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August 26, 2026

“Woke 1” Focused on White Privilege. “Woke 2” Focuses on Jews and Israel

The progressivism of the anti-Semites.

Citing a quip by one of her fellow New York City Democrats, Congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez recently referred to “Woke 1,” presumably meaning a strain of progressivism dominant in the late 2010s. The comment provoked much online discussion about the differences between “Woke 1” and “Woke 2.” Phoebe Maltz Bovy believes that there is indeed a difference between the two phases of left-wing ideology:

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