This Is How I ESCAPED The Cult Of WOKENESS

Thank You Jesus! WHEW!

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[ZeldasMask]

Wokeness has ALWAYS felt like teenagers on the internet trying to change the world but making it way worse

[justinrudolph]

I'm a cognitive behavioral therapist and wokeness teaches the opposite of the skills we teach clients. catastrophizing, black and white thinking, over generalization, personalizing, emotional reasoning. And we wonder why mental health is deteriorating.

[alicecohen]

Their hatred is THEIR problem. When we realize that, we feel free. Even if we get upset sometimes, we give ourselves the right to be at peace whenever we want.

[LVEisAmixtape]

I am a black woman. Every time I come back to this video it's because it can help with my mental health. My head feels more clear hearing this. It makes sense. Unlike the chaotic woketivism.

[jovanasg]

I'm a black woman and I could never be apart of that WOKE MESS my peace is more important!!! I would never want to live like that!

[hotwax]

"I have decided to go with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear." -Martin Luther King Jr.

[イチゴ甘い-cb]

As a Japanese, while I was studying the English language in university, I was exposed to this woke culture, especially on Twitter. At first, I was so shocked to know all these normal things in our culture was outraged by Westerners. I became a part of it for a few months as in my mind, I thought this was essential in learning the language. After a few, I felt so exhausted. I remember apologizing to a classmate of mine, we’re both exchange student and she’s from France, because I couldn’t keep up with US politics. She and our other classmates were outraged in a way that I couldn’t understand, saying I was sexist and racist about this and that. I wasn’t! I had to focus on my studies, I didn’t want to protest every time there’s something bad happening. There’s always evil in the world, it only depends if you let yourself become affected by it.

[spacedinosaur]

The way you described holding onto anger reminds me of a story I read once:

In the story, two traveling monks reached a dirty riverbank where they saw a wealthy woman. The woman had gone shopping and had many servants for carrying her fancy purchases, but the servants were afraid to put their burdens on the muddy ground in order to carry their mistress. The woman was bitter and cursed the servants. When she saw the two monks, she angrily demanded that they carry her to the other side.

The young monk hesitated, uneager to help someone who appeared so spiteful, yet the old monk silently picked her up onto his shoulders, transported her across the dirty water, and put her down on the other side. She did not thank him. Instead, she continued to spit venom at the monk and her useless servants, complaining and cursing as he walked away.
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As the monks continued on their journey, the young monk was brooding and preoccupied.

Near dark that evening, unable to hold his silence, he spoke out.
"That woman was cruel, and when you helped her, she offered you no gratitude. Instead, she cursed you. Why are you not angry?"
"Brother, " the second monk replied, "I set her down this morning, why are you are still carrying her."

[erynnoconnor]

I never fell into the "woke" mentality. I grew up in diverse neighborhoods and it made me open-minded about the world. Open-mindedness and critical thinking are antithetical to the woke cult. To them, it wasn't enough that I treated my friends as actual friends instead of being hyper-aware of immutable characteristics. 'Color-blindness' is a sin, according to them. I'm not blind. Those characteristics aren't a criteria for friendship, in my eyes. MLK's lesson is one to live by. Live and let live. Respect.

[wwkcd]

This video is SO IMPORTANT. So many people my age are so tense, anxious, resentful. Allow yourself to drop the weight of the world.

[DawnKing]

The moment you stop being woke, everything you see or hear gets put into context. You become less judgmental and subject-ivied.
Best decision I ever made in my life was quitting Twitter.

[visionaryventures]

I saw beyond wokeness because I studied history from a young age onwards. I also paid attention to cult behavior from a young age. I grew up with a poor mother, so I had to confront reality as it was.

[whatalovelyday]

What's saddest to me is that I feel like this current movement has actually set back race relations immensely. It's pitting people against each other instead of trying to create a sense of togetherness. A lot of people who previously "didn't see color" are now dividing everyone into categories and feeling things like persecution or guilt based PURELY on skin color. It drives tribalism, stereotyping, and judging people based on their DNA instead of their actions. There might have been good intentions, but making people into victims and oppressors instead of a team just doesn't seem right.

[yoheireacts]

I left the wokeness last year！ I am politically homeless and I feel much happier!

[coris]

One shouldn’t have to be “woke “ in the first place. Just be aware, think critically.

[californiumcoati]

The sheer hopelessness that stems from feeling obligated to change things you have no control over…that is the disorder that plagues the “woke” community. Thanks for speaking on this sister.

[evelynellsworth]

"You can still care about the widow, the orphan, the poor. You can do that without wokeness."

Thanks for saying that. My Christian college has some profs/students who act like wokeness is the only way to care for the poor, even though it often does the opposite.

[glowingsme]

“Woke” is much different than “awake”. Awake is taking it all in, looking at the entirety, and using critical thinking skills to realize what’s happening and who benefits from the narrative.

[artemisapaulina]

I've been searching for a video about wokeness to play for my daughter 'cause she's literally killing herself with this cult and your video is the best. Thank you so much for posting your experience! God bless you! Pray for all parents struggling with these horrible ideology that's tearing families apart. 🙏

[tinyturquoise]

I understand what you're saying. I am native American woman and I spent most of 2015-2017 with this extreme victim complex over stuff that happened centuries ago. It was around early 2018 that I really thought about it and realized how stupid the whole thing was. Like for real getting mad at something someone's great great great grandpa MAYBE did. So over that now.