Woke: Deep or Dumb?
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Wokeness: Are We Missing The Point?
“Woke” has become a flashpoint word for conservative politicians trying to discredit their opponents. But what does the term actually mean? And has it become distorted beyond recognition? Probably, and it has everything to do with Girl Boss tank tops and rainbow Legos. We promise we’ll explain in this Wisecrack Edition: Who Broke Wokeness?
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This is that Scottish forest buy-a-title thing all over again, isn't it?
So NFTs...
I am sure this will be a rational and calm discussion here in the comments
No, it won't .
On fleek
People that shout "woke" don't watch intelligent thought provoking content.
@@mickael486 This video is heavily left-biased and not conducing to intelligent discussion
@@mickael486 they don't but they sure show up to bash it and attack it regardless
From a psychological perspective, the political discourse of woke vs anti-woke has transformed into a mirroring conflict of revengeful narcissism vs grandiose narcissism. I would argue this is the main reason why the current situation seems so pathological, convoluted and apparently irrencocilable. Essential empathy and understanding being replaced by ideological dogmatism and self-righteous virtue-signaling by proponents on both sides of the spectrum.
I think the problem with wokeness is that it robs us of individuality. I don't want to hear from a black millionaire that a white low income worker is more privileged than him, because the black millionaire's father was discriminated against, while the white low income worker's ancestors had power. This sort of thinking creates tribalism, and tribalism always creates more tribalism. We are so far into this nonsense, that here in Germany Syrians and Turks play this game as well. A well integrated Turk is an "uncle Tom" for other Turks. This absolute nonsense. Germans and Turks were allied in ww1, we never had any colonization/slavery history with them, and yet: They're playing the same cards as Afro-Americans. You can't make this up. This is peak wokeness for me.
Psychology cannot solve socio-economic problems. Of course it can explain authoritarianism, how we become authoritarian. But psychology is incapable of understanding social movements and, above all, changing the balance of power. I bet many CEOs give money to Greenpeace while discussing how to increase productivity without paying workers more... Some even may work in fossil fuels. They are loving, open-minded, fairly balanced, in short, far from being sociopaths or narcissists.
In many ways though it has also broken up the social conservative base that capitalism has relied on for a long time. The once unified "right" is very visibly splitting apart between fascists and corporatists.
In other words, humans are incapable of thinking rationally no matter what their “values” are.
That is a very large thesis to cram into a comment section.
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I love having videos online that I can share with people that make my point in a succinct, well edited way. Also makes me feel less a one when my lefty friends get all up in arms about rainbow, and ironically the right wing friends are saying the same thing? Like they are both upset about it, why don't they just hold hands lmao. stay woke.
As a black man I knew the word "woke" my whole life and never found a time to use it. Things like "eyes open" or other simple terms would be used. The first person who said it out loud to me with its new meaning wasn't black. Now I don't think I know any of my friends who use it.
Personally I go the Spike Lee route "Wake Up"
I just stick with the original meaning from my community (black) not the new one tbh
I’ve never used it but only time I’ve ever been called woke was by a black man. This was years ago before this new meaning took hold.
Same, knew all my life what it meant to be "Woke" to us black folks but never ever used it in a sentence. Then all of a sudden it just took over discussion and got twisted into something else by those outside of our collective.
@abrashio Again I'd just go the Spike Lee route "Wake up"
When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear. - Sowell
I also remember "woke" being used as a way to make fun of conspiracy theorists, playing on the CTs saying things like "the lizard people want us to stay asleep."
I think the modern use of "wokeness" is just the same thing as what we used to call "political correctness," which, when you think about it, is all about being performative. I mean, clue is in the name. It's about politics -- making yourself look like a better person than your opponent in the eyes of the largest number of people.
No I think you missed it. The modern use of the word work is purposefully tainted by the MAGA media machine to erase the meaning. And it worked. They were calling Brie Larson woke. Then they started calling entire movies and tv shows that woke, when they had nothing to do with Black oppression. They took this powerful word from the Black people and thy stomped the life out of it. Tactically, they disarmed the Blacks. That's what happened, and it was done on purpose.
'Woke' is 'Narcissism' in Psychology.
Primarily 'Covert Narcissism' (the 'Woke Mind Virus').
Empathetic people will naturally despise people with 'evil' Cluster B personality disorders. And Covert Narcissists are some of the most toxic and manipulative.
Woke is essentially "bending the knee to Narcissist Cultures and People".
And this is one of the biggest No-No's in Psychology.
For example, the Left-leaning black community is the most narcissistic according to all data and surveys. And much of that is due to the Left's coddling ('Going Woke'). Coddling and bad parenting both lead to Narcissism.
Narcissist Personality Disorder is a serious problem in black culture, Islamic culture, Transgender culture, etc.
And the one thing you don't do, is massage the Narcissist's Ego. Which is what the Left are doing.
Particularly as Narcissism is the primary cause of crime (not 'Poverty'), and many other human social problems.
NB: Actors are one of the societal Narcissist groups. They will naturally be attracted to Woke Narcissism, and the 'Narcissist Supply' of virtue signalling (attention and praise for the Ego).
#WokeNarcissism
In my understanding of the term, absolutely dumb.
Voting with our dollar doesn't fix systemic issues.
“Woke” has been around since the 20’s. Now that it’s available at Walmart, the people who actually understand it have moved on. It’s similar to that time when the Kardashians discovered cornrows and basketball players. We’ve moved on. 😊
We never stopped using woke.
It is currently the '20s.
@@xczechr and some people are 100 years late.
Walmart? I don't understand. And who moved on, do people not wear cornrows or watch basketball anymore? I'm confused.
@@Shinkajo I agree that you don’t understand. It’s ok. Enjoy your weekend.
"Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them." Thomas Sowell
Very well made video essay! I went in very skeptical and worried.. A headline like that could have gone either way. I left with some pretty fascinating new concepts to consider. I’m glad I gave this video a shot!I’ll be chewing on this for a while! Thank you!
"The point is, Woke, for lack of a better word, is good, Woke is right, woke works."
About the use of ''woke'' by certain politicians, I think it has become more of a characterization about people whose arguments should not even be considered. The same way that when people used to demand more economical equality, they were called ''commies'' ( not even the full ''communists'') and the argument was considered done, because their opinions were considered so outrageous and anti-American that it was meaningless to even considered their arguments. I would say this is to an extend due to the lack of proper counter-arguments and fear of debate, something we see today. In conclusion, using words with this intend is very bad for democracy in general, because the point of democracy is to hear and consider the opinions of others before taking a decision.
P.S. I was recently called woke for saying that America needs more intercity rail and true high-speed rail, and I did not know how to respond to this.
"they were called ''commies'' and the argument was considered done"
This is iirc called a thought-terminating cliché - it's just a magic buzzword that ends the discussion and to your braindead supporters sounds like a "win".
Unfortunately, this phenomenon cuts both ways on the political sixteen and public discourse is reduced to name calling and virtue signaling with all the nuance you expect from 144-character "dissertations "
The irony is that neither side is really strengthened by pitting their arguments against the most robust version of their adversary so you end up with anemic and meaningless discourse.
That's what right wingers don't seem to get, or don't care to get: the LGBTQI+ community doesn't like rainbow capitalism either. It's just capitalism doing what capitalism does. Of course, we still call conservatives out when they miss that point and complain just because there's a queer character on TV now.
People hate Disney for going woke, but gladly ignores the Spider-Man Miles Morales movie that's pretty woke, but largely ignored by the anti-woke because it's actually a good movie.
That’s the point, most of those people just want good movies and if they happen to be a bit woke them fine so long as it doesn’t effect the integrity of the movie
I'm listening to this on my way home from the supermarket. I got Pepsi over Coke because Pepsi was slightly cheaper lol
Really hard to take any video essay seriously that promotes a scam through a guilt trip about a corporate monopoly losing money. It is also very weird.
Deep or Dump? It’s Deeply Dumb! 🎉
_"Woke has hung around, the word is the most popular for some reason"_
*Proceeds to show a bunch of examples of exclusively right-wing sources using the term to disparage everything they dislike.
Yeah... Right-wingers have been like a special dog with a bone with this one.
You might see people choosing pepsi over coke in Norway. The sugarfree version of pepsi (pepsi max) is one of our most popular beverages.
I always found it strange that when a company choose to signal support for something "woke", the backlash is rarely just towards the company, it's mostly towards the group that are recieving the support. They are acting like these small minority groups strongarmed these billion dollar companies into painting a rainbow (or whatever cause they want to capitalize on) on their products.
I enjoyed and agreed with this video but I feel like it ignored a crucial facet of this whole issue. Conservatives have deliberately conflated the hollow performative "corporate wokeness" with the *actual* political consciousness of BIPoC activists as a means of discrediting not only the corps but the activists and the regular people for whom this work is not just stage-craft but their real lives. BLM was formed around real people dying. Fighting "Don’t Say Gay" and book bans are struggles that affect real human beings. It's not fair and kinda disingenuous to say "weeelll, Conservatives are kinda right", without providing the context that it's not really corporations they're fighting (they're in league with them, that's their base) it's the laws and societal progress they're beating their chests against. It's the political consciousness of the masses, their "wokeness" that is being fought against. Okay. I said my bit. Great video, if a tad myopic.👍🏾
Of course, the republican playbook, find a tangential flaw to a cause they want to discredit and then equate the flaw to the entire effort.
They did (and are still doing) it to BLM over the looting, even though no one who was serious about the movement planned a double duty protest/loot for the day.
All protests have pretenders who glom on to be a part of something- not caring what that something is.
They pretended to care about BLM- but then they truthfully expressed themselves by looting after.
Great video.
The top note of a cola is vanilla.
Coke is extra vanilla-y and Pepsi is a bit more citric. If you are making a drink wherein the vanilla is to be emphasized (for example a paralyzer) then go Coke.
If you're making something more eucalytpic or bold like a gin cola; go Pepsi.
But me personally, if I'm just having a cola, it's Pepsi every time. It's CRISP.
Was wondering why I preferred Pepsi, it’s got the bite.
It's also cheaper and contains more caffeine, which were definitely the most important factors when I drank it to help with hangovers.
I think that video could have dealt more with how modern "woke" movements are often apolitical and lack specific policies to implement (e.g., to pass a law that says X, which will be administered by the Ministry of Y on the basis of Z). Instead, a great deal of it seems to manifest as an illiberal reaction to others not agreeing about a certain subject.
There are almost always specific demands, but they tend to get ignored by the media at large because they are paid to not cover demands that would result in economic changes.
@cryptbeast3222 Demands are different from policies: demanding police reform or transgender rights is easy: determining the shape of legislature would look like is harder and more important because that requires discussion with other groups that may not readily agree with the framework. As a fairly non-inflammatory example, back in 2021, the British Green Party co-leader resigned over the issue trans rights. That issue arose from a disagreement over whether trans rights and women's rights could ever come into conflict and that that conflict needed to be negotiated. For this reason, an environmentally centrist party in the middle of the climate crisis self-immolated because an identity issue that affects a fraction of the population (and it is not as if the other side was transphobic, it was just stating that there could be potential conflicts) was found to be beyond the pale.
Those demands have policies. And websites. And implementation. And strategy plans.
A lot of folks ask, "Now what?" And when told, "Now this," reply, "But which version of this makes me care?"
@@johnstanczyk4030 I said there were specific demands because there are. For example, the abolish the police movement has been ongoing for decades and has policies and programs outlined by lawyers, activists and other officials on how to change the system from a punitive and hyper violent policing system to a community based reformation program. Mostly by using examples of aspects of the plan that have actually been implemented successfully in the past. From programs giving ongoing support to drug addicts with legal avenues of needed drugs to function as well as free therapists, to troubled youth programs that track children with growing records of conflicts with the law who are diverted to a mentorship program. You didn't hear about any of this because it was never covered by major media. Which is my point with stuff like this.
@@johnstanczyk4030 Also, I don't even know where you are going with that example. You don't sit at the table to negotiate with people who are operating off of falsehoods and hostile intentions. The immolation thing wasn't helpful but that's the sort of reaction you get once in a while when you target and harass a minority of people at all times for existing. Some people break and kill themselves. That's not a bad statement on all trans people, if anything it's the opposite. The assholes harping on a nonexistent threat and using that for a witch hunt need to stop making people's lives a political football. There literally wouldn't be any trans issues if people didn't use othering as an excuse to push legislation to control the lives of a few outliers. Leave people alone and stop trying to ban healthcare and facility use of a few people who are strange. Boom, no more trans issues.
Rich people donating money that is 100% tax deductible is like them spending our money and expecting us to cheer for that...
Donations should be only tax deductible up to a small amount that benefits the working class.
Will never happen. Donating is a great way to move large sums of money through the system without actually paying taxes for it.
Surprisingly, _this_ video of yours I really liked 🙂
Man I work for lego for 2 years now. I am gay and last year for pride we only sold the every thing is awesome set that’s there way of pride. Now this yes some stuff happens in some stores where customers showed there hate to the LGBT so lego gave us all pride pins for the month. 😂 telling us to wear it if we think pride matters but on the floor never use the word pride, gay ore lgbtq+ “for our own safety”
Can't say "vote with your dollar" when it comes to videogames , movies , and shows.
So few own so many things , it's near impossible get around.
And most people can't afford a VPN for piracy purposes these days.
Wouldn't do much good anyway , pirates don't advertise.
I still get the product red stuff, not really because I care about the people suffering STD as much as red is just my favorite color. It’s a nice bonus though.
I like how relatively radical this channel has become
Radical? This is one of their more moderate, nuanced takes.
@@LividImp How did you measure that?
Relative to what? Conservative values? That's already a radical position. I mean they're bringing the Nazis back. I would say how relatively moderate this channel has become.
@@antarchy1 I'm sorry to break your bubble but relative to most of youtube content (that people watch) this is considered radical. Hope you will be able to recover after receiving this information
@@trolzilol1634 UA-cam content? You're measuring this against youtube content. What's your source? Not your homepage is it? Cause the algorithm show you stuff it thinks you will like. So if you like nazis, you see nazis.This was about as middle of the road as it gets. He literally agreed with conservatives about performative wokeness. So maybe you're the radical?
I thought "accessorize your compassion" was just a brilliant line from IASIP, but it was a REAL slogan from that Motorola campaign? I had to sit down after seeing that 8:57
Watch SNL skit from around 6 years ago "Woke Jeans" and you will get a full understanding of what woke means.
Woke somehow makes even Beavis & Butthead seem miraculously brilliant.
And saying "Woke makes you a loser" is a massive understatement.
The three things conservatives hate history that isn't white washed, empathy for minoritys and actually having an argument beyond bashing the left. Sit and spin.
Not super relevant, but I prefer Pepsi for two big reasons: I prefer the taste because it's slightly sweeter, but more importantly, coke always gives me a severely upset stomach, but I can drink all the Pepsi I want without the same issue. Idk why.
woke
adjective
(informal, often disapproving)
aware of social and political issues, especially racism.
Oxford English Dictionary.
It hasn't changed meaning. It still refers to intersectionality and critical race theory which captures the original meaning. Its just that conservatives and some liberals do not agree that being 'woke' is actually going to improve society. So woke is often used with negative connotations because it is viewed as a negative idea.
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11:11 That's nothing compared with the third of the country who literally pay nothing in taxes. Having a uniform sales tax for every transaction is the only fair way to tax everyone in a manner which is consistent with everyone paying their "fair share".
Stellar video once again wisecrack
The parallell between "wokewashing" business activities, and greenwashing ads... Mindblowing. This video was really informative, thank you! And by the way, in my head at least, there is a world between woke capitalism, and people who fight to bring forward actual changes in the real world, by peacefully demonstrating, speaking up and then being labeled "woke" as a slur. Woke capitalism is basically corporations doing the necessary (and sometimes a little bit overkill I'll admit...) to make their products acceptable, and likable for a majority of people. The authenticity and real life implications doesn't mean a shit, as long as corporations earns big big money.
10:24 I'm from Tamilnadu India... Pepsi is the mostly the drink of choice. Either the choice to consume or to protest against. Coke doesn't get the spotlight usually.
I drink Pepsi, specifically diet Pepsi. My friend group in high school drank Pepsi so I switched to Pepsi, and when I lived with a diabetic I switched to diet pepsi
14:20 this, 100% this!! I call people out on that shit all of the freaking time. Solodarity only stands to make yourself feel better, and alleviate any feeling of responsibility. Solidarity only stands to hurt one's others are supposedly standing with, its pointless
So many ads cant figure out theme.
Argentina was 40%, now is 5% imagine if US done the same with its 13% - 1,6% of N would be so awesome.
I prefer local cola brands like Red Cola or Big Cola over Pepsi Cola or Coca Cola. Same flavour, cheaper price. Unless there is a promo on Pepsi Black, that is the only sugar free cola I drink.
Being affected by a woke person makes you more of it
Michael Eisner making "woke" versions of classic Disney Animation Studios, Inc. is clearly DUMB!
There is a giant difference between wanting society to be better and cynical corporate bullshit.
Corporations do not create inequality...the government and Federal Reserve/central bank monetary policy do.
"Ideology itself, may be defined as the illusion of reality, produced by language in the absence of such. From this standpoint, ideology is linguocracy; the capacity of language to produce and impose on others a pseudo-reality that claims to be uniquely valid."
~Kabakov
When I was a child we only used the word, woke to described coming into a state of alertness. "I woke up today with a new sense of hope and determination." We did however have the word "cooties." If you had cooties, you were unclean and shunned.
Now, I don't know if there has been any serious discussion of Steve Bannon's or Ron de Santis's cooties. It would surely be bad if they did have them. Some people would say there is no such thing as cooties but when I look at Steve Bannon or de Santis I have to wonder. I think we should at least investigate. What do you think? Does Ron de Santis have cooties?
Wisecrack: where philosophers take everyone at face value and don't understand dog whistles.
Now introducing Marvel's newest character, created by the most unseasoned and suburbanite of focus groups.
"I am Woke."
Dude do you remember the Pepsi challenge from the early 80's? In a blind taste test more people preferred Pepsi over Coke even the Coke drinkers. Coke drinkers only choose it because of brand loyalty.
"NYT columnist and broken clock Ross Douthat" 🤣
I thought New Coke settled the Pepsi Challenge phenomenon. In a blind taste-test people tend to choose Pepsi because it is sweeter, but when Coca-Cola made New Coke which tasted like Pepsi, sales weren't as good because it's too sweet for people to like idly down six cans in a day, which they would do with classic Coke. This is of course before we realized how bad sugar is for you, you shouldn't be drinking either more than like one can a week. Also I prefer Dr. Pepper over either, unless they are cherry and the Dr. Pepper is regular.
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The lesson is that we black folks gotta stop inventing new slang terms lest they be bastardized by corporations and eventually the right
Diet Pepsi all the time. I grew up in Texas drinking Dr Pepper. Eventually I went to Diet Dr Pepper, and now Diet Pepsi.
My dad worked at motorola during the (red) campaign, and I can assure you that the whole campaign certainly helped the upper management get a lot of good bonuses.
And isn't that what's really important? :D
I don't understand. What do you mean?
@@jmrabinez9254 In the video he talked about a campaign by Motorola that said that by paying more for a phone would help end aids in Africa.
😂😂well well well, "Aids in Africa"
It's so great to chase the good causes!
I still remember Patrick Stewart's response to the ALS ice bucket challenge. _Actually writing a freaking cheque_ to support research. Everybody remembers the challenge and the fun videos but hardly anyone actually contributed to making life better for people suffering ALS.
Yup, him sitting next to a bucket of ice, writing a cheque. Then he uses the ice to make himself a drink.
Since politicians are unironically use the word "woke" now, I hope the next step is that they start calling each other "soy" on the debate stage.
And beta cuck. Tell them it's the big brother of "woke" so it's a more effective persuasive
Many people say that I’m GOATed with the sauce, many people. It’s true! The thousands and thousands of people who come to my rallies, they’re all my little pogchamps. They know we’re going to Make America Lit Again.
Snoy
No, that would upset soybean farmers, and they have money 😂
We'll have to wait until the younger generations finish taking over our government, first. Though, it would be funny to hear the older politicians say that.🤣
Whether you're woke or broke, we can all agree on one thing...
The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.
🎉🎉🎉😂
😂😂😂
-emia, meaning presence in blood.
No, the electron transport chain is you Woke-snowflake-groomer-communist-Trotskyite!!
Of the Zell.
I think a better word for ‘culture war’ is ‘strawman skirmish’
Gotta remember that one. So on fleek
Part of the war.
This'd be funnier if this wasn't a central plank in the Republican party platform. Seriously, half our country is more interested in denying people rights because they think they're yucky than maintaining our infrastructure or any number of things that sane adults would understand are not partisan issues.
The vaguely-defined-dread war?
@@frankm.2850 The Republican Party has always been like this. Since the 60s, the Republican Party has been subtly insane, now they are out and out about their insanity
I feel so much better now knowing that Fruit Gushers is against racism. For a while I was thinking "Fruit Gushers could potentially be racist" but now that they've cleared that up I can sleep soundly.
we dodged a bullet on that one
The fact that Fruit Gushers were different colors shows that they stand for diversity.
Bo Burnham showcases socially aware brands and their stances for radical change in his role as a brand consultant. ua-cam.com/video/fkKu09BwFgc/v-deo.html
😂 I’ve said it about Chick-Fil-A, and I’ll say it about Gusher’s-companies are concepts, NOT people, so it’s silly to say they are for or against anything. The people behind them can do those things, though being a client of those companies can indirectly move money and influence to efforts that you may or may not want it to go.
I'm still waiting to see which side of the fence Dunkaroos lands on.
This hits the nail on the head. People feel satiated by the socially progressive “activism” of these corporations but then are happy to turn a blind eye to any attempt for organized labor, which by the way would help marginalized groups way more than any socially progressive branding or publicity.
I disagree. Alot of the same people who like corporate activism also agree that most workers should organize and wholy support unions. I mean democrats and leftist as a whole push more legislation supporting unions and worker organizing.
@@RedFezLad I'll grant you that they agree with it. But the performative gestures don't really equate to tangible support beyond, maybe, how they were already going to vote and donate during election seasons.
It is more complicated. Because the only one that has real impacts in standing up to governments trying to claw back social policies like abortion and LGBTQ rights are the corporations. There have been multiple businesses pushing back against these draconian laws Republicans are pushing forward, even some corporations putting money in to shelter people who need abortions. Of course this isn't always the case and what the video says has merit, but with the current political situation, you have to take the lesser of two evils sometimes. Do you want human rights?
Do people feel satiated by corporation activism? I feel like most people (I hope) see through the facade.
@@chad8767 It for sure is case-by-case - no denying there's been some good that's come from corporate activism, just worth being aware of possible ulterior motives
My thing is how the system keeps you in a spiral of overwhelming anxiety and burnout to keep people from being woke in the traditional sense
(Edit) damn I wasn't expecting all these likes seesh thanks yall
Definitely this
and what wokeness has become keeps people too distracted and divided to come together to do anything significant about the fucked up spiral. People just want to act like pissing each other off and getting offended, or walking around with their fist in the air, waving a flag is accomplishing something.
they keep you stupid by keeping you busy
@@dustyhurd424 cop out
@Dusty Hurd I mean, a bunch of people organizing in public to demonstrate their opinions is the foundation of public grievance, it does accomplish something. I feel like you’re mistaking authentic political trends and organization for Corporation’s attempts at co-opting of ‘wokeness’.
Authentic wokeness never went away, it just exists alongside a sterile “pop culture” version.
woke is like the phrase social justice: the phrase has been hollowed out and thrown around so much its lost most of its original meaning.
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Social Justice is bullshit. There is only Justice. Pure and Simple. Nobody is special.
And it’s on purpose. Because seriously, only people who have very bad intentions would want to turn the term « social justice » into a negative expression. The exact same thing happened with « woke »
The reason Republicans replaced social justice with woke but mainstream society never stopped using social justice positively is the same reason most Americans think being woke is a good thing.
Republicans lose every culture war they fight in about five years. It's why they need the Supreme Court instead.
this happens a lot with words the right wing of politics finds being used against them. The same with groomer. It used to refer to people like priests, politicians, billionaires and such who used their money, power or social clout to SA young people. Now they are trying to twist it into meaning any queer person existing
I can be annoyed at Disney doing soulless checklist diversity and my grandpa being unstable and unreasonably angry about it at the same time lol.
Me too. They just force feed the messages in their movies.
That's perfectly fine because you are (presumably) mad at the soulless company and not the diversity itself. I feel like that's the main issue in arguments about diversity in media. A lot of people blame the characters for existing rather than the writers or producers for being hacks.
@@tyreonbooker5304 I pretty much agree. I mean, we all have met some absolute goobers on the "left" who demand some ridiculous things. Just the other day I saw a video where a person was lambasting John Gwyne's Shadow of the Gods because it only had white people in it when it's centered around Nordic culture and mythology. So while I do think there are some frustrating people out there that think every single piece of media or art should look like downtown LA I think they are just a loud minority. While Disney and other corporations are the main problem by using diversity as a marketing gimic to stir up free publicity and pat themselves on the back.
@@tyreonbooker5304this. This right here.
@@tyreonbooker5304Even if a diverse character is perfectly written, you still have people whining about how they're shoehorned into the TV show/movie/game. Just the sight of a minority in media triggers some people now. Lol
I also received a (Red) Motorola Razr, but my reason for wanting it was entirely for the color red and I learned about the campaign from reading about it after. It did give me a tiny "oh look my purchase made me feel ethically good" feeling but like the usefulness of the Motorola Razr; that faded fast.
I also am a Pepsi fan, it was what my parents bought so I liked it better than Coke when I tried that. That said, I don't remember the last time I purchased a Pepsi or any cola.
the woke issue is used to keep people thinking about issues that have no effect on them, instead of worrying about the economic issues or democratic issues that matter. it keeps the working people fighting amongst eachother instead of fighting the super wealthy individuals creating this mess.
Be mindful economic and democratic issues tie into social ones. They're not completely separate from another, much like the chicken and egg.
Post and comment are spot on
@@XioriannaEBDjinn im not saying they are seperate but when people start feeling left behind by their government and the economy is when people start becoming susceptible to the demagoguery that leads to the social issues
They’re also issues that don’t m impact politician’s wallets or power negatively.
That is the Plan.
Divide and conquer
This is a great video, and something I've been saying forever. Many friends I had were thrilled that Disney threw its weight around in Florida, and commanded from on high that Floridians couldn't pass laws Disney didn't like. They felt happy because "their side" won.... but, they did not see that they were happy that an UNELECTED CORPORATION beholden only to profit was telling a state GOVERNMENT what laws it could pass and using "woke ideology" as an excuse to do so. This is true for other corporations as well. Laws can be unfair, and should be changed, this is true. But they should be changed by the PEOPLE, by VOTING, by DEMOCRACY ...because Disney might symbolically help the 5% of the country that is LGBTQ by blocking a law that...actually was just a bunch of posturing and wouldn't really have done much of anything...but will SQUASH the 99% of Americans who want unions, better pay, better work conditions, healthcare, etc. (including the lgbtq people who want those things).
"changed by the PEOPLE, by VOTING, by DEMOCRACY " good joke.
democracy with capitalism is a good joke
“Laws! We know what they are, and what they are worth! Spider webs for the rich and powerful, steel chains for the weak and poor, fishing nets in the hands of the government.”
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
I think we can celebrate the result of this one particular instance of a corporation using its inflated power to stop something that would've been very bad for a lot of people (5% of 336,607,917 people is still a lot of people) while still recognizing that no corporation should ever have that kind of power in the first place. Although, if we're really gonna be honest here, DeSantis should've never reached the position of power he has either.
agreed. It shows how much power corporations have
It's not my fault that the GOP is so far gone, that I, a socialist, who can't stand giant soulless corporations, has to side with Disney on this. Then again, this isn't an all or nothing situation. Disney can be right in this very specific instance for standing up for their LGBTQ+ employees, and they can still be wrong when it comes to almost everything else.
@@Totoofwarful found the Communist. Hail Stalin.
"New Private State" is a really interesting way to say "Corporate Oligarchy"
I’m so glad “blackout Tuesday” was brought up for this video. The entire point was for social media pages that were using social media regularly for profit/business could take a step back from business and use social media to spread awareness rather than a sponsor. But then every single bystander sat behind their computer and posted a black screen on their stories. I remember being seconds away from making a post of my own and thinking “how the hell does this do anything”??
I don't agree with everything you said, but the idea of corporate wokeness, you hit that nail on the head. Good job.
A ray of hope through a dark cloud.
It’s so frustrating that so many Wisecrack videos pull back the curtain of controversy to show that someone is only propagating it to better themselves. I love that you’re spitting facts, but it truly is an ugly truth. Another thought provoking vid, thanks Wisecrack.
I always thought the term "woke" came from new age philosophy and that it originally meant spirituality awake.
The New York Times in the '50's had an article explaining why white kids were suddenly using the term woke. So nope.
That's "enlightened", and it too is Older than They Think
And also more recently on places like 4cham and other venerable bastions of the internet. I mean how many times has someone told you something like "wake up, sheeple!". Being asleep(not seeing, dreaming, living in temporary illusion, being unconscious) versus being awake(seeing, being in the now, the real, being conscious), is an age old trope. One that is prevalent I'm many cultures and languages throughout the ages.
So it's a little more complicated than saying it just sprouted from black American culture and then we assimilated it.
@@Shinkajo Enlightenment = waking/not-dreaming is old, the term "woke" as in socially-aware, politically-active is Black America circa 1920s/30s IIRC
@@mandisaw yeah that's absolutely true. My point is that it's such a basic and obvious concept that it's been repeating in history for ages. Like I'm not American, my first language is not English, but the concept of "waking up" and staying "woke" was a thing I'm my country in the late 19th century, because we weren't independent then and it referred to gaining national consciousness. We have to be aware that not everything is USA centric. But yes, the most recent popular iteration of "woke" owes a lot to black American culture. But because it's a very universal concept, that's why it has had such a prevalent global impact and staying power.
I live in Europe in a non English-speaking country and the term "woke" is very prevalent, at least in the vernacular because it's a concise term that characterizes a certain type of people and certain types of policy and ideology. Like I move around in mostly left-leaning circles, who all use "woke" to one extent or other. There is always at least a little irony involved, but it is a very useful term to characterise certain trends.
Every time our culture’s terms are taken, over used, and used incorrectly we end up with discourse like this 🙃
Yup, they basically took the term flipped its meaning and turned it into a slur.
And it comes from everyone
Revolutionaries decided wokeness was a call to action against tyranny, liberals decided wokeness was applauding a call to action against tyranny, and conservatives... well, they took that personally.
"Woke" is as much a slur among the conservative right as miscegenator or bleeding heart. Which is to say, if you think it's an actual slur just because Nazis call you one, no version of the word ever would have included you anyway... 😂😂
@@MrBazBake Ok
@@RoninX33 Buddy...
A guy says, "Puppies are cute" then 100 years later a group starts passing anti-puppy legislation every opportunity they can and shouting, "This puppy-centric ideology needs to stop!!!" Except 70% of Americans polled and even 50% of cat people are exhausted because they also agree that puppies are kind of cute.
Then someone arrives and declares, "This puppy debate has been corrupted by a misuse of the word puppy to mean the opposite of a puppy and we now need a new word for puppy that everyone can agree on."
To the rest of the world, this is not a serious person.
When the powerful tell you that you have two sides to choose between, it is your duty to refuse their false dichotomy.
A good mantra to live by.
Wish more people had followed this logic last year during the rail strike - it was presented as "either we bust up the strike and force the union to back down, or Christmas is ruined and the economy is crashed". They ignored the much more reasonable option: force the _companies_ to accept the union's demands.
Understood, sir!
So... Which is it then? Pepsi or Coca Cola?
;)
The two sides are globalists/elites vs nationalists/citizens but instead people believe it's left vs right or black vs white. Meanwhile, Trump is the only one who isn't controlled by the uniparty and wasn't supposed to be part of the globalist agenda but people think he's the bad guy because of talking heads reading off teleprompters.
@@nyirmogikandur6050 Groselha it is
@@nyirmogikandur6050 Pepper. DOCTOR Pepper to you.
Mike from Redlettermedia used the term "passive prograssive" to describe Disney having more diverse characters. Passive progression is my favourite term for billionaire companies pretending to care as its good advertising.
Another term is corporate activism.
This company makes me sick 😂
@@wrestlinganime4life288 It is a company. What really makes me sick is retarded activist pretending that pushing these bullshit corporate activism will solve "minorities" real problems.
"Good Advertisement"
Disney Box Office:
Flop after Flop after Flop
The Dimentia makes Mike say things.
I get the argument but I don’t think it holds much value. Yes, the companies are pretending to care to boost profits, but why should that matter? This is still encouraging diversity to the kids who watch these movies. Good things can be done with greedy intentions.
"Keep an open mind but not so open that your brain falls out." - Richard Feynman
One of my favorite quotes
So how woke is too woke?
@@rskl8083when it bleeds into every aspect of everyday living. Where everything is a perceived grievance.
@@John-rn1nm Exactly!
They pretty much took the jokey, Twitter version we use to describe hoteps and really decided that was gonna be the real definition.
EXACTLY!!!! It was an inside joke for decades abt hoteps and the govt screwing us
Exactly!
Good point. Like they said in the beginning of this video, black slang often juxtaposes itself at some point but we as a collective always remember it's root meaning. Once white people got ahold of it however, they either intentionally or unintentionally misunderstood the juxtaposed meaning and ran with their incorrect interpretation of the phrase.
Remarkable, this is the only topic ya'll could have slipped a Masterworks promotion into and have the comment section forget about it. Well done Wisecrack team!
Honestly always annoyed to see people taking masterworks sponsorships
@@justcallmenoah5743 why, did they do something?
@@eldrickemc4602 they have repeatedly failed to act as a hedge against inflation, and they have extremely restrictive rules about how long you have to stay invested that are never acknowledged in ads. I find the ads to be very dishonest. It's a risky investment, just like any investment it's you betting that the value of something will increase over time, and you have no possible way to predict if a painting will appreciate in value.
@@justcallmenoah5743 On top of that the actual value is incredibly hard to measure, and harder to realize. For it to be a successful "investment" someone has to actually buy the painting for more than you invested in it, and it's not clear that really ever happens on masterworks outside of a few special cases.
It's basically gambling. Which is bad, because it's sold as "safe investing"..
@@JD-ub5ic exactly, as much as all investment can be characterized as gambling, this is really really risky gambling. And seeing these guys advertise for them implies that they either don't properly vet their advertisers, or worse that they don't care if their audience loses their money.
Thank you for this video! I work for a hospital department that offers transgender therapy (which I have no problem with at all). It attracts ‘open-minded’ employees, but many of them seem focused only on cultural diversity. We constantly have DEI talks and take surveys about improving diversity. Again, this is great. But there is NO talk of pay equity in a city that has seen rent increases of 25% post-pandemic, for a hospital that just completed one of the costliest construction projects in the company’s history. I saw a post on our internal message board about pay equity (with tons of likes from other employees). It was removed.
They got you fighting a culture war to keep you distracted from the class war. more cultural diversity is not a priority when people cant afford to their rent
I get you, I have a disability and get called to a lot of job interviews "because they want inclusion." But I never get the jobs and they're always saying disabled people aren't qualifies. The few times I've known who they actually went for, I was way more qualified and some of them actually lost their jobs because they couldn't do it.
@@availanila That sounds like a complaint to the EEOC & your State Dept of Labor
@@mandisaw it is, but a different organization for my country. The problem with such things is that they're hard to prove and even then rarely successfully corrected for. For me, it's usually an odd parameter but in place testing "my skill level" put in place that I'll invariably fail despite experience abd training in the required skill set, and no one else would've usually done this test.
People are complex. Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man was written 70+ yrs ago, but includes a nuanced critique of [white] liberalism, and the way it emphasizes individual/shallow change, while sidestepping the more uncomfortable, deep-seated social & economic issues that have plagued America since its inception.
Been a long time since we read it in HS, but you still see echoes today. People can be in support of same-sex marriage and green energy, but don't support trans-rights or public transit. Or they'll go hard-left on national policies, but obsess over crime & "good" school districts at the local level.
That dissonance was what the original "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" play/movie was meant to explore. Comes up too in political-satire comedies like "I'm Gonna Git you Sucka" and "Undercover Brother".
If you're woke and from england...does that make you a Woke Bloke?
Guy said to me just yesterday that the problem with schools is that they’re “woke.”
Not guns.
Not class sizes.
Not social media.
Not device addiction.
Not educator recruitment.
Oh & the guy had his doctorate & was wearing a dashiki shirt. 😅
I guess When they say "woke" school they probably mean the gender study,clinics nd shit
wow.
Tbf ultra Liberals want to teach kids how to swallow grown up's cum properly so I'd say that's pretty high up on priorities to end immediately. Do you agree?
He might’ve meant schools focus on being “woke”, whatever that means, while ignoring the actual issues you listed. Sort of like Apple supporting pride month while kids are in cobalt mines over seas for their phones.
@@mrmap4875 somehow I think guns are still worse, call me crazy.
Black people always used to say, "I'm in the house" instead of "I'm here." But then white people all started to say "in the house" so we switched it to "in the hizzouse." Hizzouse became hizzizzouse, and then white folk started saying that, and we had to change it to hizzie, then "in the hizzle" which we had to change to "hizzle fo shizzle," and now, because white people say "hizzle fo shizzle," we have to say "flippity-floppity-floo."
Sounds like you just don't like white people.
Taking someone else's culture, twisting it, and making it something else sure sounds like the American way
No, I’m here to virtue signal by learning buzzwords
Our daughter likes Pepsi. We've asked her to explain why, but as of yet she's been unable to articulate it in a manner we can comprehend. We're old. Yes, we still love her, but my wife and I will forever remain confused.
I’m sorry for your loss
My son is gay and I absolutely don't have a problem with that... but if he drank pepsi... i don't know how i would react to that...
I refuse accept the word “woke” to mean “fake corporate social consciousness.”or anything else like that. While I am extremely cynical about corporate support of social issues and believe that corporations are looking only after their bottom line. This usage of woke on the right has turned into a way to try not to take any social consciousness seriously. It’s been used as a way single out lgtbq people, especially trans and not take their issues seriously. It’s a way not to take police violence against racial minorities seriously. It’s become a catch all term on the right not try to learn anything or take social issues seriously. And yes corporations are not helping these issues
It also seems to be the new dogwhistle for Black people, women, & any kind of anti-racism or anti-sexism legal/political action. A lot of folks in comment sections and videos seem to use "woke" as a catch-all slur.
Every big business involved with social topics always reminds me of when my teachers in high school would say, "Hey kids I am crunk! Like little John!"
Fun fact: I have been discriminated against via corporate “wokeness” 😂
This whole ordeal is therefore for me an equivalent of rich slavers painting red stripes on their back and giving few lashes to random poor people on the street to symbolise their “feeling for slaves” 🤷♂️
No one is chastised for not being woke. You have to do something like being an anti intellectual or a bigot. Lmfao
@@Sang-Je I have been discriminated on bases of my gender, sexuality and nationality. This happened because the company I worked for aimed to improve its ‘diversity ratings’ on paper and its image on LinkedIN. I have been refused for a department change due to “not wearing skirt”, I was told in a manager training I would have been a good leader if only I would have been “adding more to overall diversity of the leadership” and was refused the promotion after successfully completing it. I was refused to be promoted by top management on LinkedIn because “We prefer to promote ‘more diverse employees” and lastly I was refused a project because they wanted to associate it with someone who posted job related promotions together with photos with his boyfriend on LinkedIn (who was also quickly promoted due to the fact).
A bigot or an anti-intellectual you say? I for one got my wife’s name trough marriage just because she did not like my original name. I have been part of a ‘pride club’ in the company in question and supported their events directly. I speak 4 different languages. I lived, studied and graduated (Master’s) in a muslim country (where a I worked and studied in two different languages at the same time both foreign to me). I am an active member of a political party that is the most liberal on my country’s political scene for which I also held an office… I now actually work abroad.
So yeah, you can be easily discriminated on bases of so called “wokeness” by a soulless corporation based on your gender or what have you, while it actually has nothing to do with how “woke” you are or claim to be.
@@Sang-JeI disagree, ever heard a gang of terrorists yelling, silence is violence?
@marknalberta lmfao yes meaning if u let people be bigots or racist then your silence is almost just as bad. You might as well victimize them as also, That's what that means.
@@Sang-Je they said anyone who is not anti-racist is racist
Wow, Masterworks is a total scam, be better Wisecrack!
Best analysis of Woke ever! This clears up so much as to why it is what it is and why businesses do it today.
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It’s just some word that means people without empathy are uncomfortable.
Apple sells a rainbow-colored wristband for their Apple Watches -- but does not offer it in a size that is large enough to fit a large-boned trans-woman's wrist. For that matter, nor do _any_ of the femininely colored wristbands offered for the Apple Watch.
I'm not a regular soda drinker anymore but I always go for pepsi over coke. It's been a while since I've had either so I'd have to try them again, but I remember pepsi being less syrupy and tasting better
I'm fifth generation Irish, and real familiar with the USA's carceral "system." That's where I got "woke," courtesy of Dostoevsky among other notables. Frederick Douglass et al.
You know: "The state of any society can be determined by it's prisons (to paraphrase)" Got to be Instructed in the veracity of that idea at the ungentle hands of the State. Like everybody else who is actually "woke."
Gotta think to yourself, "what's so bad 'bout being aware that I'm being shafted by the Usual Suspects every time I leave my house and sometimes without going outside at all?"
Why'd rich, comfortable, gated-community folks hate on being "woke?" Make it some harder for them to cash cheques? What gives?
Half the stuff that's labeled "woke" ain't. Most nobody's woke at all, which is part of the idiom itself. Right? This is about idiom?
George Carlin said "you have to be asleep to believe in the American Dream." Maybe that's what the huge "problem" is?
Stay Woke 100% at all times and places comrades.
No, you are American. 5th generation Irish, go Ireland and say that and look closely at the annoyance on their faces as they tell you you are not Iriish.
@@samsoncooper1again, why do you think not having any pride in your heritage is a good thing? Try saying this to a fifth generation Mexican and see how well it goes.
today's conservatives use "woke" the same way 1960s conservatives used "hippies"
Or the way they use communism