• stillwater@lemm.eeEnglish
    231·
    9 months ago

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

    • realcaseyrollins@narwhal.cityOP
      449·
      9 months 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·
          9 months 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·
            9 months 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·
              9 months 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·
        9 months 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·
          9 months 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·
        9 months 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
          11·
          9 months 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.