Woke means you hate all white people and think they’re all from England and had slaves.
It means you’re too stupid to realize people like me, have ancestors that were under foreign occupation from 1500-1913 and had absolutely nothing to do with colonization and didn’t benefit from oppressing non-Europeans in any way sort or form but think we deserve punishment.
You aren’t a decent human being if you’re woke.
I’m a Yugoslav ethnically. Yugo means south, slav being the root word for the word slave because we were taken as slaves by the Arabs and Ottoman Turks.
We also suffered a similar fate that natives in Canada did, the Ottomans took the first born son of every Christian family and sent them to be part of the Ottoman army and forcefully converted us to islam.
Took out daughters as sex slaves in harems.
Taxed us stealing our labour and wealth for 500+ years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saqaliba
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jizya
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devshirme
Then we were booted out of Greece to make room for Turkish-Greeks and had our land stolen in the 1940s, happened to my Grandparents.
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo12274715.html
We were under the same empire that the Palestinians were under, and what happened to them happened to us, but woke people want me to suffer because I have white skin.
Woke people are evil scum. They aren’t decent people in any shape or form, they are basically nazis spreading lies about me just like the Germans did about the Jews.
I know this because woke people like to throw slavery and other things in my face just because I am European without realizing the word SLAVE is derived from my ethnicity.
Hitler hated us just as much as he hated the Jews and we were part of the holocaust, but woke people don’t care,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Slavic_sentiment
I’m white, I’m European, I must be a colonizer worthy of punishment for the actions of some people in England who speak a different language, use a different alphabet, practice a different religion and lived 2000 km away.
That’s what woke people are. They’re fucked in the head.
My country is currently teaching our children to hate me based on my skin colour and they think I deserve it. Again, just like the Nazis did to the Jews.
https://x.com/ChanLPfa/status/1772050309885431824?s=20
https://x.com/ChanLPfa/status/1770981743450816763?s=20
I assume you are Indian, imagine you were randomly getting blamed for shit Pakistani people did 300 years ago and your country was teaching kids that you are a bastard for what Afghani people did just cause you have similar skin colour.
That’s wokeness. It’s a disease.
None of my ancestors subjugated other people groups to any form of discrimination and didn’t colonize anywhere else. But woke people think they did. I’ve interacted with enough of them that hate me just for being European, most of them are British themselves which is insane.
It is 100% the same thing that the Nazis did to the Jews and the Slavs, spread lies and propaganda about them. Woke people would have fit in Nazi Germany.
I’ve yet to meet a woke person who will acknowledge Muslim occupation and oppression against south eastern Europeans.
My last name isn’t a Persian word because I’m Persian. It was assigned to my family by foreign occupiers.
We don’t eat middle eastern influenced food because we are middle eastern, it is a result of foreign occupation and subjugation.
Our music isn’t middle eastern influenced because we are middle eastern, it is a result of foreign occupation and subjugation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQTZQxmZF20 <– We don’t make this randomly. It’s a direct result of our history.
Macedonian wedding song played at every wedding is called Mashallah. Christian people there aren’t singing for random, it’s a result of colonization by the middle east
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbxmwrUpvj4
Woke people refuse to acknowledge any of this.
I’m white, I’m from London, England to them, I must be punished and shamed for my ancestry to all woke people.
I literally in the same day had two people tell me that because I am white I am a colonizer. Either person could explain in detail to me why. They just got angry and said if I don’t know then it’s not worth explaining or something to that effect.
My main point is that I did not colonize anything, I did not have slaves. So why are you angry with me?
Weird, I look white and no one ever says anything like that to me. What does that say about you?
I’m visibly slavic and people walk up to me all the time and yell in my face Devlet-i Ebed-Müddet and then throw concrete laced baklavas in my face.
this happens to me too and then i fart myself and piss my pants and everyone starts calling me a pissy-farter
that’s an actual thing that happened
no context will ever be provided
So you’re white, an American, and do not consider yourself a colonizer. Quick question: How did your family enter the country?
Right, I see what you are saying. But what can I do about it?
Tracing my ancestors back through my dad’s side, they emigrated here from the Middle East.
My mom hardly knows her dad, so I have no clue.
Regardless, I was born after the country was colonized. I had no part in that.
Colonialism is an ongoing process, not something that happened In the Forgotten Past, and you are a beneficiary of it
Ok, then what is a person like me supposed to do?
Literally no one has been able to answer this question for me.
One, get educated. Learn the actual history of this place. Just doing that alone would make it so you wouldn’t even ask these questions.
Two, accept that you are the beneficiary of these systems of oppression, and as such, use your privileged position to help dismantle them. Support policies that benefit the oppressed even if it’s at your expense. Talk to others, educate others. Oh look at that you’re “woke” now
join a political party whose goal is racial justice and decolonization. read literature on these topics.
In addition to the answers below, don’t take it personally. Racism and colonialism are systemic issues. You didn’t have a choice to be born, you don’t control the political economy of your country, you didn’t choose what your forebears did. Don’t view having an accurate understanding of history and political economy as a personal attack.
Seriously though let’s talk this out.
Who would I give it to? Where would I go?
Like what’s a legit honest way to move forward.
Start by educating yourself. If people are calling you a colonizer to your face I’m pretty suspicious you’re an ignorant asshole dipshit in real life.
You are not expected to give away all your money to bipoc or whatever. You are expected to understand how this society was built, where it currently stands today and where you sit in this society. And then you need to start trying to make a difference.
educate yourself on decolonialism. decolonizing doesn’t mean you have to go somewhere else. it means dismantling the power structures that privilege you over natives and oppress them. it means replacing the colonial government with a unified state that gives natives real power.
I am not angry with you because I am not one of these two people who haunts you. You do seem annoying tho.
The point is that being “woke” does not mean hating white people. It’s just a buzzword term white supremacists use to justify their racism.
I think we might be missing some context here lol
take your pick
Literally all this nerd talks about is games
Classic colonizer behaviour. Doesn’t even recognize that they are colonizing even when they are told they are colonizing while in the act.
Please enlighten me. Can you tell me how I am colonizing. I legitimately do not understand this topic and no one has even tried to explain it. I just get called a colonizer and a bunch of other names.
I’d just like to have a discussion and learn about this,”.
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Give me $10 in unmarked NZD bills or I’m going to tell you to read Settlers.
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Imagine thinking lemmygrad won’t roast someone for getting personally upset at being called a colonizer.
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A bunch of t-tankies called me a c-c-coloniser and I said what I said is I told my mom
OK now tell me how calling out the racism against Indians in Britain supports the anti-white crackdown against you? Because that’s what that original post is about…I know its about comparing Indian racism against woke ‘racism’… but Jesus, the original OP, and to an extent, you, both sound like you’re on a similiar whataboutism thing…
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I get that it’s frustrating when people don’t elaborate on it. It’s one of the reasons smug Tumblr “leftism” that came with no theory was frustrating and alienating. However there is a lot of stuff about colonialism, neo-colonialism, and how it intersects with leftist theory and why it’s important to know it. It’s easy to find material. Also it’s not the end of the world to be called something that research would confirm the best thing to do is accept it and work to make the world better in spite of your station. It starts with theory and moves toward praxis. I understand, especially if you reflexively know colonization is bad, a bad thing. It makes you feel bad. But part of that is a call to action instead of lettingit get under your skin. It’s what you do with the information that is important. “Everybody is a little bit racist” isn’t an excuse to be indifferent it’s a reminder to be vigilant. I know I got some latent sexism from my youth so I just gotta try to stay aware and think before I react, to use a personal example. Does it sting a little when somebody says “all men are…” sure it does. But instead of letting it bother me I stop, consider where the criticism is coming from, and remind myself that the patriarchy is a complex and nefarious reality that is experienced more harshly by people that don’t look like me. It’s not a nuanced statement but there is enough truth to it, and legitimate grievance behind it, that my job is not to pop off with a “not all men” but to be considerate of these factors and use material history and intersectional theory to apply that nuance.
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