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Clint Margrave – Is Anti-Woke Becoming the New Woke?

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I don't know much about WOKE, except that at its extremes it seems crazy. I think it's mainly a few young people with problems, who will eventually grow out of it, but the Right has turned it into a conspiracy theory. Anyway, it's the Anti-Woke crowd who get me more into a rage, when they set straw-dolls by finding a few rare extreme examples. Anti-woke outrage is now a brand and the new anti-woke justice warriors, with their large platforms, used mob intimidation to court likes and followers. A single Google search could now damage this professor’s reputation: based only on hearsay and a desire to smash the woke. Isn’t this the same tactic woke journalists employ, when they write hit pieces for Vox? Why was my own tribe doing this?Clint Margrave - Is Anti-Woke Becoming the New Woke?The

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I don't know much about WOKE, except that at its extremes it seems crazy. I think it's mainly a few young people with problems, who will eventually grow out of it, but the Right has turned it into a conspiracy theory. Anyway, it's the Anti-Woke crowd who get me more into a rage, when they set straw-dolls by finding a few rare extreme examples. 


Anti-woke outrage is now a brand and the new anti-woke justice warriors, with their large platforms, used mob intimidation to court likes and followers. A single Google search could now damage this professor’s reputation: based only on hearsay and a desire to smash the woke. Isn’t this the same tactic woke journalists employ, when they write hit pieces for Vox? Why was my own tribe doing this?


Clint Margrave - Is Anti-Woke Becoming the New Woke?


The Weaponising of 'Woke', by James Melville


Right-wingers have cultivated a bogus enemy of political correctness which they have now rebranded as ‘woke’. In effect, they are demonising common decency to legitimise bigotry

Progressives must however, never ever lose sight of the fact that being politically correct is not an insult. Political correctness gave us the NHS. Political correctness gave us democracy. Political correctness gave women the vote. Political correctness gave us freedom of speech. Political correctness gave us human rights. It’s called political correctness because it’s correct.

Political correctness was always about treating people with dignity and respect, including the weaker and more marginalised members of society. What sort of person are you to find that objectionable?





Mike Norman
Mike Norman is an economist and veteran trader whose career has spanned over 30 years on Wall Street. He is a former member and trader on the CME, NYMEX, COMEX and NYFE and he managed money for one of the largest hedge funds and ran a prop trading desk for Credit Suisse.

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