The woke are never, ever satisified

Ted Bauer
2 min readJun 20, 2021

The above is a comment that Madison “MADI” Butler left on my Twitter on Friday evening. If you Google her even a little bit, you’ll find a few articles calling her “one of the most inclusive voices on LinkedIn.” I don’t know; the above comment doesn’t seem that inclusive to me, but perhaps I’m missing the definition of inclusion a little bit. This all began because I ghost-wrote something for a “millennial influencer” and she responded to that person posting the article saying “You’d be pleased to know he’s a racist.” I thought that was a bit much, so I called it out, she blasted me, she got me put in LinkedIn Jail (still there), and then she tweeted the above at me. Again, I don’t find this to be leadership in a time of inclusion or allyship, but maybe I am wrong.

Another in that crew, Katrina, once had a friend of hers tell me on Twitter that she was going to murder me, buy a shovel at Wal-Mart, and bury me in a field at 4am. On the day Joe Biden was inaugurated, I looked up that woman’s Twitter. She had a message about “love always winning” and “always love everyone.” I guess that means everyone you’re not going to murder and bury with a Wal-Mart shovel. Cool.

The problem is, the woke keep coming. There is no amount of concession or apology that stops it. Now Lin Manuel Miranda, the Hamilton guy, is getting it for his In The Heights casting. Literally if…

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Ted Bauer

I write about a lot of different topics, from work to masculinity to relationships and social dynamics, I.e. modern friendship. Pleasure to be here.