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What is woke?
Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2024 6:47 pm
by yankees60
Re: What is woke?
Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2024 3:53 am
by boglerdude
Could only watch 1 minute
Woke is the "awareness" of inequality, and then using racism and sexism to "fix" it.
Re: What is woke?
Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2024 10:25 am
by yankees60
https://www.pfadvice.com/2024/06/06/13- ... e-culture/
13 Reasons Millenials Are Now Pushing Back Against Woke Culture
June 6, 2024 By Allen Francis
Re: What is woke?
Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2024 11:18 am
by dualstow
boglerdude wrote: ↑Fri Jun 07, 2024 3:53 am
Could only watch 1 minute
Woke is the "awareness" of inequality, and then using racism and sexism to "fix" it.
I agree with boglerdude (and I also got through 1 minute).
Clearly, there’s a trend based on Marxism, as that mumblemouth woman in the video began to say. Marxism, identity politics, and so-called antiracism, which is just revenge racism. I can’t recommend that Jascha Mounk book enough: The Identity Trap. Wokesters value identity and victimhood over merit & achievement.
But woke is, from the viewpoint of the wokesters, the awareness of (awakeness to) the notion that people of color are suffering and it’ll all the fault of white people, Jews (honorary whites in this case), white-adjacent east Asians, and other oppressors.
From the viewpoint of the nonwoke, it’s ignorant virtue signalling.
Re: What is woke?
Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2024 1:12 pm
by Xan
I would amend boglerdude's definition to refer to inequality of outcome, which it seems is primarily what they're focused on.
Re: What is woke?
Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2024 2:10 pm
by dualstow
vs the classical liberal’s focus on inequality of opportunity.