Woke means you hate all white people and think they're all from England and had slaves.
It means you're too stupid to realize people like me, have ancestors that were under foreign occupation from 1500-1913 and had absolutely nothing to do with colonization and didn't benefit from oppressing non-Europeans in any way sort or form but think we deserve punishment.
You aren't a decent human being if you're woke.
I'm a Yugoslav ethnically. Yugo means south, slav being the root word for the word slave because we were taken as slaves by the Arabs and Ottoman Turks.
We also suffered a similar fate that natives in Canada did, the Ottomans took the first born son of every Christian family and sent them to be part of the Ottoman army and forcefully converted us to islam.
Took out daughters as sex slaves in harems.
Taxed us stealing our labour and wealth for 500+ years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saqaliba
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jizya
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devshirme
Then we were booted out of Greece to make room for Turkish-Greeks and had our land stolen in the 1940s, happened to my Grandparents.
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo12274715.html
We were under the same empire that the Palestinians were under, and what happened to them happened to us, but woke people want me to suffer because I have white skin.
Woke people are evil scum. They aren't decent people in any shape or form, they are basically nazis spreading lies about me just like the Germans did about the Jews.
I know this because woke people like to throw slavery and other things in my face just because I am European without realizing the word SLAVE is derived from my ethnicity.
Hitler hated us just as much as he hated the Jews and we were part of the holocaust, but woke people don't care,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Slavic_sentiment
I'm white, I'm European, I must be a colonizer worthy of punishment for the actions of some people in England who speak a different language, use a different alphabet, practice a different religion and lived 2000 km away.
That's what woke people are. They're fucked in the head.
My country is currently teaching our children to hate me based on my skin colour and they think I deserve it. Again, just like the Nazis did to the Jews.
https://x.com/ChanLPfa/status/1772050309885431824?s=20
https://x.com/ChanLPfa/status/1770981743450816763?s=20
I assume you are Indian, imagine you were randomly getting blamed for shit Pakistani people did 300 years ago and your country was teaching kids that you are a bastard for what Afghani people did just cause you have similar skin colour.
That's wokeness. It's a disease.
None of my ancestors subjugated other people groups to any form of discrimination and didn't colonize anywhere else. But woke people think they did. I've interacted with enough of them that hate me just for being European, most of them are British themselves which is insane.
It is 100% the same thing that the Nazis did to the Jews and the Slavs, spread lies and propaganda about them. Woke people would have fit in Nazi Germany.
I've yet to meet a woke person who will acknowledge Muslim occupation and oppression against south eastern Europeans.
My last name isn't a Persian word because I'm Persian. It was assigned to my family by foreign occupiers.
We don't eat middle eastern influenced food because we are middle eastern, it is a result of foreign occupation and subjugation.
Our music isn't middle eastern influenced because we are middle eastern, it is a result of foreign occupation and subjugation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQTZQxmZF20 <-- We don't make this randomly. It's a direct result of our history.
Macedonian wedding song played at every wedding is called Mashallah. Christian people there aren't singing for random, it's a result of colonization by the middle east
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbxmwrUpvj4
Woke people refuse to acknowledge any of this.
I'm white, I'm from London, England to them, I must be punished and shamed for my ancestry to all woke people.
I literally in the same day had two people tell me that because I am white I am a colonizer. Either person could explain in detail to me why. They just got angry and said if I don’t know then it’s not worth explaining or something to that effect.
My main point is that I did not colonize anything, I did not have slaves. So why are you angry with me?
So you're white, an American, and do not consider yourself a colonizer. Quick question: How did your family enter the country?
Right, I see what you are saying. But what can I do about it?
Tracing my ancestors back through my dad’s side, they emigrated here from the Middle East.
My mom hardly knows her dad, so I have no clue.
Regardless, I was born after the country was colonized. I had no part in that.
Colonialism is an ongoing process, not something that happened In the Forgotten Past, and you are a beneficiary of it
Ok, then what is a person like me supposed to do?
Literally no one has been able to answer this question for me.
One, get educated. Learn the actual history of this place. Just doing that alone would make it so you wouldn't even ask these questions.
Two, accept that you are the beneficiary of these systems of oppression, and as such, use your privileged position to help dismantle them. Support policies that benefit the oppressed even if it's at your expense. Talk to others, educate others. Oh look at that you're "woke" now
If you want to do something you can help the native Americans and Hawaiians who are still oppressed for example.
Most remaining native Americans were thrown into so called "reservations", impoverished areas which were chosen on purpose to be unfit for the native's traditional way of life, hard to access food in and lacking in resources, some of these areas are so poor and their peoples so miserable that you would think they are third world countries.
The natives had and still have to this day their cultured crushed and forcibly "westernized" through various means, for example they were for a long time often forbidden to use their native language in school and general everywhere except at home to the point that only a few percent of natives can speak their own language.
Even if a lot of the direct violence against native has stopped, they still suffer from it's consequences, their cultures never recovered and continue to disappear, most of them still live packed in "reservations" were they lack of everything even essentials like water, food and medicine and depend on what little the federal government and charities give them.
If you want to help them you can do charities for them, protest for their rights, join a de-colonial movement or any kind of organization in support of native rights, there are plenty of things you can do, it doesn't even have to be a supper big thing, any help of any size is welcome, even just informing yourself and others on the topic is good.
join a political party whose goal is racial justice and decolonization. read literature on these topics.
In addition to the answers below, don't take it personally. Racism and colonialism are systemic issues. You didn't have a choice to be born, you don't control the political economy of your country, you didn't choose what your forebears did. Don't view having an accurate understanding of history and political economy as a personal attack.
Seriously though let’s talk this out.
Who would I give it to? Where would I go?
Like what’s a legit honest way to move forward.
Start by educating yourself. If people are calling you a colonizer to your face I'm pretty suspicious you're an ignorant asshole dipshit in real life.
You are not expected to give away all your money to bipoc or whatever. You are expected to understand how this society was built, where it currently stands today and where you sit in this society. And then you need to start trying to make a difference.
educate yourself on decolonialism. decolonizing doesn't mean you have to go somewhere else. it means dismantling the power structures that privilege you over natives and oppress them. it means replacing the colonial government with a unified state that gives natives real power.