How wokeism even managed to poison fandom and entertainment media.

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[–]LyingSpirit472 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

  1. I agree with you, but that's also the problem with Wokeness as well. All of these things boil down to how many Woketards have realized "the natural endgame of intersectionality is 1:1, literally every human on earth gets a seat at the table and their opinion is taken into account." However, when combined with Oppression Olympics taking hold, that quickly gets perverted into "all of society is a battle to find the single most oppressed human being in the world- and once we find that person, we'll raise them on a pedestal to be the God of this new world and be our new king/queen to truly make things equal"...and the difference between a person who cares about social equality and a Woketard is "the Woketards are the ones who are openly jockeying for position to be that single most oppressed human being." The example you gave is just "shipping bullshit" being replaced by how this issue has overtaken romance, even though romance is the ultimate right given to the individual: Every individual has the right to choose who they'll entertain a romantic relationship with, and even if someone can bully a person with identity politics into sex or a relationship, if another person with their identity tries to enter a relationship with them they'd be furious.

  2. That's exactly right. There was some shipping wars, but again, it's more representative of the issues with Wokeism. People were always fuckwads on the Internet about this, but Wokeism is so alluring because it gives you an excuse and a reason to justify being a fuckwad as righteous.

Fandoms just are one of the many attacked places of this viewpoint by people who know they're a piece of shit in their heart, but truly believe they're the greatest hero in human history for being a POS to people.

[–]BioEssentialism[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It’s edging towards totalitarian/toxic Communism as a whole is what it is. This is exactly what the Communists did when they came into power during the Soviet Union: Prosecute and Jail anyone who they perceived as having more power/privilege than another, I wouldn’t even be surprised if they banned media & fiction itself that didn’t feature relationships between two perfect equals, and it looks like that’s where we’re heading here in the U.S. if the radical woke progressives overtake the mainstream Democratic Party. (They very well could, it’s only a matter of time before Gen Z comes of age and begins taking Office.)

American political discourse is currently caught between the two authoritarian extremes of legit Communism from the Left or legit Fascism on the Right and it terrifies me to see these sorts of radical political orientations get more and more mainstreamed by social media by the day.

Fascism is a no-brainer but even Communism as a system and form of political government is just completely in-sustainable and inhumane with how it overanalzyes everything through a group lens while disregarding the individual. Like there’s a reason why the Soviet Union was a failed experiment and the people eventually rose up to overthrow it, once you start policing individual autonomy your system is shit!

[–]LyingSpirit472 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I agree with the problem and how "prosecute and jail anyone who they perceived as having power/privilege than another" is inevitable, but a few problems with that:

1- A ban of media/fiction that doesn't feature relationships between two perfect equals won't happen, because again, due to their critical privilege theory, it is impossible for two people to be perfect equals. If there's even one minor difference between the two people, that difference is enough to make one person the oppressor and the other the oppressed and put them into the same boat...and in many cases, they'll use that to fight over which one is the oppressor and which the oppressed (if you had two fat black trans lesbians who are physically/mentally disabled [both self-dxed] and have multiple kins, and persxn A is one pound heavier than persxn B, then persxn A would say "I am one pound heavier than you, therefore you have thin privilege over me and I'M the oppressed one!", while persxn B would say "well, you're only heavier because your clothes are heavier than mine, meaning you can afford better quality clothing than I do, meaning you're WEALTHIER than I am, meaning you've got class privilege over me and I'M the oppressed one!")

2- On the one hand, if they did take control, this leads to a likeliness totalitarian/toxic Communism won't happen, simply because of Oppression Olympics leading to everyone believing THEY are the most oppressed person in the whole world (and thus, the only person who should be allowed to rule to make things right.) Because of that, a revolution is unlikely to happen since it's much more likely we get "Civil War II is Battle Royale Mode- every person fights everyone else to the last human standing, and they'll attack the mirror."

Indeed, the biggest reason the Woke has failed to fix problems while the legit Fascists are succeeding on the right is because the Fascists will work together for their goals and don't really care who gets the credit for doing it as long as they get what they're fighting for...but to the Woke, the credit is all they really want. They're basically little kids playing Harry Potter at recess, and they're secretly perfectly willing to let the world go to hell until such time as they've jockeyed into position as the hero who gets the credit for destroying it...and more specifically, if they DON'T get to be that hero, they're happy to fight to keep the world in hell just to spite everyone else. (Shit, Trump came to power in large part due to the Bernie bros who made it clear to Hillary supporters "if I can't have OUR way, I won't let you have YOUR WAY EITHER!", and Biden won in large part because the Democrats who supported otherwise were willing to say "...fine, it's more important Trump is out of power we GUESS we'll let you have your way for now.")

3- That's also the bigger worry about the radical woke progressives overtaking the mainstream: People just get more conservative as they grow older. These kids are angsty teens who believe they're the center of the universe now, but when they come of age and take office, in all likeliness they'll get more centrist or even become right-wingers. This is something to be afraid of, because the real ones know the issue isn't Republican vs. Democrat or even Fascist vs. Communist, but rather Authoritarianism vs. Anarchy...and even if leftists get more conservative with age, authoritarian people don't usually get more libertarian as they age, they will just get more centrist or right wing but still believe authoritarianism is the key.