Technically, "woke" is just a word. SO ultimately I don't really care who and what people call woke. But the problem is that the right (liberals/confusionnist/conservatist/libertarian/far right and worse) are calling "woke" everything and its contrary.
The fact is that in the last decade, leftist with vision like mine (antifascist/progressive proLGBTQI+/feminist/antiliberal/anticapitalist/antiracist etc.) were called first "SJW" and the term then evolved to became the "woke". It started in the united states and became popular in Europe around 2018. So since then.. people like me were targeted on all front (medias/youtube/internet) by anti-"woke". So we reappropriated the word in order to reverse the stygmate just like black people use the "N" word.
Now, you will see a lot of leftist that call themself woke.
But the problem is that when people are denouncing "woke shit", they are not targetting leftist and all the things that I listed above. They are actually angry against the hijacking of those fights by liberals and people who only think about making money out of poor storytelling.
What people are actually angry about is precisely what is explained in this video. They are angry against the process of depolitization and bad usage of political message in fiction. But what those people don't realize is that those things are NOT DONE by leftist or the "woke" that they are usually targetting on twitter, its done by liberals with capitalistic vision, with liberals ideas and with a depoliticized vision of society.
(and they are also - by intellectual lazyness - wrongly assimilating bad storytelling to bad politic ideas)
And yet, that's the case. There is absolutely NO story without a political agenda. It simply does not exist.
A story is by essence a vision of the way to act in society. This is a foundamental storytelling principle. No matter the story, the writer will ALWAYS take a side on the best way to act in society and that side will be shown by the action and the choices of the characters. A story will ALWAYS depict a conflict of value and a choice in front of those values. And that's what make stories political.
The problem with modern entertainment (and precisely Marvel movies) is that writers (but mainly producers) are using their skills to create stories that prevent us from questionning the status co. and therefore create a depolitization of the status of society. So, when you see a producer push forcibly the girl boss trope through a story that is going against that representation... you get stories that are bad quality.
Ok they changed the color of the little mermaid or changed the gosthbuster into women, but are the movie actually good ? If you say me "no", I understand that you focus on those aspects as a conservative. But if the movie was actually good, this wouldn't have been a problem.
See, there should be no problem in changing the color of a characters. Its just characters. As long as the color or gender are not dramatically important, there should be no problem with that. But we live in a racist and sexist society... so if the movies are bad and I bet that its a bunch of liberal garbage with very bad writing... people will blame the color and gender swap.
That's why in the left... we denounce pink washing and its derivative forms.
Yes, Woke are against what anti-woke are calling "woke shit"..
The fact is that in the last decade, leftist with vision like mine (antifascist/progressive proLGBTQI+/feminist/antiliberal/anticapitalist/antiracist etc.) were called first "SJW" and the term then evolved to became the "woke". It started in the united states and became popular in Europe around 2018. So since then.. people like me were targeted on all front (medias/youtube/internet) by anti-"woke". So we reappropriated the word in order to reverse the stygmate just like black people use the "N" word.
Now, you will see a lot of leftist that call themself woke.
But the problem is that when people are denouncing "woke shit", they are not targetting leftist and all the things that I listed above. They are actually angry against the hijacking of those fights by liberals and people who only think about making money out of poor storytelling.
What people are actually angry about is precisely what is explained in this video. They are angry against the process of depolitization and bad usage of political message in fiction. But what those people don't realize is that those things are NOT DONE by leftist or the "woke" that they are usually targetting on twitter, its done by liberals with capitalistic vision, with liberals ideas and with a depoliticized vision of society.
(and they are also - by intellectual lazyness - wrongly assimilating bad storytelling to bad politic ideas)
And yet, that's the case. There is absolutely NO story without a political agenda. It simply does not exist.
A story is by essence a vision of the way to act in society. This is a foundamental storytelling principle. No matter the story, the writer will ALWAYS take a side on the best way to act in society and that side will be shown by the action and the choices of the characters. A story will ALWAYS depict a conflict of value and a choice in front of those values. And that's what make stories political.
The problem with modern entertainment (and precisely Marvel movies) is that writers (but mainly producers) are using their skills to create stories that prevent us from questionning the status co. and therefore create a depolitization of the status of society. So, when you see a producer push forcibly the girl boss trope through a story that is going against that representation... you get stories that are bad quality.
Ok they changed the color of the little mermaid or changed the gosthbuster into women, but are the movie actually good ? If you say me "no", I understand that you focus on those aspects as a conservative. But if the movie was actually good, this wouldn't have been a problem.
See, there should be no problem in changing the color of a characters. Its just characters. As long as the color or gender are not dramatically important, there should be no problem with that. But we live in a racist and sexist society... so if the movies are bad and I bet that its a bunch of liberal garbage with very bad writing... people will blame the color and gender swap.
That's why in the left... we denounce pink washing and its derivative forms.
Yes, Woke are against what anti-woke are calling "woke shit"..
