Steve QJ
1 min readJan 20, 2021

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I honestly can't figure out what you're trying to say here.

The article addresses a specific type of racism based on the idea that people of colour who don't conform to a particular set of ideas aren't really black or arab or whatever it might be. There are obviously others. Addressing them all would require a book, not an essay.

"Woke" is a well understood term which describes those who try to describe every problem in society thorugh the lens of race or gender or some other group classification. You not knowing what it is doesn't really affect whether it's a thing or not.

And lastly, there's not a word of this article which argues that those who attacked the capitol shouldn't be punished or criticised (although it's clear that not everybody who protested should be treated as if they committed violence when only a minority did). I'm arguing that it's grotesquely racist to claim that they must be somehow white because they did so.

The fact that there's no ethnicity for mob violence is entirely my point. Try thinking your objections through a little more clearly.

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Steve QJ
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