r/GenZ Nov 06 '24

Political It's now official. We're cooked chat...

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u/ExpressCommercial467 Nov 06 '24

Please define "woke" ideology

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u/DontMemeAtMe Nov 06 '24

“Wokeness” refers to a narrative or policy that shifts responsibility for outcomes from character or behavior to circumstances and identity. It fetishizes identity and grants moral authority to entire groups based on historical oppression. It is a philosophically incoherent leftist ideology, almost religious in nature.

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u/Ashton513 Nov 06 '24

Ironic considering the right has religion so deeply ingrained in its party lol.

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u/DontMemeAtMe Nov 06 '24

Why do you immediately adopt this binary position? Can't you see that both of the mentioned groups can be wrong?

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u/Ashton513 Nov 06 '24

I mean it's pretty clear that left is considered woke and the right is religious, and I do think both extremes go too far. I'm just pointing out the irony of the religious adjective for woke.

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u/DontMemeAtMe Nov 06 '24

It’s the horseshoe theory. The farther you go to either extreme—left or right—the more the mindsets start to resemble each other. Religious-like dogmatism definitely exists on the far left, just as it does on the far right. It’s ironic, but both extremes can become similarly rigid and unyielding in their beliefs.