I don't like the world right now

Jamesmac said:

More and more people are becoming sociopaths and being misled by other sociopaths to follow hateful ideologies that I'm pretty sure EVERYONE used to agree were bad

I think that is is just that the wokeness that has become more common has given those with the "bad" ideologies are now allowed to have much more of a voice than they used to have in the interests of "equality".

For example people who worship the devil are now positioning themselves as just having a different religious preference to those who worship whichever form of God the mainstream choose. Technically it is a perfectly valid choice as the likes of christianity has taken Lucifer and painted him as being bad when he is still an angel. When you lay out the logic it is a smear campaing so they have every right to be recognised.

The same goes with fascism - it is being promoted as capitalism and dressed up to appeal to the issues that their supporters want to have "dealt with" - all perfectly valid under freedom of choice.

In the end is there really "good" and "bad" or just perspectives that differ? Society and laws evolve so something that was bad 50 years ago is not quite acceptable (think homosexuality for example) so who is to say that what we believed growing up is still valid today?

Life is so many shades of grey that I no longer believe in good and bad in such monochrome terms - there are just laws that constrain peoples expression of things and their actions. These will almost certainly adapt with time in most cases and others will change to only apply to certain groups (it seems only the rich get away with stealing, lying and fiddling with kids now).

Social media seems to be accellerating it but I noticed a lot changing even back in the 1990s so to me it just looks like the evolution of society to meet the laws of entropy.

Why is being "woke" a negative thing. To be aware of all the crap that's going on and being concerned about the impact it has on others isn't a bad thing!

Hergé said:

Why is being "woke" a negative thing.

It is not inherently bad but it is being taken to extremes in too many cases.

Consider the way the claims of cultural appropriation lead to some people being hated on for having haircuts (eg braids or dreadlocks) that are seen as from other cultures therefore other people who are not from those cultures should be denied the right to have them.

There are a wide range of areas where I see this happening and people who have no real business making a fuss are standing up to virtue signal their intolerance about it.

Awareness if good an appropriate in my eyes but so many people just don't have the sense to know where to stop. 

Iain said:

Consider the way the claims of cultural appropriation lead to some people being hated on for having haircuts (eg braids or dreadlocks) that are seen as from other cultures therefore other people who are not from those cultures should be denied the right to have them.

When I saw you use the word WOKE my first reaction was negative hackles rising but reading carefully your post is more nuanced. 

The section I have highlighted very much applies to myself. I was a writer, both professionally and as a hobby (poetry). In my poetry, much of which was published in mainstream publications, books, magazines and newspapers, I often reflected on other social and ethnic groups, I am certain no publisher would touch them now for exactly the reason you highlight. The fact that I am a “privileged” white woman would mean the poems I wrote about (for example) disadvantaged black people in urban Manchester, people I actually knew and sometimes worked with, would be regarded as cultural appropriation and rejected.

Im long retired and write very little now despite I believe having valid things to say. Though now Im apparently part of the “global minority” my experiences should be valid!

Alice

Iain said:

Consider the way the claims of cultural appropriation lead to some people being hated on for having haircuts (eg braids or dreadlocks) that are seen as from other cultures therefore other people who are not from those cultures should be denied the right to have them.

When I saw you use the word WOKE my first reaction was negative hackles rising but reading carefully your post is more nuanced. 

The section I have highlighted very much applies to myself. I was a writer, both professionally and as a hobby (poetry). In my poetry, much of which was published in mainstream publications, books, magazines and newspapers, I often reflected on other social and ethnic groups, I am certain no publisher would touch them now for exactly the reason you highlight. The fact that I am a “privileged” white woman would mean the poems I wrote about (for example) disadvantaged black people in urban Manchester, people I actually knew and sometimes worked with, would be regarded as cultural appropriation and rejected.

Im long retired and write very little now despite I believe having valid things to say. Though now Im apparently part of the “global minority” my experiences should be valid!

Alice