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?

New reason for PG to get cancelled just dropped