Comment by ctoth

It's worth keeping mind here that, far from being a right-wing cable-news status-quo apologist or whatever (to put together some assorted contentless booing I noticed upthread), Freddie de Boer is a self-described "Marxist of an old-school variety" with substantial left-wing cred (and meeting a bunch of the stereotypes, such as holding a PhD in English). I don't agree with him on everything, but I absolutely see his view on how leftism has become corrupted in the current day in the US.

It's poisoning the Canadian discourse, too, and I hate it, and have been hating it since approximately 2012. (I saw signs earlier, but didn't recognize them.) I used to vote for the NDP, but now I don't vote at all - the Jack Layton and Ed Broadbent types I remember are gone (literally, in those two cases); now I mainly see people who seem to think that your rights and your value as a person depend on your identity (just, you know, in a way opposed to the historical norm).

He also has one titled "of course you know what woke means" that really drives the point.