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GPareyouwithmoi t1_isajit7 wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in New study shows newspaper images from Hurricane Harvey in 2017 continued patterns of presenting people of color as victims and white people as rescuers bringing order back to the chaos, this may not have been conscious or ill-intentioned decisions, but reflect patterns in journalism and cultural by giuliomagnifico

The authors are "not that exact of a target shooter" and they "just kinda spray it everywhere".

I believe that it's noble to pursue a just and equitable world. I don't think you can do that effectively without knowledge of what the actual injustices are.

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smoovebb t1_isamvy8 wrote

Exactly, thank you. If we can't talk about what's actually happening, we can't possibly fix anything. This is one of the biggest problems with being overly woke, because people pretend the issues are things other than what they are.

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arcosapphire t1_isb54vz wrote

What is "woke" supposed to mean, other than being aware of what things actually are?

The fact that this became a derogatory phrase is pretty absurd and reflects the pressures that can be applied by people with no interest in acknowledging how things actually are.

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