Woke or not?

So, I’m curious if you had a long time friend who was suddenly diagnosed with cancer (treatable but still shocking to find out that your friend had cancer) would it be considered “woke” to show compassion and empathy for them and their cancer recovery journey?

If you consider it to be “woke” .. please explain why you believe that being a heartless bastard is better than showing empathy.

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SW-User

That's called showing a friend or another person empathy when they've been diagnosed with a horrible illness that could potentially end their life in a very painful manner. Hopefully we'd all really feel that empathy too.

"woke", however, is identifying and engaging in various social causes, usually those centered around sex, race, gender, etc. in society. Woke people will look for and perceive injustices, when in reality they really aren't injustices...or are just examples of what happens to most other people regardless of the aforementioned characteristics. In general, it's insincere because real empathy isn't experienced like that. We feel bad about certain things, we try our best for our families, we help where we can, and so on...woke is taking a supposed "concern" much further than that but not for reasons that are genuine or commendable. If anything, it is the ultimate suppressor of empathy, which has many dimensions and can only be real if it is genuine.