and if it doesnt there's no point in the souljah-op, right?) then rich liberals …
This post is misunderstanding what "wokeness" is and where its core is really located. Biden can't "sister-soulja" a figure like Harald Schmidt without insulting his most important constituency: the rich liberals. If a Schmidt-firing becomes frontpage news (and if it doesnt there's no point in the souljah-op, right?) then rich liberals will feel insulted because they'll see that's what's being tossed aside is their *own* ethos, their own slogans and yardsigns and op-eds, from summer 2020. Biden isn't going to do that. Liberals, for the most part, arent wired like Robert Wright or Matt Yglesias; rather, they see the world as the NYT sees the world.
This post is misunderstanding what "wokeness" is and where its core is really located. Biden can't "sister-soulja" a figure like Harald Schmidt without insulting his most important constituency: the rich liberals. If a Schmidt-firing becomes frontpage news (and if it doesnt there's no point in the souljah-op, right?) then rich liberals will feel insulted because they'll see that's what's being tossed aside is their *own* ethos, their own slogans and yardsigns and op-eds, from summer 2020. Biden isn't going to do that. Liberals, for the most part, arent wired like Robert Wright or Matt Yglesias; rather, they see the world as the NYT sees the world.