• @PoliticalAgitator@lemm.eeEnglish
      21•2 years ago

      He doesn’t actually know what he’s talking about. He’s flailing around trying to reconcile what the word actually meant with Republicans deciding to make it a trigger word for reactionaries.

      He can’t just say “I don’t like him because I’ve been told to not like him”, but that’s functionally what it boils down to.

    • realcaseyrollinsOP
      3•2 years ago

      I am, but I’m not a fan of wokeness. I trust that you’re not so dense that you can’t tell the difference.

          • @Madison420@lemmy.worldEnglish
            20•2 years ago

            You’d have to define it to be wrong, so take a leap rather than call people poo poo heads and run away.

            • realcaseyrollinsOP
              5•2 years ago

              Look, considering you don’t know what wokeness is, I’ll spell it out for you: wokeness is critical theory, which states that, among other things, inequality is inherently bad or wrong, and must be rectified. You don’t need to adhere to critical theory to observe that such inequalities exist though.

              You can learn more about Critical Theory here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_theory

              Or about critical theory applied to race, commonly known as Critical Race Theory or CRT, here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory

              That’s my serious answer, with everything you need to know. After this we can be as silly or goofy as you like.

              • @EGG_CREAM@lemmy.worldEnglish
                21•2 years ago

                Since your issue is with critical race theory, and you have stated in multiple comments that the problem with critical race theory is that it says inequality and hierarchy is bad, specifically when it comes to race, I guess its safe to assume you are a racist, then?

                  • realcaseyrollinsOP
                    2•2 years ago

                    If you adhere to CRT, I’m sure you would agree, even though I’m black, since under the CRT framework, it’s not about hating races, but not advocating for equality of outcomes across ethnic lines. And this is how you get stuff like “conservatism is white supremacy” and whatnot.

                    It’s all a bit silly, but if you’re down with the silliness, go ahead. Call me, a black man, racist for disagreeing with Donald Glover, a man I greatly respect.

              • @Socsa@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                7•2 years ago

                I promise you that you never knew anything about critical race theory before republicans told you to be afraid of it like a year ago.

        • realcaseyrollinsOP
          4•2 years ago

          In a quick sentence, wokeness is critical theory, in particular applied to race, known as critical race theory.

          To observe inequalities is not woke; what is woke is to believe that all inequalities or power hierarchies are inherently bad.

            • realcaseyrollinsOP
              3•2 years ago

              I think a variety of levels of pay depending on job position, effort, or skill is a great example. Not all jobs are equal, so they should not all yield the same amount of pay.

              • JokeDeityEnglish
                4•2 years ago

                I highly doubt you’ve never tried methamphetamine. Every racist pretending to be black when they’re called out for racism on the Internet is big into it at some point in their lives.

                • realcaseyrollinsOP
                  2•2 years ago

                  I’ve never tried methamphetamine, although I believe I have ADHD and I certainly wouldn’t be opposed taking an amphetamine at some point in the future

          • @CeruleanRuin@lemmings.worldEnglish
            4•2 years ago

            what is woke is to believe that all inequalities or power hierarchies are inherently bad.

            That sounds like a thinly veiled way of saying you’re a supremacist.

            • realcaseyrollinsOP
              1•2 years ago

              If we’re both the lens of wokeness I’d agree, even though I’m a black dude, as under that framework it’s inequality, not discrimination, that is racism.

          • @stillwater@lemm.eeEnglish
            1•2 years ago

            How can wokeness be a specific academic concept? That doesn’t make sense, CRT is CRT and it’s just an academic lens. And what’s wrong with it anyway? Do you just not like acknowledging that America has the deck stacked against black people and really doesn’t want to change that? Why do you think it’s good to suppress an academic lens like CRT? What would you prefer is taught instead of that?

            But what are some examples of social inequalities that are not inherently bad? Your other examples are not social inequalities. You’re looking at something like suggesting what kinds of systematic racism are good actually, not looking at things like the difference in pay between an engineer and a janitor.

            • realcaseyrollinsOP
              1•2 years ago

              You would have to provide your definition of social inequalities for me to answer, since you don’t think that my examples qualify as inequalities.