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Imagine a "woke mob": Who's in it? What do they look like? What would they do?

I’ve heard this phrase used often by those on the right but every time I hear it I can’t help but laugh because of what I picture in my head. But perhaps my image is wrong! I want to read everyone else’s depictions.

So as to not influence the responses I will not be sharing what I imagine a “woke mob” looks like.

breadsmasher ,
@breadsmasher@lemmy.world avatar

“woke mob” aka - a group of people who respect others.

The opposite of the GOP mob/Fascists

Tar_alcaran ,

Full of people who go commit random acts of kindness and mutual understanding

MagicShel ,

They would all ask everyone for their pronouns regardless of how evident their gender seems to be.

shish_mish ,
@shish_mish@lemmy.world avatar

A woke mob, aka a bunch of people who think everyone should be treated with decency and respect People who will make sure everyone is comfortable and included in their woke mob .

sunbrrnslapper ,

So I know it is just semantics, but for some reason I don’t label your description as a “woke mob” but rather just decent humans.

Yet, I do have an image of “woke mob” that is full of college-aged people who haven’t experienced any adversity, but have a desire to make a mark on the world and have chosen a really irritating way to do it. And unfortunately that very small segment of the population gives the right something to latch onto that demonstrates how unhinged the left is (even though the left is how you describe it).

HobbitFoot ,

A couple of cops dressed in civilian clothes trying to break shit.

superkret ,

https://feddit.org/pictrs/image/c08f9199-a6ba-44c6-8429-957f1b01b4bb.jpeg

Catoblepas ,

Wow, it’s been years since I’ve seen this photo. Wasn’t the context that this dude just flashed people at an anti rape rally or something?

CanadaPlus , (edited )

Yeah, that adds up. It’s hard to find a “woke mob” that uniformly angry at someone who doesn’t deserve it. Anyone normal will get vague undirected hostility, at worst.

CanadaPlus ,

Take every group conservatives are afraid of, combine them into one person, copy variations of that person into a crowd and add pussy hats.

This is not a group that actually exists, but I’m not expecting the “woke mob” person to be describing reality anyway.

CrimeDad ,

A bunch of insomniacs with pitchforks.

BCsven ,

But the pitchfork tines are dildos

CrimeDad ,

image

CaptainBasculin ,

Their troll slogan has to be “Let’s turn the frogs gay”

mo_lave ,

Looters (unrelated to protesters) who take the opportunity in chaos to achieve their goal - which is anywhere between getting their next meal or counterprotesters trying to disrupt the whole protest

southsamurai ,
@southsamurai@sh.itjust.works avatar

Tbh, being woke and being in a mob are not going to go together well.

You’d either have just a big group of people protesting peacefully, or you’d have a revolution which is far from a mob in any typical sense of the word.

Remember, “woke” started as a term for awareness of systemic inequality. It doesn’t directly equate to mob action in that sense, though it could involve large scale direct action which could involve the kind of action you’d think of as anything from “unrest” up to rioting, depending on the situation.

Woke in the sense that it has come to also mean is basically taking the awareness of social inequities and working to change them. This is typically not a position held by the kind of extremists that would form a mob in the usual sense. You get into people that want to overturn the system entirely, and they tend to be following some specific set of beliefs that are the goal, with any inequities being a side goal or just a part of those beliefs.

But the way the conservative, fascist, and far right twits use the term, they’re just moving words around the way they used to whine about being politically correct, and before that whined because they couldn’t be openly racist or otherwise bigoted. Now, this is opposed to the above mentioned categories that aren’t twits, who use the word woke as a dog whistle intentionally as a way to manipulate the twits.

Don’t forget, being a bigot and fascist doesn’t actually mean a lack of brain power. Trying to pretend otherwise underestimates a very dangerous group of enemies that literally want to return us to a state where only white men hold power at all. Underestimating an enemy that dangerous gives them freedom to succeed.

CanadaPlus ,

Woke in the sense that it has come to also mean is basically taking the awareness of social inequities and working to change them. This is typically not a position held by the kind of extremists that would form a mob in the usual sense. You get into people that want to overturn the system entirely, and they tend to be following some specific set of beliefs that are the goal, with any inequities being a side goal or just a part of those beliefs.

Interseting. So the radical left in general wouldn’t be woke by this definition?

turbowafflz ,

I feel like it would just be like a pride parade

yuuunikki ,

The only thing woke is how I woke up in your mom’s bed after doing her

shinigamiookamiryuu ,

Now that you mention it, there’s one thing that comes to mind.

apotheotic ,

David Tennant is absolutely in the woke mob.

Limfjorden ,
@Limfjorden@feddit.dk avatar

Probably something like this. An an anti-woke mob is more like this.

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