"Far-left extremist, post-modernist, neo-marxist ideology with higher focus on racial and gender equality rather than the traditional working class one; with a 'transectionalist' perspective that stacks under-privilege's on top of each other such that a white homosexual individual is yet more privileged than a black one. Subjectivist, idealist in the sense that personal perspective triumphs everything, and none can never fully understand the subject of another."
I've heard it convincingly described as follows: Woke ideology (AKA Social justice etc) is a pared-down version of Marxism the same way Marxism is a pared-down version of Christianity. Woke ideology is just Marxism without the class stuff, Marxism is just Christianity without the God stuff (presumably Christianity is just Judaism without the Rabinical law stuff)
Then again, there aren't any (successful) leftist comedians left anymore.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Marxism#:~:text=Neo%2DMarx...).
Nope.
> who will resort to any rhetorical nonsense
Rhetoric t is literally the act of arguing. If it isn't fallacious it isn't nonsense, and I don't use fallacious reasoning.
> in order to gain social media points
Are you jealous that you don't have any?
> likely narcissistic traits
Maybe projecting a little?
- "post-modernism" - as in rejection of the values of enlightenment; rejection of reason, and ultimately rejection of the idea that there exist solutions to problems that can be discovered by people cooperating in good faith;
- "neo-Marxist" - a softer take on Marxism, less about bloody revolutions, more about hearts and minds; figures the class struggle is a spent topic for now, so it tries to create new social divisions to keep people motivated.
Also, if you're to believe Wikipedia entry[0], a label adopted by a group of people trying to subvert mental health institutions so they breed revolutionaries instead of healing people. I wish I was making that up...
EDIT: I'll just quote that last bit verbatim, the whole subheading on Wiki as it looks right now:
Neo-Marxist feminism
Some portions of Marxist feminism have used the neo-Marxist label.[16][17] This
school of thought believes that the means of knowledge, culture, and pedagogy
are part of a privileged epistemology. Neo-Marxist feminism relies heavily on
critical theory and seeks to apply those theories in psychotherapy as the means
of political and cultural change. Teresa McDowell and Rhea Almeida use these
theories in a therapy method called "liberation based healing," which, like many
other forms of Marxism, uses sample bias in the many interrelated liberties in
order to magnify the "critical consciousness" of the participants towards unrest
of the status quo.[17][18][19][20]
[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Marxism#Neo-Marxist_femini...
Does that definition feel completely fuzzy, and seem to be no definition at all? I think so to. It hints at certain idea, but otherwise... every political ideology with a name is like it.
By itself it's no more left or right than the issue of prejudice is generally given that there are feminists, homosexuals and transgender people who are conservative politically but also woke in the original sense.
Very recently, in the last few years, it's been adopted as a pejorative term for far left identity politics. Now far left identity politics is a real thing, and it certainly is woke and probably deserves to have a pejorative term for it, but it has no ownership or exclusive claim on the term woke. unfortunately this may be a lost battle at this stage, but there are still a lot of people in the black community who have been using the term in its original meaning for generations and will doubtless continue to do so.
It might be a bit of a regional thing, as the US and Canada don't have the same pisstake culture we have in Australia/NZ/SA/Britain, but speaking from experience I can assure you that there is nothing more dehumanising than someone using politically correct language to describe the particular minority I happen to be a part of in an academic way, or refusing to make jokes at my expense because they're "too offensive".
Woke (/ˈwoʊk/ WOHK) is an adjective derived from African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) meaning "alert to racial prejudice and discrimination".[1][2] Beginning in the 2010s, it came to encompass a broader awareness of social inequalities such as sexism, and has also been used as shorthand for American Left ideas involving identity politics and social justice, such as the notion of white privilege and slavery reparations for African Americans.[3][4][5]
But the odd thing is how many people claim not to know what "woke" means who also seem to know exactly what "anti-woke" means. How can you be against something without a definition?
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke
[1] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03043754221126279
[2] https://www.politico.eu/article/macron-education-minister-je...
[3] Morgan, Marcyliena (2020). "'We Don't Play': Black Women's Linguistic Authority Across Race, Class, and Gender". In Alim, H. Samy; Reyes, Angela; Kroskrity, Paul V. (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Language and Race. Oxford University Press. pp. 276–277.
[4] https://www.vox.com/culture/21437879/stay-woke-wokeness-hist...
[5] https://theconversation.com/where-woke-came-from-and-why-mar...
The motte and bailey / smug gaslighting combo that is characteristic of today's discourse on the left.