A Brisbane high school may schedule upcoming individual exam times to accommodate some Year 12 students attending a Taylor Swift concert in Sydney next month, concerned parents say.
Ok that video actually comes across to me as not as bad as it might at first seem.
Like, I think she’s obviously not very articulate when put on the spot, but that’s not a sign of lack of understanding necessarily, it’s a sign of social awkwardness. And I think she’s right that yeah, “woke” is difficult to define. But from the little bits she did get out “total reimagine and redo society in order to create hierarchies of oppression”, I don’t even necessarily think she’s wrong.
Woke, to me, is about being aware of intersectional oppressive systems, which necessarily comes with a desire to overturn those systems. A conservative would choose to deny that the systems are oppressive, or that there is any intersectionality to the oppression, and some more extreme reactionaries (which I suspect she might be) even pretend the ideas to overturn the oppression are actually creating oppression, but the basic idea that someone being “woke” wants to “redo society” and “[something something] hierarchies of oppression” isn’t so bad, as a way of defining it.
Ok that video actually comes across to me as not as bad as it might at first seem.
Like, I think she’s obviously not very articulate when put on the spot, but that’s not a sign of lack of understanding necessarily, it’s a sign of social awkwardness. And I think she’s right that yeah, “woke” is difficult to define. But from the little bits she did get out “total reimagine and redo society in order to create hierarchies of oppression”, I don’t even necessarily think she’s wrong.
Woke, to me, is about being aware of intersectional oppressive systems, which necessarily comes with a desire to overturn those systems. A conservative would choose to deny that the systems are oppressive, or that there is any intersectionality to the oppression, and some more extreme reactionaries (which I suspect she might be) even pretend the ideas to overturn the oppression are actually creating oppression, but the basic idea that someone being “woke” wants to “redo society” and “[something something] hierarchies of oppression” isn’t so bad, as a way of defining it.