What is woke?

[Birdbuff]

From the Oxford dictionary:

Woke

alert to injustice in society, especially racism

So what’s the big deal?

[Gilroy]

From the Oxford dictionary:

Woke

alert to injustice in society, especially racism

So what’s the big deal?

There is no big deal and I stated in my previous post's its a badge I would wear. I also wear the FUDD badge bestowed upon me by fellow forum members with great honor.

[newbiehunter]

From the Oxford dictionary:

Woke

alert to injustice in society, especially racism

So what’s the big deal?

The problem with common sense is not so common [emoji3526][emoji3526]

The big deal is that everyone's interpretation of what is societal justice and racism is different. Depending on their previous life experiences challenges and so on

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[Birdbuff]

I would think it would be difficult to confuse social injustice and racism with anything else.

[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.

[Birdbuff]

Perhaps then we should work together to find a mutual definition we could all agree with.

[Birdbuff]

But according to wokeism, this would be impossible...

I didn’t know. Have these “woke” people dug in? What’s their definition?

I’m only asking because I saw someone refer to Neil Young as “woke”, so I looked it up.

[Birdbuff]

It’s getting more convenient to have all these labels on people. (Sarcasm)

[Gilroy]

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

Would have been easier to stick to the readers digest version "alert to injustice in society, especially racism."

In relation to your link I wonder why anyone would care to read it.

[Birdbuff]

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.

That’s a good amount to digest…..I almost wish I didn’t ask. Lol. Thanks for taking the time to explain it.