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I solemnly promise to never be woke.

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I solemnly promise to never be woke.

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Woke definition:
awareness about racial prejudice and discrimination.

Are you admitting that you SUPPORT racism, racial prejudice and discrimination?

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Wikipedia nails it:

Ideas that came to be associated with "woke" included a rejection of American exceptionalism; a belief that the United States has never been a true democracy; that people of color suffer from systemic and institutional racism; that white Americans experience white privilege; that African Americans deserve reparations for slavery and post-enslavement discrimination; that disparities among racial groups, for instance in certain professions or industries, are automatic evidence of discrimination; that U.S. law enforcement agencies are designed to discriminate against people of color and so should be defunded, disbanded, or heavily reformed; that women suffer from systemic sexism; that individuals should be able to identify with any gender or none; that U.S. capitalism is deeply flawed; and that Trump's election to the presidency was not an aberration but a reflection of the prejudices about people of color held by large parts of the US population.[51] Although increasingly accepted across much of the American Left, many of these ideas were nevertheless unpopular among the U.S. population as a whole and among other, especially more centrist parts, of the Democratic Party.[51]

The impact of "woke" sentiment on society was criticised from various perspectives. In 2018, the British political commentator Andrew Sullivan spoke critically of a "Great Awokening", describing it as a "cult of social justice on the left, a religion whose followers show the same zeal as any born-again Evangelical [Christian]" and who "punish heresy by banishing sinners from society or coercing them to public demonstrations of shame".[26] In 2021, the British filmmaker and DJ Don Letts suggested that "in a world so woke you can't make a joke," it was difficult for young artists to make protest music without being accused of cultural appropriation.[55] By 2019 the term "woke" was increasingly being used in an ironic sense, reflected in two books published that y

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You sure owned them libs!

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