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Because calling something 'woke' is often a lazy cudgel used to dismiss any progressive idea one disagrees with. If someone agrees with the fundamentals but has
by antiterra 5y ago
Because calling something 'woke' is often a lazy cudgel used to dismiss any progressive idea one disagrees with. If someone agrees with the fundamentals but has an issue with the socialization of those fundamentals then it's less likely to be tainted by bias.
One example would be people who are elevating Zelenskyy to superhero status. It's quite likely that Zelenskyy is a flawed person, like the overwhelming majority of us, and making weird lionizing memes of him echoes the same shirtless horse-riding personality cult stuff that preceded Putin's actions.
Yet, however overblown the worship or however ineffective 'thoughts & prayers' may be for Ukraine, there's an actual population of people being invaded by another country for reasons most people find entirely objectionable. This stands regardless of whether or not someone is suggesting we boycott the YMCA for not putting a Ukranian flag emote in their twitter profile.