Strap in, this is going to be a bumpy ride. Yesterday, as I was killing time on the couch, dreading the work week to return, I saw a few random discussions on Twitter where everyone was chiming in about the Sydney Sweeney ad, the cancellation of Colbert, and the box office of some recent superhero movies like Superman. Apparently, when you spin all that together and huff it from a bag like paint, it means that "woke" is dead in Hollywood. Today, I want to dive into that cesspool of online discourse and give you my two cents. Because if there's one thing I know, it's that the world desperately needs another white middle-aged male blogger to go over the political machinations of the terminally online left and right. Let's dive in. What's Woke, Anyway?The word "Woke" refers to the awareness of social and political injustice, with an emphasis on racial prejudice and discrimination. But, thanks to the caustic online discourse, "woke" is now just a word white people took from black people and repurposed to mean anything that covered basic diversity on and off screen. A Word On WokeHollywood is the junction of art and commerce. We will talk about that extensively later. But I'm just going to spend a second at the top here, telling you that I think if you get your panties in a bunch about a word, but can't get upset at a vast history of inequality and societal damage, I do not care about...
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