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> A final reason I didn’t want to believe in the social media hypothesis was that I’d much rather blame wokeness … it’s annoying to me that intellectuals won’t even consider the possibility that radical new ideas about race and sex might be to blame, and the fact that the most liberal demographics, that is women and LGBT adolescents, are having the most mental problems indicates that there is something to the theory that wokeness causes misery.

Why is this trash linked on HN?

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“I want to believe something is true so therefore it is true”. I actually respect the honesty here. Most people think this way but would never admit it.

“Cogito ergo est”

Hmm, at first I thought your comment was just a low effort post but upon thinking about what the quote was trying to say and to then see immediately the problem they were pointing out. Poetic

I see woke as tolerance, open to each other and acceptance.

Yes it's over done sometimes but it's hard to see how he would connect wokeness with depression.

Or does people understand under wokeness something different than I do?

Like great that black kids get heroes in cinema!

It’s related to a previous post that shows liberals being more negatively affected by social media/phones and earlier.

I see woke as being viscerally intolerant not only of differing opinions, but also of the people who have them.

wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

Too often I hear people complain that they're being oppressed for their "differing opinions." A tolerable opinion is something like "my favorite color is blue," not "gay people shouldn't exist." If your opinion revolves around the intolerance of other opinions, then I'm not going to be tolerant towards that.

Wokeness was meant to be that: being awake to social problems. And just like many noble beginnings before, this too got co-opted by nefarious actors who substituted ideals with divisive lies. For example, they've turned the concept of seven rays, symbolized by a rainbow, into a cult of skin and genitals. This happened because the founders of the movement didn't define principles that would quickly identify and weed out selfish grifters.

Literally the worst take I've seen in years

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