Not going to give this clicks, but I fundamentally disagree with the assertion that anyone who is "not woke" (whatever that means today) can be categorized as "still waking" or "unsettled" or "confused." I don't oppose mandatory wrong-sex pronouns because I'm not educated or enlightened. I oppose them because I've reflected on this issue deeply and believe that using female pronouns to refer to males is harmful to women. I also oppose compelled speech.

The "still waking"? Oh, fuck the NYT.

shows a self-interested gentleness toward people who haven’t got it all figured out

Everything old is new again. Let me predict how this will work out:

• Man messes up pronouns: "Let's show him our self-interested gentleness."
• Woman messes up pronouns: "Burn the witch!"

how on earth are pronouns mentioned in the same breath as racism, misogyny, and xenophobia. the former are narcissistic attempts at policing others language and the latter are issues that have been killing people for millenia. this sort of implied equivalence is ridiculous.

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"* if we are losing the battle for hearts and minds then look no further than identity politics for the primary cause. It isn't the Democratic Party economic agenda that has turned off voters en mass. Yes, there are legitimate questions about the role of stimulus on inflation, and we can stray into a spend spend spend mentality as the way to solve all problems, but mostly the economic message lands well with most voters.

Contrast that with the social change agenda that has become ingrained in the intent and purpose of the Party. You won't find this agenda on any formal Party priorities list, yet we have allowed far left activists and their Progressive enablers to effectively steer the message, creating myriad self-inflicted wounds and openings for Republicans to turn the tables on us. This happens when self-righteousness takes over, when absolutism takes hold, and when we believe we are right and good and true and those who disagree are wrong and bad and false.

That's how righteous protests about Police brutality become a referendum on looting and Defund the Police.

That's how a border crisis and family separations becomes a referendum on Abolish ICE and open borders.

That's how free speech gets consumed by words as violence and "safe spaces".

That's how wokeism and anti-racism become part of cancel culture and rejected by voters.

That's how transgender sports and alternative pronouns strays into the absurd.

These are all losing issues for Dems."*

condescension 101.

f-off NYTimes. I used to have a subscription. No more.

I can't read it because I unsubscribed, but your quote definitely reminds me of how a friend reacted when I gently objected to her homophobic mockery of actual lesbians and her total disregard for the wellbeing of women (other than those who identify as men). She said it wasn't my fault I had been tricked and bamboozled by extremists from the UK. I think it was her desperate attempt to reconcile the knowledge that I am rational and benevolent with her belief that not agreeing with trans ideology is evil and ignorant. It's obviously not the case that legitimate objections exist, right? Right?

Better a "pronoun offender" than a sex offender.

"the onrushing future"--give me a break, the future is what we are FIGHTING OVER!

“The thing about our movement is that we’re too woke, which is why we don’t have mass mobilization in the way that we should,” Linda Sarsour, a progressive organizer based in Brooklyn, said to me.

The fact that the NYT calls Linda Sarsour a progressive with a straight face is one of the many reasons I no longer feel the label "progressive" applies to people like me.

Wow. The choice for voters in Nov is liberal democracy or fascism! I didn’t know that!

“Democracy” without some regulations, turns into mob rule. 51% get to bulldoze the 49%. Which is why the US has a complicated political system of checks & balances. And why we have “democratic” and “republican” parties. Not Dems and Nazis.

Yeah, democracy is in crisis. But not the way the NYT thinks it is.

"Self-interested gentleness" sounds a bit like an oxymoron to me. If you're the right side of history surely you can think of better ways to convince people to join you than weirdly disingenuous attempts at being nice.

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I want to see the comments section of this article but I can't find it. Your article link points to a different article entirely. The Uncomfortable Truths That Could Yet Defeat Fascism. Was it renamed?

Edit: Nevermind I see the quote embedded in the article. thank you.

So which is it to be, fighting misogyny or pandering to it via the trans shit? They’re mutually exclusive.

No.