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It's never too late to stop being anti-woke (also, it's amazing how many "anti-woke" people commented on this nearly 1 hour video demonizing the creator of the video for being "woke" now without watching the entire video, commenting 10-20 minutes after it came out).
@Radical_EgoCom I watched a bit of this, but honestly I don't really think he's gotten out of the anti-woke/anti-sjw mindset and sphere as much as he seems to think.
He seems to have this idea that anti-sjw content started out alright but that it eventually got out of hand--he isn't recognizing that it was always harmful and ridiculous. His perspective now still very much seems to be a "both sides are bad" one.
He seems strangely reluctant to acknowledge that the backlash Anita Sarkeesian got was completely unfounded as well--to the extent where he calls anti-woke content creators "reverse Anita Sarkeesians" later in the video. It's absurd, considering that most of Anita's analyses at the time were extremely tame--it just happened that she was one of the earlier figures on the internet who applied feminist analysis to video game media.
I think there's just a lack of understanding on his part about what life is like for marginalized people. That our livelihoods shouldn't be subject to how diplomatically we are able to present ourselves to our oppressors. That it is reasonable for marginalized people to be emotional about these topics.
The reality is that for him, as an allocishet white man, basically none of the political consequences from those things have any impact on him. His life will practically be untouched by the Trump administration. It's so easy for white men to be detached and "rational" about these things because they have no stake in it. It's a game they can take out and put away as they please--while calling those who are given no choice but to participate as "obsessive".
You are right about everything you said. He seems to be in a position where he's more willing to see things from others' perspectives regarding social and political matters, but his perspective of these matters appears to still be limited. Hopefully, this will change over time.
@Radical_EgoCom If I'm being honest to what I've seen, most white men who have previously been supportive of anti-woke/anti-sjw stuff never seem to fully grow out of it. Expecting anything more than partial deconversion from right wing reactionary bs on their part is setting yourself up for disappointment. There is so much more for them to gain from whiteness than there is from the massive amount of work that it takes to be in solidarity with marginalized people--a humbling experience that is typically too much for their fragile egos to handle.
I would be upset with that reality, but I think in general, I've just grown past the point of being able to bring myself to care in any substantial measure beyond disappointment. My care is with the people who have suffered from the things people like him used to--and in some measure still do--ignorantly support.
That being said--while I recognize that what I've just expressed is pretty pessimistic and cynical--yeah, hopefully he, and other people like him, will eventually come around. I remember watching some of his videos when I was young and had just broken out of catholicism--and as someone who lived in a very religious community who didn't really have any other atheists to talk about that experience with--I felt the struggles I had gone through represented in his content in some way. It would be nice to see more figures from that time in my life come around.