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David Maren's avatar

It's interesting that you brand wokeness as a religion. I would argue that anti-wokeness is just as much a religion as wokeness.

People have built entire brands off of "destroying feminist/snowflake/liberal" content. Additionally, anti-woke elements often invoke religion, but woke personalities rarely do.

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Jasper Aldridge's avatar

Not so much religion, but rather ideology. You are right in the anti-wokeness point as well - having religeous/ideological tendencies - those individuals use it as one of their tools.

I do believe the wokeness side does invoke elements of what religion is meant to preach (but rarely practices), at least in its early roots. Being compassionate, empathetic and thoughtful - sadly this has been lost, corrupted and diluted as their message expanded - much like Christianity, or most other abrahamic religions.

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