This Is How I ESCAPED The Cult Of WOKENESS
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- čas přidán 11. 07. 2024
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Thank You Jesus! WHEW!
"Cult of Wokeness" phrase rightfully coined by the lovely Africa Brooke - you've got to follow and check out her work here: / africabrooke
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I'm a cognitive behavioral therapist and wokeness teaches the opposite of the skills we teach clients. catastrophizing, black and white thinking, over generalization, personalizing, emotional reasoning. And we wonder why mental health is deteriorating.
I agree :) I just guess that "black and white" thinking and over generalisations are very useful if you want to make great divides in a society. But these things are not useful if you want to create something useful - like a scientific research or any other "seek of truth" in general.
Impossible to converse with.
we are literally training people into BPD. it's insanity.
@@megsley whats BPD ?
@@TallisKeeton Borderline Personality Disorder.
Wokeness has ALWAYS felt like teenagers on the internet trying to change the world but making it way worse
@@dianalaura2276 Also very often they are the ones who put such intensity on someone's etchnicity or culture and treat them differently because of it
@@dianalaura2276 Because in their mind, their cause is the only moral way to do things. Therefore, if you disagree, you must disagree with every moral thing they believe. Therefore, racist, bigot, that kind of thing, no matter how misinformed they are. It's black and white to them. They have it all figured out and it's their way or the highway.
That’s it isn’t it 😂😂
They're why I cant with twitter anymore. So many fallacies, just to sound "woke".
Nah it be adults too
The way you described holding onto anger reminds me of a story I read once:
In the story, two traveling monks reached a dirty riverbank where they saw a wealthy woman. The woman had gone shopping and had many servants for carrying her fancy purchases, but the servants were afraid to put their burdens on the muddy ground in order to carry their mistress. The woman was bitter and cursed the servants. When she saw the two monks, she angrily demanded that they carry her to the other side.
The young monk hesitated, uneager to help someone who appeared so spiteful, yet the old monk silently picked her up onto his shoulders, transported her across the dirty water, and put her down on the other side. She did not thank him. Instead, she continued to spit venom at the monk and her useless servants, complaining and cursing as he walked away.
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As the monks continued on their journey, the young monk was brooding and preoccupied.
Near dark that evening, unable to hold his silence, he spoke out.
"That woman was cruel, and when you helped her, she offered you no gratitude. Instead, she cursed you. Why are you not angry?"
"Brother," the second monk replied, "I set her down this morning, why are you are still carrying her."
Thank you
A wonderful analogy, and absolutely correct. The Woke are angry people, and it is unwise and fruitless to either continuously engage with them if they cannot be persuaded to be calm and reasonable, or even worse, to poison your own soul by allowing their toxic anger to infect you.
It helps if you can recognize that their foolish opinions are not worthy of consideration, and also to realize that their thoughts are not their own.
I've been searching for a video about wokeness to play for my daughter 'cause she's literally killing herself with this cult and your video is the best. Thank you so much for posting your experience! God bless you! Pray for all parents struggling with these horrible ideology that's tearing families apart. 🙏
Your child, your fault.
@@WearyNomad indeed!😢
@@WearyNomad really dude? Nobody asked Olgas permission before filling the world with these stupid ideological traps. How is it her fault? Is it Olgas fault if her daugter trips over a crack in the pavement? Did she lay the pavement herself? Leave this redundant absolutism to the retards.
@@WearyNomad not necessarily. That's a very simplistic mindset.
@@artemisapaulina29 Don't blame yourself, the brainwashing kids are exposed to in schools and through the media (mainstream and social) is real and powerful. Best wishes to you and your daughter 💐
Their hatred is THEIR problem. When we realize that, we feel free. Even if we get upset sometimes, we give ourselves the right to be at peace whenever we want.
Facts
Absolutely agree. Up until they're changing society around you, gonna be hard to be at peace then.
this is good!
Exactly. When she was talking about not God saying not to take offense. Whether you are a believer or not, the point is that the offending party's behavior reflects on *them*, not you. They might as well be saying "I'm insecure and attacking you fools me into feeling superior" when they insult or mistreat you without provocation.
Wise words
I left the wokeness last year！ I am politically homeless and I feel much happier!
😂 “politically homeless”
I think "politically free" is a better way to phrase it than "politically homeless". Those political ideologies aren't homes, they're prisons.
Trump Welcomes you.
Just kidding.
Politics are a preference. As long as no one is physically stealing or hurting you, it isn't important.
Taking in CRT is a form of self harm. Nothing good comes from it.
Bridgette Phetasy does a weekly CZcams comedy show specifically for the politically homeless. It's pretty good.
Plus, don't you think leaving the wokeness leaves room for humor? Humor can be so healing..lol
I saw beyond wokeness because I studied history from a young age onwards. I also paid attention to cult behavior from a young age. I grew up with a poor mother, so I had to confront reality as it was.
That helps a lot with evading wokeness
The sheer hopelessness that stems from feeling obligated to change things you have no control over…that is the disorder that plagues the “woke” community. Thanks for speaking on this sister.
"feeling obligated to change things you have no control over" > You described authoritarian conservatives, sorry. As a society we have an obligation to educate people about the different ways Americans live and cohabitate this country. But don't believe me, believe Ron DeSantis' own legal team. DeSantis' lawyers were forced by the court to define "woke." The lead lawyer described it as "The belief there are systemic injustices in American society and the need to address them." DeSantis then went on to say that "Florida is where "woke" goes to die.". So in effect, DeSantis is saying "there are systemic injustices in society and we do not need need to address them.". I thought the "Freedom Party" believed that “all are created equal” and “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights'. Interesting the modern GOP is against that concept
@@ricardoconqueso This is great Ricardo! Let everyone see what kind of mental gymnastics you have to do to be "woke"! You and I both know DeSantis wasn't saying what you are saying he did. C'mon, you know he's saying there is no "systemic racism" in Florida, therefor "wokeness" would die there.
@@ricardoconqueso😂nice try.
There is nothing authoritarian on the right.
You don't get to push your ideology onto citizens. End of story.
Don't like it? Go live in a blue state.
I love multi-culturalism but i honestly think some expressions of wokeness are the opposite. We can share cultures and respect each other without introducing a wall of alienation. And I respect people who don't look like me because theybwere my colleagues, bosses and mentors. Ultimately, it was their knowledge and professionalism that i learned from. And by professionalism, I mean how they behaved with othersvtonfodter collaboration and improve design. I don't care how they dressed or what accents orbskang they used or what their religion was.
"change things you have no control over"
This video is SO IMPORTANT. So many people my age are so tense, anxious, resentful. Allow yourself to drop the weight of the world.
This is a very good point! i also feel like along with critical race theory and any other theory, we are bombarded with SOOOO much information that it's overwhelming for everyone to process, so it's important to practice healthy boundaries and detachment
Yes ♥️
Yeah SO IMPORTANT for those who wish to STAY ASLEEP & BRAINWASHED BY THE SYSTEM THAT IS!!!!!.
Yes ❤️
Yess! When you are so deep into everything, you feel heavy and don’t get peace
I'm a black woman and I could never be apart of that WOKE MESS my peace is wayyyyyy more important!!! I would never want to live like that!
Anger and misery over thing outside your control is no way to leave. If we all strive to be our better selves tomorrow than we are today, then the world would be a better place. That's truly the only thing that is on our control.
Are you serious? You guys are literally just cowards
@@yungred4135 Cowards for not being a miserable piece of shit? I'll take that as a badge of honor. Thank you.
wtf even is a "black person" they try reduce people to in the "woke" cult. Surly your more then a skin shade and have a family that has a history and a ethnicity beyond a shade of skin. Reductive thinking is literally what causes national socialism... notice it has socialism in the name hmm.
@@yungred4135 Cowards for having a healthy mindset that’s good for our mental state and health. Yeah shut up man
I am a black woman. Every time I come back to this video it's because it can help with my mental health. My head feels more clear hearing this. It makes sense. Unlike the chaotic woketivism.
She lost her emotional and psychological stability but got it back. Very powerful.
Just replying to say I like your username. Lol
@@TimeWaster_Elite thank you so much :) happy new years :)
@@L0VEisAmixtape Happy new year!
I understand what you're saying. I am native American woman and I spent most of 2015-2017 with this extreme victim complex over stuff that happened centuries ago. It was around early 2018 that I really thought about it and realized how stupid the whole thing was. Like for real getting mad at something someone's great great great grandpa MAYBE did. So over that now.
When you’re young and Woke, you’re just naive and idealistic
When you’re Old and Woke, you’re deliberately stupid to protect your fragile ego because you can’t bear being wrong
Apologetics is no solution. Stoic philosophy is the way to remove the cotarded from your life.
what IS being woke
Old woke people are very sad.
@@DudeSoWin I love Stoic philosophy. I listen to it to meditate. As I see it, if my insides aren’t at peace, the impact I have on other people is neither peaceful nor beautiful.
Old and woke- Qanon far right Christians
Young and woke- Young collage kids who over think major issues such as systemic racism, racism in general etc.
What's saddest to me is that I feel like this current movement has actually set back race relations immensely. It's pitting people against each other instead of trying to create a sense of togetherness. A lot of people who previously "didn't see color" are now dividing everyone into categories and feeling things like persecution or guilt based PURELY on skin color. It drives tribalism, stereotyping, and judging people based on their DNA instead of their actions. There might have been good intentions, but making people into victims and oppressors instead of a team just doesn't seem right.
It is not just about race, this nonsense has spread in particular to the gender identity movement, they are far worse.
People that are in charge today were still alive when there was segregation and people getting hosed down in the street. Why are we acting like these things were so long ago...?
Please!!! Stop it w/ the " DONT SEE COLOR" thing!!!! Please!!! SEE PPLS COLOR N APPRECIATE/ RESPECT THE DIFFERENCES WE HAVE!!! THE END!!! " I DONT SEE COLOR IS RACIST IN ITSELF.
@@teacherms.d980 Maybe I should have said "People who don't judge others by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
Assuming anything about a person's history or experiences simply based on color is just going down a bad road. Ideally we can appreciate, respect, and share our different personal stories and cultures without the stereotypes, purity tests, and gatekeeping, but right now it seems like we're a long ways off.
@@RobynStephens To me it's not about forgetting or diminishing the scars of our history. It's about appreciating and learning from the past while also trying to move forward. I think of something like a young adult who had a traumatic childhood or a war veteran trying to reacclimate into society. If we can never accept what happened to us and focus on the here and now, then the past can fester, cloud our judgment, and even destroy us. It'll always be an important part of who we are, but that doesn't mean that we need to be ruled by it.
I 100% feel that forgiveness is really more for us than the person being forgiven because peace is so much better than being angry
The wokeness doctrine creates resentment in all Americans, I think.
It’s dangerous since the teachings are more likely to create racism rather than “cure” it.
Nobody wants to hear that they are a racist or a permanent victim all day long simply because of their skin color.
It’s just very toxic and there’s better ways out there for learning about racism, sexism and the rest of the -isms.
You can be at peace while people are dying beneath you. Your colonial mindset is what is allowing you to be this selfish. Your country just finished killing brown people again for 21 years straight in the middle east and you can pretend it's not happening because you are on the impirialist magic carpet. You can pretend but your intentional ignorance is the cause of your country's destruction of the world.
No
I was cured myself after college. Welcome welcome! It's so sad but forgiveness has absolutely no place at all in any woke doctrine now. It's all about we are victims forever, and oppressors are oppressors forever. The anxiety and stress were the worst, I couldn't live with that either. it will literally affect your health. Thank you for this video i had tears /subbed
How did you cure yourself
And even those who have been accused injustly cant benefit from forgiveness .It's insane .
@@reinemazidath5466 i know, now I just have to make sure i don't do anything wrong for the rest of my life
The moment you stop being woke, everything you see or hear gets put into context. You become less judgmental and subject-ivied.
Best decision I ever made in my life was quitting Twitter.
That's exactly how I felt. It was a bit of a process, with a little grief. But then happiness pursued, and I discovered most people are awesome!
yesss, Twitter is like the absolute worseee social media.
I quit twitter over 10 years ago before woke was even a thing. I think I only spent a year on twitter (2009 - 2010) but that was all I needed to realize that people are just so full of themselves not to mention they're completely obsessed with celebrities.
@@chilvari it’s called imposter syndrome.
Yes!!! Not even a day after I quit Twitter I could already tell how much more at peace I was
“The road to hell is paved with good intentions.”
To be fair, I don't think the democrats had good intentions....they just found ways to manipulate and exploit people's hardships and low self esteem to accommodate their democrati socialist/communist agenda for their own personal interests....
@@hobohubert5388 Both parties exploit resentment.
@@overman2306 definitely true. We need a new political party that’s actually gives a crap about the people they represent
Accurate 💯
@@hobohubert5388 The people at the top definitely don't have good intentions. They exploit and manipulate people who do in order to get what they want.
Remember, empowered people are the worst fear of those in power. Wokeness will rob you of your autonomy. You've made a wonderful video. Thank you for sharing your journey.
i really love this. i’m currently in college and i took feminist studies this semester and i literally have been more angry at my boyfriend than i ever was before. i come out of that class so deeply hurt and angry. i really loooove your journal practice and i’m going to do it. God bless you ♥️
"I have decided to go with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear." -Martin Luther King Jr.
Love = Love, always and that is the hard part. Love those that you don't think deserve love and just see what happens. I challenge anyone to give it a try. Do it just "because", don't do it expecting a reward or affirmation to yourself.
@@danaforbes4155 ABSOLUTELY! The hardest thing! Hate is horrible but so much easier than love.
Hate is people's natural default. It's the easiest emotion to fuel because life is hard by definition and it's easy to blame others for our failures. BLM uses the same hate speech tactics Hitler used 80yrs ago. If children knew anything about history they would see through this deception!
@@catified2081 so does Fox News.
Bare* lol bears are animals
I never fell into the "woke" mentality. I grew up in diverse neighborhoods and it made me open-minded about the world. Open-mindedness and critical thinking are antithetical to the woke cult. To them, it wasn't enough that I treated my friends as actual friends instead of being hyper-aware of immutable characteristics. 'Color-blindness' is a sin, according to them. I'm not blind. Those characteristics aren't a criteria for friendship, in my eyes. MLK's lesson is one to live by. Live and let live. Respect.
Yeah, my sister is about 10 years younger than me. She is half white half Filipino. I never imagined there was a problem with it or even thought about it. I grew up in an area where there were hundreds of different types of people from everywhere so it was never a thing that we weren't the same skin colour.
But when this woke she had started happening and she went to college suddenly she was acting like I was an oppressor. This is a kid I taught to ride a bike. This is a kid I taught to read. It would seem to be a strange type of oppression to do such things.
I think the ideology is fundamentally evil.
@@rickyrayrosenberg420 I am so sorry to hear that. I hate what this ideology's done to multiracial families and friendships. My sisters are Guatemalan & Irish American. They grew up long before this whole shit started. They are my SISTERS. But now I have to treat them different because I'm a WASP? These ladies raised me into the woman I am today and proud of all they did. Race is an obstacle, if you choose to make it one. I refuse the notion of CRT. Life is too short, man.
The about color blindness is that the whole idea behind it is to see passed a person skin color and look towards there character, yet wokevist will sit there and say that its impossible to colorblind, that the only way to expel racisms is putting more emphasis on a persons race. Its makes you think: how can one be free from racism and stereotyping when race is the only thing they think about. Race by itself means nothing, it is only the stereotypes that comes with them that mean anything. So to put more emphasis you are giving more power to those stereotypes and those preconized notions, it is only through putting those stereotypes aside can one truly free themselves form racism of all kinds.
@@TheKingsTrueWitness777 It's sad that it almost circles onto itself. It's maddening.
I'm a Millennial who was raised to be color-blind despite growing up in towns that were "railroad tracks" types during Gen X's time. I've lived in the places that the Woke leadership behind their pearly gates falsely claim to know about. They're deceivers and idiots, and unfortunately anyone that points out how biased they are is called discriminatory no matter how much we're not.
Feels good to be free, doesn’t it. I had to forgive someone who did a terrible thing to me. It wasn’t easy but the hatred was killing me. Now I’m free.
I'm a very shy and introverted woman and what you talked about overanalyzing everything that happens has happened to me too.
I'm a Brazilian woman and I'm white I live in a very small, quiet rural town and (as almost every Brazilian city) we have many types of person here, different races, skin colors and religions.
I once was in my grandpa's house and my uncle brought his girlfriend there. She is a brown skin (I hope this is how you say "Pardo(a)" in English) beautiful old woman and is very extroverted and friendly. As a shy person I was uncomfortable and when she greeted me, I give her a small smile and averted her eyes. Her reaction to this was "Wow, why you're doing this? Is because I'm brown? Are you racist?" she said that in a joking manner and everyone laughed off. But I was hurt. My desire was to answer "I'm not racist, I'm just being shy!" but I didn't have the courage.
That made me really sad and I couldn't help but being more paranoid than ever about how people think of my attitudes. But this video brought me peace. Is good to see that I'm not the only one who thinks this way and is trying to overcoming it.
I have been affected by the internet political too, both in the ideas of the right and the left, but recently I have been searching more about what the two sides thinking and trying to live my own life, rather than sickly sticking to one side.
Anyways, thanks for the video, I hope you can be successful and blessed. And sorry for the long comment lol.
I feel you. So difficult to react to the girlfriend saying you’re racist when you have these left right ideologies as frameworks over your head and you feel you’ve been put into one or the other. Not to mention being shy. I’m the same. It’s difficult, but sometimes I’m given the chance to come back to these comments at a later time having processed it and can confront the issue with more thought and less tense feeling. Just my experience. Good luck with your struggles!❤
im portuguese but lived in brasil, and i felt this sm
I feel u.
I feel that. I live in a diverse country, and one of my jobs is retail, if I don't manage to approach a poc before they leave to offer them help sometimes I start panicking inside and wonder, do they think I'm racist and do they think I avoided them on purpose and that I wasn't trying? And it makes me scared that people are judging me, even though I was already busy with somebody else or doing another task.
I just left nyc that I really love and one of the reason why I left is it’s wokeism. I was facing people constantly having to express how anti-racist they were and social justice warriors they are yet I was very confused because they were showing loads of racism and intolerance. And honestly it was tiring. As a foreigner who’s traveled a lot and come from Africa (was born there) I couldn’t help but see that if America put wokeism at the top, america won’t be standing for long. Thank you for your video sister May God bless you
exactly. i think other countries that put humanity first and race/gender second will pass us by, because they will be fostering cooperation while we foster division
@@Bamazon1990 Yeah, I think freedom of speech, religion, etc caused it. I am all for it, but it got us divided because everyone has such vastly different views. The only ones who can stop us are practically ourselves (and maybe our debt to China). That's just my theory though.
@@riceislife6487 No, it's people being taught that someone's freedom to speech, their personal religion, their differing viewpoint is a literal physical attack on you. It's people being taught WHAT to think in schools, not HOW to think that makes those concepts so divisive (not the concepts in and of themselves).
Thats crazy that you moved primarily because of wokeism but i guess you hear stories all the time of people leaving CA or whatever. I wonder if these wokists feel guilty about making people uncomfortable to the point of displacing them. They'd probably say "such is life" and it's like, yeah because your intolerance is so intolerable I had to move..
Today there was a woman who said to my black coworker, “I love your hair! It’s so cute… it looks so soft!…. I want to touch it…… but I know better though…. It’s just really cute and I really love it”.
🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
I’ve witnessed this weird phenomena where specifically white people (usually white women) literally go after black individuals and go out of their way to talk to them and compliment them and prove how woke they are.
There was a study done by Harvard about how woke versus conservative versus whatever else people communicate with the BIPOC community. No surprise, they found that woke people tended to change their language by dumbing it down and adopting mannerisms they didn’t normally use. Their communication tended to be discriminatory and insinuated a belief that black people were less intelligent.
Way to go with ending racism by making everything about race.
"You can still care about the widow, the orphan, the poor. You can do that without wokeness."
Thanks for saying that. My Christian college has some profs/students who act like wokeness is the only way to care for the poor, even though it often does the opposite.
wokeness is the only way to *profit* off the hardships of the poor. that's what's really going on. that's what wokeness is really all about. it exists to cover up the class war with race and gender politics.
Yep.
My first real encounter with 2 Serious SJW’s was in a church small group setting. They made like the power of the True gospel of repentance and forgiveness and life in the Spirit was nothing...that it is not sufficient to fix the cultural problems. Obviously, they were elevating human philosophy over God’s Word. So sad.
true. I 'm a social worker, there is work, help is needed. I say that for any bored kid on tweeter who wants to fight injustice , just don't bring CRT with you because you'll soon find out that you can't make a hierarchy between victims in the real world : reality hurts much more than slamming doors, raised eyebrows or Ben Shapiro existing. And if you try to use a privilege scale on victims of human traficking... then you just become the next monster in their path. I'm very worried about this trend.Vulnerable children really don't need that.
@@ErnieChartier Exactly, and what does Paul say. Don't let anyone take you captive through deceptive philosophy. Col 2:8
@@ErnieChartier Yep, and if they think the government should be the entity to take care of everyone in every aspect, they are wrong. Faith based organizations are more efficient, both monitarily and otherwise, than government entities. Churches are usually the first to help out in a natural disaster, work the hardest and longest, and care more, than any of the paid government organizations.
As a trans person, this is basically my mantra.
I literally don't care about people online or someone passing by not liking how I identify... maybe it doesn't make sense to them and that's okay, because it was pretty confusing for me too, before I figured it out!
There are people actively trying to do mean stuff to people like me, but the best way to exist is by still being happy despite that.
My only worries are the real, immediate ones that I need to do something about. Sometimes I do get angry at stuff, but at the end of the day, I let it go for my own wellbeing.
This culture feels like it was made by someone else for me, without them knowing what *I* need.
The people who trigger me the most are the ones who try to speak for me in places where I wouldn't even have spoken.
@someone on the internet can't you just mind your own business 😂 does it even concern you
You're free to believe whatever you Want about yourself, however contrary to science it may be. The problem starts when people start forcing others to believe it too.
@@thegriotofwakanda9901 you believe the earth is flat. That is false. I hope you can change your mind.
@@consciouspresence5880 you replied to the wrong post, baby... I think many people are missing the point of this video.
Ya'll can't not get triggered by someone existing or what
@@thegriotofwakanda9901 Good for you being content and happy with who you are in spite of "progressive" people shouting for you otherwise.
I needed this video and I didn't didn't realise that I did. I've been so unhappy so often and I've realized I've had so much of this weight on my shoulders from this woke life. Shuu I definitely feel I've developed a narcissistic view on my problems and a victim mentality. It's time to let it go.
Am not american but this is exactly how I see the whole woke-movement.....me me me and victim mentality. There is no way people can feel real contentment living that way.
Whenever they say they're happy I take it as either they don't realise that they're misarable bc they don't know any better or they're lying.
What they're promoting is the exact opposite of gratitude, forgiveness and self-sacrifice....three qualities that lead to true contentment. There are many wisdoms in them that one can only understand after they apply it to their life, but modern people has become so arrogant they throw away anything deemed as old tradition and think they can figure out everything themselves.
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions" I think the bad side of "wokeness" comes from trying to oversimplify very complex historical realities and overthinking simple things. Sometimes other people are just having a bad day and decided you were the target....
@@sisyphus1326 right wtf
The concept used to describe how people tend to undermine the context and attribute behavior to an individual’s personality already has a name in psychology: it is known as correspondence bias or fundamental attribution bias. Unfortunately, the American Psychological Association has gone terribly woke in the last year or so-just like countless other well-established medical associations, the ACLU, the SPLC. It is truly a shame.
Wokeness doesn't have good intentions. It only cares about power.
@@sisyphus1326 you don't know what a bad day is? 😆😆
"oversimplifying very complex historical realities"
This is very true. There is a lot of potential in the movement of anti-racism, decolonization, equality justice activism, etc. However, there are also many holes and shortfalls, and exploitable weaknesses. I say this as someone active in these circles, but also come into conflict with other activists over certain issues.
Oversimplification is the result of many misunderstandings and conflicts. For instance, in anti-racism discourses, there tends to be a rigid binary between what a "white" person is vs a "poc", and this is very often boiled/reduced down to skin colour and physical experiences, at the disregard of other elements. Race is more like a spectrum with many layers that affect overall experience, one of which is physical, but there are also culture, linguistic, religious, historical, geographical, and social contexts that affect privilege and power and these aspects are so often disregarded, it alienates many groups who have experiences that do not measure up to the binary of white vs poc - for example Jews, Arabs, Slavs, Caucasians, and mixed race people are miscategorized or ignored altogether where their experiences of oppression get entirely forgotten and pigeonholed into one side or the other.
I also notice strong leftwing biases that corrupt the clear vision in these kinds of evalutations. For example, pro-Communist biases that will oppose self-determination struggles when the struggle is supported by western powers - for example as we see in Tibet, Hong Kong, Ukraine, Israel, etc. Some go as far as to glorify Marxism and encourage violence, though I must say that this is only one contingent, rather than the entire movement.
There are also tendencies to attack and shun and shame members, even when based in misunderstanding, when disagreements emerge over minor issues. This tends to leave people walking on eggshells constantly because fear is used as a motivating factor. There are MANY times when people are *actually* being racist and working against the cause, but in a lot of cases, angry mobs swarm people who so much as challenge the status quo in these circles or make even small mistakes, and use their own marginalized identities as armour to shield themselves from criticism or correction, and then many people act surprised when cultural appropriation occurs - people are appropriating marginalized identities so they can wear the armour, so to speak, because they are motivated by fear. People should be motivated by truth, not fear.
Anyways, I'm an insider in these communities, but I frequently clash heads. I don't plan to leave the movement, but I wanted to share that are people who think clearer in these circles and it's not all self-righteousness. It just needs some serious work.
“Woke” is much different than “awake”. Awake is taking it all in, looking at the entirety, and using critical thinking skills to realize what’s happening and who benefits from the narrative.
Well said
It's just another buzzword because Americans are weird creatures.
Except you just defined both words the way you wanted it. Wtf nobody is talking about "awake". Your definition of "awake" does not match the dictionary definition. And politically it also means nothing. You literally made that up.
Exactly!
The most concise/spot on explanation of woke/awake I've heard or seen anywhere. 🙂
I left the cult when I saw the intentions- it was about winning and destroying, not about the people who they were fighting for. I couldn’t justify being part of a movement that wasn’t focused on love. Now I’m happily a centrist who cares for family and being kind in the real world.
I personally have never been woke, even a little. But I have spent a lot of time trying understand where my woke friends and associates were coming from. Thank you for sharing your experience. I really enjoyed everything you said.
Same here. Do you spend a lot of time self-reflecting? I know I do and have since I was a kid because my dad is a very deep, critical thinker and would take the time to reflect on his actions and interactions and find where he can take responsibility and filter out his own assumptions/drama. I believe this is why I never became fully woke, because I learned to do this my whole life and boy, when you realize life really is what YOU MAKE OF IT... you are free.
@@nicolili999 I love your post, and totally agree - my dad was the same: a philosopher type. Both my parents were 'think outside of the box' contextual/critical thinkers, and I think that made a world of difference to my siblings and I, none of whom have ever felt tempted by woke-ism (so far as I'm aware). When you release yourself from the "belief of the masses" and try to see all sides of the story (and most importantly, the facts and logic beneath it all) for yourself, you truly do find freedom.
@@Erizedd Yes! Thank you for sharing, and what a refreshing way to describe what it comes down to. It's nice to see, because sometimes the influence all around becomes so great that it almost starts to seep into you if you're not paying attention. The way you wrote that last part perfectly sums up what I believe deep down and strive everyday to protect and uphold in today's social climate.
Same here.
@@nicolili999 i do that too!
"it is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere"
voltaire
My favorite author of all time . . . VOLTAIRE !
❤
I wish more MAGA people would read Voltaire.
@@paolariveratirado4296 I wish more TDS people would read Mark Twain: it's far easier to fool someone than to convince them that they've been fooled.
One shouldn’t have to be “woke “ in the first place. Just be aware, think critically.
Conscious
Thank You. "Woke" now sounds to me like a replacement slur... like "cuck". The new way to say "[eNner] lover". Really, the people so called "wokeness" makes the most sense to are Black Americans (NOT African Americans) who realize what's been done to them for the last 8+ generations.
Allies are extremely rare yet so needed, unfortunately.
But yea, comment section is very telling 🙄😒
Not that easy. Learn some human psychology, we are anything but logical and critical. Emotions rule our thinking.
Being aware and thinking critically is being woke. But when you think too critically, you end up spinning in circles and not believing or trusting in anything.
@@christophermanley3602 no it’s not. Being woke is following similar to the kapernick situation. You think every one kneeling thought critically? Doubt it.
The way you describe your experience and getting it out of your system almost sounds like self therapy for an OCD disorder. You're very well spoken.
Christ is the antidote to wokeness 🙌🏼
Because Jesus didn't care about people.
@@darren.mcauliffethat is not true
Amen 🙏🏻
@@Whimsicaltalesx Exactly. Jesus cared about people. He tried to help people. He didn’t spend his time complaining that people who aren’t like him existed or have rights.
He was woke.
Wooo I thank God you’re free sis! Wokeness made me so miserable , that kinda energy never attracts anything good!
Being Brainwashed and Blind to the Real Truth is No Good but Carry On I guess.
@@GABRIELADAWSON oh please enlighten me woke Messiah!!!!
@@raccoonfederationceo3580 Don't worry she'll have her I broke free story soon enough.
@@raccoonfederationceo3580 I CANNOT Enlighten you Only You Yourself choose whether or not you wanna live in Truth or Lies (Such as the lady in the video)....Religion,Politics,Education (Indoctrination) & Money is all Bullshit being REDPILLED/BLACKPILLED is all about Leaving The Matrix alone as best as possible or as some would say “ ESCAPING THE PLANTATION”.
@@mindyours752 No I won’t if you think ima Return to the Plantation you’re wrong.
As a Japanese, while I was studying the English language in university, I was exposed to this woke culture, especially on Twitter. At first, I was so shocked to know all these normal things in our culture was outraged by Westerners. I became a part of it for a few months as in my mind, I thought this was essential in learning the language. After a few, I felt so exhausted. I remember apologizing to a classmate of mine, we’re both exchange student and she’s from France, because I couldn’t keep up with US politics. She and our other classmates were outraged in a way that I couldn’t understand, saying I was sexist and racist about this and that. I wasn’t! I had to focus on my studies, I didn’t want to protest every time there’s something bad happening. There’s always evil in the world, it only depends if you let yourself become affected by it.
There nothing wrong with understanding what is happening in world we live in and standing against injustice, but at same time we have to be balanced and still strive to succeed in our own path. Also being from Japan which pretty much homogeneous ie same culture and group of ppl, although you have your share of problems like most societies, It's hard to compare with American society which has many groups of people and cultures who face several different types of issues.
Sorry our schools put you through that, I'm sure it would have been nicer if we didn't have this woke cult and just learning what you needed to learn, which is enough to crack the brain open.
Right!!!!! I’m a black woman and I got into this “wokeness” thank God it only lasted a few months only. I’m not exactly African American, but there is a lot of activism in the community. And there is also a lot of woke culture. I felt like I HAD to be in it because I’m black, and I also have the typical Black experience of facing hate comments and ones that tugged at my soul when i was a kid. But there are a LOT of things I don’t like about all these movements and activism and radical ness. It drains my soul and spirit. I couldn’t take it anymore. I was born in the US, and this “culture” is very obnoxious and draining
I also liked talking politics and now I hate it lol
Well to be honest, you Japanese are into some truly weird stuff lol xD
This is such an amazing video. This needs to be talked about more often. I was definitely the most “woke” in my years at university doing my bachelors. In the past year or so I’ve definitely grown out of that (thank goodness) and it feels so much better. I am no longer carrying the weight of the world all of the time and I don’t have to worry about everyone else’s lives anymore. You are so right, being woke is crippling.
My brother went to college for just 1 year. Came back super woke and condescending. It's contagious tho. He would call me uneducated and I took it as a challenge and tried to learn the rules and got sucked in too. For about 4 years I became depressed and lonely cuz I started to not trust anyone. I could find a way to label anyone a biggot. I snapped out of it 2 years ago and I felt like there was no ground to stand on. I started breaking down the logic and reclaiming MY identity. I'm currently dealing with my brother disowning family cuz he thinks we are incels. I literally can't talk to him anymore because he literally responds like a Twitter comment and it's like he is reciting scripter. Looking at someone that is where I was is so hard to watch... I want my brother back. I'm not sure if he is still in there mentally or if it's been so long his identity has been replaced
@@josflorida5346 is he Christian? This is literally demonic…he needs a deliverance.
I’ve never been woke and video’s like these just prove that my thoughts about wokeness are true
or maybe you just subject yourself only to content you agree with, creating your own echo chamber without ever questioning it?
@@vivilonrane1330 Well I've also never been woke. But maybe that comes from being older or something, though I'm not that old, late thirties. Just means I grew up in the 90's and 00's when the woke culture wasn't a thing. People were chill, you didn't really think much about other people's race's, people just got along. And then you see the woke culture starting up and along with it, division, hatred, darkness, paranoia etc. It was very easy not to get sucked into woke ideology.
@@vivilonrane1330 I'm not woke too and i have the same views coz we found out how wokeness is literally letting people to be angry all the time, making up sht, increasing depression and a lot of things.
@@vivilonrane1330 you just described what woke people do.
I was a liberal back in the 90s but during the 2000s I went right. Oddly enough, most of the 90s liberals would be slightly right of center today. I was never “woke” or wacky. I had legitimate concerns for society, people, etc. once I dove deeper into issues, I come to realize that anything left of center was a joke. I had to come to terms that I was wrong about most things. I had to accept the fact that government would never be equipped to solve any one these problems. If anything, they’d make them worse! (And we see that today!) My transition from left to right was based on facts, evidence, common sense, reality, etc. and how people and government function within those realities. There’s no going back for me. My politics and beliefs today are guided by facts, evidence and common sense. They are not guided by reckless emotion as they once were. I call out both sides for nonsense when the facts don’t match the rhetoric. Sadly, left of center wouldn’t know a truth if it came in a flashing marquee sign lol I should know, I was once one of these fools. Facts matter and the world would be much better off of people would accept them, no matter how painful they are.
Talking to "woke" people is so tiring because of the run around conversation and them becoming hysterical because you don't agree with their opinions
Same thing with conservatives.
Yep or say you don’t understand as you aren’t woke
I consider myself woke and haven't had this experience. More than anything I felt a lot of sympathy for her. It sounded like her worldview became broader and more clear as she learned about CRT and facing those experiences was painful. CRT and it's validity and how someone internalizes and manages that knowledge are two drastically different things.
@@isabellep3444 ok
@@theultrablackman1654 lol lovely contribution
Resentment can only backfire, forgiveness is the way to change the world.
Amen
Agreed. Love wins.
It's white resentment that's leaving bodies everywhere. Not critical race theory
Being “woke” and understanding the reason behind why things are the way that they are doesn’t lead to mass genocide in the way that the innate hatred possessed by whites towards others does.
@@xander_k_ Seriously. When did this grift that pointing out racism is racist gain currency? It's such a BAD argument.
I don't think people realize, as you said, that South Africa could have turned really bad. We take it for granted and don't realize how powerful forgiveness was in this outcome. Such a beautiful example of possibilities. I don't know that much about it, but I know Nelson Mandela's courage in this vein really spoke to me.
The white people in SA would like to have a word with you these days. (Lynchings, rxpes, looting, etc).
Unfortunately it has turned really bad, but the other way round - do black on white violence and racism
for me i gave up this wokeness about 2 years ago. I realized that i couldnt get along with people anymore. Everything was a slight when it wasnt and I was the victim. A spot i never really wanted to be in. I was very gulible growing up. So if someone said something convincingly I’d believe them.
Exactly! Being "woke" is effing exhausting. On occasion, I still wake up angry...and I don't know why. It's the cognitive dissonance...you can't be Christ-like AND resentful. I choose to be Christ-like. I wish my son could see and hear this. Wokeness is killing him...I truly fear for his life because he is miserable. Please, pray for his deliverance.
G_d bless you, young lady.🌷
Brilliant!!
Maybe show him this video ? And just talk with him about your point of view but truly accept his even if it’s difficult you might be able to say something that gets through to him over time, good luck !
Lol you're double lost 🤣
in this world we get what we deserve.
There are no sons or daughters or fathers or mothers.
Only individuals who will pay the price by the law of spirit for their thoughts,and actions and feelings.
All the rest is illusions 99.9%
Everyone is on a journey to the same spot, i cannot give people short cuts or whatever.
When people sow hate etc and think they are sowing love, remove yourself from them, because tornadoes are coming for their inner world.
There's an old saying that I don't know who to attribute to, but it basically says; "If you harbor hatred or a grudge against another person, it's like you're drinking poison and hoping that they die."
Holding onto bitterness is like drinking poison yet waiting for the other person to die....
It was Buddha I believe.
I always heard "holding onto anger" though.
@@aniveksinned2782 that's probably correct. Same basic premise though.
My mom always said that hating someone was like wishing they were dead, and that stuck with me.
I love everything about this!!!! I feel less alone. I’m a black woman that loves all colors and I don’t care what your political stance is.
I was never Woke. But I was in a cult. I can relate to what you are saying.
Hehehe, that's why I'm sticking to my Ugandan values. Respect everyone, keep your feelings and emotions real, have a good sense of humour whilst thinking logically.
I had a roommate from Uganda in varsity! Pretoria, South Africa 🇿🇦
She truly embodied ALL those values, I didn’t even know if came from being Ugandan👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽!
I learnt so much from her!
Those are some good values. I remember one time when I accidentally encountered a Ugandan meme page and the level of humour combined with actual thoughtfulness blew me away. Now I can see what you're saying.
@@GabbieCh would love to see one of those
Values to live by 100%
Including the homophobia 😅
OMG YESSSSS!!! I was “woke” from 2010 to 2020 😬😬😬 I was paranoid and felt everything and everyone that didn’t mirror me was out to get me. It was like a sickness and my health declined rapidly to the point of needing surgeries and gaining weight. Sometime in 2019, I wanted to start a spiritual meet up group for women of ALL backgrounds and I was told that it should be black women ONLY because that’s how everyone would feel “safe”. I was actively trying to leave this mindset because I knew that true healing comes from rejection of ignorance and education; we have to listen to each other and be willing to learn something new. But let me tell you, that spiritual group was draining my soul to the point of depression!! It was awful!!! I finally removed myself ironically after the George Floyd and BLM issues of 2020. It was like a relief and a peace. I think my soul knew that if I would have worn the weight of all that injustice, it would be the straw that would literally break the camel’s back. I no longer allow the anxieties of my appearance dictate how I move in the world. I honestly slip back from time to time when things don’t go my way, but I just keep moving forward. There’s so much to unlearn. I want to be happy and have a good life, and wokeness just ain’t it.
I'm glad you see the harm it was causing you. God bless you.
Hatred and fear poisons the soul. I've seen many before and after wokeness photos were people were just rotted from the inside out. I wishing well of your journey to wellbeing.
@@evilchaperone I'd be interested in such photos. I can imagine it, but haven't seen such evocative visuals!
@@zephsmith3499 Just Google "before and after SJW". Absolute destruction of whyte woman.
@@evilchaperone thanks for the idea
I was in a literal cult, and I can say without a doubt that wokeness is a cult.
This was so inspiring! I left the "cult of wokeness" a while ago too. That was after a short period of time when people around me, as well as the internet made me fel so offended and troubled inside that I thought, I didn't want to be a girl anymore. It was a hard time for me and at that time, I didn't have many friends to talk to. Then I had my Konfirmation (I'm a German Lutheran-Christian) at my church and after that, everything got better. I got to know people, that truly cared about me, I got to enjoy the things again, that i had not been able to, when i was still "woke" and through support of friends and family and especially God, I took my life back. I'm free now and I am glad, that I left that time behind and accepted it and learned from it. I wish all that are reading this, that they can live their life the way they feel is right, too. Thank you for your time.
The woke mob is what happens when almost an entire generation takes a look at emotional maturity and says, “no thanks.”
That's a good one.
The woke mob is a bunch of spoiled children.
Or just never get acquainted with emotional maturity as a concept at all
100% spot on. It is so sad.
Actually it's 3 generations - it started with Gen X. And it usually is the result of an upbringing that specifically doesn't teach emotional maturity.
Sounds like trauma-conditioning for me. They force people to believe they were victimized and just watch the circus.
with traditional industries dying, they're inventing new industries and the race one is VERY lucrative.
indeed and trauma can take years to break and rewire the brain, they sure know what they are doing.
The most racist people I've met had been conditioned to believe that they were oppressed by white people and were seeing everything through that lens even if it didn't make sense to anyone else.
BINGO!
@@nackedgrils9302 the most racist people I met have said "white is right" to my face, made fun of me for being dark skin, etc. But go off 😂
You’re beautiful. Thank you for this thoughtful video. My final straw was when yet another friend, this time a best friend with whom I had experienced many real-life monumental events over a decade, broke up with me and flamed me publicly bc she didn’t like my IG stories and I “wasn’t speaking out” about some shit that had nothing to do with me at all. Whole entire real friendship over because I’m not posting the right thing on a fckn app??? Later. ✌️
Thank you sister for sharing! Such a beautiful testimony! I am a Christian as well. Praise the Lord for saving you from that suffering and the truth has set you free!
"Free your mind, your ass will follow."
Good on ya.
Thank god there you are I thought you left 😭
Quitting Twitter helped me escape A LOT of the woke culture and I’m so much happier now!!!!
Me too! Quit 4 years ago 😤
I hear you, Amanda. Ironically I’m about to get back on Twitter for my job though 😵💫
Twitter can be such a toxic place, really
Twitter is truly a cesspool. I felt horrible anytime I'd get on there. I'm so glad I deleted it.
Thankyou for your honesty on the exhaustion from the burden of paranoia that being woke brings. Refreshing to see someone who saw through the lies, who realizes that kind of thinking isn’t sustainable. You used truth repetitiously to counter the toxic thought life you had until it became your new default thinking and it set you free. As a Christian, that’s why reading and meditating on God’s truth to yourself is so important, it’s sets you free from ideas and things that keep you in a cycle of bondage and heartache. Thankyou again for being brave enough to share with love and reasoning, inspires me to do the same:)
I feel you, being a hyper SJW was basically my life and personality for years because I felt like I had to rebel against my hyper religious upbringing. Now that I've calmed tf down I'm regretting a lot of the choices I've made in the name of wokeness. I surrounded myself with people just like me, so when I started questioning the dogma, I had very few friends left before long. Learned my lesson.
When you take offense, you give your power away. “Resentment is the poison You drink thinking it will effect someone else”.
Whoa, I am repeating this one!
@@tammys8711 - But before you do, try using affecting instead of effecting.
@@marblemadness8870 was is the wrong use of the word
You're right, Rita. No one can insult you unless you permit it. Why give that power to a jerk?
He who angers you, controls you - Confucious
I left "wokeness" last year, in large part due to my sweet, patient, brilliant husband bringing to my attention facts and voices that challenged the woke narrative. CRT had been the only thing I had heard in college, or in my community, the only option presented for dealing with racism. Over time, especially last year, the burdens on my heart - the guilt, the shame, the fear - grew heavy. Now, my faith in Jesus Christ has been renewed, and I'm seeing the power of His Good News with fresh eyes (2 Peter 1:3). With apologies to John Newton, I like to say that "I once was woke, but now I'm free!"
Bless you! Love in Christ is the way.
So you were "christian" in whatever way that may have meant to you. You then went off to get educated and discovered their was another way to look at things. This implies that whatever your christian belief was it had some racist element to it. You were then "corrected" by your husband and are now back to believing what you did before. That may not have been the great thing you think it was.
@@danmorgan3685 what?? 😂😂😂
That is a “micro-aggression” toward Christians.
So toxic.
Or maybe she just decided she doesn’t need to do mental gymnastics and mind reading anymore and love people as people.
You cannot blame children for the sins of their parents. The great, great grandson or granddaughter of a slave owner is not a slave owner. When sins become inheritable, bloodlines are wiped out and genocides occur.
I was always a God fearing man but I never was a Bible thumper. I'm actually a bit of a scallywag. But it's logic, there is a universe w God or a universe without God. When man tries to play God and thinks he has the knowledge of good and evil, everything goes to hell in a hand basket. Look at the early progressives w their eugenicist and racist ideas "based on science". It's hubris.
“You can do that without wokeness” 👏🏼👏🏼 I love that last part you said. Not being woke doesn’t mean we all of a sudden don’t care about these things. I stepped out after realizing that my ability to be of service to the world was going to rely heavily on my ability to be well and regulated enough to be a voice of love & care. Being totally hopeless, helpless, peace less, and fearful only ever collapsed me into oblivion.
All of this division comes from people not knowing *themselves* and relying on the rest of the world for their identity. I fell into similar obsessions around 2016 and I’m completely different after I did a LOT of internal work. It sounds like you really got to know & trust yourself 💜💜💜
Your comment is so insightful and profound that I have screenshot it for posterity! I think you are exactly correct in your analysis. Have a wonderful day! 😄🌺💕
wow this is a very wise comment. that's exactly what happened to me.
As the brilliant thinker John McWhorter has pointed out Wokeness aka Critical Theory has become a secular religion.
Wokeness is good tho....the extreme exist in any arena...but at what point dontou stop the wokeness madness?...like leather is actually the hide of animals that were born and killed by man to make shoes...🤔..so what now...you womt wear shoes as a woke person?
indeed.
@MARLEY THE WILD APARTMENT CAT true..was referring to the ones made out of animalns
@MARLEY THE WILD APARTMENT CAT While I understand Cash's argument, I can't ignore the fact that pretty much all leather items sold now in America are fake leather. Like, actual leather goods are specialty goods. Do some people actually not know this?
@@reziliagrieves8028 you get ma point?...👍....
You did the correct thing. You didn’t reinforce the false narrative. You allowed yourself to question that there were other possibilities and other narratives. That is the key to unlocking the mind trap that is Wokeness.
I will add that seeking a path to forgiveness is also key. I love you. ❤
Thank you for posting this. This video is so touching, especially hearing about everything you were going through when you were talking about going through your day and being frustrated and on the edge of a break-down. Just imagine how many others are going through this and it'll take them years to realize they were duped into group-think. Glad you took the red pill.
I used to be a full blown nazi racist in my teenage years. I was a bitter young man and in that community I felt special, there is nothing more enticing to an insecure, vulnerable youth than being told you are superior, you have the solution to the world and because of that you're better than others. But after a while I realized this was not making me happy and the more I looked at the world and the more people I met from all walks of life I started to realize I was wrong, I'm not better than others just because of my ancestry. I bring this up because it strikes me that a lot of my experience parallels the experience of people who have gotten wrapped up in other extremist ideologies such as islamic fundamentalism or wokeness, they all base themselves on preying upon young, impressionable people and offers a feeling of superiority, that you are part of the chosen few who have seen the truth and because of this you are better than others. I'm glad to have escaped my own indoctrination and I'm glad you have escaped yours. Let us all work towards the goal that the great Martin Luther King dreamed of: that one day we will all be judged not by the color of our skin but by the content of our character.
Good on you for that development you went through. It's pretty funny though, when you realize that a lot of the extremist ideas are based on the idea that YOU alone are special because of your ancestry, your group and other groups look A LOT less unique.
God bless you for turning your life around....
o.o
Your comment brought me to tears. I'm so glad you got out of that. My youngest brother (who is half white and black) has met people like yourself before you changed. And it makes me so happy that there are many people who do come out of that. And I just want to add, I'm sorry you went through what you had as a young man. But now that you have that experience, imagine what good will come out of it! Who knows who will read your comment or hear of your past and realize they can find peace outside of these dangerous ideologies.
Comparing Nazi, islamist fundamentalism and Wokeness... I have seen It all... and just remind me what's the body count for each "ideology"???
Slowly walking away from the far left and coming back to center. There's balance there.
Yes Emma! Balance and perspective 🙏🏼♥️
I'm on the right actually but like being in the center. In no way am I denying how racists white folk can be, but to call every white person a racist and saying you hate white people is the exact same bigotry you claim to hate.
As an American who was raised outside of America, both the left and right sound awful to me, they're just too extreme for me. I feel like people who grew up outside of America have an outside view of things, so it's easier not to 'choose a side'. I'm glad I wasn't raised in America, it feels like a strange almost civil war sort of situation lol, the rights and lefts, no one in the middle just vouching for open mindedness and peace. But I'm glad there are people like me!
Yeah leave that madness, it’s bad for your mental health.
@@gray730 not for everyone. Some democrats may be accepting to homosexuality but some may not. There are extreme democrats and some just touching it. There are always levels for how strongly you believe in something. Like devout Christians and people who believe in God but don't really go to church or anything.
The crippling level of stress, darkness and fear that you suffered while under The Yoke of Woke, where everything is felt as an attack, reminds me of the all encompassing tyranny of depression and OCD that I struggled with, to various levels of intensity, for decades.
I still experience remnants of this struggle and even today, as my partner is away, I’ve been taken by surprise that my OCD has stirred while I’m living alone. Coming out of years of therapy and that reconnected my neural pathways freed my mind for life outside my head.
I wish you all the best and a life that builds resilience and may you seek grace and courage, as I now do.
ahhh, the development and refinement of the soul!!! nothing better on this planet. it takes a long time to get there, but when you've got it, you cannot 'unlearn' it. and you'll have it forever more. i can feel the deep exhale within you, congrats!
"Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us"
For they (know what they do )
“A burden that is optional, because it doesn’t really exist in real life” WOW, you articulated it perfectly!! That’s exactly how I have always viewed woke people.
That's not a description of woke people. That is a description of people with anxiety.
@@brendajameson5093 anxiety is NOT optional
@@wordninja2494 What is optional is thinking styles and ways to approach life that won't enhance your anxiety, that won't feed it. Once you become aware you have it, you need to make choices to combat it.
@@wordninja2494 I agree. But you also can't blame others for your own issues. For example, if scary movies make you lose sleep, then don't watch scary movies. But there's nothing wrong with scary movies, just your reaction to them. That's a personal issue, not an issue with scary movies as a whole.
@@brendajameson5093 Your comment doesn't make sense because mental health problems are not optional. Nobody chooses to be anxious or have an anxiety disorder.
I really enjoyed hearing this perspective, thanks for sharing!
I'm so glad you ESCAPED. I did the same a few years ago. Thanks to Martin Luther King's words, "to be judged by the content of our character rather than the color of our skin." These words bring people together and when we truly believe that all are created equal then we start loving each other.
“Wokeness was literally crippling me!” Powerful and truthful quote!
I believe people go into “being WOKE” with good intentions, as well. BUT... no matter where you journey, do your own research! Your mind is a horrible thing to waste. Flex it’s muscle. Learn and grow
I feel like people only talk about the “woke” cult on the left, and completely forget about the wokeness cult on the right..
@@nateclipps “wholeness cult”. I don’t think I’ve seen or heard that term. What would that term mean or imply?
Love the name! BTW
@@judylaparne9761 OMG I MEANT TO SAY “woke”
@@judylaparne9761 Tysm, ok what u meant by “wokeness” cult on the right as well. Is mainly religious right wingers. Who tend to blame the media for America’s issues rather than holding accountability to their own side. We’re most definitely seeing this with the rise of conspiracy theories and Qan0n.
@@nateclipps Ahhh...
Now, I called it “being WOKE”. Truly, I’m not sure I understand what WOKE means so thank you for helping me educate myself.
What a powerful video. Thank you for sharing this.
Thank you for this video. Sending much love to you ❤
South African here. Unfortunately, things have become pretty damn dystopian these days. Keep up the cool content though. Much respect.
Fellow South African, here. I can't even tell you how TIRED I am of constantly trying to call out my friends about this same mess she's talking about. Stay strong out there, friend.
@@justcallmeole8342 Thanks, you as well.
Shame hey
@@justcallmeole8342 South African here to. Man I get this! It’s just really come to my attention that no matter how woke someone is I’ve never really seen any type of real, tangible change occurring, or the issue gets completely neglected, meaning there was never really anything that that person was doing. It’s all just part of virtue signalling. No real fruit comes out of it at all.
@@Nyonyozimusic Indeed.
“You are being robbed of your own freedom” so, so, SO true.
Kind of reminds me of Galatians 5:1 as well
YES!
@TO Niwa "People make rods for their own backs." -- Terry Pratchett.
Well said! Your positivity is infectious. I will be passing this video along to my two daughters. I’m glad there will be people like you leading us into the future, good luck to you.😊
Love this. I just joined. Keep speaking .
Being “woke” is exhausting. I was there too. It’s been 4 years since I escaped and my life is much better. Not so much daily hatred.
Yes it's so freeing to be away from all that woke mentality. For just a moment in life I was like that, afraid of white people, wondering if they felt guilty for what they had done to my country, but then I got older, and now I realize it's not their fault. Being open minded is so important to be able to live with a free mind and get along with people.
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That was my breaking point. The sheer exhaustion! Being angry everyday about other people's opinions, hating people I don't even know, debating issues that really was none of my business (Trump, Democrats, etc). The day I was told I have to hate all white people because they are OPPRESSING me, I broke. I told myself: I'm out, done. I'm good.
“Everything you are is everything someone else hates” wow, that’s exactly what I was socialized to believe and it’s essentially the root of all my problems when it comes to assuming everyone is out to get me.
Just know it's a lie. 99 percent of people aren't racist jerks. Live your life and don't ever be afraid to go anywhere or do anything you want to. I wish I had woke up along time ago. We have been brainwashed by mainstream media to believe they're racist around every corner waiting to attack us daily. It's not true.
@@tootieramsey9766 thank you for this👍I need to live my life as I please and stop worrying about how other people perceive me.
It’s weird how we can know that it’s not true but still be paranoid and become paralyzed over it. I’ve had my own experienced similar to this and am learning to overcome it.
Thanks for sharing your experience, and that painting is so beautiful. Have a nice day!
You're a wise woman, you have an important voice in helping young adults see through all the nonsense.
Thomas Sowell and Milton Friedman saved me last summer during the riots.
Saaaaaammmmeeee. 🙌🏾
Milton Friedman? Can you show me? It's funny because democrats get SO OFFENDED when I say I am NOT DEMOCRAT anymore. Obama was when I started to realize this was a game they were trying to play with us. Which I already KNEW, so did MOST of us. I just don't think we realized how corrupt it actually went. I knew it was BAD but not THIS BAD! I voted for Trump because I did not want a GROOMED POLITICIAN! AND HE WAS EXACTLY 💯NOT LIKE THEM! So, what is funny is black people are actually the ones that woke ME UP to this BS. I loved JFK I loved Dr King. And the Democrats NOW are NOTHING like those men! THEY ARE NOT FIT to shine Dr Kings shoe! They cannot even be called Democrats anymore! Idk what they are now? Pure evil? Something else they are NOT AMERICAN NOW! Anyway, after Obama I was disenchanted. I voted for Trump and saw all the negative comments towards him, which made me curious! The more I dug the more I went down a rabbit hole and realized how blatantly they lie to people, how the "news" lies! And how they target people like me (poor, lots of kids) and others to play their game. That's taking advantage of the exact same people they claim to protect! Thomas Sowell, Officer Tatum, Candace Owens, Jordan Peterson, President Trump, Lowder with Crowder. I have mostly black people to THANK for helping me to see this ridiculousness!!! I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THOMAS SEWELL and JORDAN PETERSON! Everyone who speaks against this dividing and hate is BRAVE. We need MORE BRAVE SOULS!! WE KNOW THE TRUTH AND WE WILL STAND TOGETHER! ❤✌💃
@@silverbubbles83able Check out “Free to Choose” by Milton Friedman. It’s a 10 part series that is available to watch here on CZcams. Each episode is about an hour long, and includes a debate between Milton and his peers.
Thomas Sowell!!! 🙏🏼
They literally bring so much balance to the current narrative and forces you to think critically. Whether one agrees with them or not, it's important to hear their views. I grew up on Thomas Sowell in college, and it literally has offered me what I believe is a more balanced and critical view of the times we are living in. I can see how their writings can literally "save" you in such a time of turmoil in our country.
Every young person in the western world MUST watch this.
In the eastern as well.
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you are SO brave to come here and share all of this openly and honestly like you did. Not many people who actually think like you will ever express how they feel about the pressure to be "woke" 24/7 and how it made them miserable. And we know it is bc of fear of the backlash, of being called a bigot, of being pushed out of these communities they thought they were a part of and of being labeled many other thing that you aren't, but people will automatically assume you are if you so much as step out of the line of thought that they consider to be the "correct" one.
I also started feeling the pressure throughout college. I felt completely dislocated, not bc my opinions were sooo different from the majority of people there, but bc I wasnt willing to scream them at other people's faces and bc I didnt understand why some people should never have their opinions questioned while others shouldnt even have the right to open their mouths just bc of who they were and what they represented based on their skin color or social origin.
Thankfully, it never made me give up my core values and beliefs which I know are not tied to a specific political group or ideology.
Wonderful testimony. Thank you, sis!
'Wokeness was literally crippling me.' Exactly.
I'm one of your white sisters and I love your brain. I think you are brilliant and we need more of you as a leader and someone to seek out.
Forgiveness is a great first step to exiting the cycle of harmful behaviors, but the next is to realize most people are just muddling through their own lives and aren’t interested in yours.
Imagined slights don’t need forgiveness, that’s narcissism, they need to be unimagined in the first place. You have more important things to worry about.
Personally I try to keep the things about myself and my experiences that I take seriously to a minimum, and then treat them very seriously. Look out for your health, wealth and family and try to chill about the rest.
Its crazy. Im just waking up. you got this a whole year before I did. it really struck me when I realized how manipulated I'd been.
So interesting that you referenced Gramsci. I was cleaning my at-home work space and came across my notes on Gramsci from my studies of CT this past year: "Undermine the pillars (Religion, Family, Media, Education, Law) of culture in order to take over a society." So terrifying!
Jesus Christ, people teach that in the US? No wonder a lot of you there are crazy.
I'm starting to wanna believe conspiracy theorists at this point about the infiltration of enemy countries to destabilise your country. This can't be normal evolution.
What's more annoying to me is because we now have the internet, this ideology is slowly creeping into other countries as well. I've been seeing them scattered here and there in our local media already. God knows what malleable teens have been exposed to at this point. Hope they can get through that phase.
Your comment section is restoring my faith in humanity. I’m glad you’re in a better place. Subscribed!
Fascinating story. Glad you shared. It's freeing to not have all of those feelings that were bringing you stress. I see your inner happiness and contentment. Very, very happy for you!
Thank you. You expressed the freedom to just be and also be very aware of what holds that back, SO well. So simply. And based on what is mentally and physically healthy for you to thrive. Your strength and peace shines on the screen. We are not of a particular faith, but forgiveness and empathy is for all. I'm sharing this with my teen sons. They'll appreciate this very much. ❤️👌