# Is it Time to Tone Down the Wokeness, Especially about the Past? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [November 15, 2024, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-time-to-tone-down-the-wokeness-especially-about-the-past/1010287 "2024-11-15T15:14:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 639
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2024, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-time-to-tone-down-the-wokeness-especially-about-the-past/1010287/639 "2024-11-29T23:55:08Z")
> [@DemonTree](#): > > You gave yourself as an example of a woke person. Please come back when you are willing to stand behind your beliefs. I did NOT say I was “woke”. I said I assumed that I was. Until you define “woke”, I cannot know if I meet your definition or not. > [@DemonTree](#): > > Who is the better person: someone who uses preferred pronouns perfectly to make a friend happy, but doesn’t really believe they are the gender they identify as? Or someone who sometimes slips up and forgets to use the correct pronouns, but 100% believes their friend is the gender they identify as? Assuming I fit your definition of “woke” (a definition you still have not given), I cannot judge somebody on what they believe. This is because, unless they explicitly tell me what they believe, it is impossibel for me to know what they believe. I can observe and know their actions. This has nothing to do with holding one over the other. It has to do with the fact that I am not a telepath. Now, please provide a cite for your claim, and a definition of “woke” --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-time-to-tone-down-the-wokeness-especially-about-the-past/1010287)._