"In our interview, she proclaimed herself devoted to dialogue but spoke in a near uninterrupted monologue. She griped frequently about the internet (the “Wild Wild West,” a quip she repeated on the live stream nearly every time I tuned in), but she boasts the highest number of Twitter followers of any user and just allowed her digital audience to watch her eat, sleep and spread her new gospel on a 96-hour infomercial. She returned to words and phrases: good things are “beautiful”; a desirable mate is “a man of quality and equality” (and for the record, she said Orlando Bloom was one, and Mr. Mayer and even Mr. Brand “are beautiful in their own right”). And she revisited a pet subject: things that are “not real.”"
Ugh. I feel like I know this person, the newly-woke-white-girl, who probably thinks they are being woke but who is really just building social capital. They will sign up for things that make them visibly appear to be allies, they will sit down and tell you all about your oppression, but they don't have any space to hear what they are still doing wrong or to listen and be educated by your actual experiences.
It's precious.
Like, look at this interview, she's literally only talking about herself. She's not "woke", she's just starting to be aware of stuff that she doesn't like about society's effect on her.
FB: Iove the title of this article, because we all know that person whose version of "being woke" is just talking about their own problems but in a more generalized way.
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