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"Woke" simply means being aware of injustice. Why are so many celebrating its "end"?


I thought the 21st century west was opposed to racism, homophobia and woman-hating. Guess I was wrong.

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No, that's not what it is. Stop being purposefully obtuse, its really fucking annoying at this point.

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Angry. Far-right. Yeah, you seem like someone worth knowing.

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You're the one that's angry lol... read your own post, and then the next one. I'm sure you won't see where the problem lies.

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Everyone over 30 knows your definition of "woke" is a fucking lie.

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Thanks for saying it so I didn’t have to. Honestly, I’m always floored by how clueless some of these people are. It’s to the point where I start thinking they’re gaslighting on purpose instead of just being that oblivious.

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I've become more 'sleep' lately. I tend to ignore the self righteous among us.

If woke dies, it dies. Trends and fads usually have short life spans.

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That's what stupid woke people think it is but it's not what it really is.

What it really is is Political Correctness 2.0 that seeks to do nothing more but replace one flavor of hatred (real or perceived) with a new one. It's just a new and inventive way to judge and divide people. Only the intellectually stunted even buy into it.

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Many straight white men don't want to share power. That's the real reason any path leading to equality is attacked by them.

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Wrong again. "Woke" is the enemy of true equality. Woke perpetuates all the stupidity that maintains the rotten status quo among minorities. YOU are the modern day slaver.

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Your support for a lazy thrice-indicted felon, pathological-lying riot-inciting senile dumb twice-impeached rapist who hired illegal immigrants instead of a law-abiding prosecutor proves my point. As does your continual criticism of all and every path to equality and diversity.

Many straight white men don't want to share power. That's the real reason any path leading to equality is attacked by you.

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Lazy? Have you turned millions into billions? Trump works 24/7. While you're resident pants-shitter is lounging on the beach, Trump is working. While your DEI hire is spending five days prepping answers for questions she should already know, Trump is campaigning.

Indicted by a corrupt establishment desperate to maintain power. Indictments that had no basis in reality and will be thrown out.

We don't give a shit about race. YOU are the enemy of "true equality". It's why you make everything about race.

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This by BlackMass:

“I thought the 21st century west was opposed to racism, homophobia and woman-hating. Guess I was wrong.”

Who also started the following threads:

* Blacks commit more crime than whites due to low IQs and high testosterone

* Who do so many men choose the gay lifestyle?

* Are women essentially parasites?

Yeah, I guess you WERE wrong. Either that or you’re just a garden variety attention whore. My money’s on the latter.

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Again, I'm seeking truth. I will be right or left in my pursuit of that.

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Nailed it

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The original definition of woke was always based on delusion. Being alert to social injustice often meant reading into things that aren’t there. You can twist anything to be racist, homophobic, misogynistic if you try, which they do. There is no systemic racism, and there is no patriarchy. We all have equal rights.

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How do you figure? If a man can have sex with anyone he wants with zero repercussions of responsibility, while a women who does the same and gets pregnant can potentially be imprisoned for deciding to end the pregnancy, how exactly is that equal? Wouldn’t the fair thing be to also imprison every father who refuses the responsibility of parenthood?

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Zero repercussions or responsibility? You have that reversed. Legally men have zero reproductive rights. A lot of people would even say they don’t have a right to an opinion. A women is allowed to kill the man’s child without his consent, or he will be forced to pay child support for 18 years even if he doesn’t want it. Women have the option of evading responsibility with no repercussions, men do not. How is that equal for something is 50% of both people? Is this really your example of men oppressing women?

Also we do imprison men that don’t pay their child support, but they also have no ability to opt out of it.

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No, opposing racism, homophobia and woman-hating, etc. is just being a decent human being.

Considering oneself "woke" now refers to someone who sees social injustice where there is none, creating perceived victims out of thin air, where all so-called "whites" (a group that doesn't actually exist and is in fact comprised of an array of people as genetically and culturally diverse as each individual) are automatically guilty of causing "non-white" (another group that doesn't exist and that is just as diverse) failure simply by being born. i.e. "woke" now indicates those living in a made-up fantasy world that doesn't remotely reflect reality.

The original core premise of "wokeness" would be a good thing if it hadn't almost instantly devolved into a mass delusion and escalated so out of control that it threatened to end functional society on a global scale. We must stop grouping people by skin color. You know, that thing "Liberals" used to stand for (and real Liberals still are) and helped largely abolish while striving for equality of opportunity.
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Weren't you previously supportive of Matt Walsh's movie, "Am I Racist?"? How does it make sense that you would make a topic like this?

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