Not an answer to the question, but what percentage of woke white people legitimately consider white guys to be subhuman?
50%? 75%?
I love how ppl make up stuff like this to defend voting for a guy who kept a copy of mein kampf on his nightstand
Ethnicity matters less and less when it comes to the white urban elites. It was quite different when I started my career. And there has been a huge amount of intermarriage.
Anecdotally, there is something generational going on in my Italian American extended family on my father's side. I had assumed that this pattern was idiosyncratic but maybe there is more to it.
All of my female cousins came out of college with extremely liberal opinions that they did not have going in, and they became prone to starting vicious fights with my aunts - all of whom are educated, professional women, but also all stereotypical conservatives in their political views.
These cousins, at once status-conscious in a way that makes them want to distinguish themselves from their parents' generation while also acting in a way that unmistakably reflects similar work ethic and attitudes toward ambition, have all moved to major metros, mirroring the move of my father's generation from their small Upstate NY hometown to once-thriving regional metros like Rochester and Syracuse.
It's just the case that both norms of behavior and the facts of life have changed. Yes, you're right that it's about fitting in. But I don't think it's this purely cynical, merely trying to distinguish themselves from the last generation kind of thing.
We have the internet now and a lot easier access to previously unavailable/censored information. For example, the popularity of socialism is expanding because more Americans have access to unbiased or even favorable information about it. Socialism itself has quite literally refused to change, but it's more popular because we have.
Anyway, I am living in a top 2 city (LA), gay, donate regularly, grew up and spent most my life in Colorado, raised by liberals only one of whom I see eye to eye on politics now, don't have social media, do have a degree, raised by mainline protestants with agnostic tendencies, grew up rich, am under 30, and have worked in politics. I'm broke now, so I almost fit the mold, but also am considered within my friend group and wider circle decidedly not "woke."
I am suspicious of gun control, of a lot of the basis of contemporary nonbinary and queer politics, politically correct speech, etc. Variably, I argue about the merits of lots of different things with my friends--some of whom are similar to me in terms of background but most not. But where almost all of us are in agreement is: neoliberalism has failed, racism and misogyny and homophobia are real and really annoying, and the gov't should stay out of individuals' lives and focus regulation on powerful institutions.
I think all of our families would consider us "woke." But I think to us it's merely that there are a set of common facts and experiences that kind of just preordain certain political beliefs, not based on politics but on just being realistic and pragmatic about life:
1. climate change is real and i would like to survive it
2. your gender/sexuality affect literally nobody and should therefore not be subject to regulation
3. our country has not alway been the good guy in world history, e.g. slavery, trail of tears, vietnam, and won't be redeemed until we end american exceptionalism and acquiesce to international law
4. racist jokes/mascots/etc. may not be unambiguously racist, but that doesn't matter if they make people uncomfortable and they should be banned
Tbh, what I find shocking are white people who live in urban America and aren't "woke." Averrões noted that social capital is at stake here, and that is true. Not to mention just participation in common reality. I don't think education, family upbringing, or any of that matter tho because what wokeness seems to be to me is acceptance of a shared reality with people you are in political alignment with
