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1. jhp123+ji1[view] [source] 2025-01-13 19:06:13
>>crbela+(OP)
if you're going to talk about history, it really helps to ground your narrative in real people, events, or statements. This all comes off as a history of vibes, and I don't remember the same vibes at all (maybe because I wasn't on twitter).

When pg does make contact with reality, it mostly doesn't even support his narrative. He mentions the George Floyd protests and the MeToo movement/Weinstein - by any measure real social justice issues where the perpetrators deserved condemnation!

He also mentions the Bud Light boycotts as a case of going "too woke", but Bud Light's actions were not an "aggressive performative focus on social justice." Bud Light simply paid a trans person to promote their product, without any political messaging whatsoever. It was the boycott by anti-trans bigots that politicized that incident.

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2. tome+wD1[view] [source] 2025-01-13 20:23:18
>>jhp123+ji1
> Bud Light simply paid a trans person to promote their product, without any political messaging whatsoever

Isn't it one of the tenets of wokeness that "nothing is apolitical"?

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