Anyone one who subscribes to the tenets of Critical Race Theory. i.e. Neo-Marxism. The epicenter for such studies was the Frankfurt School. They were exiled from Germany by the National Socialist German Workers' Party. Two leftist parties is too much for any nation, I suppose. They ended-up settling at Columbia University in New York City.@HEMI Cooper
100% serious question.
How would you personally define someone who is woke?
I've read so many varying opinions/definitions on this so
I think it'd be good to start with at least a baseline.
Once liberty dies, both "sides" will share equally in misery.
The root of Critical Race Theory is Marxism. It comes from the pool of ideas introduced post-World War II by neo-Marxist thinkers such as Herbert Marcuse and Jacques Derrida. Openly stating that as Neo-Marxists, they sought to deconstruct traditional, Western ideals and replace these with an atheist, Marxist value base. It was the Frankfurt School in Germany that pushed for a modified Marxist ideology after the war, as philosophers such as Theodore W. Adorno, Marcuse, Friedrich Pollock and Max Horkheimer launched the concept of “critical theory,” implying that science should not just describe, but change social structures.
While that may be worthy of praise, you do realise that many folks out there are way more extreme in their 'woke' beliefs, and coming up with the most outrageous ideas of what "the white man has done to oppress them."My definition of woke: Wanting things to continue changing to get us closer to Jefferson's words on the paper.
Wow. Every claim you made is incorrect. You stopped just sort of blaming the Jews for all of America's ills.Anyone one who subscribes to the tenets of Critical Race Theory. i.e. Neo-Marxism. The epicenter for such studies was the Frankfurt School. They were exiled from Germany by the National Socialist German Workers' Party. Two leftist parties is too much for any nation, I suppose. They ended-up settling at Columbia University in New York City.
Personally, I enjoy the mixture of atheism and religious observation. To each his own, as long as one ideological perspective does not dominate the other. Left and Right "puritanism" are equally abhorrent. Freedom of choice and equality is what this nation was built upon. Authoritarianism is waging a war against freedom and liberty in every free nation on the planet. Once liberty dies, both "sides" will share equally in misery.
While that may be worthy of praise, you do realise that many folks out there are way more extreme in their 'woke' beliefs, and coming up with the most outrageous ideas of what "the white man has done to oppress them."
If you're in a hoody and baggy clothing, acting shifty and shady, spending your day, just loitering at a train station, I don't care what the color of your skin is, you're to be avoided in my book. But some folks would flag the 'avoidance' of such folks immediately as racism, instead of judging it at face value.
And I'm tired of everything being made racist/offensive, etc. Are there racial issues and inequalities in the world? For sure. Do we need to fix those? You bet.
But is blaming ALL your struggles on white privilege, especially if you actually *have* the opportunity to 'rise up' through whatever socio-economic ranks exist a bunch of lazy-ass bullshit? Also true.
And that's why I have a problem with a certain, more fundamentalistic, activist faction of 'wokeness', when they start lumping avoidable stuff in with actual issues.
You make some great points.While that may be worthy of praise, you do realise that many folks out there are way more extreme in their 'woke' beliefs, and coming up with the most outrageous ideas of what "the white man has done to oppress them."
If you're in a hoody and baggy clothing, acting shifty and shady, spending your day, just loitering at a train station, I don't care what the color of your skin is, you're to be avoided in my book. But some folks would flag the 'avoidance' of such folks immediately as racism, instead of judging it at face value.
And I'm tired of everything being made racist/offensive, etc. Are there racial issues and inequalities in the world? For sure. Do we need to fix those? You bet.
But is blaming ALL your struggles on white privilege, especially if you actually *have* the opportunity to 'rise up' through whatever socio-economic ranks exist a bunch of lazy-ass bullshit? Also true.
And that's why I have a problem with a certain, more fundamentalistic, activist faction of 'wokeness', when they start lumping avoidable stuff in with actual issues.
While that may be worthy of praise, you do realize that many folks out there are way more extreme in their 'woke' beliefs, and coming up with the most outrageous ideas of what "the white man has done to oppress them."
Oh fo' sho!Speaking of people "that are way more extreme in 'woke' beliefs"
This is my observation, yes there are extreme people but they account for a small percentage of the population, or particular group. However the news, or other sources of propaganda will make it appear as said extremism dominates a group.
Examples:
All Muslims, and Mexicans want to murder you. All repubs are racists nazi's. All Dems are liberal marxist socialists.
'The Tyranny of Merit" by Michael J. Sandel
Idiot! I'm Jewish.Wow. Every claim you made is incorrect. You stopped just sort of blaming the Jews for all of America's ills.
Not sure where you got all that.
Critical Race Theory in the United States is an academic movement that began with a number of civil rights and legal scholars in the 70s and started becoming more mainstream in the 80s. The idea is to stop ignoring, or whitewashing, the uncomfortable episodes of our past and teach factual accounts of the country's birth and growth in hopes of furthering the advancement of our social and legal constructs as they relate to 'All Men Created Equal'.
It's been taught at Universities for decades and the push now is to start it with students at younger ages.
Teach the kids about slavery and also about all of the white people who fought to abolish it.
Teach the kids that Robert E. Lee was a traitor against the United States.
Teach the kids that the Civil War was almost entirely about the southern rich not wanting to pay for labor.
You know, REALITY instead of the Walt Disney fairy tail that we were all taught.
Can we get back to Woke cause I can't imagine that that was your entire definition.
BS...it's racist fucking drivel.Not sure where you got all that.
Critical Race Theory in the United States is an academic movement that began with a number of civil rights and legal scholars in the 70s and started becoming more mainstream in the 80s. The idea is to stop ignoring, or whitewashing, the uncomfortable episodes of our past and teach factual accounts of the country's birth and growth in hopes of furthering the advancement of our social and legal constructs as they relate to 'All Men Created Equal'.
It's been taught at Universities for decades and the push now is to start it with students at younger ages.
Teach the kids about slavery and also about all of the white people who fought to abolish it.
Teach the kids that Robert E. Lee was a traitor against the United States.
Teach the kids that the Civil War was almost entirely about the southern rich not wanting to pay for labor.
You know, REALITY instead of the Walt Disney fairy tail that we were all taught.
Can we get back to Woke cause I can't imagine that that was your entire definition.