What is woke?

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Originally Posted by Sharon

Certainly agree with newbiehunter. "The big deal is that everyone's interpretation of what is societal justice and racism is different." quote

That interpretation certainly depends on the age of the person too.

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Yes......and there some that feel their interpretation of social justice (social reality) are more correct or important than others.

Here's part of the issue If you disagree with someone else you can now label them racist. In fact Trudeau has done this numerous times. It is a very dangerous slippery slope. Personally I can honestly say that in my opinion Trudeau is probably the most racist person that I have ever seen in government and it is very easy to back that up. But it has also been stated by those on the Left that if you are on the Left nothing can be considered racist against you.

WOW!! This is one of the best threads I've seen for a long time. Good job,peeps. Keep up the good work.

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Originally Posted by Bushwhacker

Wokeism is the result of a severely confused and morally corrupt mind. In short, anyone who believes in this concept should reconsider their outlook.

It’s not compatible with the Christian West. It presumes our rights come from government and not God, and that we are unequal by virtue of our immutable characteristics. It denounces the existence of these categories, yet simultaneously stresses them as being the most important descriptors of our being.

Wokeism is inherently contradictory.

Wokeism is the natural culmination of years of decadent secular liberalism, where the concept of endless rights loses meaning & purpose without their countervailing responsibilities. It projects the guilty conscience of the woke person onto everything, and finds expression in tirelessly policing the behaviour of others as an attempt to fill this void.

Wokeism mistakes compliance for competence, and makes a virtue out of cowardice. It disdains success, independence, grit, and the notion of being responsible for your own destiny. It casts off individual responsibility into the abyss of collectivism. It mistakes strength for tyranny and reduces everything to power dynamics. This is why it’s so concerned with power and seeks to rob those of it at every turn. This is why it doesn’t hesitate to use violence to achieve its ends, seeing as we’re all just a bunch of warring tribes.

Wokeism essentially combines the worst aspects of paganism and the worst elements of modern bourgeois culture. It’s violent Marxism with an expensive purse.

It seeks to eliminate all injustice, and in doing so creates even more injustice.

Wokeism is antithetical to everything that’s truly liberal, and seeks to destroy basic truths such as biological sex, human nature, the idea of God, the concept of natural law, etc.

Wokeism gets women injured and humiliated by erasing the sex categories in sports.

Wokeism doesn’t believe in free speech or open debate, because it questions the very notion that such things are even possible – it reduces everyone to their race, sex, socio-economic status and doesn’t believe that transcending these categories is possible.

Wokeism speaks for you when you didn't ask it to.

It seeks to silence, censor, attack and ultimately cannibalize it’s own adherents. Wokeism is the rabid mob that can never be placated, and so it’s a dead end for all involved.

It creates absurd concepts such a “white privilege”, “micro aggressions”, “safe spaces”, “decolonizing the university” etc. and believes we live in an oppressive patriarchy that must be destroyed. It's deeply anti-Western.

Wokeism is big on resentment and short on gratitude.

Wokeism is a cancer that must be excised.


Birdbuff, check out the latest definition of racism from the ADL, an extremely ‘woke’ organization: "The marginalization and/or oppression of people of color based on a socially constructed racial hierarchy that privileges white people.”

So as we can see, apparently only white people can be racist now according to wokeism. Are you keeping up to date?

Here’s a fun task the woke crowd: try and define the word ‘woman’
Good luck!

This is a hilarious parody account of the average ‘woke’ urban liberal today. A quick scroll through should have you laughing out loud ;)

https://twitter.com/TitaniaMcGrath?r...Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Ha!

Reasons to abolish Christmas:
- The exchange of “gifts” normalises capitalism.
- "Comfort and joy” are signifiers of privilege.
- Turkeys are murdered en masse.
- Snowmen are symbols of white patriarchy.
- Jesus wasn’t vaccinated.

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I see, instead labeling individuals as being driven by schizophrenia they prefer to label it ‘wokeism.’ At least that’s what your description seems to suggest. A confused state of mine lacking any measure of rationality or compartmental stability.

You don’t stop hunting because you ground old. You grow old because you stop hunting.
- Gun Nut

I'm not sure whether I'm learning something or walking away even more confused ? LMAO !

A great example of woke. https://globalnews.ca/news/8592867/g..._198fLjpI4vD1E

Perfect example of the leftist: Quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi-or Aliis si licet, tibi non licet ("to others it is permitted; to you it is not permitted").

When she will start enquiries about the world wide phenomena of :NGOs receiveing countless not accounted for and not taxed money from"not controlled-foreign sources".
Which the NGOs happily -readily and very effectively use to push "their"(foreign )agenda in their own country.Mostly to support government to "their"liking-or to help oust the ones do not "play "along.
And then cry blue murder when some countries say-this is a NO NO.

Open society-eh?

Woke, what one does when they wake up in the morning.

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Originally Posted by Birdbuff

From the Oxford dictionary:

Woke

alert to injustice in society, especially racism

So what’s the big deal?

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Key word ... ALERT... results virtue signalling but no real attempt to make substantiative change, no real attempt to be fair. The results being ignoring of real issues, selective discrimination and a deliberate attempt to create US vs Them and divide people into categories and groups where discrimination based on race and class is OK based on the "woke" prejudice of the day.

Fuddism and Wokism both show a lack of respect, ethics, empathy and mental integrity and the person in question often suffers..... no enjoys their narcissism and perceived special opinion of themselves.

The big deal is it is discriminatory, racist and delusional and spreads hate based on the "woke" ideals.... essentially a prejudicial mental issue that avoids reality and facts and encourages the " allowed for me but not for thee" as a key corner stone. Think $19 orange juice is horrendous but a $300,000 vacation that included ethics violations is OK IF the offender is the right race or political or social group and you start to get the idea.

So in general a "woke" person will not care about what is right, what is fair, what is ethical and what is true near as much as they will care about being perceived as caring by people that also don't care about the realities and have no concern with what is true or best if it doesn't fit their stance.

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Originally Posted by mosquito

Key word ... ALERT... results virtue signalling but no real attempt to make substantiative change, no real attempt to be fair. The results being ignoring of real issues, selective discrimination and a deliberate attempt to create US vs Them and divide people into categories and groups where discrimination based on race and class is OK based on the "woke" prejudice of the day.

Fuddism and Wokism both show a lack of respect, ethics, empathy and mental integrity and the person in question often suffers..... no enjoys their narcissism and perceived special opinion of themselves.

The big deal is it is discriminatory, racist and delusional and spreads hate based on the "woke" ideals.... essentially a prejudicial mental issue that avoids reality and facts and encourages the " allowed for me but not for thee" as a key corner stone. Think $19 orange juice is horrendous but a $300,000 vacation that included ethics violations is OK IF the offender is the right race or political or social group and you start to get the idea.

So in general a "woke" person will not care about what is right, what is fair, what is ethical and what is true near as much as they will care about being perceived as caring by people that also don't care about the realities and have no concern with what is true or best if it doesn't fit their stance.

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You made me think of a shorter description of the woke attitude : adolescent