What’s wrong with Woke?

[Matt Dillon]

'Wokeness' means you believe that white Americans are a racist oppressor? How so? Where did you get that idea? Did you come up with it on your own?

1619 project, dumbass. That's what it's all about. Dividing Americans and pushing communism.

[dukkha]

I agree, being awake is, at least in part, about knowing yourself. I have racist ideas and tendencies, the difference is that I try to not act on them, and I work to do better.

To me trying to do better, is as close to be 'woke' as a person can be.

The worst thing a person can do is decide that they cant do better so they are just going to stay racist.

i do not bizarrely walk around actively trying not to be racist. That implies I have racist tendencies.
Woke is insulting to white people; really we need to assume ALL people are NOT racists unless they behave otherwise.

But then there is no white guilt to manipulate is there? BLM relies on white guilt funding (ex.)

[PostmodernProphet]

No worse than a party that wants to deprive them of one of our most fundamental rights?

there is no fundamental right to cheat at an election.......

[evince]

Is your description an example of trying "to be aware of others, their needs and feelings, and tries to behave in a considerate way toward others.." or are you illustrating a person who is not "woke"?

Some times people refuse to admit facts because they want other to stay slumbering


I fully understand those people

I sent years appealing to their better natures

Some have no better nature

They just have bad designs and love lies over facts

I give them what they deserve

[evince]

Inversion fallacy. You are describing Democrats.

I know you are but what am I

Thanks frances

[Jarod]

And I countered with an example that discounts that clam. Obesity of a mcdonald's patron is not mcdonald's fault unless you can prove otherwise. Mcdonald's doesn't force anyone to eat at their restaurants.

You honestly don’t think the civil rights act and the voting rights act helped black Americans?

Desegregation of schools?

Obamacare?

[evince]

1619 project, dumbass. That's what it's all about. Dividing Americans and pushing communism.

So you don’t listen to others because you love Merka ?


Brilliant


Don’t listen to the thoughts of others because you love democracy


I wish you were not this stupid

You might be more fun

[evince]

You honestly don’t think the civil rights act and the voting rights act helped black Americans?

Desegregation of schools?

Obamacare?

Gee how could some be so fucking stupid huh


I think we do know how though


Because it never listened to black people and what they might tell them


Want to know if Norwegians love shit pie?

Whatever you do don’t ask Norwegians


Just ask the people who hate Norwegians if Norwegians should be given only shit pie to eat

I’m sure they will tell you the truth

[evince]

i do not bizarrely walk around actively trying not to be racist. That implies I have racist tendencies.
Woke is insulting to white people; really we need to assume ALL people are NOT racists unless they behave otherwise.

But then there is no white guilt to manipulate is there? BLM relies on white guilt funding (ex.)

Dear fucking idiot

You just claimed that black people lie about everything because they want to control white people and are trying manipulate them for ill gotten gains


And you actually think others should not see you as the racist fuck you are?


Good god racists have a special kind of stupid

Fuck you very much

[Cypress]

I hear Trumppers complaining about people they call “Woke”.

The way I understand it, if a person tries to be aware of others, their needs and feelings, and tries to behave in a considerate way toward others, they are “Woke”.

Somehow that’s an insult?

"Woke" is an ephemeral buzzword word nobody will remember in 15 years.

I am not even sure exactly what it means, except as a lazy way for resentful teabaggers to invoke their resentment at anything percieved as liberal and progressive.

[Jarod]

"Woke" is an ephemeral buzzword word nobody will remember in 15 years.

I am not even sure exactly what it means, except as a lazy way for resentful teabaggers to invoke their resentment at anything percieved as liberal and progressive.

If someone called me woke, I’d take it as a complement.

[T. A. Gardner]

I am not a social justice warrior as some people are, but I am doing some things.

Yes, you are a Social Justice warrior.

social justice warrior
[social justice warrior]
NOUN
informal
derogatory
a person who expresses or promotes socially progressive views.
"these social justice warriors want to apply their politically correct standards and rules to others' speech"

That's a typical definition.

I have taught my kids that it is generally not okay to judge an individual person based on ideas about the groups they belong to.

This is promoting socially progressive views.

I have intentionally had minority friends over to the house so they do not feel it is unusual.

This is "Virtue signaling."

virtue signaling
[virtue signaling]
NOUN
the action or practice of publicly expressing opinions or sentiments intended to demonstrate one's good character or the moral correctness of one's position on a particular issue.

It's a variant of "I have several Black (or other minority) friends..." If you have to tell people that or deliberately choose this path, you are virtue signaling as well as a racist bigot because you are doing it expressly because this person or these persons are of a particular ethnicity.

I have intentionally sent them to a very diverse public school to ensure they are not educated in a way that gives them a badly skewed view of the world.

More virtue signaling. This is also a Social Justice warrior mindset where you put correct thinking (as defined by the Woke Progressive Left) and virtue signaling ahead of a good education for your kids. It's more important to you that they be properly indoctrinated and propagandized than intellectually sound.

I have sued organizations for discrimination, and dedicated a portion of my career to doing so PRO BONO.

Massive Social Justice warrior stuff going on there!

I have supported qualified minorities who I believe are fair minded for offices of importance knowing they would fight any sign of systematic racism.

Another combination of racism, bigotry, and virtue signaling. A fair minded, person who isn't racist wouldn't care what the ethnicity or gender of the person being put in an office was but rather consider only their fitness for that office.

I have donated money to schools that are majority minority that were struggling.

The epitome of virtue signaling.

I have worked to promote La Sistema music education, which if you look it up is a program devoted to ensuring that privileged and underprivileged children study music together to foster a culture that promotes a common interest among people who would otherwise not be as likely to know each other in that way.

More social justice warrior stuff. It might also be virtue signaling, particularly if you are doing it to be seen within your community and circle of friends when doing it.

You?

Me, I judge people based on their words, actions, and deeds, not their ethnicity or gender. Nor do I pick who I associated with based on ethnicity or gender.

[dukkha]

Dear fucking idiot

You just claimed that black people lie about everything because they want to control white people and are trying manipulate them for ill gotten gains

delusional & insane

[dukkha]

Yes, you are a Social Justice warrior.

Me, I judge people based on their words, actions, and deeds, not their ethnicity or gender. Nor do I pick who I associated with based on ethnicity or gender.

yes. this.

[Matt Dillon]

So you don’t listen to others because you love Merka ?


Brilliant


Don’t listen to the thoughts of others because you love democracy


I wish you were not this stupid

You might be more fun

I'll listen to your thoughts, and then recognize they're being dictated to you every AM and you're oblivious as to the situation.

You're at least a level or 2 below me, cupcake.

Possibly not by anything of your own doing or your own possible potential.
You might have been mentally kneecapped.
If not, you're knowingly and willingly a propagandist douche, who sets out to intentionally harm Americans.

So which is it? Were you educationally kneecapped through no fault of your own, or are you an intentional traitor?

I only recently became aware that they've been doing this within the past 5 years or so, but it's been going on long before I realized it was.

Probably since the time when I was on the outro of school.

Back when they 1st started letting non-college material people onto campus and giving them student loans.

That was a long time ago.