@freemo I'd say it's mostly anti-woke. It isn't trying to be anti-racist; the entire point it is making takes it as a given that racism is awful, it doesn't feel the need to make that argument.

@ech if it assumes as a given that racism is bad then it is antiracism (against racism). It just assumes the audience is alrady antiracist and therefore isnt trying to "sell it" :)

@freemo Yeah, I think that's what I mean.

Heh, it certainly isn't antiracist given Kendi's definition of that term...

It's worth keeping in mind that Mr. Racist represents about, say, 3% of the US (and The West in general). Mr. Woke is probably more like 10x that. Point being it almost isn't worth even talking to or about the people behind Mr. Racist: we all know they're the lunatic fringe: their harmful policy preferences don't matter, because they have no power (good to stay vigilent, though...). But the people represented by Mr. Woke have actual power; what if their illiberal policy preferences are harmful? That is an actual risk.

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@ech yea woke is far more common than this sort of racism. Obviously more subtle racists are quite a bit more common.

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