After a protest, I sat down with a friend to share my concerns about the disorganization within the whole woke experiment (this was June 2020 when there was a real momentum behind the destruction. A non profit business in my community had just been burned down during the protest's nightly chaos).

They suggested that I speak with another of our friends, a white person, to learn from her how to be a good white person (essentially know your place and get in line).

I realized that despite my goodwill and intentions, my whiteness would prevent me from being good. I sensed that it was only a matter of time until the tables turned on me, even if I follow the cult's explicit rules, because of the issue of my skin color.

It all unraveled then. Because that's backwards.

Then I read "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" that illuminated the communism of it all within my experience.

Well, I live in Peru, a sexist country, but sexist by convenience, that is to say, they believe that women should marry as virgins, work and be a housewife and the husband should only work and give orders, that happens to people aged 40 and older. Now, in the school and university population it is the opposite, liberalism and some woke leftist ideas. I don't have a very wide social life and even less with younger people, so I don't experience it completely, what I know is because I hear from afar or see things on social networks. The few people I usually talk to are generation Z and they are very sexist, both men and women. It's really strange here they are totally at opposite extremes, but there is no middle ground.

I have seen that the government has implemented woke messages (?) I don't know if that is the term, but in hospitals in the gynecology section I have seen messages that say things like "you are a woman if you feel like a woman" with their respective trans flag, there are also those messages in airport bathrooms.

When despite years of pharmaceutical companies being viewed as the bad guys half the population went for their scam one more time. And not only that they tried to ostracize the other half for asking simple questions that should have been easy to answer.

I started to think about the parallel between Marxism, totalitarian ideologies and woke. And noticing how woke people could be suddenly emotional, illogical and authoritarian for example saying in one breath how they believe in bodily autonomy and then in the next seemingly incapable of respecting someone’s choice not to take a vaccine for Covid.

It was back in college. A new friend posted something on Facebook and I replied with something satirical and barely misogynistic. One of her friends chided me. I replied to that with another misogynist remark, yet one so cliched and dumb, there could be no doubt I was joking. Her friend went apeshit.

People started seeing demons where there were none.

Plandemic

During the psycopandemic

The tranny stuff for me. It made me realize that the entire LGBT acceptance thing was a mistake. We'd opened Pandora's Box of degeneracy. There is a reason for every verse, every word of the Bible. We might not understand why things are what they are but God's word is never wrong. The whole progressive narrative of tolerance and "love" sounded great in theory. Turns out it was just another Tower of Babel.

Being gas-lit for existing.

Is this supposed to be a threat? You people are getting more and more stupid, literally.

For me it was the Evergreen incident with Brett Weinstein.

Roving gangs of students literally trying hunt down and kill a professor, holding the school president hostage, and a litany of other criminal acts, were subjected to zero consequences.

As soon as every commercial on television started showing mixed couples dancing around eating experiential psychiatric prescriptions.

I realized it was a problem when society started pretending basic biological truths were offensive. Like calling a woman a 'woman' suddenly became controversial? If we're too scared to even acknowledge reality what kind of mess are we heading toward?

When I noticed pronouns being used in email signatures.

The NHS uses the term "people with vaginas" on its website.

Earned an undergraduate degree. Then a graduate degree.

Worked retail. Volunteered in organizations + non-profits. Now I have a full-time 9 to 5 - working with heavy equipment.

I've worked with smart people. I've worked with stupid people. Black, white, gay and straight. Light skin, dark skin, men women you name it.

And I've still never seen DEI or 'wokeness' out in the wild. Been looking for it in the 'real world' and I've still never seen it or experienced it practically anywhere.

From what I've seen it has no real-world impact on anything.

I don't know where you guys are living but in my experience its impact has been greatly exaggerated for political/disinformation purposes... and is only used to conceal the real economic and geopolitical changes occurring in the world.

Thanks and Godspeed.

When some influencers were boycotted by brands due to pressure from this noisy crowd

Time is the shortest thing we all got stories to tell......

wokeness really is a cancer and makes me very, very happy to not live in the West or among it anymore.

that said, when did it start, like i don't remember this being an issue in 2012 - 2014. then at some point it was just everywhere

we did used to have the concept of political correctness gone mad, but it was nothing compared to the shit that have now

It is good to see that bigotry in all kinds and forms feels threaten.

It makes you feel bad about yourself instead of rightfully prideful; no matter what race and ethnicity you are.