manton
manton

I’m a progressive, but we may look back on woke-ism as perhaps overcompensating. I worry about societal division. We can go so far in what appears to be the right direction that we lose sight of the big picture, like narrowly following old driving directions and getting lost when the world changes.

|
Embed
Progress spinner
amyhoy.bsky.social
amyhoy.bsky.social

@manton this is you right now. there is no such thing as “woke-ism,” that is a right wing talking point.

|
Embed
Progress spinner
z428
z428

@manton Yes. I feel that this is a severe problem these days. And it gives a boost to a lot of dubious and shady political forces at least virtually everywhere in the West. 🙁

|
Embed
Progress spinner
danimal@universeodon.com
danimal@universeodon.com

@manton I think that’s reasonable and I agree with you, but it seems unfair that conservatives never seem to do self-reflection. At least not in my lifetime. They just continue to tilt harder and harder into unreasonableness, and drags everyone else along.

|
Embed
Progress spinner
manton.org
manton.org

@manton Ouch. I don't think I've fallen for a talking point but it is something I've been thinking about. Either way I do think "woke" is too broad a stroke, too simple to encompass everything that is happening.

|
Embed
Progress spinner
manton
manton

@danimal Totally. Democrats often seem like the only ones who are self-critical, to a fault sometimes, although maybe a little credit to the never Trump-ers too.

|
Embed
Progress spinner
manton
manton

@Jonah To be honest I wanted to keep it vague to avoid debates. Just a general feeling, not really one specific thing.

|
Embed
Progress spinner
oddevan
oddevan

@ronkjeffries I’m really starting to embrace the oscillation, honestly. (Apparently this is “metamodernism”) A lot of these corrections may be over corrections, but they get us closer to the central tenant, which in this case is “treat people like people.”

Or “love your neighbor as yourself”. 😇

|
Embed
Progress spinner
amyhoy.bsky.social
amyhoy.bsky.social

@manton yea that’s because it’s rightwing propaganda.

you did fall for it.

exactly what should we stop doing? advocating for trans rights and against genocide?

|
Embed
Progress spinner
lendami.co
lendami.co

@manton Could you cite a recent example of woke-ism potentially overcompensating?

|
Embed
Progress spinner
san_der@mastodon.social
san_der@mastodon.social

@manton Youngsters are protesting unjust war and women are fighting for reproductive rights. We won in the seventies and here we are again - don’t you think that the progress we made is something of an illusion? We won in the seventies but nobody is guaranteeing victory today. Keep pushing!

|
Embed
Progress spinner
Geekmoose
Geekmoose

@manton can you define what wokeism is ? The world has regressed so much in the past 12 years we feel closer to 84 than 2024 ! Maybe not for you, but as a gay man I am concerned for the future.

|
Embed
Progress spinner
agrossfield.bsky.social
agrossfield.bsky.social

@manton How about you define woke and say exactly which element is too much? It’s nearly always used undefined (and in bad faith) to avoid saying exactly what you’re opposing.

|
Embed
Progress spinner
pkpd-babe.bsky.social
pkpd-babe.bsky.social

@manton

|
Embed
Progress spinner
In reply to
manton
manton

@Geekmoose I am also concerned, even if not everything affects me directly. So much progress we took for granted feels like it is unraveling.

|
Embed
Progress spinner
Geekmoose
Geekmoose

@manton you’ve still not defined what wokeism is !

|
Embed
Progress spinner
manton
manton

@Geekmoose Sorry, to be honest I wish I hadn't used the work "woke" because just the word itself creates problems. 🙂 To define it I think I would need to write a much longer post.

|
Embed
Progress spinner
odd
odd

@manton I think it’s good that people that haven’t had their own voice heard before, are now able, (still with fear of their own security), to be heard. One of the biggest problems now is that there are forces within the country, as well as from other countries, that benefit from division. They will try to amplify the differences and try to get people angry and hurt. 🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙

|
Embed
Progress spinner
manton
manton

@odd I agree with that!

|
Embed
Progress spinner
Geekmoose
Geekmoose

@manton no, I’m intrigued as to what the overcompensation against right wing, fascist, authoritarianism (with a side dose of religious fundamentalism) actually looks like.

I’m also very interested in what the corrective measures to this would look like……

|
Embed
Progress spinner
manton
manton

@Geekmoose This is admittedly the problem with me not defining my terms. I agree there probably isn't an overreaction to authoritarianism. Some issues I see very clearly, and some are a little more murky.

|
Embed
Progress spinner
Geekmoose
Geekmoose

@manton I don’t care about division if in order for it to be mended people have to have their life or dignity compromised.

It’s as simple as do you want to be a decent human being or not.

|
Embed
Progress spinner
mattiem@mastodon.social
mattiem@mastodon.social

@manton What is “woke-ism”?

|
Embed
Progress spinner
torb
torb

@manton The way Woke is used (and you are using it now) is essentially a propaganda term used by the US far right. If you want to talk about people being overzealous in working for progressive causes you can do that, but that's something else.

As many have pointed out ”Woke” is a nebelous term, which means reactionaries (and conservatives) can use it to slag off anything they don't like without seriously engaging in the argument. I don't think this is your intent here, but it shows have effective this rhetorical trick has been. Stuff like this shows how important it is to understand propaganda and rethorical tricks, lest you become someone else's tool.

Woke did have a meaningful use and definition: as a term used exclusively among black people in the US to refer to waking up how they are being treated there (so, not a word for you or me).

|
Embed
Progress spinner
norm@mastodon.cackhanded.net
norm@mastodon.cackhanded.net
@manton

@jgarber unsubscribe

|
Embed
Progress spinner
mackuba.eu
mackuba.eu

@manton The replies here and on Mastodon were pretty much like I expected them to be… 🫠

|
Embed
Progress spinner