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Only 3 kinds of people appear to be left in Woke: 1. Psychopaths trying to take control of/harvest dying Blue institutions 2. Idiots executing broken NPC robot scripts 3. Après nous, le déluge types who feel like they're the last line of defense against Hobbesian bloodshed
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I consider myself meta-woke. I acknowledge the harmful systems, and view wokeness as a natural backlash amplified by media optimized for engagement. The bullied found a means of fighting back, and it looks a lot like bullying. But the shit they're responding to is real.
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There are equilibriums being shifted. If you want out, though, you need to achieve escape velocity into meta. Get above it, observe the landscape, and see the systems. Don't buy too hard into one narrative or another.
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If someone says they're a victim of systemic racism, I don't help them by being woke with them, nor do I help them by denying their experience. I help them by acknowledging that the systems to which they are referring exist, and it sucks, and "I'm sorry you had that experience."
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It's fine. But getting to "I'm sorry you had that experience" requires no meta-ness. Just basic compassion plus avoiding any deeper involvement (which is where I land too, just via a different path)
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