I'm convinced the term was hijacked to deflect from the true struggle. like the occupy movement, or how baseless conspiracy theories derail actual cover-ups.
That’s exactly what happened. There’s a reason a lot of conservatives now call anything they don’t like woke. They were trained to do so to help delegitimize the word.
This is a common occurrence and is entirely intentional.
There was a right wing guy who was 100% responsible for a lot of this stuff. His name is completely lost to time, but effectively he directed all of right wing media strategy.
Co-opting words, flooding the airwaves with misinformation. It was all him.
And it wasn’t some talking head. He was a behind the scenes strategist guy, that’s why no one remembers him. I can’t even figure out how to google him.
There was another. Newt was the original, but there was some other guy. He was young, fat.
And I’m pretty sure he just did it for the love of the game, I don’t think he much cared about the politics, it was all about just controlling people for the sake of doing it
It gets to that point where you just have to stop giving a crap what people think and buy things that you want. Why does it matter if someone else is not excited for a game that you are?
Bad comparison IMO. The hippie movement by and large ended up tuning out of society while the people actually trying to do something got murdered by police or the FBI. And then it just got absorbed into mainstream liberal culture. It's got more in common with how woke got co-opted than anything else.
The bigots had made a mockery of people's desire for fair and evenly distributed privilege and survivability and flanderized it into meaning you support the chaotic decisions of "super insecure" and "meantally unwell" people and being (or becoming) black, transgender, furry, poor, Islamic or anti-religion and gay.
Wanting to be treated fairly and more affordablity isn't a joke.
When you ask someone using the word "woke" what it means they all give you a different definition. If you ask someone the definition of most other words people will give you a similar description.
It is almost like woke doesn't actually mean what most people think it does.
I Googled the definition and it said "Aware of the social injustices in the world"... Okay, well of that is what it means I am woke, and I feel like most people are.
Even your negative connotation of social justice is heavily influenced by the propaganda against it. Fox News and other right wing media has somewhat poisoned that term for you and you may not even be aware of it.
Social justice is why we have weekends, overtime, unions, women's and colored voting rights, and many other things we all tend to take for granted. They were in-fact clawed from the clutches of the rich and powerful by people fighting for social justice.
And then you have the conspiracy ret*rds like this that always default to "muh government" "muh illuminati" thinking because let's just blame the highest easily identifiable power structure instead of understanding anything.
Companies and even individuals atp have a PROFIT INCENTIVE to trigger your emotions because of the way they make money from media. It's not even a secret at this point, this is 100% the reason and mix that with us being even more anti-social and less community oriented and you have today's algorithm attention-domination based existence that makes everyone hate themselves and hate everyone else.
i just find that when the attacks come from all sides (politics, fast food, social media, sedentary jobs) it gets real difficult for a person to act reasonably. theres a great heap of studies showing humans make many choices without thinking about future consequences, only immediate friction. doubly so when stressed.
Thats why I keep social media to a minimum. Its can be straight up ...dangerous.
Its also social cause a lot of people use it, so there is a bit more agency in that then people admit to. Its a "place" people intently go to.
Fast food too, people choose to eat that against other options.
Regarding sedentary jobs, well... Those exist cause the need exists. Cause of what we want others to do, supply or manage. If you want insurance, someone needs to sit infront of a pc and manage that. Same with banking, shipping, shopping (online too), webdesign, programming/apps... etc. pp.
I mean how else would this work?
If we want to have it easy/fast/cheap, someone else needs to do the work for that.
And we are those people. Everything we use and consume needs to be designed, made, managed, etc. pp.
People working as "workers" for their own consumption as "consumers".
So I dont see how this could run any other way, cause we run it like that.
It's not some super cabal doing some evil genius plan from inside a mountain. People are inherently tribal and divisive unless it's specifically hammered out of them from a young age. The difference nowadays is that people are getting tribal and divisive with words on the Internet about video games and stupid superhero movies instead of slaughtering each other for territory. If you look at human history, this is a massive improvement, not a downgrade.
It seems like nowadays its not only conservatives who appeal to a mythic past, it's left leaning people as well. The past SUCKED please look into what things were actually like back then it was not rainbows and sunshine.
The worst of tribality used to be saved for sports fandom. The part where you think your team can do nothing wrong, and other teams are losers.
Now many people use the same approach to just about anything they come across in public discourse. Pick a side, denigrate everyone who picked differently, circle jerk with the other ubermensch who picked the same side as you. No matter if it’s a video game, movie, public figure, real life conflict, or (worst of all) politics in general.
Nah it’s human nature. Certain demographics of people have always been this way. It’s just the internet exacerbates it and throws it in your face 24/7.
At least people are seriously waking up to this shit now. Being a conspiracy theorist is no longer something that requires a tinfoil hat and social ostracization.
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