This election offers Canadians a stark choice between a strong, independent Canada and one beholden to foreign interests. Once the voting is done in a few weeks, there will be immense work to do in order to make Canada live up to the promises of the campaign. What should that look like?
I wish the Performative Progressives would stop using the word "woke". They don't mean it in its original AAVE meaning, and are just trying to say "I am one of the good ones" in order to poke fingers at other individuals and say "they are one of the bad ones".
This focus on individuals and individuality only demonstrates these people (nearly always non-racialized people, meaning "White") are NOT WOKE. Far too many non-racialized people confuse Racism with individual Rudeness, and are totally oblivious to the systems around them.
I understand why those who have been rudely pointed at are angry, which is why I'm more angry at the Performative Progressives for generating this backlash than anyone else.
That is not a reason to vote Republican or Conservative, but it is a reason that I understand why special interest groups have been able to aim so much hatred towards the culturally appropriated phrase "woke".
I also wish “liberals” as well as “Liberals” would recognize that those who disagree with their language are not “a basket of deplorables”, but a wide variety of people who feel left out of the current system. I feel left out as well, but am deep enough into understanding the systems to have specific policies in mind and am less vulnerable to groups trying to harness my anger to point in the wrong direction.
So much political truth and trenchant analysis in one article! Now I'm off to share it...
I wish the Performative Progressives would stop using the word "woke". They don't mean it in its original AAVE meaning, and are just trying to say "I am one of the good ones" in order to poke fingers at other individuals and say "they are one of the bad ones".
This focus on individuals and individuality only demonstrates these people (nearly always non-racialized people, meaning "White") are NOT WOKE. Far too many non-racialized people confuse Racism with individual Rudeness, and are totally oblivious to the systems around them.
I understand why those who have been rudely pointed at are angry, which is why I'm more angry at the Performative Progressives for generating this backlash than anyone else.
That is not a reason to vote Republican or Conservative, but it is a reason that I understand why special interest groups have been able to aim so much hatred towards the culturally appropriated phrase "woke".
I also wish “liberals” as well as “Liberals” would recognize that those who disagree with their language are not “a basket of deplorables”, but a wide variety of people who feel left out of the current system. I feel left out as well, but am deep enough into understanding the systems to have specific policies in mind and am less vulnerable to groups trying to harness my anger to point in the wrong direction.
Great piece, David! Assuming the Libs pick up some NDP seats, Carney should get in. Then the fun begins at the border!