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Originally Posted by Swan
Unfortunately tik tok ego-maniacs are lumped in to this 'woke movement' and even though at it's core 'wokeness' isn't a bad thing, too many shouty over privileged social media obsessed people bring down what being woke really stands for.
The general working class public don't want, or need an overly entitled 18 year old shouting at them because they might on first impressions get their pronouns wrong. Or a 16 year old girl claiming to be 'woke' whilst lecturing people on how eating meat/having a family BBQ is 'racist'. And before anyone says anything, age does play a big part. A working class 40 year old who has worked their fingers to the bone just to put food on the table, has tried to do the right thing and been accepting of everything and everyone doesn't need, and shouldn't be talked down to by a 19 year old student (hate to bring race into this but i have to) usually a white middle class entitled girl telling them how to live their lives, and what terrible people they are.
It's easy to muddle what woke actually means when you have so many people bringing down it's true meaning with nonsensical waffle on social media. With the majority of these people saying what they think is popular and what will get them more attention and likes.
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…to me that ‘muddling’ …or weaponising ‘woke’ in terms of its actual meaning…?…would be for attention and likes etc, as you say, yes…but for some it would be a clear and specific purpose of self agenda and self promotion and self income …people like Piers Morgan, Katie Hopkins, Laurence Fox …..who most definitely manipulate it as ‘threat’ thing to society…rather than a support of any society inequality…