I understand fearing this sort of rhetoric coming from someone who, for example, might have bigoted views. And we unfortunately do need a balance between making intersectional values clear and firm while not bogging down conversation with constant conditionals and asterisks and footnotes. But the fact remains that “woke” is the most unpopular word of 2022 for good reason. The colloquial definition does indeed refer to something that is a poison borne from capital as it evolves its tactics to the 21st century as often as it refers to intersectional movements.

Surely there is an interpretation you can have of Foresight’s comment that leaves room for doubt that they are more than simply a reactionary. I think the comment is vague enough to question but not something that is necessarily bad. There is indeed something within what we call “woke” that is a co-opted socially engineered weapon of Western capital that will continue to fuel fascism and kneecap, ironically, not just socialism but social progressivism, if left unchallenged and untalked about.

There’s a nuanced discussion to be had for sure.