What Woke Got Wrong—and Right

Hi guys! It’s Jasmine here, filling in today for JVL. You may know me from my omnipresence in the comments section or from the Triad Mailbags. This is my first time writing a Triad, so I hope you’ll let me know your thoughts in the comments. Today, we’re going to talk about “woke”—the ideas behind it, plus the political impulse that fell under that umbrella term—and I want to prime you all:Woke began as one inner-circle concept and ballooned into many other things.Because of its many meanings, people often talk past one another when it comes to woke.Keep that in mind when reading below and in our discussion in the comments.Now let me give you the short version: It’s time we bring back woke.I’m kidding! I kid because I know that out there on X, someone is going to say, “The Bulwark wants MO