Lotta dumb white people look at privilege as a point of shame instead of what it really is: leveraging social cache responsibly, such as hurling a hoagie at a cop and not getting murdered.

Some people truly have no idea how anything happens in the streets. They see photos and they approve or disapprove of the aesthetics. But they understand NOTHING.

Second, the ‘threat’ of wokeness was a media fiction. Conservative and centrist publications spent years promoting ‘free speech on campus’ and ‘cancel culture’ as threats equivalent to the right’s assaults on democracy and minority rights.

First, the activist ‘overreach’ mostly consisted of low-stakes, cherry-picked anecdotes. The police were not defunded. Words were not banned. White men were not barred from college.

The backlash is responding to the *possibility* of social change, not actual change.

Mona Eltahawy always walks about the trifecta of misogyny: the street, the state and the home. So where is this purported escape that we can just turn off?

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A lot of people like to dismiss racism as insubstantial to material realities but we’re watching a nation burn trillions of dollars in wealth to entrench a racial system of domination.