Superiority

If you’ve got it, flaunt it.

You are a superior person (i.e., “woke”) if you hate most of these things:

• smoking (tobacco)

• fast food

• rednecks and other rural types

• all sports but running, soccer, and cycling

• fundamentalist Christians (but not fundamentalist Muslims)

• Israel

• NASCAR

• AGW “deniers”

• fossil fuels (but not the low-cost energy they yield)

• CO2 (though your “carbon footprint” is probably bigger than that of most Americans and almost everyone else in the world)

• the Constitution (as written) and those who defend it

• large families

• home-schooling and private schools (for others)

• deregulation

• war (though WWII turned out okay)

• police (except when you need them)

• guns

• capital punishment (all other forms are also suspect)

• capitalists (though you may be one and you certainly benefit from capitalism)

• red-meat eaters (unless they also like sashimi)

• private-property rights and freedom of association (for others)

• anyone who likes most of the above

• people who are opinionated, judgmental, intolerant, and hateful (high irony)