Normal people have no idea what you're talking about shut up already.
also, the word "woke" has always existed, it's just that prior to the internet people usually said "bleeding heart." literally saying "you're empathetic with strangers? you stupid fuck."
Oh my god, I never noticed, it really is just the new "Bleeding Heart Liberal."
fun fact: literally nothing is new, humans havent changed, theyve always been pretty shitty
I never understood that term, it seemed to have been in circulation before my time.
4chan also has a similar term: moralf**
I think the right knows they're the bad guys, but revel in it as a classic Villlain-with-good-publicity archtype like Lil Gideon for anyone here who watched Gravity Falls.
woke literally just means not being a bigot or racist. oh gee, Mr Apartheid has a problem with that! Wow!
It's anyone to the left of fucking Hitler in the eyes of these freaks. It's the catch-all word and dogwhistle that "cultural marxism" used to be but it's not got the problematic antisemitic trappings.
The exact opposite is true: Culture Wars deserve less attention than they're getting.
Nothing comes close in terms of getting excessive attention.
How anyone could look around and say "The prescription is we all need to be more obsessed with this Culture War shite" is mystifying.
Seriously. "wokeism" wouldn't bother conservatives anywhere near as much if their pundits would shut the fuck up about it for ten goddamn seconds.
That's the way the modern media environment is.
What doesn't happen: Conservatives read things by liberals and get outraged by it.
What does happen: Conservatives read things by other conservatives, telling them to be outraged by liberals.
Nothing is more important than being able to be a bigot without facing the consequences:melon-musk:
Antifada had a great point about this recently, the chud trade blue collar types actually do have full freedom of speech, they can say whatever racist homophobic sexust transphobic tripe they want and won't face cancelation or really even any pushback. It's the whiney chud email job people that think "wokeism" means anything, and they're a tiny slice of the right wing voters but way overrepresnted in the bureaucracy/PMC in the thinktanks and orgs for right wing parties and shit. And they have enough money as a class to influence primaries.
I can’t say the N-word
You literally can, though. Twitter filters are off. Spam the N-word to your heart's content.
Yes, the right outnumbers the left and outguns it. However, CHUDDery only really benefits white men, who are also heterosexual and christian.
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White people make up 57.8% of the population and 70% of white people are Christian. White Christians make up 40.46% of the population.
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Now we need to account for gender, what sort of SJW feminist would fight for both white MEN's and white WOMEN's interests? That leaves us with 20.23% of the population.
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Yeah, there are millions of CHUDs that fall outside these demographics, enough to secure them the majority ideologically and culturally. But the far-right will dispose of them when they have outlived their usefulness. These so-called "patriots" want 79.77% of the population to be either dead or kept alive solely to serve the remaining 20.23% (or convert some of the non-religious white men at their most merciful). They may be morally reprehensible, but they're neither weaklings nor fools.
They don't "face consequences" even today, it's about ensuring that no one, not even the weakest, harmless "wokescold" stands up to them without facing consequences. I'm white and many family members are CHUDs, I hide my power level and act like a CHUD, but I usually get a big lecture about the dangers of wokeness when I claim that "SJWs" are totally irrelevant and harmless so "we're" wasting our time by fearing them. What are they going to do? Make us roll our eyes?
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Careful what you wish for. They haven’t had a new bit in decades but they often have an insufferable new coat of paint for it.
My favorite reply was "we are either in a mass awakening event or a total collapse of society" to which Elon said "exactly".
Like society is collapsing because people don't think you should use slurs anymore? If that's the case, maybe it should collapse. It's just insane that these people are trying to paint political correctness, which has been a prominent issue in American politics for decades, as this powerful new phenomenon that will either destroy us or be forgotten completely.
It's neither of those things you fucking psychos. Empathetic, intelligent, and compassionate people will continue to be respectful of marginalized groups while assholes will continue to cry about black people in star wars. Culture is always at a push and pull, it will never be homogeneous.
My best guess is that while it isn't new to vocally oppose bigotry, it's the first time many of these people have encountered it directly. Or maybe the only obstacles in their life are getting mocked on social media, so they equate being called a racist on twitter to the end of all society.
These bigots have never met a trans person except online and will still make pronoun jokes
Society is sort of collapsing, definitely wouldn't use "total" to describe it. It's just very slow because some of the powers that be are still aware they need to get this beast across the finish line before the wheels really pop off (hence the COVID relief checks only being offset 2:1 or so by corporate welfare). And why Europe is next in line to have its resources extracted for the motherland.
At the end of the day, Capital ended up with the US' military as its enforcement apparatus, so they're kind of the only population they need to keep brainwashed, relatively docile (when it comes to those with power) and generally getting treats (before they finish automating the surveillance systems, war machines, computers, and algorithms to control the future police planet).
"wokeism" has ceased to refer to a particular set of beliefs and now just means the totality of evil to them. it's a more marketable version of Yarvin's Cathedral.
Elon's ten pounds of stupid in a five pound bag. But he's operating as a mouthpiece for some seriously fucked up folks that really do want more and more blood in the streets.
I don't think they're "making a mistake". It may look like to us that they are just wasting their time on easy battles to make them feel good about themselves, but they paid attention to hopper as kids.
EDIT: Even if it's the right that outnumbers the left, they still know what they're doing. Back during the latter part of my Gamergate bazinga days, I was mentioning that we "beat the SJWs", we always do, and therefore we should stop obsessing over them and just play our games or worry more about freeing the markets. Needless to say they mocked me for not fearing this harmless irrelevant group enough.
"Woke" as a pejorative seems to have taken the place of "politically correct".
I hardly ever see the latter get used anymore.
which replaced SJW, which replaced cultural marxists, which replaced removed, which replaced
I can't say one of these right wing buzzwords lol
"Cultural marxism" was never fully mainstream, and it also never fully went away.
It has become a generic stand in for whatever slur the drooling limbic brain wants it to. The n-word, t*anny, etc... just screaming woke fills their neruon with dopamine.
its a pretty funny development tbh, given that the semantic opposite of woke is ignorance. really gives away the anti-intellectual game and the racebaiting game by directly using aave
Wokeism
...So that's the word you settled on for it huh? Couldn't think of anything that at least rolls off the tongue a little better?
They do not care about normal people, it's effective at creating radicals and that's precisely what they want. The "NPCs" are irrelevant to their goals.
Its what :matt-jokerfied: said about him being this person who needs to be valided all the time because he has no agency and he never earn a thing in his life and this is driving him mad. Geting booed is like the night of broken glass for this mans ego.
