Very negative. Wokism, to me, is the belief in things like:
Speech should be censored. Hurting someone's feeling should be a crime.
Gun ownership should be illegal.
Trans-women are women and trans-men are men. Trans-women should be allowed to be treated exactly as women, compete in women's athletics and beauty pageants, and have access to women's only facilities like locker rooms and bathrooms. Children should be taught by drag queens and encouraged to read books that encourage LGBT. Children can decide if they are trans. Children should be allowed to begin transitioning. There are 160 genders. Gendered pronouns are hurtful and mis-gendering someone is hate speech. Specify your preferred pronouns.
People who riot, vandalize, loot, terrorize and commit arson are just exercising their civil rights as long as they are leftists or black. And anyone who opposes them is a Nazi.
Defund the police.
White people should feel guilty about slavery. White people should acknowledge white privilege and white fragility, and act "less white". Blacks who commit crimes are victims and should be given special privileges.
People should not be allowed to defend themselves or their property. To harm a criminal is a crime and a violation of the criminal's civil rights.
Illegal immigrants should not only have the same rights as citizens, but should also receive special benefits that even citizens don't have access to.
you really believe all that shit?
@Sabretooth I believe all that shit.
@findacure4wokeness please educate yourself. that's all I can say.
@Sabretooth You can't unsee things that are true.
@findacure4wokeness or, what you are able to convince yourself of being true.
@findacure4wokeness "don't believe your lying eyes or ears".
@Sabretooth Like poc need whites to look after them. The dependent chase down others with their hands out while the independent run away from them. True?
It means that some people woke up in an alternate reality and they are trying to get everybody else to live their fantasy.
yeah? which side is that?
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The whole idea of "woke" is simply a ploy to give power and privileges to people because of the idiotic idea that being different somehow makes them entitled to things they didn't earn. It's racist, it's sexist, and it's evil.
In my previous business, when I needed a bunch of employees, I hired based on merit. My team was more "international" than the UN, and I trained and employed several women who wanted to do "men's jobs". I didn't care what people did in the bedroom because that information wasn't relevant to the job and had no place at work. No one made me do this - my hiring was 100% merit-based, and the requirements were the same for everyone.
But that wasn't good enough for the woke people. They wanted people to be hired, and given high powered, high-paid positions DESPITE their lack of merit, because they were women, or black, or trans, or Muslim, or whatever. As if whatever struggles they had entitled them to a free ride. NO. Everyone has struggles, and there are no free rides. You want something, you go earn it just like everyone else.
And likewise, if you are lazy, can't get to work on time, constantly call out, constantly complain, don't do quality work, or can't get your work done on time, and certainly if you are committing crimes, you're not going to advance, you're probably going to get fired, and you might end up in jail, and the only person you have to blame for that is yourself.
Yes, you might have had it tough growing up. TOO BAD. GET OVER IT and grow up and act like an adult. Earn your way, just like everyone else, and when you earn it, you'll appreciate it and you'll feel much better about yourself and you'll realize that people aren't holding you back - YOU are holding you back, and as soon as you stop doing that, your life will improve. Probably a lot.
It started keeping your eyes open with sundown towns in the south.
https://youtu.be/e_fI5no9SKk?si=V9wQTnn20cm8c_H5Call me crazy but conservatives are very accurately aware that the state is a higher power and tends to abuse said power. Fundamentally they ignore it when it's in its favor but doing so makes it even more powerful.
You got to be consistent with rules, laws, and expectations to have them be effective. Otherwise it becomes a game of who has more capital. Be it money or connections.
https://youtu.be/4RBnTZELQX8?si=P0g7Wp5L8Jum9afvHe ends up calling someone close to the future president JFK to get out of jail. Not everyone has that connection or favor to pull. So you got to stay woke to avoid the situation in the first place.
Call me crazy again that's a shitty way to live. You need a surplus social capital to deal with the government arm of violent force to have rights? If everyone knows the cheat code to disarm the state it's not cheating anymore is it? We together have fundamental rights.
The woke ideology in past years tried to convince me I should like people who hate me just for who I am. Of course this ideology never worked in real world and existed only as long it was financed by some governments who tried to force so called Postmodernism. In this ideological postmodernism all established and working social mechanics are per definition considered as adversary and need to be replaced with new ideologies which have to prove those old ones are wrong. Of course woke ideology was focused on destruction of white ethnocentrism because elites desired further population growth in native white countries with brown immigration. Unfortunately for them but fortunately for us whites this program failed as elites recognized people from societies which lived 200 years ago in stone age societies aren't mentally and intellectually capable maintain a modern society.
Neutral.
In theory it should be positive. The idea behind it is positive. It's basically about treating everyone as equal regardless of their gender, skin color, race, age, sexual orientation, etc.
In actual practice though it's often negative. People acting "woke" just because they want brownie points and nothing more. People using any small inconvenience to verbally accuse others of being evil murdering intolerant assholes. People using any excuse to be offended by anything and everything. People not letting others live their lives without them having something to say about it. Etc.
Not every woke person is like that. Some woke people genuinely just want everyone to be treated equally. Others though don't even care about what they're preaching and just want others to think they're heroes and will verbally crucify anyone who crosses them.
Ironically the negative woke people are pushing equality backwards by being so insufferable about it.
Really good answer.
Thanks, lol. I try my best here.
Positive. The actual meaning of the term is a good thing.
Sadly it is a term that right wing media, commentators and politicians have tried and in many cases succeeded in highjacking, by using the term to reference the extreme they can also dismiss the moderate.
@Cal4576 The word "shit" used to just be the factual term for animal manure and wasn't even a swear. Now it is because the culture changed and the word changed with it. To me the same thing happened to the word woke. Woke originally was a good idea. Now when I here someone say they're woke I want to punch them in the face.
I've literally gone from a pro trans and gay rights liberal in high school to a center right that thinks trans people are mentally ill and not a sexuality and the people who said they were woke are the ones that pushed me away from their ideals themselves. I wasn't lured by the right I was pushed away by the left and that's what happened most men on the left with my generation which is why there was so much support for MAGA.
I don't like the republicans or the democrats, and I think Trump is the devil but honestly, I hate the democrats more than I hate MAGA because even though I hate Trump I understand why people voted for him. The system is broken, and he promised to burn it. People are just too stupid to realize he's doing it to rebuild the government with him as a dictator.
As for why I hate the democrats it's actually pretty simple. I knew since I was a kid the republicans were going to stab me in the front what I didn't see coming was the democrats stabbing me in the back. Who would you hate more? The person who's always been a dick to you or the person who said they had your back and you trusted who then sold you down the river. Say what you will about the guy who was an asshole from the start at least he was honest about being a prick. I hate jerks but I hate traitors more.
I never said Trump was honest I said the republicans are. They're so brazen, brash and unapologetic with their bullshit anyone who isn't stupid knows they're full of shit from common sense. The dems are different. They pretend to be populists and do a good job of it too or at least did. WHen I say the republicans are honest I don't mean they don't lie constantly. I mean they're so loud with their nastiest views as long as you aren't stupid it's easy to see they're full of shit. The left though like to pretend they have the moral high ground but then do shady things out of sight of everyone else. In short, the republicans are brash and brazen with their bullshit but the dems are sneaky and deceitful. Also part of why people think trump isn't a liar is he's told a lot of truth too. He promised to round up the illegals and he is, he promised to close the boarder and he is and to most of his supporters that's proof he's honest. Trump is a compulsive liar but the actions of his party are honest they're just cruel. The republicans have been in a culture war with non Christians and gay people since it's inception. They've always been rooted in greed and hate since Regan and even a bit before I would say. Hate has been a part of the republican rhetoric for a long time long since before I was born but at least they don't pretend their movement is about peace and then bite the same people waving their flag for them. I advise you to seek mental help and try to get to the core of what's causing your body dysmorphia. You need therapy not hormone treatment and surgery's that are irreversible and can cause health problems and cancer
Also lets not forget that the Democrats were the party of pro slavery when they were around in the civil war and honestly in my opinion still are now. The majority of the people on the lefts complaints about the deportations can be summed up as "Please don't take away my servants!" The left doesn't care about these people; they care about their slaves being sent home.
He promised to round up illegals but ice is targeting and seizing US citizens or those with the right to be in the US as much as illegals. I think a lot of the issue with US politics is bias propagandised media, poor education and a 2 party system which tends to polarise everything. I'm glad I live in the uk.
I always find it interesting when people's response to me being trans is 'it's an illness' that also used to be how homosexuality was viewed, women who wanted equal rights
How about take 2 on this. Go ahead I'll give you another shot to give a reply that actually has basis instead of bitching out. Ehem, as I said. They aren't doing this to legal immigrants you are miss informed. They have accidently caught a few legal immigrants due to errors but the left wing media keep lying and saying he's targeting everyone. Trump can't deport people with citizenship and legal status it's not possible a couple people have gotten swept up in bureaucracy but the media is freaking out over like one guy in particular who is caught in a legal battle that's been turned into a political fire point by the left.
Legal immigrants aren't being deported it's flat out not happening. And I'm aware that was the case the difference I've met lots of women and lots of gay people who are perfectly normal well adjusted people. Every single trans person I've ever met was mentally ill at best and a complete psycho at worst. I have not met a single trans person I would ever deem mentally well or even close to it. Also like it or not these hormone treatments are bad for you on a biological level and we've know messing with our hormones for non medical reasons can cause cancer and other health problems before being trans was even a thing! Also I don't want to hear about immigration from someone in the UK. The flow of refugees and illegal immigrants into your country by your government has led to rape and grooming gangs across the country and terrorists groups like Palestine action literally living next to you as your neighbors and your prisons are so full from all the crime caused by that mess among others that you're letting out rapists because you need to keep the door revolving for new inmates to go in. Not to mention locking people up for being racist online. Look I don't like racism but it's not a crime. People have a right to their own beliefs and opinions and they have the right to voice them no matter how ugly they are as long as they aren't calls to violence. Anything less is suppression of free speech whether you like their speech or not. Now there you go, go ahead and try again. Let's hear your well thought out reply.
'Typical trany cunt behaviour' 'fucking bitch'
You talk about a debate and throw language like that about?
I have a job, a personal life, responsibilities. I don't just sit on my phone all day.
I know, as in personally know US citizens or asylum seekers that are being held by ice. 2 of them are journalists that got picked up after criticising trump.
see this is why we should double down on using and advocating for the word 'woke' just to see how unhinged the far right is when you use it lol. +1
You know what, you're right I snapped completely and was unfair. Even if I disagree with you on the trans thing that was crossing a line. As was the cursing and slew of insults. I'm sorry I snapped like that. I've been perpetually pissed off for the last year of my life and I'm getting more pissed everyday. I hate the state of my country and I've gotten so fucking sick of both sides of the spectrum I'm lashing out at both of them. I got pissed because I'm sick of everyone from other countries pissing on my country over this mad mans bullshit and it's gotten to the point if I even get poked by a foreigner about it I snap at them. I'm proud of my country and I'm proud to be an American I'm just not proud of the state my country is in and who's leading it. I blame both sides equally for the state of this and it's making me spiteful and angry all the fucking time. I need to fucking unplug from social media for my own good at this point. I'm sorry for being so cruel disagree or no I made myself a hypocrite today. I don't know if this helps but I burned the fuck out of my dinner so for the record karma didn't take long to kick in.
The conservative side likes to use it to describe a forced inclusion, implying that race is more important than skill to those who are “woke” and essentially calling them pseudo-white supremacists. Ironically, calling it that in that specific context only further highlights the biases that western society teaches us in a country governed solely by white men for a majority of its history, a government originally made to benefit white men above all others too. This is what “woke” specifically fights against, trying to unlearn the biases that tell us white men are better than white women, queer people, people of color, etc. and push for something more equal and, ideally, equitable.
Extremely negative. The term is used to imply that they have reached a form of enlightenment, but they have only presented very old idea that have been discarded by any sane and rational person with the proof being all the countries it has infiltrated and rotted from the inside. Those who tout these ideas are well aware of how destructive it is and that is why they target kids and college students, taking advantage of the fact that they never witnessed the horrors of the USSR.
Though they have the countenance of the contrary, it is divisive by nature. White vs minority, men vs women, gay vs straight, you name it. We see it with all this talk of "privilege" that is told as if it is an unassailable fact, when that word can end societies when used improperly and is used that way very often.
"Woke" is how one group of people choses to interpret social injustice. It's a way to attempt to control and stifle the story in the media rather than are we using our brains to think critically about a situation. If you say something loud enough and long enough, it will stick in the minds of the people who hear it, and people become sheep incapable of actually looking at the full picture.
So now, instead of using critical thinking and listening and seeing a situation, hearing both sides, deciding whether either be right or wrong, it's just a blanket statement to say, I don't/won't even bother to listen/think about X, and anyone who disagrees with my ideas must be woke and for them, woke=automatically bad, stupid, needs to be stopped, or ignored.
Positive.
I don't see why the term WOKE is seen as something negative, I mean there might be people out there who claim they are woke but continue to be racist by claiming that an under qualified Black person deserves an opportunity more than a qualified White person, these people are racists trying to get away by claiming themselves as WOKE.
Woke means insane... like the idea that men can have babies, men can be women and women can be men. No sane person subscribes to woke ideas. Woke is fantasy garbage that has been coopted to use as a political weapon by the left to poison young minds and destabilize Western society.
Both. Woke is a very broad term and see it used for different types of people. Woke could be used to describe a person who believes the earth is flat, vaccines cause autism, climate crisis being a hoax etc. That's a negative connotation.
But it's also used for people who fight for our climate, are vegan, are anti billionaires, are gay and have pronouns etc 😜 I do like to identify as the second group and see it as a compliment when people place me in this second group.
I am "woke"--and I don't believe the earth is flat, I believe in climate change and global warming --never thought it was a hoax, but Trump has said it is. I am not vegan, I am against the 2% of billionaires in this country who take advantage of the poor. I think autism is caused by something contained in the vaccines we are giving children in the last 50 to 60years, because I am basing this on 3 examples that I personally know about. Your first paragraph describes what anything but being "woke" is.
It could all be called woke... Woke could describe anything that is a little different from the norm. People thinking they know more or see more than the general public. So those are the flat earthers, those are the vegans, those people are the anti vaxxers. All of those groups are woke in a way because they don't follow the general public and general knowledge.
But I do have a question, what do people gain by giving people autism? Because the world wouldn't function if everyone had autism, only a very small percentage of people with autism have and can have a steady job... The economy will die and so will the world if they keep giving children autism...
But what does Woke mean to you if I'm so wrong?
The American Medical Association, is far too big to admit anything is wrong with the vaccines they create. I know of three cases in which a child was born normal, and after a vaccine was given (it was a three in one vaccine such as MMR) the child became very different afterwards. One of those cases was with my sister and her daughter. The other two were when I was in training for special education teacher among a group center for the moderately and severely retarded. That was in 1984. No one wants autism. My theory is that some babies are just ultra sensitive to whatever they put into the vaccine, and that includes the mercury used to seal them.
Woke to me means knowing what's going on in this world politically, without any misinformation and with much research, facts, and knowledge. For example--most people who are NOT woke, do not believe in global warming, or science, or that there was no such thing as the first man on the moon, or that the Covid vaccines actually helped you to prevent death. Being educated about such things is part of being woke. Unfortunately many Americans, who are very divided now thanks to Donald Trump, think that the term means something that the left, liberals, or Democrats have created and thus are wrong about anything it entails. Global warming will affect the overall climate in many parts of the world, for example--and yet a person who is not woke will say. "well, if that's global warming, I'm all for it because I like the warm weather. Bring it on!" They don't see that the colder winters, higher summer-like temperatures that are happening in the world, that stretch into fall in places that have the fall season, the more frequent hurricanes, winter vortexes, and natural disasters are part of global warming.
I see It as a sad word. Anyone who sees it as positive is a victim of propaganda brainwashing.
The term “woke” should scare you. Airline pilots should be hired based on skill, not the color of their skin or their gender. The woke will say it’s not fair to higher based on skill because a lot of people aren’t skillful.
Neither , it depends on the context and the speaker.
It has meant an alert to social injustices and to negatively criticize or mock political correctness and progressive social views.
It could easily mean awakened or stirred 🤣
Positive. I'd much rather be awake than asleep to what's going on in this country. I can't imagine not being aware of things.
The people who vote "Negative" don't understand what it means. If they did - and how it would help them as well - they'd have voted differently.
Positive. As the dumbing down of America persists, I'd rather be informed than ignorant.
it's always fluctuating kind of depending who says it. cause some people who say they are "woke" are so far down delusion lane, they're not gonna find their way back. while others are on to something.
Neither, really. While it can be accurately used of truly over-the-top silliness, it seem to have become more often a pejorative, much like racist, fascist, etc. Inaccurate 90%+ of the time and designed to halt debate. A few examples: Scott Weiner is "woke" but Chuck Schumer is not. Nick Fuentes is a racist and a fascist, I am not.
Very Negative
WOKE = We Only Keep Exceptions
It's racist when people pretend that anyone's saying "a black and brown person should have an edge over a similarly qualified, or better qualified, white person"; it's just requiring equality.
Do you know what happened once orchestra auditions started being held behind curtains? The number of women in orchestras rocketed up. Because they were always just as good, but there was bias against them.
WOKE is the "groupthink" of the extreme radical left. They're as bad as the fascists, in their own way.
Negative. The woke cult is an absolute disgrace to humanity, ranging from censorship to violence, discrimination and destruction.
negative and beyond!
is equivalent to what the Nazis were all about in the early and mid 1900s
It's a useless word that communicates ZERO denotation and ALL connotation and as such is sus by any user.
Woke to me is pretty positive means you're willing to learn to have conversations. Hoping to change some cultures.
It's cultural marxism repackaged again with more bullshit added.
negative. it is the opposite of common sense.
Very negative. Woke ideology has been poison to western societies.
Neutral, it means like... waking up, nothing special.
Some prefer to stay asleep.
It’s a personal choice
it means that you're aware of the issues of the world. no more, no less.
"Woke" is definitely a wrong-headed ideology.
"Awake" is definitely a proper-headed ideology.
Positive. Usually I woke up on time.
WOKE and MAGA are both extreme political evils that need to eliminated.
I always hear it as a mockery
It represents everything wrong with the world
VERY positive historic connotations.
Definitely negative
Negatory!
Very negative
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