Thanks for this Lauren I was thinking the same thing. Using labels to ‘us and them’ people isn’t useful, and I think that the word “woke” can mean so many different things that I think it’s not particularly useful.
I think it’s better to name the specific things that you are concerned about, rather than use vague labels like “woke”
Geoffrey, or anyone really, can you please define wokeness?
I fail to see how EA‘s vague opposition to being anti-woke in partisan culture wars are anything more than internecine credible threats to open society. As a neurodivergent and self-identified Black American EA who was moved by and still respects your article on viewpoint and neurodiversity but pragmatically votes on the left as a transpartisan because I don’t see another middle way that isn’t omnicidal?
With genuine respect, I find the blanket dismissals of wokenness to be extremely inflammatory and ineffective in eliciting the calm and respectful pushback from people who want to break new ground that you/EA/we(?) are looking for.
Also, thank you, Lauren, Nick and others for bringing attention to this.
Thanks for this Lauren I was thinking the same thing. Using labels to ‘us and them’ people isn’t useful, and I think that the word “woke” can mean so many different things that I think it’s not particularly useful.
I think it’s better to name the specific things that you are concerned about, rather than use vague labels like “woke”
Geoffrey, or anyone really, can you please define wokeness?
I fail to see how EA‘s vague opposition to being anti-woke in partisan culture wars are anything more than internecine credible threats to open society. As a neurodivergent
and self-identified Black AmericanEA who was moved by and still respects your article on viewpoint and neurodiversity but pragmatically votes on the left as a transpartisan because I don’t see another middle way that isn’t omnicidal?With genuine respect, I find the blanket dismissals of wokenness to be extremely inflammatory and ineffective in eliciting the calm and respectful pushback from people who want to break new ground that you/EA/we(?) are looking for.
Also, thank you, Lauren, Nick and others for bringing attention to this.