Imagine a "woke mob": Who's in it? What do they look like? What would they do?
Imagine a "woke mob": Who's in it? What do they look like? What would they do?
I've heard this phrase used often by those on the right but every time I hear it I can't help but laugh because of what I picture in my head. But perhaps my image is wrong! I want to read everyone else's depictions.
So as to not influence the responses I will not be sharing what I imagine a "woke mob" looks like.
“woke mob” aka - a group of people who respect others.
The opposite of the GOP mob/Fascists
Full of people who go commit random acts of kindness and mutual understanding
The monsters!!! horrified face
(/s)
They would all ask everyone for their pronouns regardless of how evident their gender seems to be.
A woke mob, aka a bunch of people who think everyone should be treated with decency and respect People who will make sure everyone is comfortable and included in their woke mob .
So I know it is just semantics, but for some reason I don't label your description as a "woke mob" but rather just decent humans.
Yet, I do have an image of "woke mob" that is full of college-aged people who haven't experienced any adversity, but have a desire to make a mark on the world and have chosen a really irritating way to do it. And unfortunately that very small segment of the population gives the right something to latch onto that demonstrates how unhinged the left is (even though the left is how you describe it).
So I know it is just semantics, but for some reason I don't label your description as a "woke mob" but rather just decent humans.
I think that was the idea
Wow, it’s been years since I’ve seen this photo. Wasn’t the context that this dude just flashed people at an anti rape rally or something?
Yeah, that adds up. It's hard to find a "woke mob" that uniformly angry at someone who doesn't deserve it. Anyone normal will get vague undirected hostility, at worst.
Take every group conservatives are afraid of, combine them into one person, copy variations of that person into a crowd and add pussy hats.
This is not a group that actually exists, but I'm not expecting the "woke mob" person to be describing reality anyway.
I'm struggling to picture the pussy hats
Are you unfamiliar?
A couple of cops dressed in civilian clothes trying to break shit.
A group of people who are tired of your unjust bullshit, who are not going to let you shrug it off or get away with it, and who are not going to stop confronting you with it.
Have an upvote!
Basically just normal people because everyone is a monster in the eyes of "anti-woke" types except for themselves.
I feel like it would just be like a pride parade
A woke mob is literally every mob. Sleeping people just sorta lie there.
A bunch of insomniacs with pitchforks.
But the pitchfork tines are dildos
Tbh, being woke and being in a mob are not going to go together well.
You'd either have just a big group of people protesting peacefully, or you'd have a revolution which is far from a mob in any typical sense of the word.
Remember, "woke" started as a term for awareness of systemic inequality. It doesn't directly equate to mob action in that sense, though it could involve large scale direct action which could involve the kind of action you'd think of as anything from "unrest" up to rioting, depending on the situation.
Woke in the sense that it has come to also mean is basically taking the awareness of social inequities and working to change them. This is typically not a position held by the kind of extremists that would form a mob in the usual sense. You get into people that want to overturn the system entirely, and they tend to be following some specific set of beliefs that are the goal, with any inequities being a side goal or just a part of those beliefs.
But the way the conservative, fascist, and far right twits use the term, they're just moving words around the way they used to whine about being politically correct, and before that whined because they couldn't be openly racist or otherwise bigoted. Now, this is opposed to the above mentioned categories that aren't twits, who use the word woke as a dog whistle intentionally as a way to manipulate the twits.
Don't forget, being a bigot and fascist doesn't actually mean a lack of brain power. Trying to pretend otherwise underestimates a very dangerous group of enemies that literally want to return us to a state where only white men hold power at all. Underestimating an enemy that dangerous gives them freedom to succeed.
Woke in the sense that it has come to also mean is basically taking the awareness of social inequities and working to change them. This is typically not a position held by the kind of extremists that would form a mob in the usual sense. You get into people that want to overturn the system entirely, and they tend to be following some specific set of beliefs that are the goal, with any inequities being a side goal or just a part of those beliefs.
Interesting. So the radical left in general wouldn't be woke by this definition?
Not in my opinion, no.
Being a semi-radical leftist, I can't call myself woke at all, since I believe the entire system needs to be taken apart and rebuilt from the ground up. That's regardless of inequalities. The farther left you get, the less you find people that genuinely care about egalitarian goals at all. The really extreme left is batshit crazy, and essentially wants a fascist state, just with them in charge.
You'll see a lot of lip service about systemic bigotry and imbalance, but not much in the way of thinking inclusively. There are radicals on the left that do view socialism, anarchism, or related ideologies as the answer to systemic inequality, but to call them woke would be a stretch.
If you ever get into attempts at radical change via direct action, you'll run into people that are technically not racist or bigoted, but only because they're monomaniacal to such an extent that they genuinely think they know better and will do better, despite working from a classical place of white privilege that assumes too much. They inhabit the same place mentally as the rich white bastards that are one of the things being woke wakens you to. Can't be woke if you're still wanting to force oppressed groups to do what you want, often because "they don't know better".
That last is in quotes because it's an actual quote I have heard way too often to be willing to deal with the seriously far left. You're sitting there, in a group of a few dozen people, and there's only white, male faces. You bring it up, you ask about how the revolution will address people of color or women and work to recruit them to the cause, and all of a sudden, you're the outsider. "Black people don't have the numbers to be useful." "Women don't have the will to fight." "The blacks are brain washed by christianity and capitalism."
Those are direct quotes from real people. I've never been able to forget that specific meeting because it majorly changed how I approach working with other people that want revolution. Some people really just want the world to burn, and will latch onto whatever they can find to get them there.
I know there are plenty of non white male people that are left wing enough to be called radical, but the lefter you go, the less you see of them.
Which is all more than what you asked, but I wanted to explain why I hold the opinion. It's direct personal experience.
Their troll slogan has to be "Let's turn the frogs gay"
David Tennant is absolutely in the woke mob.
The only thing woke is how I woke up in your mom's bed after doing her
Looters (unrelated to protesters) who take the opportunity in chaos to achieve their goal - which is anywhere between getting their next meal or counterprotesters trying to disrupt the whole protest
