Comment by aithrowawaycomm

My concern about PG isn't that he's "falling in line" so much as ripping the mask off and embracing right-wing authoritarianism:

  So what do we do now? Wokeness is already in retreat. Obviously we should help it along. What's the best way to do that? And more importantly, how do we avoid a third outbreak? After all, it seemed to be dead once, but came back worse than ever.

  In fact there's an even more ambitious goal: is there a way to prevent any similar outbreak of aggressively performative moralism in the future — not just a third outbreak of political correctness, but the next thing like it?

  The more general problem — how to prevent similar outbreaks of aggressively performative moralism — is of course harder. Here we're up against human nature. There will always be prigs. And in particular there will always be the enforcers among them, the aggressively conventional-minded. These people are born that way. Every society has them. So the best we can do is to keep them bottled up.

https://paulgraham.com/woke.html (this entire essay is pathetically ignorant even by PG's standards, but the latent fascism is still very scary)