I’d say “Doomer” is the perfect term to describe the assholes who think “Politics don’t affect me personally, so why should I even consider?” or “Both sides are crap, choosing is just chickening out”.
You know the kind of pessimistic irascible assholes you find on Twitter or 4Chan or even Kiwi Farms who doesn’t care what you want to express online.
Privileged? You have to be a certain kind to person (ie, not marginalised) to be able to ignore politics
Or captive. Or ignorant. You can be captive to a cult, or domineering person, or just so ignorant or intellectually challenged you literally don’t know these ideas exist in their proper context and why.
I know someone that is all of those.
commies as they can’t do id pol
they just can’t ask one of the ml’s, lol
Here’s the one.
Child
Cunt works nicely
Probably some flavour of anti-woke.
You described people who are anti-woke and the question is whether they’re also anti-anti-woke.
Ignorant.
what would be the non-woke and non-antiwoke thing then? woke has been bastardized by conservatives to hell as they see something not racist or bigoted is not “white, male, straight, patriarchy”. woke was originally use by african americans to have “Waken up”. being neutral isnt exactly good either.
Cowardly
To have a dispassionate conversation about it - they aren’t perfect antonyms. The woke movement and the antiwoke movement don’t oppose precisely the same things and neither of them have a definitive definition any longer, mostly due to the overuse of the terms over a long time.
For example people will use anti-woke unironically but you rarely see anyone use woke genuinely and with passion any more. Infact anyone who does would seem dated and ridiculous now to seriously request without irony to consider being woke.
Why do you need to label everything?
You’re such an anti-labelist
Ungrammatical
Curmudgeon, perhaps. Or at least curmudgeonly.
Or choose from something here: https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/curmudgeon
Among those, “crank” stands out. This is usually someone who holds a (often provably) wrong, unconventional or unpopular opinion and insists that their way is the right way and that everyone else is wrong.
Cranks can be right, which a crank will hold onto dearly and use in their arguments, even if the considerable majority of cranks turn out to have been wrong.
On the other hand, cranks tend to beat their metaphorical drum a lot more than someone who simply refuses to pick a side and keeps their trap shut.
Depending on where on the bell-curve you perceive “woke” and “anti-woke”, you could go from absolute pot stirrer to (more like where I place them, seeing both extremes as not affecting me at all… I don’t even consider these terms.) Level headed, middle of the road.
Tired.
No shit.
I’ll start with the TL;DR, they’re probably bootlickers. To be decidedly less brief:
“Woke” is so stupid in how it is used and meant.
The original colloquialism was about being genuinely aware of what is happening and “awake to reality” with an almost Matrix-like connotation to it. Enlightened, in a sense.
Now it means a tumblrista who has more hair dye than actual sense and is overly concerned with how they feel versus reality. That is, if you are to ask the person in question. And that character assassination doesn’t come from nowhere if we’re being perfectly honest with ourselves.
Anti-woke at this point is associated with fascism in a distinctly similar misrepresentation of the original term, though perhaps still a bit more appropriate. Gotta be brain-dead or asleep to be okay with fascism after all, so it isn’t perhaps as far off the mark.
The person OP describes exists in several instances of the fediverse as well, just wearing a different uniform and flying a few very specific flags. Ultimately they are all secret bootlickers. They secretly worship the strongmen because it allows them to outsource the difficult task of thinking to somebody else who views the world in as simplistic a manner as they do. “That’s not a real thing because I don’t experience it” type energy, so belittling/dehumanizing/othering/criminalizing/persecuting groups becomes okay in either active ways or “doesn’t affect me, why should I care” ways in equal measure.
Again, it is important to note who ultimately comes to the defense of these voices and the commonalities they have with straight up fascists. The person you describe may very well vocally support anti-fascist ideologies at first blush, and yet there’s still some authoritarianism in their slant. Like I said, more than happy to relegate their thinking to some form of “greater power” that still views them as the useful idiot. “Well its working just fine for me!”
Yep, keep licking the boot.
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