What evidence of "wokeness" did you see during your time in college?

[Marcus Tullius Cicero]

Assuming you did attend, anyway.

I was somewhat blessed, in that there wasn't much that was obvious. Aside from when a group of local evangelists would come to preach, from time to time. They would draw a couple dozen people in, with the reaction being what you might expect from the students. Had a few drinks thrown at them, many verbal spats. Thankfully, some were willing to actually stop and talk afterward. There were other, subtler signs like a "safe-space" set up in the local library during exams, as well as a couple of professors who were of the uptight sort. I remember one of them getting offended when I remarked on the Vikings being superstitious for removing the ornamental prows from their ships while coming into port. She was more-or-less alright despite that, but I'm glad to have only had her for one course.

Ultimately, not as bad as some, but not really lacking either.

 

[get_ur_gamon]

On my first day we got a seminar to learn about woke shit. The most obscene thing was a part about "violence" and how the next step is genocide.

For example, if the University was to advertise the campus as a safe place for minorities, but a hate crime was to occur (caused by something outside of the university's control) then that would be an example of the University's violence towards minorities.

Yes that's right. Saying you want minority students to attend is a form of violence if you don't ensure they never get offended. And this is the next step towards genocide.

Lots of people objected to this, but the smug black lady running the seminar just shook her head and said we had a lot to learn. These people fantasise about being 1930s jews so much it's unreal. This was a British Uni as well, so you can't even say the police are racist, considering they don't do anything half the bloody time.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

I finished college before Current Year. So IIRC, the only precursor to Current Year woke I saw was at "LGBTQ" awareness event with free food that I went to, because I was a college student and there's free food. Also American politics weren't so crazy.

At such event, I didn't really pay attention to what they were saying, although I can recall hearing an analogy of imagining if you woke up to find all your clothes were somehow changed to the clothes of someone of the opposite "gender", but I tuned out after that. I think the speaker was talking about "gender dysphoria" then.

edit: Oh yeah, and there was also some thing with some "parade" around campus with chanting about some social issue.

 

[Tequila Jong]

Back in 2008 or so my friend used to attend uni and I'd sit in on some of his lectures sometimes, he actually studied an interesting degree. One afternoon we were in a bar and, after a few drinks, he asked me if I wanted a laugh, so he took me to some lecture where they were discussing all this postmodern/post-structural/feminism type stuff. We tried our hardest not to laugh but we were drunk and we found the subject matter so dumb we were sitting there dying.

I never thought about it much at the time, but a few years later it was weird to see that subject matter escape into the real world and into the mainstream.

 

[The Skeksis Emperor]

Almost none at my Eurotrash uni. Once someone put up a poster for an 'LGBT-party' that said in big letters NO STRAIGHTS OR NONTRANS. The poster was taken down for and everyone thought it was lame and weird to exclude people like that, everyone assumed most people would use common sense and not attend the party if they didn't feel like they fit in with the intended crowd. Fast forward 15 years and here we are.

 

[Mojo Thief]

The big woke things (before I even knew what that word meant) I was exposed to in college was LGBT acceptance stuff and sexual harassment. For the former, we had to attend mandatory seminars during freshman orientation to talk about accepting all people regardless of their sexual orientation (with a brief mention of gender identity, but that wasn't emphasized). This was before the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage, so the emphasis was really on gays and lesbians, trannies were a footnote.

The wokest thing they really pushed on us was sexual consent training. We had to take a mandatory sexual consent education course once per year, where we would afterwards take a test to ensure we understood affirmative consent and all that. Now, that by itself wasn't totally unreasonable, because drunk college students make stupid decisions involving consent all the time. What really boiled my piss with these courses was how the answers were typically some variation of "it's always the man's fault." If she's drunk and the guy's also drunk, the answer isn't "neither consented," it's "he raped her." Additionally, I don't recall there being any lesbian versions of the consent question - if two gays get together and both are drunk, neither could consent and it's moot point, but if two drunk carpetmunchers get together, who knows? Everyone knows women can't rape!

Aside from a small BLM group that popped up when the whole Ferguson thing occurred, race wasn't the hot-button issue it is now.

In hindsight, the whole consent thing made me understand why the relations between the sexes are so fucked up nowadays, because what it effectively did was indoctrinate women into thinking they have no agency and that all men are potential predators.

 

[CoolFool]

I graduated right as the SJW politics started taking over. Saw a few things:

1. Several troons. At least these guys tried to pass better than most of the troons on KF and were obviously gay men.

2. In one of my history classes, this woman brought up "two spirit" as an example of troons in history. The book that had this information was scant, it just mentioned that native americans didn't believe in gender, it had nothing about how this was only in some tribes and how it was just another term for gay male.

3. White supremacy. This was taught by a pretty funny black woman. Tbh even she stressed that this theory was about macro level supremacy, not individuals, and that this theory was not something everyone agreed on. I sometimes I wonder if she still teaches this or if she's gone full SJW and now says everyone is a white supremacist.

4. That same teacher taught that the word "common sense" is racist. Also said that any man that likes Asian women not only have "yellow fever" but was probably a pedo since Asian women tend to look like kids. She said all this with several Asian students present.

5. Took a feminism course for extra credits. TBH it wasn't a bad class like I expected. The teacher was a TERF before that term was a thing and really fucking funny. Sadly she did get a couple of complaints from students for her views and retired after that.

6. "Fagbug" visited the school, it's some lady that drives a rainbow colored car and talks about gay stuff I guess. Anyways, someone threw away one of her posters and this spawned a bunch of people to claim the school was homophobic.

 

[The Elusive Earl]

I once saw a protest outside the library about how "Pissing is a Privilege".

 

[Just A Fat Round Bird]

I have seen two people at university troon out over time.. its all so tiresome

 

[Poppavalyim Andropoff]

Black Panther Party .. Afrocentric .. being woke back then was a black thing. White people were just “ PC”

 

[Meat Target]

I took a minor elective on the history of baseball. It was a Trojan Horse for more white guilt and liberal talking points.

 

[Shamefur Dispray]

Jokes on college, I'm a dumb dumb high school drop out/GED haver.
Skool:0
Shamefur:2

 

[Neo-Nazi Rich Evans]

i was in the engineering department of a university in the south so luckily i never had to experience any classroom lecture of woke nonsense (unless you count believing in marxism, then my elective history professor counts as she very clearly leaned that way)
the only thing which i saw was whil eon campus the humanity or gender studies or whatever department stages a protest against a confederate statue. other than that i was isolated from all wokeness on campus.

 

[The Token Ethnic]

Mind you, this was back in 2001 and it had to do with trannies. There was a stupid protest going on between Michigan Womyn's Music Festival and Ladyfest Midwest Chicago. Michigan had some rule they had about only allowing women being born women, but Chicago didn't mind having troons in attendance. There were a lot of protest flyers and some shitty music benefit for the "silencing of trans voices" or something. I only knew about it since I was into the punk music scene at the time, but it was an otherwise normal and "unwoke" college experience.

 

[The Last Stand]

The word "woke."

 

[AgendaPoster]

Wokeness and cancel culture do not exist.
Feel free to AMA

 

[Catler]

I'll tell you where I didn't see any evidence of it: 8:00 AM classes.

 

[The Evil Midnight Bomber]

I never went to school.

 

[Vingle]

I got in trouble for calling a nigger a nigger, to this day I'm still deeply offended about it.

 

[Vyse Inglebard]

lol none, because I didn't go to college. And judging from you guys' replies, I am ever more grateful that I didn't.