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philipallstartoday at 3:16 PM3 repliesview on HN

Woke is cultural Marxism, deconstructing competence hierarchies, identity politics, quotas, oppression olympics, that sort of thing.

This isn't those things at all.


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mrhottakestoday at 3:26 PM

Plenty of people call renewable energy woke

pstuarttoday at 6:29 PM

Could you explain cultural marxism to me in your own words?

More so, could you hazard a guess why those friends would be categorically against renewables?

dudefelicianotoday at 3:31 PM

> Woke is cultural Marxism

> Woke is an adjective derived from African-American English used since the 1930s or earlier to refer to awareness of racial prejudice and discrimination, often in the construction stay woke. [1]

> Cultural Marxism is a far-right antisemitic conspiracy theory that misrepresents Western Marxism (especially the Frankfurt School) as being responsible for modern progressive movements, identity politics, and political correctness. [2]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_th...

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