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What are the core principles of being woke?
by ggggoz 5y ago
What are the core principles of being woke?
- plexman 5y agoNo idea, but i love McWhorter ideas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDlmSn3aGYU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDlmSn3aGYU
- ggggoz 5y agoYou don’t know the core principles of the thing you want to cancel? What do you know about the thing you want to cancel?
- MonkeyClub 5y agoThat generally isn't necessary in cancel culture. Generic outrage suffices. /s
- mpweiher 5y agoHow are the core principles relevant? Look at outcomes.
- octonion 5y agoWhy would you ask someone who doesn't understand a concept to explain it?
- SideburnsOfDoom 5y agoYou would certainly ask someone who despises a concept to explain what it is that they dislike. Major red flags if they cannot.
- ggggoz 5y agoI don’t know about you, but I try avoid hating that which I do not understand.
- SideburnsOfDoom 5y agoYes, but propaganda for intolerance requires that you hate something ill-defined, shifting, "other". Examples throughout this thread.
- vimy 5y agoIt’s in the article. > What links these developments is a loose constellation of ideas that is changing the way that mostly white, educated, left-leaning Americans view the world. This credo still lacks a definitive name: it is variously known as left-liberal identity politics, social-justice activism or, simply, wokeness. But it has a clear common thread: a belief that any disparities between racial groups are evidence of structural racism; that the norms of free speech, individualism and universalism which pretend to be progressive are really camouflage for this discrimination; and that injustice will persist until systems of language and privilege are dismantled. These notions were incubated for years in the humanities departments of universities (elite ones in particular), without serious challenge. We can add to this list: meritocracy, capitalism. Both are considered racist and oppressive. Tl;dr Woke means being opposed to Western ideals while pretending to uphold those same Western ideals.
- mpweiher 5y agoNot sure how that's important. Very often looking from the outside, and particularly at outcomes, is quite sufficient. I really don't have to understand the core principles of Maoism to be opposed. I really don't have to understand the core principles of the Khmer Rouge to be opposed. I really don't have to understand the core principles of Fascism to be opposed. I really don't have to understand the core principles of Stalinism to be opposed. What's more, what the core principles are may not be very relevant, because very often the most heinous acts are performed in the service of supposedly very fine "principles". In fact, the more hallowed the principles, the more permission/cover they often give to their followers for the most heinous acts. After all, they are doing this in the name of what is good and righteous. And of course, this "do you understand X" is typically a deflection, particularly if X does its damn best to obscurantist. And this is often deployed quite tactically.