2026-08-29 21:56 UTC
@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io Speaking of “woke” … G Elliott Morris pointed to this today, and I read it and was 🤯 over the disrespect shown to Jamelle by Michelle Cottle, and to Black people in general. She basically waved her hands and said: no one cares what y’all think “woke” means, that word is owned by white people now.
I only read the transcript, and I’m impressed by Jamelle’s ability to be grumpy and (appropriately) dismissive without giving offense. A survival skill for someone like him, no doubt.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/opinion/politics-maga-right-left-woke-primaries.html
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@ohmu@social.seattle.wa.us 2026-08-29 22:37
@fivetonsflax@tilde.zone I stopped reading when the dude equated the discourse in US higher ed in 2015 with "vicious intolerance" with zero irony. Holy crap. What kind of person uses those words to describe the loud but necessarily limited effect of student movements at that time given what the Magas have done and are doing to higher ed now?