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Allow me to show ya'll how to be anti-woke in good faith:
Here are my 3 problems with the "listen to marginalized people" meme. And to be clear, this does not mean the meme shouldn't be adhered to; this is just how it's misused across the political spectrum.
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Here are my 3 problems with the "listen to marginalized people" meme. And to be clear, this does not mean the meme shouldn't be adhered to; this is just how it's misused across the political spectrum.
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1. There are people in marginalized demographics who are genuinely terrible and use their identity as a cudgel against all criticisms of their bad behavior. Effectively browbeating well-meaning people into accepting being mistreated by them.
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The argument being that they're not/weren't really allies in the first place if they don't accept said treatment. I'm not exaggerating; I got called a coon for calling this out before. (See my video on white allies)
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2. It's often fetishized by liberals who prop up marginalized people who deal in woke liberal placating platitudes that don't offer substantive critique of the very status quo that marginalized them; in other words, Performative Wokeness.
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3. Lastly, it's even more so weaponized by bad faith actors on the right who promote quacks, frauds, and bigoted loons like Candace Owens who then use that very meme as a cudgel against those that criticize them.
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Browbeating their liberal/centrist-y critics into entertaining their nonsense by calling them hypocrites and the "real" bigots for silencing [insert marginalized group here] they don't agree with. In other words, this meme and those like it.
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![Browbeating their liberal/centrist-y critics into entertaining their nonsense by calling them hypocrites and the "real" bigots for silencing [insert marginalized group here] they don't agree with. In other words, this meme and those like it./6](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EttcBVrXYAEP4Y9.jpg "Browbeating their liberal/centrist-y critics into entertaining their nonsense by calling them hypocrites and the \"real\" bigots for silencing [insert marginalized group here] they don't agree with. In other words, this meme and those like it./6")
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This is how it's done. No bad faith. No strawmanning. This is behavior that can absolutely be backed up with evidence.
We are all woke, given the actual definition of it; and none or my criticisms are an argument against being woke.
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We are all woke, given the actual definition of it; and none or my criticisms are an argument against being woke.
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Addendum:
Here's where those critiques fall along the spectrum.
1. The left (broadly speaking)
2. Liberals, centrist (mainly found among mainstream media pundits, Hollywood, neoliberal politicians)
3. Conservatives (broadly speaking)
Here's where those critiques fall along the spectrum.
1. The left (broadly speaking)
2. Liberals, centrist (mainly found among mainstream media pundits, Hollywood, neoliberal politicians)
3. Conservatives (broadly speaking)
Went ahead and made this thread into an article. https://dirico-baker.medium.com/how-to-be-anti-woke-in-good-faith-143d691e32fe
