Wokal Distance is generically centrist. That's great if you're a normie who is just sick of "Woke" and needs some kind of intellectual foundation to resist wokeness and understand why the 1990s were better than today.
Not so great if you understand that all the problems we see in 2022 are direct consequences of the same ideology that was present in the 1990s, just more obviously and explicitly.
I put him in the same category as Lindsay in that he's great at summarizing and putting the goals, means, and practices of the wokeists into understandable terms while also being normie friendly.
Fantastic at getting people in the door but annoyingly, as with Lindsay, he won't go one step further and admit the problems we face today are a direct result of liberalism, classical liberalism, whatever you want to call it. A trifle because we already have others who do realize that and are writing and speaking about it so I'm not too upset over the centrism at the end of the day.
Yes, I think both serve there purpose, but it'd be nice if the people who were in this kind of centrist position weren't desperate to countersignal people to the right.
Wokal Distance is pretty great. I haven't read his substack much but I've seen a few of his interviews. I'd particularly recommend the ones he did on Benjamin Boyce's Youtube channel with James Lindsay.
Is that substack worth subscribing to?
Wokal Distance is generically centrist. That's great if you're a normie who is just sick of "Woke" and needs some kind of intellectual foundation to resist wokeness and understand why the 1990s were better than today.
Not so great if you understand that all the problems we see in 2022 are direct consequences of the same ideology that was present in the 1990s, just more obviously and explicitly.
I put him in the same category as Lindsay in that he's great at summarizing and putting the goals, means, and practices of the wokeists into understandable terms while also being normie friendly.
Fantastic at getting people in the door but annoyingly, as with Lindsay, he won't go one step further and admit the problems we face today are a direct result of liberalism, classical liberalism, whatever you want to call it. A trifle because we already have others who do realize that and are writing and speaking about it so I'm not too upset over the centrism at the end of the day.
Yes, I think both serve there purpose, but it'd be nice if the people who were in this kind of centrist position weren't desperate to countersignal people to the right.
Wokal Distance is pretty great. I haven't read his substack much but I've seen a few of his interviews. I'd particularly recommend the ones he did on Benjamin Boyce's Youtube channel with James Lindsay.