Comments by "" (@thehumanity0) on "Bernie's Surprising Take On Cancel Culture" video.
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@ep330 This is all mostly subjective since 'wokeness' cannot be realistically measured, but when I, personally, think of someone becoming "woke", I see it as a change in one's behavior on a cultural level. An example would be if someone was engaging in identity politics as a way to appeal to people culturally without having to do any real work on the policy level. What Bernie calls for with immigration reform and all his other policies in his platform are actual political goals that he's serious about obtaining, not just woke rhetoric or displays. An example of being "woke" without the policy substance would be like when George Floyd died and everyone and their mother was putting forth support for Black Lives Matter, but in reality the government, both parties, and all the companies claiming to support Civil Rights were doing nothing to actually change the brutal criminal justice system & regulate or reform the police state that lead to George Floyd being strangled to death.
In other words, "wokeness" or woke rhetoric is not a negative quality if you actually back it up with substance & real policy goals. The reason it has such a bad reputation is that it's commonly used by contemporary politicians to win voters with rhetoric without putting any of the work in to change the real issues in government & society. Bernie is & has always been the exception, where he actually pushes for the things he tweets and speaks about. Your perception that he's "become more woke" is just a shift in Bernie's ideology & platform, where over the past 5 years, he's shifted to the Left on several issues & yes immigration is one of them.
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@shgalagalaa If I was going to get into the deeper substantive arguments regarding Chomsky, we would be here all day. That was literally just my response to Pj K saying "So any person who's like 90 or older is automatically above criticism". Your assuming quite a lot from my quick response that was simply just stating age is not the only thing Chomsky has - clearly, any dimwit could tell you there's more to Chomsky than just being an MIT professor; that is just the prerequisite to Chomsky's wisdom, but still, his record is impressive & is not irrelevant like you are insinuating.
However, if you've read up to this point & you still want to feign ignorance in an attempt to 'school' me or whatever, I'll just say that if you've ever actually listened to Chomsky, especially in the past 2 decades, he'll usually cut straight to the most serious issues plaguing society & always finds a way to make day-to-day politics seem inconsequential & childish when he begins talking about, for instance, exactly why the doomsday clock is closer to midnight than it's ever been in contemporary history (ie it's 100 seconds to midnight). Unless he's pushed to answer a question about interparty politics, political drama, the current balance of power in the gov't, & so on, he'll usually always default to speaking about the serious issues that will most likely wipe humanity out over time. He also tends to masterfully link modern politics back to these urgent international matters in an incredibly persuasive & professorial way. If he makes some innocuous & honestly painfully obvious comment about how Biden is less damaging as president than Trump, you can believe he's making that analysis from a place of pure urgency & concern for this nation and this world. If you actually think he's making comments like that because he's sucking up the establishment or has suddenly become more content with the status quo, you're an absolute fool or simply just haven't listened to anything he's said past the headlines, which would then just make you an uninformed fool.
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