“Woke 1.0 was crazy,” Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York said in a recent interview.
The congresswoman, speaking on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday, seemed to distance herself from the positions of an era of Democratic politics around 2020, shortly after she rose to prominence. Some on the left now see the rhetoric of that time as ineffective and divisive. There has been a widespread retreat on diversity, equity and inclusion efforts among corporations. And some public officials, including Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York, have walked back their calls to defund the police.
I’m not putting up with NYT website’s bs, so I’m not sure what SHE’S defining as crazy, but I do think the messaging I was hearing a decade ago absolutely pushed many people to the right.
Good luck getting a minimum wage factory worker pulling double shifts to think that some woman lawyer getting paid less than her male counterparts, or buying more expensive razors than men, is among the main social issues to focus on.
Basically what I’m getting at is that it’s like climate change. Yes, we could all make changes to improve our world, but fuck you for telling me my tiny ass car is killing the planet when we have millionaires flying around in private jets every day and throwing up data centers on every plot of land!