[peppertree]

If it takes a felon winning an election for you to come out and write this then you are a coward. Where were these deep thoughts when BLM was blocking public roads and emergency services. I'm impartial to both sides simply making an observation.

[tim333]

PG has been tweeting about woke for years.

[fullshark]

Most people were cowards then, and now too. It's nice to finally get these leaders sharing what they actually think again. After biting their tongue for what a decade?

[bsimpson]

If you insist on casually calling the guy you voted against a felon, I don't think you're as impartial as you claim.

[AnimalMuppet]

He is in fact a convicted felon. That is objectively, impartially true.

It not be impartial to mention it, though. PG almost certainly didn't write this essay out of cowardice because a felon got elected.

He may have written it out of cowardice because a bully got elected, though...

[bsimpson]

I erred on the side of pithy to try to avoid derailing. I've never voted for him and there's a lot that I dislike about him; however…

There's a very credible argument that the DA overcharged the case so people who dislike him can try to ostracize him as a felon and make his supporters look unhinged. If your shorthand for "the less woke candidate won" is "the felon won," you don't get to credibly claim "I'm impartial" in a conversation about wokeness.

[cycrutchfield]

So still a convicted felon then?

[notacoward]

It's not a credible argument. The "overcharges" led to a guilty verdict and sentence. That could not have happened if they were truly as you portray. Believing that your less-informed opinion overrules those of everyone actually in the courtroom is pure hubris.

[mbs159]

It is a fact that he is a convicted felon.