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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m rattled by OP’s reaction to her friend’s comment.  She’s not entitled to her views? She cannot be upset about how far left the left has gone? I think it’s super weird that everyone is judging her for being sick of woke politics.  [/quote]

OP and it was just a weird out of the blue thing to say. We were talking about pretty much the furthest thing from that kind of stuff so it felt like something that had been on the tip of her tongue for a long time and she just had to get it out. But then it just kind of hung in the air. [/quote]

It wasn't out of the blue -- you asked about her moving experience and what she missed/what is different. This is what is different.

Multiple people on the thread have told you that you can be progressive and criticize "wokeness," because to many of us that word refers not to policy preferences but to a certain kind of narrow-mindedness, knee jerk "canceling" people without making any effort to understand where they are coming from for instance. Which is exactly what you are doing, despite a long history with this woman and what sounds like quite a bit in common. But you seem determined to interpret her vague and open-to-interpretation comment as evidence she's racist or MAGA. That's so limited and weird! Just have a conversation with your friend and talk it out.[/quote]

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