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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Absolutely - if you're an adherent of this ideology, absolutely you would, and you see social injustice to be righted everywhere in society and want to tackle all of it. But you also should understand that that lens isn't everyone's lens, and others either don't see what you're seeing, or see some examples of what you think is a horrible injustice as not being important, or see some examples of what you think as not being unjust. To a lot of those people, your mission to see what you believe is justice implemented everywhere in society is really no different than a born again Christian who wants to talk to everyone about accepting Jesus as their personal saviour - in the view of that born-again Christian, their mission is equally important, and equally righteous as yours in terms of doing good in the world. And it annoys the absolute #### out of a lot of people, even if you might agree with them about, for example, helping feed and house the homeless.
And often, the reaction to people who don't share your view of the world (or in some cases, even if they don't feel it's a primary concern of theirs that guides their daily life) is either "well, you're just privileged, that's why you think that way", up to, "well, you're just upset you can't use the racial slurs you used to enjoy", as was previously flippantly suggested earlier. That's highly obnoxious behaviour.
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Right but there's a huge difference between someone who is in my face demanding I change my behaviours to suit them versus someone who holds a deeply held belief but keeps it to themselves. I've known quite vocal Christians who are judgmental and others who I didnt know they were religious at all.
I guess my point is, the term "woke" or the view of 'wokeness' doesn't differentiate between the two. It's painting many situations with the same brush, when really they arent. Just because a director wants to hire a black actor doesnt mean its some woke/social justice thing. There's as much danger is labeling everything woke/social justice as there is in people demanding social justice conformity in society.