# My definition of woke **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 8, 2024, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-definition-of-woke/1011343 "2024-12-08T11:31:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 348
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2024, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-definition-of-woke/1011343/348 "2024-12-24T07:29:09Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Does this mean you will never argue with any American about things American? If it’s an error based on my only reading social media posts, I’d hope I’d be corrected by actual Americans. If it’s some matter of fact, and the facts are on my side, I’ll continue to argue. This kind of thing (being corrected about South African facts by an actual resident) [isn’t at all a new experience for you](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ethics-of-my-octopus-teacher-possible-spoilers/939157/35), after all, so I don’t know why you’re sticking your oar in. > [@DrDeth](#): > > You know, some British posters were defending Brexit, and I argued against it- was I automatically wrong as I am an American? I don’t know, were the numerous British people arguing against it _also_ wrong? I don’t know what your argument was, or what facts were bandied about. My argument is _not_ that Brits can’t argue with South Africans about South African topics. It’s that when they are corrected about a factual matter by people with actual in-country experience (as in - _I have sung that very chant_, at the actual people it is intended for, and been shot at for it), they not just blithely _repeat the same incorrect fact later in the same thread_ as though no correction had happened. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-definition-of-woke/1011343)._