#woke culture

[animentality]

[one-time-i-dreamt]

My dad was talking about how ""woke culture"" wanted to change Thanksgiving. Namely they wanted to switch from turkey to ham and skip it every three years.

He was fine with ham part.

[metalheadsforblacklivesmatter]

See I know Republicans use of "woke" was appropriative and misusing AAVE. And I was always like "You don't know what woke even means". But this point of view opens my eyes up to an entire new type of white supremacist dog whistle and it's driving me wild.

(Also this is why I listen to Black people in issues of white supremacy. Because they have a viewpoint that I simply could never see without it being pointed out to me.)

-fae

[queerism1969]

[smashing-yng-man]

[paperlunamoth]

I'm so sick of this relentless insistence on positivity that seems to have taken over internet culture, it is legitimately exhausting and ironically depressing. Let people be negative. Let people complain about shit and talk about how much they don't like things. Let people be haters. Let people express their worry or sadness or dread without making them listen to your shpiel about how actually they're just overthinking things and the world isn't such a bad place and they just need some sunshine and water and everything's going to be okay. Let people brood. Let people be cringe in a way that isn't silly and fun and doesn't provide entertainment value.

Expressing negative thoughts and feelings is so normal and so important for mental health. It is not healthy and normal to self censor any and all negative thoughts, or for community censoring to take place where people are shamed and treated as immoral or defective or unreasonable for expressing those thoughts. Not every expression of discontent or dislike or disapproval is automatically "toxic" or "hate speech" or "violence" or some other hyperbolic shit, and acting like it is just generates people who are bottling everything up and constantly policing themselves, and that is actually worse for our mental health on both an individual and collective scale in the long run. People need some amount of negativity in their lives. Being negative sometimes is a natural part of being a whole real actual person and not a carefully manicured advertiser friendly social media brand, which it honestly seems like most people are striving to be at this point.

[blinktimes182]

I am once again reminded why I do not go on the actual hellsite that is Facebook.

[archtroop]

'Scary' Islam Is Recruiting Woke 'Useful Idiots' - Yasmine Mohammed (4K...

Yasmine Mohammed is an ex-Muslim who speaks out against the extreme religion, and how woke useful idiots are being used against us. She was forced to marry an al-Qaeda terrorist, but has since escaped and now speaks out with incredible bravery. #heretics​ #islamist​ #usefulidiots​

Follow her on X:    / yasmohammedxx  ​

Subscribe to her channel: @YasmineMohammedxx​

More info:

Through her initiative Free Hearts, Free Minds, she supports closeted ex-Muslims from Muslim-majority countries and co-ordinates an online campaign called #NoHijabDay​ against World Hijab Day. She also has a website and hosts an online series on YouTube called Forgotten Feminists.

Mohammed has been interviewed by Sam Harris, Seth Andrews, and several news outlets from multiple countries, and in 2019 self-published the book Unveiled: How Western Liberals Empower Radical Islam.

Chapters:

0:00​ Highlights

1:30​ % of Scary Muslims

5:30​ Why Worse Than Other Religions

8:30​ Is There Something About the Text?

11:30​ Is Islamophobia Racist?

14:05​ Can you be an atheist Muslim?

16:30​ Yasmine’s Past - What Was I Thinking?

19:10​ What Did Allah Look Like in Your Mind?

21:30​ Yasmine’s Bravery (Insane!)

23:30​ Salman Rushdie Said This

25:20​ Yasmine’s Incredible Story

31:30​ Marrying an al-Qaeda terrorist

35:30​ Covering Herself in Black

38:30​ The Beatings She Took

43:30​ The Ideology Ruins Love

46:00​ Where Islamist Palestine Turned

49:30​ Palestine Like ISIS? Using Western Students

52:30​ Strippers for Gaza / Useful Idiots

55:30​ The Plot to Take Over The West

58:30​ Katharine Birbalsingh & Michaela School

1:00:30​ Maajid Nawaz

1:04:10​ A Heretic Yasmine Admires

[mischief02]

Hypocrisies of social justice movements:

- Advocate free thinking and intellectual curiosity, but frequently engage in intellectual dishonesty and censorship when it disagrees w/ their prerogative

- "Freedom of speech for me but not for thee"

- Denounce dehumanization, but commit it frequently when people are "canceled"

- Claim to value the ability of discomfort to help people learn/change, but frequently defame ("cancel") individuals whose arguments make them uncomfortable, regardless of how realistic those arguments might be

- Use character assassination and censorship to have their way, no matter that this directly contradicts their principles of social justice

- Accept little to no criticism, despite criticizing endlessly

- Advocate 'embracing diversity,' but will dismiss/denounce/defame/demonize those who acknowledge differences and who insist that such differences should not be overlooked, and should instead be honored

- Appoint themselves the arbitrary arbiters of right and wrong: judge, jury, and executioner on every issue

They do all of this in the name of social justice

I appreciate what these movements are trying to achieve. But the lack of situational/self-awareness in them is astounding. They are isolating themselves in an echo chamber. They are losing people.

[animentality]

[papirouge]

I already talked several times abt the "anti Zionism is the left equivalent of woke" stupid takes but I'd like to once again to point out here is that "woke" and "Zionism " are NOT equivalent bc one got to be shoved its definition by the very people who HATE "woke". TBH "woke" has yet to get a definition so much idiots have been using this word left and right.

You hardly see people brag about being "woke" these days. The people who incepted this lingo were smart enough to distance themselves from that word as soon as things started to go sour, and hardly any liberal who's being accused of being woke explicitly labeled themselves as such. That's not the case of Zionists.

It's not rare to see Israelis call themselves Zionist. Unlike woke, Zionism has actually a VERY CLEAR definition (despite what some desperate gaslighter will tell you), helped by the literature/political essays aiming to propell this political and religious project into reality. Again : the only people I've seen making book about "woke" were people AGAINST the "woke" movement.

IDK why OP insinuates that "Zionist" is a bad word ("nastiest word"). Zionist isn't derogatory in and of itself. It's extremely dishonest of them to act like it was equivalent to the "pedophile" slur. If "Zionist" was that derogatory, Zionists THEMSELVES wouldn't wear that word as badge of honor, in their social media handle, twitter bio, etc...

Oh and I already said that every person trying to paint the critic of Zionism as a "leftist" thing was an idiot : Muslim countries have been explicitly against what they call the "colonial Zionist entity named as Israel" for DECADES. And they weren't leftits. Western leftists just jumped on the bandwagon. And let's not talk about the growing anti Zionist (edging on antisemitism) sentiment within the western right. So no, unlike the woke (left) vs anti woke (right) thing, the division between Zionist and anti zionism isn't that much cookie cutter between left and right.

People like OP create this artificial delineation only for the sake of their narrative ("Anti Zionism is just like woke but for the left aKtcHualLy uwu")

The only reason (pro Israel) people are seething at anti Zionism is simply bc they oppose zionism, not because they acknowledge Zionism as a political project. And I hate seeing posts like OP thinking they're really doing something comparing apple and oranges (although their post was well intended)

I already told you that since Zionist were losing the sympathy battle, they were now resorting to nitpick about semantics. "Is that really genocide?" "Anti Zionism is antisemitism actually uwu" "from the river to the sea is a pro genocide/islamist dog whistle uwu" etc. Don't let yourself be distracted : while those people are making articles and lengthy posts about choice of words or the history of Israel....babies are being removed from collapsed buildings at the hand of Israel. Never forget that. Stay focus.

[sallyb-sin]

Man, this show is a joke. The next Batwoman.

[smashing-yng-man]

[stra-tek]

Half the Internet right now:

The other half of the Internet right now:

Whatever your opinion, the Internet Content Machine is here to validate your worldview.

By ChatGPT (with whom I had to negotiate in order for it to say anything negative about Discovery, bless)

[riley-phoenix]

As a comedian I'd just like to say thank you to everyone who considers themself "Woke", supports modern inclusivity initiatives and still tolerates/enjoys dark humour and politically incorrect comedy.

You are a blessing to society.

[triangle-of-death]