What are the problem I think is default liberals thinking that they must be woke because they share ideas with the woke.
I mean, look at Linus Torvalds. I'm reasonably certain that that guy isn't remotely woke. The fact that he holds some center left ideas (or even further left ideas) isn't really material, if you started really grilling him on woke ideology, he'd probably be obviously anti-woke by the end of the conversation. You just need to look at how he runs his project. For one thing, it's his project and he has a central role, and the other people working on the project are typically old greybeards who are excellent at kernel development because that's who builds good OS kernels. He doesn't come right up and say, but there's gatekeeping. He's doing what he feels is right for the project and not what's right for the current political climate. Of course he would, the Linux kernel is his claim to fame, his legacy, his place in the world. If he started lowering the bar just to let people of certain racial or gender castes in, his kernel would become garbage and he'd become irrelevant.
In the same way, I think that a lot of people who don't have any problem with gay people think that that's the same as being woke, when in reality they are quite different things. People who actually care about gay people might actually oppose woke ideology because it's going to get the whole group unfairly lynched.
Because people think that they support this thing because they support a part of it, they end up accidentally backing psychopaths who aren't acting in the best interests of anyone but themselves.
In the case of Linux, I think that there's a parallel to be made. I'm sure that over the last 36 years or whatever it's been there have been people who talk a good game about doing the right thing for the Linux kernel when in reality they just want to get their way and by appealing to the kernel itself they're hoping to do so. I've seen it in a bunch of different ways. Somebody wants free meals, and they work at a place with a strong union, then they will frame their argument in terms of why the union wants them to get free meals. I worked at a place with a strong safety culture, and that same person would frame their argument in terms of why safety wants them to get free meals. I worked at a place with a real ball busting asshole of a boss, and anytime that someone wanted someone guess what? They bad mouth that guy behind their back everyday but when they wanted something they would frame their argument as in that asshole of a boss wants it done so get it done.
I mean, look at Linus Torvalds. I'm reasonably certain that that guy isn't remotely woke. The fact that he holds some center left ideas (or even further left ideas) isn't really material, if you started really grilling him on woke ideology, he'd probably be obviously anti-woke by the end of the conversation. You just need to look at how he runs his project. For one thing, it's his project and he has a central role, and the other people working on the project are typically old greybeards who are excellent at kernel development because that's who builds good OS kernels. He doesn't come right up and say, but there's gatekeeping. He's doing what he feels is right for the project and not what's right for the current political climate. Of course he would, the Linux kernel is his claim to fame, his legacy, his place in the world. If he started lowering the bar just to let people of certain racial or gender castes in, his kernel would become garbage and he'd become irrelevant.
In the same way, I think that a lot of people who don't have any problem with gay people think that that's the same as being woke, when in reality they are quite different things. People who actually care about gay people might actually oppose woke ideology because it's going to get the whole group unfairly lynched.
Because people think that they support this thing because they support a part of it, they end up accidentally backing psychopaths who aren't acting in the best interests of anyone but themselves.
In the case of Linux, I think that there's a parallel to be made. I'm sure that over the last 36 years or whatever it's been there have been people who talk a good game about doing the right thing for the Linux kernel when in reality they just want to get their way and by appealing to the kernel itself they're hoping to do so. I've seen it in a bunch of different ways. Somebody wants free meals, and they work at a place with a strong union, then they will frame their argument in terms of why the union wants them to get free meals. I worked at a place with a strong safety culture, and that same person would frame their argument in terms of why safety wants them to get free meals. I worked at a place with a real ball busting asshole of a boss, and anytime that someone wanted someone guess what? They bad mouth that guy behind their back everyday but when they wanted something they would frame their argument as in that asshole of a boss wants it done so get it done.
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