August has brought us a referendum(全民公投) on “Woke 1” – a term that reductively(简化地，贬低地) brands 2020’s social justice movement – as prominent liberal voices reflect on(反思，回顾) that time period with disappointing hindsight(事后聪明，后见之明). During a recent appearance on ABC’s This Week, when asked about 2020-era demands to abolish(废除，取消) prisons and police, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the US congresswoman from New York, abandoned(放弃，抛弃) her previous support of the “defund the police(撤资警察（运动）)” movement, and instead joked: “Woke 1 was crazyyyyy.”
八月让我们迎来了一场关于“觉醒1.0”的全民公投——这个词将2020年的社会正义运动简化为一个标签——因为著名的自由派声音以令人失望的事后之明反思那段时期。在最近一次美国广播公司《本周》节目露面中，当被问及2020年时代废除监狱和警察的要求时，来自纽约的美国国会女议员亚历山德里娅·奥卡西奥-科尔特斯放弃了她先前对“撤资警察”运动的支持，反而开玩笑说：“觉醒1.0太疯狂了。”
Ocasio-Cortez, a democratic socialist(民主社会主义者), implied that the still-resounding(响亮的，巨大的) calls for municipalities(市政当局，自治市) to reduce police budgets and to divert(转移，转向) aid to poor communities were worth advocating for during the 2020 uprising, but are now “crazyyyyy”. In 2020, she noted that “a lot of people cannot fathom(理解，弄清) what an abolitionist(废除主义者（此处指废除监狱警察制度）) America looks like. Tell them it looks like a suburb. Affluent(富裕的) white communities already live in a world where they choose to fund youth, health, housing more than they fund police.” But she has since backtracked on(背弃，出尔反尔) that idea.
奥卡西奥-科尔特斯，一位民主社会主义者，暗示那些仍然响亮的呼吁——要求市政当局削减警察预算并将援助转向贫困社区——在2020年起义期间值得倡导，但现在却“太疯狂了”。2020年，她曾指出，“很多人无法想象一个废除主义者眼中的美国是什么样子。告诉他们，它看起来像一个郊区。富裕的白人社区已经生活在一个他们选择资助青年、健康、住房多于资助警察的世界里。”但此后她已背弃了这一想法。
On 9 August, she told This Week co-host Jonathan Karl: “We all share the goals of having as low a crime rate as possible [but] rhetoric(言论，花言巧语) in that time is not rhetoric that we would use today.” Days later, Zohran Mamdani, the progressive New York mayor, echoed(附和，重复) her sentiment by surmising(推测，猜测): “Sometimes, what you believe can change and develop.” But their reversing course(改变方向，转向) on abolition isn’t development; it’s a devolution(退化，倒退).
8月9日，她告诉《本周》联合主持人乔纳森·卡尔：“我们都希望尽可能降低犯罪率，但当时的言论不是我们今天会使用的言论。”几天后，进步派纽约市长佐赫兰·曼达尼呼应了她的观点，推测道：“有时候，你所相信的可以改变和发展。”但他们废除主义的转向不是发展，而是退化。