The "Black Hole" of woke....

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There’s nothing wrong with being Woke (awake to what’s going on).

All I’m saying is that there are people who go too far with it, just like the MAGAS go too far with their thing.

I don’t like it when people make assumptions about me. They don’t know me.

I like the idea of being awake to my own ignorance and then doing something about it to improve.

I looked up Karen White and only got the author. I decided to try "Karen white case" and got different results.

When people talk about all white people being racist, they mean our racial color blindness and our naivity about skin color. We can all say something that is insensitive towards Race or another culture because society here is built around white supremacy and not everyone realizes it. It's a matter of ignorance. People of color know its not our fault but they want us to educate ourselves and listen.

Looking back, I realize I said things that were racist because of my own lack of understanding. One if them was about hair policy in sports. A Native American at work called it discrimination when her son's school wanted him to cut his hair short. I told her it was a safety thing and it applies to all players. She still thought it was discrimination and i said it would be if everyone else were allowed to keep their long hair and he didn't. I even thought Natives used their culture as an excuse for special treatment. Cut your hair or dont play, this applies to everyone. Hair grows back.

Sadly many people think this way; it's just food, it's just clothes, it's just hair, etc. This is what white privilege does. I thought the sane way too. I saw everyone as equal and the same and we are all the same race. I saw skin color as hair color and different eye color. I didn't see culture. They try to teach this in school but I didn't really grasp it. Just saw that every country is different and people live different there, move there, you must live like then and this is the attitude many Americans have here about pur country. Move here, speak English, learn to eat our foods and talk and dress like us and follow our customs.

However when I see these issues get brought up, right wingers call it wokism. This makes me think so what is wrong with being aware and wanting to accommodate?

If a woman does sexual assault in prison, something should be done about it. If a woman keeps doing it, I believe in isolation because they are posing a danger to other inmates. It doesn't matter if they are trans or cis. Put them in isolation and keep them away from other inmates. Problem solved. No need to turn this into a debate about allowing trabs people in prison of the gender they identify with.

Most people probably can see it.

Majorities being unaware of what it is like to be a minority is being ignorant or being naive. It is not racism unless it is accompanied by the belief that the minority is inferior, fear or hate of the minority.

Wokes will argue language evolves, get on board, or get canceled. The implication is that the evolving process is natural. It is not. Having made such a big deal out of trigger words it strains credulity the wokes do not understand how much the words "racist" and "racism" are triggering.

It is the oldest political trick in the book to weaponize words with the intent of infuriating opponents to such a degree they will overreact and you can say "see I told you so". I have to grudgingly admit the wokes have done this brilliantly. By expanding the definition of racism to include all white people they leave no room for counterargument that is not racist by their definition. More importantly, many overreactions will fit the traditional definition of racism convincing non-ideologues.

Since I am giving credit to the wokes tonight at least the hardcore ones understand they are revolutiontionaries. This is in contrast to the MAGA's who think they are counterrevolutionaries when they are the opposite.