Its a particular flavour of Left. The sort that cry in the office and change their pronouns at least once a year. Usually found in govt or HR.
There are Indie Web Leftists - I used to post on Secure Scuttlebutt a lot, it leans hard Left.
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I have the bridges to Mastodon and Bluesky on, and it's WILD. The most stereotypically deranged woke nazis, crazier than ever.
I like the Fediverse, been there since 2019 when I trashed all the corporate bs internet. Lots of friends on there and the music scene is way bigger than here (even considering the proportional differences).
Woke is such a funny word twisted in all kinds of ways until it’s just ‘people I don’t like’.
I like crazy people, there’s a lot of nut cases on Nostr as well, just a different kind.
In my humble opinion people need to chill and accept we’re not all the same and that’s cool.
I think everyone is pretty much sick 'cancel culture' and the reverse side of the coin 'woke bashing'. Mostly everyone is tired of it, but they both refuse to go away lol
Well that's the problem. The woke (remember the label started as a self-denominator, it wasn't given by opponents, just made into a parody) are the most intolerant group of people.
They hold radically hateful views of those who disagree with them and don't contemplate the idea of just let everyone be and do whatever the hell they want as long as they don't harm others. The excuse of course is that "being" a certain way is already an offense and an attack on them, so there's no escape from the hate.
I argue that in the end they are the other side of the coin of their Evangelical parents. They've been raised in an equally intolerant environment, and they react against it, but with the same mindset.
It was a term originating in the black community to mean switched on. I don't know who then brought it to the wider culture, maybe Jack Dorsey... Anyway, the pejorative use has got pretty lame, for the reasons stated before.
There's a lot of intolerant people about, Karl Popper said some shit on the subject...
All kinds of people have been labelled woke, this post is probably woke, the letter J is definitely woke and hair is wokest of all. I don't think it's just the rebellious children of evangelicals. All the things are true as are none of the things true.
Lumping loads of people into one group doesn't work for me. I'd rather deal with people on a case by case basis, although some will have a greater level of distrust from me at the outset (I'm thinking politicians and finance people on podcasts).
Before woke there was political correctness, after woke there DEI. A lot of people are always looking to 'other' people. Fortunately here's some Frank Zappa. #OtherPeople https://yewtu.be/watch?v=ffZ4aOXcGR8&listen=1