Woke means the things that scare me.
Woke means all the things I don’t understand.
Woke means I can blame others for the shortcomings in my own life.
“woke” is an attempted slur by the same people that unironically go around saying “wake up sheeple”
Against my better judgement, I’m going to answer this from the perspective of an outside observer.
“Woke” means including societal issues such as race an identity when they add nothing to the content.
For example, in a hypothetical horror movie with a group of people in a van stopping to get gas.
Woke: as the group pulls in, the attendant steps out and says, hi I’m Gay Ken. I’m here to be your gay serviceman. The group gets gas and then back into their car to keep driving.
Not: as the group pulls in, the attendant says, “what do you want?”. The group gets gas and then leaves.
This is one of the phases of what woke means. It started as “being conscious to modern racial issues”. It then transitioned to “forcing racial and identity issues where they don’t add to the content”. And has finally found its current state as “ anything conservatives don’t like”.
The first definition makes a lot of sense. The second definition, when taken in context with the first, makes some sense to some people. The third definition means the word is useless.
You make a good point, its lost the original meaning.
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Truer words have never been spoken
Pretty much means fairness and due process of law.
Woke means having opened your eyes to the realities of the world, instead of remaining ignorant of them. Woke means you stopped believing what you have been falsely taught and have woken up to what is really going on.
asleep, vietnam was neccessary
woke, vietnam was started by a false flag and should never have happened
Good intentions but information poor
To me it means disingenuous attempts to change the social structure for malicious goals, and useful idiot tools with their minds tied in knots of the people who are doing it.
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Wow, real discussion!
I think you’re probably right they aren’t idiots, well most of them anyway, there are idiots in this world and no political ideology has a monopoly on them. But I do think they’re tools; they want to see change in the world, and they’ve been convinced to want a certain set of changes by some smooth talkers. I don’t think the people that formulate and articulate these sets of ideas to their followers are being honest about their end goals. This goes for just about every political ideology out there, but the predominant political force stirring trouble right now is the woke one so that’s the one I focus on.
I don’t think trans rights is about trans rights, that critical race theory is about equity, that UBI is about opportunity or leveling the playing field, that reducing energy production is about saving the planet. I think the adherent masses to these ideas do, I don’t think the academics that come up with this stuff or the politicians that shill it believe that for a second. They’re Tooheys and Fagins.
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They’re characters from books anthropomorphizing very unscrupulous archetypes. You should look them up and read about them, they’re fantastically designed characters.
My process is to look at outcomes and techniques. If techniques to further an ideological goal involve dishonesty and disingenuousness I then deduce that the purveyors of those ideologies are unscrupulous people. If outcomes are awful and especially if they try to hide those bad outcomes then I presume that they don’t care how what they want affects people. So for example, sex education and birth control among religious conservatives, you have both disingenuous discussion and bad outcomes. Or the countless young women who have ruined their lives by cutting their breasts off as teenage girls convinced they’re boys. Same markers.
