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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Well, to answer your rhetorical question, I think he is doing this for reasons that someone might want to characterize as "woke", but defensively so: he's deliberately chosen his caucus that way to pre-emptively guard against what are absolutely inevitable accusations of him being an alt-right troll, white supremacist, Trump-esque figure and so on. Of course, he invited those accusations by attending freedom convoys and associating himself with people who clearly are Trume-esque alt-right types, but what I'm saying is that I think there was a deliberate strategic choice to ensure that he had people in that group who weren't white guys... which, great, but I'm not about to give him credit for motivations like "wanting to ensure broad representation of Canadian society to obtain support from people who don't traditionally vote for the CPC", or anything like that.
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Right, so it would be ridiculous for me to refer to his choices as "woke". Rather, they are calculated decisions to maximize his success in the political realm. Which is exactly what I was suggesting earlier when I argued that it was foolish to think that large movie studios act how they do out of some 'woke' behavior. Rather, they're interested in being successful. If people can criticize disney for some perceived 'woke' behavior in its movies, should people now critique PP for being woke (regardless of the rationale) now?
I don't think so, which is why this whole "woke" trend is garbage. I think PP and the Conservatives are free to chose who they want in their caucus just as is any other organization. Even if it's to promote an image.