(05-08-2022, 12:15 PM)mikesez Wrote: Political correctness is simply changing vocabulary in ways that are supposedly more sensitive.  It's usually ridiculous but harmless.
Good Wokeness is being aware of our colonial and slaveholding past, and being aware of how it has lasting impacts that we need to be aware of and work on.  Good Wokeness means you understand that, despite your own ancestors' positive experiences as immigrants in places like New York City in the 20th century, the United States will never have a European or even Canadian social model from sea to shining sea. Our colonial and slaveholding past makes that impossible.
But bad Wokeness is blaming people who weren't alive then for what happened. Bad Wokeness is when we toured Kingsley Plantation in 3rd grade and one of the Black girls in class told every white kid that their ancestors lived in the plantation house while hers lived in the tabby house.  Bad Wokeness is also insisting that your way is only one way to address the lasting impacts.