Ex-Woke thread

[Wallace]

For those of you who used to be woke, progressive, or social justice warriors, I am interested in hearing your stories. In particular, I'd like to know:

• How did you get into the movement?
• How did you get out?
• What could we do, on the outside, to help other people get out?

 

[Sneaky lurker]

How did you get into the movement?

BBC

How did you get out?

BWC

What could we do, on the outside, to help other people get out?

Corrective rape.
All such stories will follow these patterns.

 

[Pee Cola]

How did you get into the movement?

I've always been about giving everybody a chance to make something of themselves. Obviously not everyone is capable of doing so, therefore giving someone with less privilege an opportunity to catch up is something I believe in. That said, not everyone takes this opportunity, and that's when my sympathy wears thin, but I digress.

As for how I fell into it... social media echo chambers. Somehow my participation in these spaces took my natural tendency to give everybody a fair shot and morphed it into something adjacent to champagne socialism. I'm not especially proud of that.

How did you get out?

I quit social media and found the Farms. I found that being away from the lunacy of mainstream social media and in an environment where people are free to have dissenting opinions centered my political compass to where it was in the pre-social media days.

Whilst I don't (and probably won't) actively identify with the right, what I found is that by returning to my natural state, the Pee Cola of 2026 has somehow ended up centre right. Given that the Pee Cola of 20 years ago was firmly centre left, this is somewhat confronting.

It turns out that I haven't really changed, but everything around me has.

What could we do, on the outside, to help other people get out?

From where I'm sitting, the hivemind is something one needs to walk away from themselves. You can lead a horse to water etc.

 

[Neverender]

How did you get into the movement?

Born into it. Blue state.

How did you get out?

Dragged to /pol/ by my best friend at the time (one of God's own protochuds,) ended up as a retard with Redpill Tourettes, eventually grew a frontal lobe and stopped being cringe about the woke.

What could we do, on the outside, to help other people get out?

There's nothing you can do to 'save' people from their stupid ideologies and their ingrained biases. The only way people willingly walk away from lifelong opinions is if they see a more appealing alternative. Be that appealing alternative: somebody who actually lives by their values and ideals and reaps positive benefits from NOT being a shrieking genderspecial. Avoid being a liar, a hypocrite, a bully and/or a clout-chasing imbecile as much as possible, but don't let anyone walk all over you. Create ways for people who want an alternative to seek it out. Engage and embrace them without compromising your values. Be compassionate, but not suicidally empathetic. Be articulate or knowledgable, or at least know where to point people who want answers. Being a civilized person is a direct contradiction in attitudes of the average turbo leftoid, no matter how much they insist YOU'RE the barbarian.

 

[harbringer883]

>canadian

 

[bulletttproof]

You can convince yourself of just about anything if you're unaware of your biases and can't identify a bad argument, especially with the oversupply of information and ideas people are exposed to through social media. That's how people end up as ACAB commies and magatards.

 

[ZsaZsaBinks]

It started when I was eight, and learned about what white people did to black people in America before the 1960’s. I became an ally to minorities. Then in my teens, I heard about the oppression towards women, gays, and transgenders. I read a lot of leftist websites unironically. But even though I was leftist, I still got bad vibes from all the virtue signaling that I had read. But it wasn’t until I was nineteen when I found anti-SJW YouTube videos that I realized how annoying the virtue signaling truly was. I became anti-woke from then on.

 

[Smart Turtle]

I was not that stupid to get into wokism that easily; you have to be so dumb to be included in this shitty agenda.

 

[man bun rapist]

My "wokest" phase was "hey maybe fags should be allowed to get married" I was like 13 at the time, I was still actively saying nigger, faggot etc my girlfriend at the time (now wife) was like "kill fags" then went a little woke, and now back fully on board with kill all tranny's, nigs etc.
It's funny being a long time user of kiwifarms kept the woke away (Been a browser since 2019, only made an account recently) and really peaked us on tranny nonsense before it became more mainstream.

 

[Shartavius]

You can learn fundamentals of logic and critical thinking - But never in the watering holes people specifically go to be told what to think and then be congratulated for repeating such thoughts as though they were their own.

Every person who has been through this demagogic pipeline was enticed by the promise of shortcuts in thinking, and/or a means of making sense of the world through false dichotomies. It turns out that understanding things which don't necessarily relate back to yourself requires spinning more conceptual plates than you may be prepared for/capable of; and that makes ideological arguments premised entirely in reactive emotion more appealing than admitting when you don't know something - or that the matter of your not knowing doesn't affect the matter you're attempting to relate to in any way you can claim credit for or elevate yourself over.

So people settle for feeling they're in likeminded company, on a winning team that deserves to win as a condition of broadcasting the appearance of being morally correct - even when certain people within the group demanding time alone with other peoples' children doesn't sit right with them: "My side would *never*."

It's all about making oneself feel more significant by marginalizing the world and the others you're sharing it with until it all feels like a tinier, simpler, less-gray place than it actually is. And sunk-cost fallacy makes the tiny world go 'round and 'round in place without ever actually going anywhere. Then whichever "I Stand With Current Thing" remains your Facebook frame is how other people place the date of your death.