Quote (Sh00p @ May 21 2021 10:36am)
Looks like they cant define it.
"Woke" is basically just the ability to see non-explicit problems in systems and attribute them to the current state of the societal hierarchy.
A non-woke person would look at a law and say (in more words) "This can't be racist, it doesn't specify black people". But a woke person can look at the system, see it was designed after requesting racial demographic data, see that it was written in a way that disproportionately affect one group over the other, and draw the conclusion that it was written to be racist.
That's fundamentally what separates a liberal/leftist from a conservative. Conservatives see these systems and say "it's up to the individual to rise above the system, and if they can't that's a personal failing, and the ability or inability to function within any system creates a proper hierarchy", and leftists will say "systems influence individuals and drastically increase or decrease their chance at failure, so we should make the system as level as possible because otherwise the hierarchy is artificial and unjust".
One sees systems of oppression as natural and as necessary to creation of a hierarchy that allows society to function, and the other sees systems of hierarchy as unnatural and therefore bad (liberals) or rejects that the hierarchy should exist at all (leftists).
This post was edited by Thor123422 on May 21 2021 09:46am