• PoliticalAgitator@lemm.eeEnglish
      203·
      1 year 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.

          • Madison420@lemmy.worldEnglish
            20·
            1 year ago

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

            • realcaseyrollins@narwhal.cityOP
              537·
              1 year 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·
                1 year 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?

                  • realcaseyrollins@narwhal.cityOP
                    119·
                    1 year 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·
                1 year 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.

      • stillwater@lemm.eeEnglish
        231·
        1 year ago

        Wait, what is woke then if it’s not being aware of social inequalities?

        • realcaseyrollins@narwhal.cityOP
          449·
          1 year 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.

            • realcaseyrollins@narwhal.cityOP
              319·
              1 year 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.

              • JokeDeity@lemm.eeEnglish
                41·
                1 year 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.

                • realcaseyrollins@narwhal.cityOP
                  26·
                  1 year 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·
            1 year 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.

            • realcaseyrollins@narwhal.cityOP
              17·
              1 year 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·
            1 year 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.

            • realcaseyrollins@narwhal.cityOP
              01·
              1 year 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.