So I still don't really understand what woke is about, but I see it is somewhat about the political struggle between races and sexes. And I have a lot of opinions on that. And there are a lot of facts.
And this is the most important one: It's not a zero-sum game, and all sexes and all races are discriminated against in different degrees in different places. And dividing the victims into groups based on sex or race and then giving preferential treatment to one of those groups is going to exacerbate the problem. Instead we are better off treating all the victims as human beings, as people, and helping them all without discriminating between those who need help.
The idea that we need to propagate one "side's" problems to help the other side or that we need to only mention or take seriously the problems of one "side" needs to die. The idea that if a group is in a power position it cannot be discriminated against justifying anything done to that group, and that individual cases in which that happens anyway are not important, needs to die. The idea that if you cannot beat them ban them has to die. If you are righteous you don't need to fear discussion ever. The idea that the color or name of a candybar or the look or inclusion of a fucking fake video game character is of importance to HUMAN RIGHTS and how we treat people is so pathetic when we have actual issues at hand that we know are issues. For all we know including some propaganda in a video game works to your benefit. It's like you're purposefully looking away while pretending to address an issue by creating ten more that involve discrimination and that needs to die.
And so many sites and forums do this and even enforce this mentality in the name of bringing more attention to the problems of one "side" instead of focusing on the problems as a whole. It's a serious topic, not some childish race to a finish line. not about the influence of video games as they are right now on culture or society that aren't even clearly designed to be convincing you of anything real. This whole hipster attitude when it comes to real problems is creating a much more problematic mentality than we had before their interference. Addressing these issues is made neigh impossible by these online fanatics who do not accept truth into their gospel.
This is why I hope that there will be an organized ethical intervention or social intervention into echochambers like resetera and vice to break them open. We need to break open the safe spaces and echo chambers because they are discrimination factories. The moderators on those sites are propagating discrimination every day by them silencing sides of the story, discouraging discussion and them encouraging discriminatory solutions. And that's a different order of magnitude than some clearly fake video game having a sexualized character in it. They are the false prophets of our time.
So. Does that make me woke?
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