as mark suggested above, the alphabet crowd are really twisting the notion of left/right, as are the elite media. hence unwarranted push-back against people like corbyn, sanders and gabbard (as well as those with even more vital political messages to convey like RG).
I wanted to reply to this in seriousness yesterday but it got sidetracked with a hot-button.
Plenty of people are anti-woke, and they're anything but right of center. The only difficulty to being anti-woke is peeling the onion so people on the left realize there's more compatibility with anti-woke than not.
In this instance (Gervais monologue), no matter how scripted, you once again see the woke referring to the un-woke as alt-right or right or conservative. As was mentioned, Gervais was swiftly denounced as being right/alt-right for his views when he's demonstrated over and again he's firmly left of center.
It's a careless metanarrative, really, because how can one be a selectively
woke SJW when critical analysis is so narrowly focused and dismissive of any complexity an issue brings to the table? And so the shut-down is always the same accusation of right or alt-right. Again, in the case of Gervais, it's utterly preposterous. I would bet with a lot of people it's equally so.
I think what a conversation like this does is advocate for a general rule that if you want a woke soapbox your house should be hypocrisy-free - at the least - or you're going to hear it. And not from some boogeyman alt-right, but from people who pull the same voting lever you do.
tl;dr | The SJW/Cancel Culture/Woke phenom is straight out of The Vampire's Castle.
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