Comment by Levitz

>what does "performative" mean in this context? I honestly can't tell. It would really help if pg provided an example so we could evaluate for ourselves.

>In other words, it's people being prigs about social justice. And that's the real problem — the performativeness, not the social justice.

>Racism, for example, is a genuine problem. Not a problem on the scale that the woke believe it to be, but a genuine one. I don't think any reasonable person would deny that. The problem with political correctness was not that it focused on marginalized groups, but the shallow, aggressive way in which it did so. Instead of going out into the world and quietly helping members of marginalized groups, the politically correct focused on getting people in trouble for using the wrong words to talk about them.

>Meanwhile, basically all national politics is performative bullshit. Why are we not calling both parties woke?

He doesn't even point fingers on this matter, but the social justice angle is the evident answer to that.