This Post Is Dark Woke (And Other Short Takes)

This post is dedicated to Lilith Lovett, who tweeted on 1/27/2025:

Dark Woke is the way forward. No more of this namby-pamby language policing that nobody likes. When someone says a slur to you the response shouldn’t be “wehhh you can’t say that”, your response should be to call them a slur right back.

Look, I enjoy edgy leftism as much as the next guy, but in order for a movement to be successful it cannot merely just exist as a spoof of its critics. I occasionally see those who are against Trump post like Trump supporters do — Susan Glasser calling the removal of a portrait of Mark Milley “erasing the past” comes to mind — and I honestly find that the most dangerous part of the era we’re in. Margret Thatcher once called New Labour her greatest political success because it saw her opposition essentially speaking as she did, and I fear that convincing liberals and the left to embrace the same rhetoric Donald Trump has could end up being his.

There’s a well known tweet by Cody Johnston, dated 7/19/2018, that reads the following:

The Left got a little too PC so I changed all of my opinions about the economy, social issues, systemic racism, health care, and history.

This has become a more common phenomenon in the Trump-era, where people were supporting him being…