What AOC gets right – and wrong – about ‘Woke 1.0’ | Francine Prose
Recent comments by AOC have reignited a fiery debate about ‘wokeism’. But what are we really talking about?Full confession: I am one of those who have come to think that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez can essentially do no wrong.
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Recent comments by AOC have reignited a fiery debate about ‘wokeism’. But what are we really talking about?Full confession: I am one of those who have come to think that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez can essentially do no wrong. At times when I most fear for the future of our country, I watch her videos and am consoled and cheered by her clarity, her honesty, her intelligence, her simple common sense. So I was a little surprised to hear that on a recent interview on ABC This Week, she quoted a political ally as having remarked: “Woke 1.0 was crazy.”What surprised me was not that she called for some moderation of the radical positions – the call to defund the police and the military, for example – that have, at times, been an aspect of progressive politics.
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What AOC gets right – and wrong – about ‘Woke 1.0’ | Francine Prose
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