• @[email protected]English
      16•9 months ago

      He doesn’t actually know what he’s talking about. He’s flailing around trying to reconcile what the word actually meant with Republicans deciding to make it a trigger word for reactionaries.

      He can’t just say “I don’t like him because I’ve been told to not like him”, but that’s functionally what it boils down to.

    • realcaseyrollinsOP
      -67•9 months ago

      I am, but I’m not a fan of wokeness. I trust that you’re not so dense that you can’t tell the difference.

          • @[email protected]English
            19•9 months ago

            You’d have to define it to be wrong, so take a leap rather than call people poo poo heads and run away.

            • realcaseyrollinsOP
              -31•9 months ago

              Look, considering you don’t know what wokeness is, I’ll spell it out for you: wokeness is critical theory, which states that, among other things, inequality is inherently bad or wrong, and must be rectified. You don’t need to adhere to critical theory to observe that such inequalities exist though.

              You can learn more about Critical Theory here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_theory

              Or about critical theory applied to race, commonly known as Critical Race Theory or CRT, here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory

              That’s my serious answer, with everything you need to know. After this we can be as silly or goofy as you like.

              • @[email protected]English
                20•9 months ago

                Since your issue is with critical race theory, and you have stated in multiple comments that the problem with critical race theory is that it says inequality and hierarchy is bad, specifically when it comes to race, I guess its safe to assume you are a racist, then?

              • @[email protected]English
                7•9 months ago

                I promise you that you never knew anything about critical race theory before republicans told you to be afraid of it like a year ago.

        • realcaseyrollinsOP
          -44•9 months ago

          In a quick sentence, wokeness is critical theory, in particular applied to race, known as critical race theory.

          To observe inequalities is not woke; what is woke is to believe that all inequalities or power hierarchies are inherently bad.

            • realcaseyrollinsOP
              -16•9 months ago

              I think a variety of levels of pay depending on job position, effort, or skill is a great example. Not all jobs are equal, so they should not all yield the same amount of pay.

                • realcaseyrollinsOP
                  -10•9 months ago

                  Interesting, since that’s textbook income inequality.

                  What sorts of inequalities do you think of, from the perspective of critical theory?

          • @[email protected]English
            4•9 months ago

            what is woke is to believe that all inequalities or power hierarchies are inherently bad.

            That sounds like a thinly veiled way of saying you’re a supremacist.

            • realcaseyrollinsOP
              -6•9 months ago

              If we’re both the lens of wokeness I’d agree, even though I’m a black dude, as under that framework it’s inequality, not discrimination, that is racism.

            • realcaseyrollinsOP
              0•9 months ago

              You would have to provide your definition of social inequalities for me to answer, since you don’t think that my examples qualify as inequalities.