If this quiz is accurate, it's actually pretty difficult to be woke without expecting action from others, especially straight white males. The politically correct thought police would probably qualify as woke.
I wish I'd thought to do this post. I am undoubtedly "anti-woke." My problem: I do not suffer fools gladly.
I have an aversion to absurdity ... which makes me an absolute prick. My love of logic and insistence on providing evidence-in-support-of-an-assertion ... well, some people just can't be helped.
I'm going to go do this Quiz. I will report back on my horrendousness. I am certain I will make you look like an amateur. Hell, I dislike people simply for using the word, "woke."
Quill
EDIT: As suspected, I am Genghis Khan.
That is such a ridiculous Quiz, it beggars credulity. Indeed, I wouldn't be surprised if it is actually a Marketing Tool (perhaps paid for) ... deliberately designed to manipulate Moderates into inching Left. I'm in advertising ... and I smell intent.
One of the tricks marketers learned a long time ago is, "The way you frame the options you provide people can dramatically influence their thinking."
For example, let's say you want to sell a bottle of wine for $15.00. You will maximize your chances if you surround your offer with deliberately unappealing options that make your "real offer" feel more appealing:
Option 1, Lying Ass Merlot, set a High Price anchor, making your price (Option 3) look very reasonable by comparison.
But Option 2 was also a very important manipulation. If Half a Bottle of Your Wine is worth $12.00 ... then a Full Bottle ought to be worth $24.00, right? But you can get a Full Bottle for a mere $15.00. BONUS!!!
Apply that same manipulative technique to the "possible answers" in this Quiz.
For example:
. What Do You Think About The Gender Pay Gap?
. 1.) It's Real And It Needs To Be Addressed
OK, this is the obvious answer for the "woke." But they're already sold ... this Quiz is not for them. Nevertheless, notice that there's no hyperbolic language ... just a reasonable-sounding "statement of fact."
. 2.) I'm Sure It Exists But I'm Not Sure It's As Big An Issue As Some Make It Out To Be.
This is what the Quiz is all about.
You're a Moderate, either Republican or Democrat, or a Centrist Independent like myself.
Clicking on Option 3 would make you an utter troglodyte (how many people believe that?) ... but you're not ready to throw in your lot with the green-haired Social Justice Warriors whom, given their theatrics and evidence-free assertions, you deem lunatics ... and you know they're the Option 1 folks.
So what's left?
Options 2. It sounds ... Moderate. But look carefully at what Option 2 got you to subconsciously agree to:
"I'm Sure It Exists" (The Wage Gap)
and
"I'm Not Sure" It's As Big An Issue As Some Make It Out To Be.
While this may sound innocuous, this is precisely the subtle rhetorical techniques ad agencies (I own one) employ to "Sway the Uncommitted." First, get them to agree to "little things" ... get them saying, "Yes."
. 3.) Women Should Be At Home Raising Children, Not Working Anyway
Troglodyte.
If you were really trying to run an honest Quiz, why not include a more reasonable-sounding Option than "barefoot and pregnant?" How about the point critics of the Wage Gap actually make:
The Wage Gap Does Not Exist.
While there is an Earnings Gap between men and women (the total amount of money earned by males vs females), the difference is explained by differences in "life choices" made by the genders (Majors in university, hours worked, interrupting a career to have children, danger pay, willingness to relocate, time flexibility, non-monetary benefits, etc.) It is not caused by companies paying men more for doing the same job.
The only "studies" alleging a Wage Gap emanate from Gender Studies departments, notoriously Far Left activists. Studies emanating from all other faculties, such as Economics, conclude that there's no problem to fix.
.
. Quill
I think I would have faired much worse had I not picked a few answers just because of the sheer absurdity.
A lot of the questions deserve posts on their own just to reflect on the consequences of this kind of right think.
I find it difficult to be friends with people who are woke (I like the term virtue signallers better), it took me a while to figure out if these people were actually serious.
I am looking forward to reading your opinions on more than a few of these questions.
Although I am not in marketing, I did notice that the way they present the answers is loaded. By around the 3rd or 4th one I realized there was no way I would survive without having to defend my answer for that reason. In any case, I decided to be brave and at least pick the best one. It's also why I am confused as to why I'm a fence sitter. A fence sitter won't choose if they are uncomfortable explaining their choice or will select multiple answers.
As you mentioned they frame it so either you believe in the wage gap or you think women shouldn't have jobs. Thankfully, not all questions were quite this bad.
My favorite question was:
Which Group Has The Most Privilege?
My answer: Probably the ones with the most money regardless of race.
Anyone who says race is more important than money in the modern world is dangerous.
My answer: Probably the ones with the most money regardless of race
And, according to every piece of academic research ever published, to say nothing of common sense and the evidence of your eyes, this is the correct answer.
And, it is an exemplar of what I'm always railing on about in terms of "evidence of assertion." The ideologues not only don't require reason and evidence in support of their Truth Claims, they actively deride it (I kid you not: Logic and Math ... especially statistics ... are now "Tools of the Patriarchy"). As their "Truths" derive from metaphysics ... screw physics.
This baloney does not bode well for the survival of our culture ... which, of course, is fine by them because everything about Western Civilization is evil. Aristotle, whose insights were foundational to the development of Western Civilization, is to be castigated ... because he wasn't a feminist. He believed males and females had fundamentally different natures which made them well adapted to fulfill certain roles in society. Compare this to a foundational belief in Eastern thought: Yin and Yang, the idea that the universe is made up of opposites, and that this manifested itself in the obvious differences between females (Yin - feminity) and males (Yang - masculinity). That, though, is not a problem ... it's only evil when a White Guy says it.
This is self-evident nonsense and we have to start calling a thing by its name. This tripe is now being widely taught in K-12 and universities.
That's a lot to think about for a Sunday :-(
Yeah, I thought there would be 10 questions, there were 35.
I have only seen this "woke" term once or twice and after reading those definitions, I can't say I'm any wiser about it haha!
Interesting talking points for the questions. I tend to stay away from such issues and live with a simple motto:
Am I woke? I dunno, I only just woke up so hard to tell 😂
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If this quiz is accurate, it's actually pretty difficult to be woke without expecting action from others, especially straight white males. The politically correct thought police would probably qualify as woke.
@abitcoinskeptic,
I wish I'd thought to do this post. I am undoubtedly "anti-woke." My problem: I do not suffer fools gladly.
I have an aversion to absurdity ... which makes me an absolute prick. My love of logic and insistence on providing evidence-in-support-of-an-assertion ... well, some people just can't be helped.
I'm going to go do this Quiz. I will report back on my horrendousness. I am certain I will make you look like an amateur. Hell, I dislike people simply for using the word, "woke."
Quill
EDIT: As suspected, I am Genghis Khan.
That is such a ridiculous Quiz, it beggars credulity. Indeed, I wouldn't be surprised if it is actually a Marketing Tool (perhaps paid for) ... deliberately designed to manipulate Moderates into inching Left. I'm in advertising ... and I smell intent.
One of the tricks marketers learned a long time ago is, "The way you frame the options you provide people can dramatically influence their thinking."
For example, let's say you want to sell a bottle of wine for $15.00. You will maximize your chances if you surround your offer with deliberately unappealing options that make your "real offer" feel more appealing:
Option 1, Lying Ass Merlot, set a High Price anchor, making your price (Option 3) look very reasonable by comparison.
But Option 2 was also a very important manipulation. If Half a Bottle of Your Wine is worth $12.00 ... then a Full Bottle ought to be worth $24.00, right? But you can get a Full Bottle for a mere $15.00. BONUS!!!
Apply that same manipulative technique to the "possible answers" in this Quiz.
For example:
.
What Do You Think About The Gender Pay Gap?
.
1.) It's Real And It Needs To Be Addressed
OK, this is the obvious answer for the "woke." But they're already sold ... this Quiz is not for them. Nevertheless, notice that there's no hyperbolic language ... just a reasonable-sounding "statement of fact."
.
2.) I'm Sure It Exists But I'm Not Sure It's As Big An Issue As Some Make It Out To Be.
This is what the Quiz is all about.
You're a Moderate, either Republican or Democrat, or a Centrist Independent like myself.
Clicking on Option 3 would make you an utter troglodyte (how many people believe that?) ... but you're not ready to throw in your lot with the green-haired Social Justice Warriors whom, given their theatrics and evidence-free assertions, you deem lunatics ... and you know they're the Option 1 folks.
So what's left?
Options 2. It sounds ... Moderate. But look carefully at what Option 2 got you to subconsciously agree to:
and
While this may sound innocuous, this is precisely the subtle rhetorical techniques ad agencies (I own one) employ to "Sway the Uncommitted." First, get them to agree to "little things" ... get them saying, "Yes."
.
3.) Women Should Be At Home Raising Children, Not Working Anyway
Troglodyte.
If you were really trying to run an honest Quiz, why not include a more reasonable-sounding Option than "barefoot and pregnant?" How about the point critics of the Wage Gap actually make:
While there is an Earnings Gap between men and women (the total amount of money earned by males vs females), the difference is explained by differences in "life choices" made by the genders (Majors in university, hours worked, interrupting a career to have children, danger pay, willingness to relocate, time flexibility, non-monetary benefits, etc.) It is not caused by companies paying men more for doing the same job.
The only "studies" alleging a Wage Gap emanate from Gender Studies departments, notoriously Far Left activists. Studies emanating from all other faculties, such as Economics, conclude that there's no problem to fix.
.
.
Quill
I think I would have faired much worse had I not picked a few answers just because of the sheer absurdity.
A lot of the questions deserve posts on their own just to reflect on the consequences of this kind of right think.
I find it difficult to be friends with people who are woke (I like the term virtue signallers better), it took me a while to figure out if these people were actually serious.
I am looking forward to reading your opinions on more than a few of these questions.
Posted using Partiko Android
Edit reply:
Although I am not in marketing, I did notice that the way they present the answers is loaded. By around the 3rd or 4th one I realized there was no way I would survive without having to defend my answer for that reason. In any case, I decided to be brave and at least pick the best one. It's also why I am confused as to why I'm a fence sitter. A fence sitter won't choose if they are uncomfortable explaining their choice or will select multiple answers.
As you mentioned they frame it so either you believe in the wage gap or you think women shouldn't have jobs. Thankfully, not all questions were quite this bad.
My favorite question was:
My answer: Probably the ones with the most money regardless of race.
Anyone who says race is more important than money in the modern world is dangerous.
@abitcoinskeptic
And, according to every piece of academic research ever published, to say nothing of common sense and the evidence of your eyes, this is the correct answer.
And, it is an exemplar of what I'm always railing on about in terms of "evidence of assertion." The ideologues not only don't require reason and evidence in support of their Truth Claims, they actively deride it (I kid you not: Logic and Math ... especially statistics ... are now "Tools of the Patriarchy"). As their "Truths" derive from metaphysics ... screw physics.
This baloney does not bode well for the survival of our culture ... which, of course, is fine by them because everything about Western Civilization is evil. Aristotle, whose insights were foundational to the development of Western Civilization, is to be castigated ... because he wasn't a feminist. He believed males and females had fundamentally different natures which made them well adapted to fulfill certain roles in society. Compare this to a foundational belief in Eastern thought: Yin and Yang, the idea that the universe is made up of opposites, and that this manifested itself in the obvious differences between females (Yin - feminity) and males (Yang - masculinity). That, though, is not a problem ... it's only evil when a White Guy says it.
This is self-evident nonsense and we have to start calling a thing by its name. This tripe is now being widely taught in K-12 and universities.
Quill
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