Why is being woke kind of embarrassing? I dont feel ashamed of my beliefs. I think im right and valid for thinking pretty much every strongly held position I have. I just feel like a fucking nerd arguing it. It doesn’t help that im known as the woke one among my friends so when something happens they ask me/know im gonna have an opinion on it. My special interest has been politics since I was a kid; I have the worst kind of autism. I wish it were trains.

At least im not a liberal ig

  • DezOPEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I ask because im going based off the meaning of woke that has existed amoung black people since the 70s, which means to be “woke” to or aware of systemic injustices (like systemic racism) I genuinely dont know what you’re talking about.

      • DezOPEnglish
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        2 months ago

        XXXTENTACION is a domestic abuser so no one should put much stock in his opinion.

        What is the solution then? Not being aware of systemic issues? If we did that then no progress would be made at all. Being blind to the fact that we operate in a system that discriminates against minorities doesn’t aid groups.

        I live in a city where I can see how black cities are underfunded and over policed. That level of state violence isn’t going to be rectified by doing nothing.

      • DezOPEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Also what anti woke song? The only political songs I can remember are Riot and Hate will never win which I wouldn’t consider “anti-woke”

          • DezOPEnglish
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            2 months ago

            I’m begging you to read some actual black theory on rioting instead of taking the, honestly half baked, opinions of a teenager over years of activism.

            Rioting is a symptom of greater social dysfunction. Not the sum of a movement. X “both-siding” racism is stupid and misunderstands the power imbalance between black radicals and white suprematists. White supremacists have institutional power, and black radicalism does not.

              • DezOPEnglish
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                2 months ago

                You are not black. I experienced the blm protests, you did not. And you just told me wokeness is the belief that discrimination must continue. You fundamentally misunderstand racism, and I hope you’re not American cause the way you talk about these movements makes me very sad about the lack of civil rights history in our school system

                  • DezOPEnglish
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                    2 months ago

                    They almost all agreed with with XXXTENTACION in Riot

                    What? Most civil rights leaders/black revolutionaries were not/are not for blind nonviolence. They were for self-defense for the most part. Malcolm X, The black panther party, WEB Dubois, Robert F. Williams, and Ida B. Wells are a couple. In some cases they were for strategic necessary violence. Also you are acting as if these movements are marked with a kind of crazed senseless racial violence where innocents are killed. They are not and never have been. 19 people died in the blm protest which is bad, but not all of those deaths are caused by rioting. Some were killed by the state. How many more people were brutalized by the police for protesting? The majority of blm protests didn’t even result in riots. You are comparing entities with an extreme differences in their amount of power. They aren’t comparable in the slightest.