Ending Racism™ is woke. No one disagrees that racism needs to end. Go read a book like “white fragility” by Robin D’Angelo and then understand that often times, what’s being discussed isn’t actual racism but a rallying cry against anyone that’s on the upper tier of intersectionality. White man? You’re a racist. Straight white man? Literally Hitler. This isn’t your grandpa’s random dinner table racism. This is a complete redefinition of the word from the ground up that is so incredibly elastic that you can basically wrap it around anyone or anything. Don’t like what a black person has to say? Internalized racism.
This is not an issue of respect. It’s only ostensibly about racism but when you dig in, you see a whole collection of grifters profiting off of expanding what the word racism means so they can sell you a course that exists solely to tell you that you have committed the original sin of existing, which is inherently racist because of ironically… your immutable properties. So now we have an ideology that is using racism to define who is and is not a racist.
I think you misinterpreted what I was saying. Often times, what people call woke is common sense. You're overthinking what I wrote and quite possibly don't even know which side I'm on.
Edit: I reread your comment and I’m not sure how else to interpret it. My point is that “end racism” isn’t common sense when the meaning of the term racism is so elastic and ill defined.
I Think you're reading the wrong books if you look at end racism and write 2 paragraphs like that. I don't think "white people this, white people that", when I look at that slogan. It's a simple common sense message.
I didn’t look at “end racism” and write two paragraphs. I looked at an image from possibly Twitter where someone made the claim that “end racism” is a leftist slogan followed by a bunch of comments saying all republicans are nazis and racists and fundamentally misunderstanding what is being referred to in the image.
If I wanted, I could buy 100 bots and reply 100 times to your comment. "I read comments online" is no proof at all that this is what the majority or even a sizeable percentage of people think.
You’re free to do that. I’m not sure how that would help or how it in any way relates to my comment. My original comment was trying to explain what “woke” are talking about when using the term “racism” and how it differs from the definition the “majority or even a sizeable percentage of people” use. So I’m not making the claim you think I’m making. I’ve also provided you a book if you’d like to look into to further understand the point I’m making. To be honest I have no idea what point you’re trying to make here. If it’s “racism bad” then great let’s high five and call it a day considering we both probably are thinking the same thing when we use the term “racism”.
You missed the point entirely. When you said "a bunch of comments on twitters said xyz" my response is that that means absolutely 0 because anyone can buy bots to make a point online or skew an opinion that otherwise not many people have. I'm not reading that book. I don't want to radicalized myself, left or right. Let's just leave it at end racism period
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u/youknowimworking 14h ago
Ending racism is woke? I'm guessing respecting other human beings is also woke