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To be woke is to be against colorblind treatment and to be for discrimination

• hef19898 3y ago
  Really? How so?
  • dagaci 3y ago
    I think originally woke was shorthand for anti-racist (I don’t mind being corrected on this since I am not American). Unfortunately the term did not reach the UK in good enough time to be properly encoded in our Oxford English Dictionary and as a result the usage has gone rampant become diffuse! The meaning now seems to be converging on "I don’t agree with .". Generally western laws would view caste-based discrimination as illegal and wrong. So, it would correct for an individual to express the same opinion in the West, even if that opinion disturbs the ideas and beliefs of a subset of the population attached to someone else’s culture.
    • crooked-v 3y ago
      You're right on target there. The term is basically meaningless now, after the reactionary right in the US started using "woke" as a scare word for "anything anyone vaguely liberal does that we can pretend is an extremist conspiracy", after attempts to use "cultural Marxism" fell flat.