The Woke Right Discourse is Over
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Which I think was the idea behind invoking "Woke" to describe them since their ideas are not that dissimilar and the general public (who IMO terms such as "Woke Right" are for, not for people in the political weeds like we are) would understanding it more, and who may not be as ok with calling Groypers "White Niggers" like they deserve.
But it doesnt change that Lindsey did indeed move the goalpost because people like Carl were calling out some flaws in the terminology and that it did probably kill Lindsey's influence and career for entirely needless reasons. I am unsure what possessed him to go to such strange places or why he thought people would follow him down that road, but unlike others I am actually kind of saddened by it since he used to be smarter and more influential than that.
Yes, Woke shouldn't be used because that term is designed to match Intersectionalism.
What happened to Lindsey is what happens to everyone in the default Left managerial middle class. Being "left-wing" is an emotional connection. Unlike Carl and I, the emotional pull of being left-wing isn't strong enough to refute reality. Carl has chosen to reject Liberalism, where I choose to accept Liberalisms flaws and restrain it to government. Lindsey isn't willing to do either of those, so he's over-intellectualizing, trying to maintain some kind of social media influence (because he is basically blacklisted from all of Academia and research), and so he's flailing.
This is a real problem for the right because basically the right-wing intelligentsia is all podcasters, and there is no presence of the right-wing in research and academia, meaning there's not any real way to get institutional positions for our own intelligentsia. That's very bad, and was why I supported Trump's "American University" plan.