What is generation woke?

 

The idea they have is that debate is a challenge to their free speech.  😀😀😀

Free speech has never been freer than it is now, unfortunately propaganda has never been stronger than it is now, and unlike in the past when censorship by silencing was the modus operandi, censorship by lies and noise and endless creation of confusion and fantasy is the overwhelming modus operandi of the right - for now - until it's not, as is the case in Russia, where silencing by intimidation, imprisonment on trumped up charges, and murder is the modus operandi

We had referendums on same sex marriage and abortion in recent years and they both passed by large margins

The reason they passed is because those on the losing side could not articulate their arguments very well without coming across as bigots and bullies in a referendum where information was thankfully reasonably well regulated

People are more than entitled to be anti-abortion on a personal basis but if they favour banning abortion, which again is their right to believe in and publicly argue for, they should have no problems when confronted with the logical consequences of that stance 

To me, the pro-8th Amendment people refused utterly to confront the logical consequences of their position and most people saw right through this

I honestly can't think of a single reason why anybody would be against allowing same sex marriage

People who write on the internet from a left viewpoint tend to genuinely believe what they're saying

What we see as justice is not a hobby to be taken or left aside, broad left viewpoints tend to be well thought through and consider context and nuance, and hold facts, reason and science in high regard

I don't believe that's the case at all on the right, internationally those who identify as being on the right largely reject that in favour of feelings and fake victimhoood - the proof is in the pudding - what we are seeing now internationally is the logical outcome of decades of that

My view is that if you are against abortion and same sex marriage being legal you do not have socially liberal views, you have very socially regressive views

A common trick on the internet is for people to claim they are liberal while espousing regressive views, very few self-identify as having regressive views

Another common trick for those on the right is to claim they are being silenced

This is self evidently ludicrous, the right has the overwhelming advantage in media messaging

The line between what is legitimate debate and what is not should be obvious, but too many people have a vested interest in blurring it or ignoring it

If Donald Trump posted here or posted on any reasonably moderated forum on the internet he would be banned like a shot, and rightly so

Yet tragically, because of his popularity, supporters of his are allowed free rein to spout their thinly veiled venom and troll all over the internet, because Trump's positions are now seen as legitimate because of his power

And it is impossible to debate with a Trump supporter, because to be a Trump supporter requires buying into a fantasy world of feelings-driven fake victimhood - and people with any sort of conscience get rightly angry at these views because they correctly see that they are the same sorts of views that led to the Holocaust

Funnily enough many of the same sort of people who ridicule the concept of "woke" (which is obviously and overwhelmingly positive thing), often tend to subscribe to a thinly veiled racist, anti-Semitic idea called "the Great Awakening", which is basically Nazism repackaged

It has negative connotations because it is mostly used pejoratively. When was the last time somebody used the term and they weren't being a ****? I mostly associate the term with people who are racist but haven't the decency to admit it openly, instead they are 'anti-woke'. It is effectively the same thing. It just means 'anti-racist', except for ****s.

As PM mentioned maybe it's the same as PC gone mad school of thought.

A lot of projection there

Its almost like you're not what you claim to be, and are in fact a troll

You remind me of this

https://twitter.com/whysimonewhy/status/1143280089133699072