How did American “wokeness” jump from elite schools to everyday life?

Re:How did American “wokeness” jump from elite schools to ev... by njharman on Saturday September 04, 2021 @12:01PM (#28416231)

I, nor you, have an obligation to honor or respect anyone's beliefs. We have the limited rights to dismiss, criticize, adopt, etc any belief/creed/etc. The limits are prohibiting or restricting others, including original inventors of belief , from doing same except in support of 2nd limitation. Which is, doing harm.

Many want that to be absolute no harm. I strongly disagree that "hurt feelings" and "uncomfortableness" are worthy levels of harm.

Society continues to debate this.

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Re:How did American “wokeness” jump from elite schools to ev... by mkr-hn on Saturday September 04, 2021 @12:08PM (#28416278)

If people had respected the right of people to practice and believe as they wish, there would be no problem, but now their cultures are in tatters after centuries of violence and forced reeducation, and they're trying to protect what's left. The current situation is the result of people not believing what you said, in the past or present.

You speak in abstract terms of rights and privileges. This is the actual, real situation. There are real human consequences to treating endangered indigenous cultures as something to repackage and transform for the benefit of people outside those cultures.

Keep that in mind as you debate abstract ideas with "society," whatever that is.

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