I hate this “woke mob” branding, there isn’t one, there are people who care about social issues who are individuals. Some go too far, I agree, but we should aim to treat everyone, no matter what they believe (yes even if you think they are really wrong) with respect rather than pigeon holing all their views in with a group you don’t like.
Translation: people who see an opportunity to debase others for free and put themselves on a pedestal
Update: We call this class of people Mullahs here in Iran. It's been slowly but surely becoming apparent to us that they are somewhat of a societal parasite.
I actually knew my comment was following essentially the same game-theory as the woke, like almost every single complaint on the internet. The difference in targets' deservability is apparent to me.
Except a lot of those individuals will happily brand you to pigeon hole all your views with a dislikable group, so at this point I think branding them back is fair game.
Okay so now you’re saying you want to get in there and call the other side names just in case. “But but but they started it” is not an argument for anything. I prefer personally to being open to both right wing and left wing ideas and people.
No. I'm saying I don't feel the need to protect any side [+] from being called names. I'm saying people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. That kind of stuff.
[+] note how you just assumed "the other side", and the existence of exactly 2 sides.
These individuals generally share something in common. Whilst I think that "woke mob" may be a bit harsh, arguing that this isn't a group of people (regardless of they themselves think they are a group) is counterproductive. Having a name just makes it easier to talk about this. This isn't about pigeonholing, not any more than labeling people as "far right" or "antifa" is pigeonholing.
But they behave like a mob. The smallest thing can set them off, even them misunderstanding the situation. When they go off, they unashamedly target people's livelihoods. Even if you later have your name cleared, it doesn't undo the damage. The Covington kids are an example that they do behave like a mob.
The alternative interpretation is that they're consciously being malicious.
That goes for literally any group of people though. SJW, Proud Boys, Antifa, Islamic State, Nazis, the CIA, Drug Cartels. They're all made up of individuals, yet I doubt you want to reserve judgement on individual's membership unless you know what exactly they were doing and do believe for most of those.
