new PG essay

https://paulgraham.com/woke.html

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It still blows me away that some conservative pundits managed to isolate the concept of basic social awareness and twist it into a derogatory slur 🤦

Obviously there are idiots on all sides of every great debate, but "wokeness" still seems objectively positive to me.

There exists people with different lived experiences from yourself who also deserve basic human rights. It seems like an incredibly simple concept, but a shocking number of people don't get it (non-woke) or even explicitly reject it (anti-woke).

I have such a hard time with this. Is it tribalism or what? What could possibly be driving this anti social behavior?

I tried at first, but lines like this kept tripping me up: 

"So what do we do now? Wokeness is already in retreat. Obviously we should help it along. What's the best way to do that? And more importantly, how do we avoid a third outbreak? After all, it seemed to be dead once, but came back worse than ever."

I just re-read it fully again to see if he ever figures out how dumb these mid level takes are, but it doesn't seem like he does. Maybe I missed something. Was there some new or valuable observation in there that you caught?