Post #2390824 · Elektrine

2026-02-24 14:18 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@JuliusGoat/116125352774169273 Self-improvement is also about unlearning and I think that lies at the root of "anti-woke" culture. It's hard enough to learn what you need for life and apply it, never mind be told, after maybe decades, that's not right any more and you need to "unlearn" some behaviour. In the past, I definitely held beliefs that would now be considered racist, mysoginist, ableist. But I learned they were wrong. I don't mean someone told me they were wrong and I accepted it. I actually learned.

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@dtwx@mastodon.social 2026-02-24 14:24

I think, as a society, we're dealing with a bunch of middle-aged people who accepted that these things were wrong but never understood why and just went along with it. Hence they use terms like "virtue signalling" and "political correctness", thinking it was just something done for appearances. The fact that some of their peers still believe that these things are wrong feels like a rug pull to them - they assumed everyone was pretending. They feel like nobody told them.

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@dtwx@mastodon.social 2026-02-24 14:47

I think this is also at the root of why people don't like immigrants. They don't want to learn how to accomodate their beliefs and practices. And maybe that is a fair complaint EXCEPT it's coming from people who go abroad and expected to be served in English and eat egg and chips. You can't have it both ways. Of course, they also completely over-inflate the supposed expectations of them, hence all this bollocks about not mentioning bacon around Muslims.

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