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There is nothing wrong with being woke. I'm as anti-surveillance as fuck and am an anarchist in at least a personal sense, but being woke has become this demoni
by antihero 5y ago
There is nothing wrong with being woke. I'm as anti-surveillance as fuck and am an anarchist in at least a personal sense, but being woke has become this demonised term which started with giving a fuck about people around you and trying to be empathetic towards people who are from different backgrounds or different personal situations and thinking about the world as a whole and the differences between how it affects you and them and trying to change it. But it's been hijacked by right wingers to scare people about fringe people who want to take away your freedoms to be a cunt in a pub or something or lock you in jail for saying that you're English.
I'm not a huge fan of the hugely judgemental or jumping to conclusions throwing people under the bus culture that exists on the internet either. I've helped steward trans-pride marches where you've had a bunch of uni students threaten trans women for having certain hairstyles and seen just how fucking stupid it can get, but I ask any free thinking right minded person to be real sceptical of articles like this that seem innocuous and libertarian but have a simmering, underlying vibe of right-wing shit. Remember that "war on woke" was a Conservative slogan by our current UK government.