The real problem with WOKE is the last two letters

The police department had every police car printed with the slogan, “Black Lives Matter”. The officers no longer referred to blacks as niggers around the police station nor when arresting them. They didn’t stop the abusive tactics when targeting black motorists or the dispropational focus on African American communities. They were woke.

The real problem with wokeness is it’s superficial nature of being woke. It’s not that people shouldn’t care about race, climate change or any other so called liberal cause, it’s that many liberals state their support of the cause while failing to take any kind of serious policy action to address the cause.

Wokeness as a concept is not a new one. Phil Ochs in the sixties sung, Love Me I’m a Liberal, noting many liberals support progressive causes in principal but are equally resistant to take concrete action, especially if it effects them personally. Integration of schools is a noble cause worth fighting for as long their white children in a good neighborhood aren’t bused to an intercity school. It’s a problem.

There is no simple solution, though liberals should consider their advocacy and see if it equals their actions. The advocacy without action makes the liberal cause appear weak and is often meaningless – something both keen observers of politics and casual observers of every day life are hard to miss. Liberals should avoid carve outs for their loyal followers just because they don’t want to offend or upset them.