Browse 167 quotes about Woke.
“Magnifying small offenses, mind reading by identifying subconscious thoughts even the offender are unaware of, and labeling others as aggressors are all integral to the microaggression program but possibly harmful to mental health.”
Source: The Rise of Victimhood Culture: Microaggressions, Safe Spaces, and the New Culture Wars
“Microaggression complaints arise from a culture of victimhood in which individuals and groups display a high sensitivity to slight, have a tendency to handle conflicts through complaints to authorities and other third parties, and seek to cultivate an image of being victims who deserve assistance.”
Source: The Rise of Victimhood Culture: Microaggressions, Safe Spaces, and the New Culture Wars
“As the definition of what is harmful grows, there is a corresponding expansion of concepts related to victimization. More and more people are seen as vulnerable and in need of special protection from harms.”
Source: The Rise of Victimhood Culture: Microaggressions, Safe Spaces, and the New Culture Wars
“And just as some conceptualize racism as an inherent property of all white people, there are those who view trauma as a collective and hereditary condition shared by all members of an historically victimized group.”
Source: The Rise of Victimhood Culture: Microaggressions, Safe Spaces, and the New Culture Wars
“Manufacturing a case of victimhood allows the aggrieved to elicit sympathy or even to mobilize third parties such as legal authorities against their enemies. Since a victimhood culture is one where this status is most valuable, we should expect it to be especially prone to false claims of victimization.”
Source: The Rise of Victimhood Culture: Microaggressions, Safe Spaces, and the New Culture Wars
“There are different kinds of false accusations. In some cases, the accusers might genuinely believe what they say. People accused of witchcraft are innocent, but those who condemn them might genuinely believe that they are witches. In other cases, the accuser kwnos the accusation is false. Such cases can happen because the accuser and accused were embroiled in a conflict over something that third parties would not treat as a matter for intervention.”
Source: The Rise of Victimhood Culture: Microaggressions, Safe Spaces, and the New Culture Wars
“There are different kinds of false accusations. In some cases, the accusers might genuinely believe what they say. People accused of witchcraft are innocent, but those who condemn them might genuinely believe that they are witches. In other cases, the accuser knows the accusation is false. Such cases can happen because the accuser and accused were embroiled in a conflict over something that third parties would not treat as a matter for intervention.”
Source: The Rise of Victimhood Culture: Microaggressions, Safe Spaces, and the New Culture Wars
“The prominence of victimhood culture in higher education, especially at elite institutions, indicates that victimhood culture is concentrated among the relatively affluent and successful members of the upper middle class.”
Source: The Rise of Victimhood Culture: Microaggressions, Safe Spaces, and the New Culture Wars
“Sociology and social justice each have potential only when operating within their limits. The promise that a science of social life could aid social justice efforts was reasonable, but when social justice becomes an ideology unmoored from empirical reality, it needs no science.”
Source: The Rise of Victimhood Culture: Microaggressions, Safe Spaces, and the New Culture Wars
“Sea como fuere, toda exhibición de virtud requiere exagerar los problemas, lo que a su vez hace que los problemas crezcan todavía más.”
Source: The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity
“Como sabe cualquiera que haya vivido bajo un régimen totalitario, hay algo humillante y hasta autodestructivo en tener que marchar al son de consignas que uno no cree ni puede creer.”
Source: The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity
“Lo peor es que hemos tratado de reordenar nuestras sociedades, no a partir de lo que sabemos gracias a la ciencia, sino de falsedades políticas patrocinadas por los activistas de las ciencias sociales.”
Source: The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity
“Many today have difficulty understanding how the Puritans could execute people based on something like spectral evidence. Yet modern moral panics are more like witch hunts than one might suppose.”
Source: The Rise of Victimhood Culture: Microaggressions, Safe Spaces, and the New Culture Wars
“A social environment that is conducive to false accusations could lead us to people being falsely accused of falsely accusing others.”
Source: The Rise of Victimhood Culture: Microaggressions, Safe Spaces, and the New Culture Wars
“Campus victimhood culture is so conducive to accusations on behalf of victim groups that we should not be surprised if many turn out to be false.”
Source: The Rise of Victimhood Culture: Microaggressions, Safe Spaces, and the New Culture Wars
“The concept of political correctness is now used in a variety of ways, but must often it refers to the rules about what words and ideas are forbidden for being offensive, particularly if they are offensive to women and minorities.”
Source: The Rise of Victimhood Culture: Microaggressions, Safe Spaces, and the New Culture Wars
“Competitive victimhood can both encourage and limit the spread of victimhood culture. It may lead the clash between dignity and victimhood to transform into a clash between competing victimization narratives, or it may cause the victimhood revolution to devour its own, eventually burning itself out.”
Source: The Rise of Victimhood Culture: Microaggressions, Safe Spaces, and the New Culture Wars
“What does it mean to be woke? In the simplest sense, it means to be aware. It means to see your surroundings and challenge how we strengthen our relationships with the government, the community, and nature. To be WOKE is to fight for your civil rights and to fight for the rights of your neighbors.”
Source: Woke: A Young Poet's Call to Justice
“Political correctness has nothing to do with fairness; it’s a weaponized psyop designed to induce people to let others do their thinking for them.”
Source: Musings from a Small Island: Everything under the Sun
“Falsk bevissthet, opprinnelig et marxistisk konsept, er bedrageriet også vår tids woke-aktivister primært sloss mot: I vestlige demokratier er vi blitt innbilt til å tro at samfunnet vi deltar i, er et rimelig rettferdig et, med nøytrale institusjoner, og at kampen mot rasisme, homofobi og kvinnehat langt på vei er vunnet. Oppgaven aktivistene har påtatt seg, er å grave bort grunnen for denne illusjonen ved å lete frem og peke på subtile former for ulikhet og undertrykkelse.”
Source: Kateterprofetenes opprør: Arven fra Det nye venstre, og hvordan vår tids vekkelse kritiserer Vesten i stykker
“I’m fascinated by this idea that the parliament has become too focused on ‘woke issues’ at the expense of what the public really care about, because the implication of that is that any minority group that needs protected aren’t the public, the public are whatever the majority group is.
If we govern on the basis of that, we would only be governing for straight, white, middle-aged men, who deserve good government like everybody else.”
“New Civil War Has Begun, Sonnet
(Letter to Bigots)
One by one every nation is
regressing back to the cavemen days.
Persecution is becoming national norm,
that too, by means of democratic ways.
What's the point of having a democracy,
if in the end, you elect bigoted autocrats!
Which only points to an uncomfortable truth,
world population is still dominated by bigots.
Whole world is headed back to the dark ages,
unlike last time, this time it's people's will.
Bigots pretend human, but bigots elect bigots -
once an ape, always an ape, thus blooms a jungle.
You cannot expect me to respect your opinion,
when your opinion is founded in discrimination.
Intolerance is not a difference in opinion,
any more than hate crime is a right to freedom.
You can have your little victories, for I know,
it's difficult to outgrow your jungle basement.
But this I promise you, I'll ignite your children
into a sanctifying thunder of emancipation.”
Source: Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood
“Whenever, wherever, fanaticism weaponizes fear, human hearts gotta rise, abandoning tranquility. Whenever chowderheads infringe on love and reason, time be my testament - My World, My Responsibility!”
Source: The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology
“People that hate capitalism are impoverished by what they think they are entitled to.”
“The indoctrinated would rather hear nothing than hear anything at all.”
“At its heart, wokeness is divisive, exclusionary, and hateful. It basically gives mean people a shield to be mean and cruel, armored in false virtue.”
“The Soviet Union never ended. It reformed itself as the Woke West, a totalitarian liberal, rather than communist, nightmare. Big Brother became Non-Binary Elder Sibling.”
Source: Without the Mob, There Is No Circus
“Here's a definition of Wokeism : There are people just sitting there, who are deliberately waiting, for the thrill of being offended.”
“I would sooner have had that kind of upbringing than be like the left-wing intellectuals who are so 'enlightened' that they cannot understand the most ordinary emotions.”
Source: Selected essays
“Youth are the cure
for all dividing insanity.
You are the antidote
to all bewitching animosity.
Youth are absolution
to habits of death.
Youth are walking
illumination manifest.”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“Brahma means awakened sub-consciousness. Transform yourself.”
Source: Smiling Brahma
“The worship of "safety" above all else is called safetyism. It is dangerous because it makes it harder for children to learn to care for themselves and to deal with risk, conflict, and frustration.”
Source: The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
“Gen Z is the first generation to have gone through puberty hunched over smartphones and tablets, having fewer face-to-face conversations and shoulder-to-shoulder adventures with their friends.”
Source: The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
“I think that what the ‘woke’ culture needs is to be ‘woke.’ But then, that could be a very rude awakening.”
“he ordering of cultural customs, forms of governance and economic institutions as being better or worse does not fit into the modern ethos of equality. We- rightly- want equal opportunities and rights. A positive vision of the colonial past apparently doesn’t fit into that. I mean, my whole university is busy decolonizing! That is the train I slammed into.”
“If people are basically selfish -and they are- then asking them to work hard yet earn no more than their unproductive neighbor is asking more than they'll rarely give. But we already know that; communism has failed.”
Source: The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
“The popular claim that “real socialism has never been tried” implies that all the Hispanic, Asian, Slavic, and African cultures that did attempted it were not up to the task. It is a form of racial slur that exposes the ethnocentric elitism at the core of Western collectivists.”
“From election law to environmentalism to radical social agendas to the second amendment, parts of the private sector keep dabbling in behaving like a woke parallel government. Corporations will invite serious consequences if they become a vehicle for far-left mobs to hijack our country from outside the constitutional order.”
“Hasta el más estúpido había retenido la melodía y parte de la letra, mientras que los más inteligentes, como los cerdos y los perros, aprendieron la canción en pocos minutos”
Source: Animal Farm
“La gente es asín de rara. Se quedan con las mentiras que les gustan y tiran las que les dan miedo”
Source: James
“Queer Theory is about liberation from the normal, especially where it comes to norms of gender and sexuality. This is because it regards the very existence of categories of sex, gender and sexuality to be oppressive. Because queer Theory derives directly from postmodernism, it is radically skeptical that these categories are based in any biological reality. It thus ignores biology nearly completely (or places it downstream of socialization) and focuses upon them as social constructions perpetuated in language.”
Source: Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
“Like the other postmodern Theories, queer Theory is a political project, and its aim is to disrupt any expectations that people should fit into a binary position with regard to sex or gender, and to undermine any assumptions that sex or gender are related to or dictate sexuality.”
Source: Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
“In Marxist thought, power is like a weight, pressing down on the proletariat. For Foucault, power operated more like a grid, running through all layers of society and determining what people held to be true and, consequently, how they spoke about it.”
Source: Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
“American academia has abandoned empiricism to make way for wokeism. This does not bode well. Science without empiricism is nothing but religion by another name.”
“Wokeness is a cancer, and academia is the carcinogen.”
“That "anti-white" sentiment people keep talking about is just the erosion of what I call the "privilege of individuality." White people aren't accustomed to being lumped together and being defined by the actions of others. Welcome to the club.
(7/16/2020 on Twitter)”
“Ik geloof best dat de wetenschap niet volkomen van subjectiviteit vrij is, maar je moet absoluut streven naar objectiviteit. Ik vind het belangrijk dat als water bij honderd graden kookt, of iemand nou blank is of zwart, dat iemand ziet dat het bij honderd graden kookt.”
“De som oppdaget Marx på nytt, nymarxistene, skulle få stor innflytelse på 1960-årenes nye venstreradikalisme, som videre har gitt støtet til vekkelsen som i dag går under navnet "woke". Atypiske marxister for for (og som inspirerte) nymarxistene, fryktet at den frigjørende revolusjonen ville utebli dersom man lot alt være opp til de "historiske lover".”
Source: Kateterprofetenes opprør: Arven fra Det nye venstre, og hvordan vår tids vekkelse kritiserer Vesten i stykker
“Het zou kunnen zijn dat als je zwart bent je andere dingen in de geschiedenis ziet dan wanneer je blank bent. Dat geef ik graag toe. Ik wil daar echter niet over spreken. Als de onderzoeker niet kan worden ingewisseld vindt er een soort geschiedschrijving plaats waar ik geen deel aan wil hebben. Of de onderzoeker nu zwart of blank is, je hebt bronnen en je probeert een zo goed mogelijk objectief beeld te geven. Ik begrijp dat er een andere geschiedschrijving bestaat, maar die wil ik er niet bij betrekken.”
Source: Het zwart-witdenken voorbij: Een bijdrage aan de discussie over kolonialisme, slavernij en migratie
“One day I woke up and realized no amount of love, care, pain, hurt, anger, or retribution could ever transform those who are evil into good or kind people. That day I let go; I stopped caring for them, gave up any hope for their souls, and knew they were never worthy of me or my time.”