Poll: Are you Woke? - Page 2

Citrus

I support the causes but no shade "I'm woke" sounds cringey

Callisto.

I wasn't tbh.

I used to always say black people were racist because I'd only live around black people and all the black adults would warn me about white people being racist. I used to see the world completely differently.

Then I went to college and actually started dealing with white people my age and they woke me the **** up tbh.

Su-Barbie-A

That term is stupid and it's mostly used now as a way to seem holier than thou on social media, it's basically the new SJW

AALIYAH DANA

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Originally posted by Callisto.

I wasn't tbh.

I used to always say black people were racist because I'd only live around black people and all the black adults would warn me about white people being racist. I used to see the world completely differently.

Then I went to college and actually started dealing with white people my age and they woke me the **** up tbh.

I'm sorry sis

can you share more of your experience

AALIYAH DANA

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Originally posted by Glassmouth

For example on cultura appropiation thing, people rather insult and attack instead of educate. I mean, I understand that there is some things about culture which are really important or spiritual, but insulting someone and not letting them know is going to create just conflict also, people cannot expect for another culture to not take something they like and use it specially in countries like the US where a lot of cultures are together sharing the same space... at the end I am very woke and I understand both sides of the story.

There is a lot of things in here, I mean it's a pretty delicate matter and people need to be open-minded indeed I hope people really ''wakes up'' and realize that we need indeed less hate and more love

True people should try and educate more instead of just attacking, but some people don't ever understand what their doing is offensive and racist. You can lead a horse to water but you can't make them drink

like i'm sure if I tried to educate a raci t old white women about why racism is wrong she would still wouldn't get it

Glassmouth

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Originally posted by AALIYAH DANA

True people should try and educate more instead of just attacking, but some people don't ever understand what their doing is offensive and racist. You can lead a horse to water but you can't make them drink

like i'm sure if I tried to educate a raci t old white women about why racism is wrong she would still wouldn't get it

of course, I understand some people never get it, there is just st*pid people indeed, but attacking them is going to make it even worst. I am not going to say that I know everything since I live in a different country where we see American racism towards us very lightly since we don't care why they do and also I understand that the actual situation in there is different but as far as I know if someone doesn't understand because he/she wants to be ignorant creating a hostile atmosphere is going to make it worst.

I condemn racism but the process of educating people (which I know is slow) is a better process than just attacking, also people need to understand that some things about culture will need to be shared in order to live in community with another races and cultures.

OnikaSlays

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Originally posted by Glassmouth

For example on cultura appropiation thing, people rather insult and attack instead of educate. I mean, I understand that there is some things about culture which are really important or spiritual, but insulting someone and not letting them know is going to create just conflict also, people cannot expect for another culture to not take something they like and use it specially in countries like the US where a lot of cultures are together sharing the same space... at the end I am very woke and I understand both sides of the story.

There is a lot of things in here, I mean it's a pretty delicate matter and people need to be open-minded indeed I hope people really ''wakes up'' and realize that we need indeed less hate and more love

Most people try to educate, but they refuse to learn and say "I can do what I want" that's when they get dragged.

But yeah I consider myself to be woke.

Tylerbv

Yes, but people need to stop using big buzzwords just to seem smart when proving a point

The amount of times woke people use systemic, problematic, heteronormative, microaggressions etc. is amazing

EDIT: And the worst of all: perpetuate

1989

B'Day

Woke the **** as ****!

DoubleDutchess

Somewhat yes.

Toya

Satan

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Originally posted by Toya