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I see woke as tolerance, open to each other and acceptance.

Yes it's over done sometimes but it's hard to see how he would connect wokeness with depression.

Or does people understand under wokeness something different than I do?

Like great that black kids get heroes in cinema!



I see woke as being viscerally intolerant not only of differing opinions, but also of the people who have them.


wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

Too often I hear people complain that they're being oppressed for their "differing opinions." A tolerable opinion is something like "my favorite color is blue," not "gay people shouldn't exist." If your opinion revolves around the intolerance of other opinions, then I'm not going to be tolerant towards that.


It’s related to a previous post that shows liberals being more negatively affected by social media/phones and earlier.


Wokeness was meant to be that: being awake to social problems. And just like many noble beginnings before, this too got co-opted by nefarious actors who substituted ideals with divisive lies. For example, they've turned the concept of seven rays, symbolized by a rainbow, into a cult of skin and genitals. This happened because the founders of the movement didn't define principles that would quickly identify and weed out selfish grifters.




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