Explain like I am 5: What is "wokeness"?

[IMuser]

I have been seeing way too many posts about being "woke" or something and i can't make sense. What exactly is being woke?

[Stupidsigninpage]

Woke is a term to describe beliefs and policies that support disingenuous and out of touch social justice ideas that are typically espoused by Nanny state Globalist Leftist losers.

An example of being woke is painting your face in blackface to stand in solidarity with African American Community.

Or rioting to oppose police arresting violent drug addicts like George Floyd.

Or promoting 20 trillion dollars worth of slavery reparations to blacks while the country is experiencing high inflation and unsustainable debt.

[IMuser]

I see.. basically glorified stupidity right?

[northwestripper666]

Shit that makes you want to barf. Everything is racist. Everything is anti-gay. Everything is anti-feminist. Everything is anti everything. CRT, trannies competing in women's sports. BLM bull shit plastered all over sports arenas everywhere. Taking a knee. End racism non sense. Systemic racism. On and on and on and on...

[Ghen30]

It's a way to criticize someone instead of insulting them... Like "Get woke, dude!" As in "Are you stupid? Figure it out yourself!" Or something like that... I don't know I'm more familiar with SUS cuz it means suspicious.

[AvaOneLasTime]

reverse it and you will know. there people are NOT WOKE!

[sensible27]

Inverse thinking?

[AvaOneLasTime]

@sensible27
why not!

[IMuser]

It's like a kid asking "what is ice cream" and you reply "well it is whatever you haven't eaten yet" 😂😂

If it is possible, kindly give an example and a definition.

[AvaOneLasTime]

things are often the opposite of what they think. If they say drunken sex is rape, then its not. They will deceive you, so beware!

[Still-alive]

a buzzword conjured up by ultra right wingers in an effort to maintain their power.. making things more about the culture being bad so no one actually critiques or pays attention to their policies which are often terrible for everyone who isn't super rich.

[sensible27]

Impractical ideas that don't work because they're on the edge and fail to understand the fundamental nature of things and fail to address and solve the (fundamental) issues that cause things.

[IMuser]

Any examples?

[sensible27]

These are largely up to debate and mostly depend on say, you. And how you choose to view things but you can take an example of racism. You could say well people are racist and you can launch movements trying to address that and try to criticize the people who are racist. Fine it might eventually make it less of a norm eventually out of just how things evolve and fear. But you might not be addressing the fundamental problem in these people which is basically fears and insecurities. Racism is a symptom and not a thing that exists on it's own.

I think the defining characteristics of these things is also that they try to exaggerate the importance of seemingly unimportant matters. It's a combination of ideas that don't work and possibly ideas that address problems that aren't the biggest threats

[-Asca-]

„Woke“ is a meaningless buzzword mainly used by the political right to refer to supposedly liberal or leftist and usually heavily overexaggerated views/practices/policies/whatever that are mostly strawmen however.

[IMuser]

Any specific examples?

[Nileviewboy]

what is woke?

CNN, MSNBC, Washington post, NYT, Young Turds sorry Turks, BLM, Biden Administration (though they quickly abandoned their voters, there's a shocker). Rachel Maddow, almost every Hollywood celebrity. Me too...

Basically, anyone that can claim there is a political or social injustice.

[normalice]

Woke is just a trigger word to mock the pursuit of civiiztion.

[IMuser]

Pursuit of civilisation? How?

[normalice]

Bullying is the last vestige of our species's dependence on tribalism and/or barbarism. Shed it fully and we become that much closer to being civilized. And that's what it seems people are describing when they call something "woke" - a request to stop the bullying. Yes, they often hedge a bit on the details but people who complain about wokeness ultimately just want their turn to be behind the bullies.

Easiest example is the trans dudes in women's sports things. In fact most woke people don't actually care. The problem is if you tell someone who is antiwoke that yes, in fact, it's fine if we go ahead and ban trans athletes from sports for now, as long as we then agree to work together to stop the bullying of trans people, they will freak out and do absolutely everything they can to keep the conversation about sports. They will absolutely refuse to take yes for an answer. Because they dont actually care about the sports - they just want the bullying to continue.

[fonduegirl]

If you're too sensitive regarding your beliefs and practices

[IMuser]

That's simple and right af. Damn

[fonduegirl]

Thanks

[exitseven]

It is accepting things that are not true without question and rejecting anything that displays common sense.

[OddBeMe]

A term used by opponents to define a recent egalitarian push toward equality.

[IMuser]

Opponents of what?

[OddBeMe]

Of the egalitarian push.

[IMuser]

I see... Thanks

[OddBeMe]

Am I wrong?

[IMuser]

As of now, i really have no opinions towards push to equality and woke culture so i cannot judge you.

[chico800]

So what is equality going to look like, exactly?

[OddBeMe]

@chico800 philosophically it’s the unfinished pyramid. It’ll never be totally equal. But already we have actresses making nearly the same as males, almost for non celebs. We also have a deeper focus on on minority films and characters.

And what’s the downside, exactly? Louis CK was out a year for masturbating in public. Now he’s back and won a Grammy.

[chico800]

If we're talking about the American entertainment industry, the people doing this push seem to think that minorities should be represented in far greater numbers than that of the actual U. S. population. I don't see how that's supposed to be equality.

[OddBeMe]

@chico800 well…what’s the current screen time ratio of whites vs minorities, or men vs women?

It just seems like it’s higher because it’s changing.

[chico800]

It's being obsessed with race, gender, and sexual orientation, to no obvious purpose.

[Anonymous]

It’s just another right-wing, culture war boogeyman used gin up fear and outrage among right wing retards.

[Anonymous]

A collectivist ideal that treats some groups of people as opressors and the rest as the opressed.

[IMuser]

Any example of this?

[Anonymous]

It's a white girl's thing.