Why does the "woke" culture bother so many people?

[Franklin]

What's wrong with the "woke" culture?

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fawkee님이 먼저 게시:

Franklin님이 먼저 게시:

What's wrong with the "woke" culture?

People are simply annoyed by the fact that others other than themselves should be taken into account and that they can no longer (entirely) bully or degrade others without contradiction.

Bullying is just not fun anymore with all of these contradictions :(

[Lupa]

I still don't know what woke is tbh it just seems like such a nebulous word. A real nothing burger to exist purely to argue around. This is woke that is woke, here woke there woke. Got called woke for just asking what woke meant.

[Haruspex]

The "woke culture" never used to be a problem, and it's been around forever. I was watching old 90s TV shows, and they talk about "woke" stuff all the time. Environmentalism, race, sexual orientation, gender identity... It's all there, and nobody seemed to mind, but in the last decade or so it's ramped up to basically parody levels, and it's invaded our entertainment that's typically been relatively free of it in the past.

Here's what I think is happening:

We live in a time where the wealth gap is the highest it's been in a century. We're talking pre-Great-Depression levels of wealth inequality. Historically, this kind of inequality hasn't worked out well for the rich, as the proletariat have a tendency to get fed up and drag the rich out of their ivory towers by the hair over to the guillotines.

Of course today I'm certainly not advocating for the literal beheading of the rich, but we'll call it a figurative beheading.

So in 2011, a little thing call "Occupy Wall Street" started up. You might have heard of it. I believe this movement spooked the very filthy rich a bit, and I believe they did what they could to dismantle the movement, possibly including using inside agents put there to sow chaos and stir peaceful protests into violent ones so the police would have an excuse to step in and put a stop to it.

But I digress.

Ever since OWS, the "woke" has accelerated. I believe this is by design and part of a campaign to pit us against each other.

Let me explain; The very rich have financial control over the media, including our entertainment media. If you watch the news, you would think we were basically living in the apocalypse. It's so sensationalized and designed to be terrifying and enraging. That's part of it.

Some of us might turn to escapism instead of paying attention to the "news". You might go to a new release of your favorite action movie series, only to discover that the main character is apparently now a gay, transgender black woman and the whole film keeps reminding straight white men what horrible people they are for existing. They know these "woke" issues are unpopular, and that's why they are doubling down on it. It's to piss you off. They need you to be mad. They want you preoccupied with it. They want you to go online and fight with others about it.

Why?

Because it's stupid, and it doesn't matter, and it will keep people from finding common ground. They need us fighting each other so we don't turn around and start fighting them instead.

The millions Disney will lose making terrible Marvel or Star Wars movies is a small investment. it's pennies compared to the literal trillions they stand to collectively lose if people actually fought for their fair share.

If you're under the age of, I don't know, 50 or so, you'll probably never own a home. What you earn will never get you as far as your parents and grandparents. You'll be a wage slave until retirement age, then you'll probably still have to continue working because you have rent to pay and social security will have dried up by then. You should be furious, and you might be, but right now you just want to forget about it and play some video games, but you can't even do that because they've hired a bunch of activists to replace actual designers and instructed them to ruin your favorite franchises. So instead you're going to go online, complain about it, then doom-scroll for several hours until finally you get tired and go to sleep.

It's "Divide and Conquer" in action.

[Acetyl]

Morkonan님이 먼저 게시:

Perception is reality.

For those who are stuck reacting to the mind and senses, certainly. Seeing is believing, and illusion (and emnation) is reality. For those who realize there is something more fundamental behind perception, behind the absolute, it's another matter.

[Tito Shivan]

Because 'Woke' is simply a blanket term to refer to whatever thing the regressives and the reactionary don't like at the moment.

fawkee님이 먼저 게시:

People are simply annoyed by the fact that others other than themselves should be taken into account and that they can no longer (entirely) bully or degrade others without contradiction.

Many people are indeed angry at them no longer being the teacher's pet of the entertainment industry. Time comes at you fast and many people don't take well being run over by new times.
They're the actual version of their grandpas shaking their fist at the radio only playing 'that darned rock music kids like'

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Tito Shivan님이 먼저 게시:

Because 'Woke' is simply a blanket term to refer to whatever thing the regressives and the reactionary don't like at the moment.

fawkee님이 먼저 게시:

People are simply annoyed by the fact that others other than themselves should be taken into account and that they can no longer (entirely) bully or degrade others without contradiction.

Many people are indeed angry at them no longer being the teacher's pet of the entertainment industry. Time comes at you fast and many people don't take well being run over by new times.
They're the actual version of their grandpas shaking their fist at the radio only playing 'that darned rock music kids like'

Nah it is very clear what it means. Reactionary is a good term to describe posts like yours, which don't answer OP's question nor add anything. The word just triggers you and you react with your default go-to opinion, which is not even yours.

[Magma Dragoon]

Woke was a term used by the Hoteps about staying up to date on the latest conspiracies, then AOC tweeted it and libs decided it now meant staying up to date on the latest radical progressive ideas. When we call the libs woke we're making fun by going along with AOC's cringe tweet. It's like Let's Go Brandon with infinite staying power. That's why they play dumb and pretend they don't know what it means and demand a scientific definition of the word.

[GloriousZote]

We all know what woke is, except Lupa apparently, despite the definition being given countless times, can we not explain it again and again, please?

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GloriousZote님이 먼저 게시:

We all know what woke is, except Lupa apparently, despite the definition being given countless times, can we not explain it again and again, please?

We know it but the "socially aware" ones don't. Lol.

[GloriousZote]

lankaras님이 먼저 게시:

GloriousZote님이 먼저 게시:

We all know what woke is, except Lupa apparently, despite the definition being given countless times, can we not explain it again and again, please?

We know it but the "socially aware" ones don't. Lol.

Or maybe they really do know...

[Acetyl]

They unironically clamp the umbilical cord early. Where are the social justice types on this, hm? Not trendy enough? People might not like what you have to say? No one to back you up? No virtue signaling or social credit feel to it?

Aww... isn't that just too bad. Makes you think.

[Lupa]

GloriousZote님이 먼저 게시:

We all know what woke is, except Lupa apparently, despite the definition being given countless times, can we not explain it again and again, please?

Woke means you are awake. :)

[Acetyl]

Lupa님이 먼저 게시:

GloriousZote님이 먼저 게시:

We all know what woke is, except Lupa apparently, despite the definition being given countless times, can we not explain it again and again, please?

Woke means you are awake. :)

Woke means you're asleep inside.

[Lupa]

Anyway, I think there could be an actual conversation surrounding this such as pandering and just doing something because it will get that $$$ but I don't think this is the best place for it. Woke is too overstretched, people seem to call a lot of things "woke" is all. Even people who simply ask for a definition of it.

[Acetyl]

Talk about something interesting. Like Cybele. Chop chop!