“Woke mind virus” is a pretty funny phrase. It wasn’t meant as a joke when Elon Musk first started using it in 2021. If anything, the utterly dire seriousness with which its wielders intone it makes the phrase even funnier. It sounds ridiculous on the tongue, out of place in any conversation that isn’t held among the internet-poisoned. Imagining a thoughtful or intellectually rigorous discussion about the state of ethics, injustice, or morality in the present cultural moment that earnestly welcomes a neologism like “woke mind virus” is like imagining a primary care physician gently and empathetically taking your hand and delicately breaking the news that you’ve been diagnosed with “the cooties.”
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