Coming soon: Racism is serious, wokeness undercuts our ability to grapple with it

 Yesterday, I did another of my "poke the bear" things in my commentary on The Labyrinth Index, by Charles Stross.  I observed that, technically, Cthulu is anti-racist, because the act of wiping out all of humanity would eliminate all racial inequality.  In a way, it amuses me to write these things, or I wouldn't do it, but in a bigger-picture way, I am irritated by the existence of my motivation to do so.  Too much of the oxygen in our public sphere is sucked up by stupid arguments, and as a consequence, our public debate over real issues suffers.  I wanna tackle this.  Coming soon, because while it's fun to poke at the foibles of wokeness, wouldn't it be better if we could actually tackle the big stuff in a serious way?