Several wokenesses<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n ‘Woke’ is a weak term. Behind it also lies a weak concept. There are very diverse kinds of being woke. Unsurprisingly, there are also various ways of looking at wokeness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It’s not always the same concept. Strikingly and not surprisingly, however, is the lack of distinction made by woke people between ego and total person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For instance, they tend to act against racism<\/a> as if this would be one block.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Is it about tolerance<\/a><\/strong>?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The woke quest is for a world in which no group of people gets discriminated against. In race, religion, gender, etc, all differences \u2013 within humane boundaries \u2013 need to be tolerated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is, of course, excellent. In a world of Compassion, we would see the same. Still, in many cases, wokeness looks pretty different from Compassion. One way to know the difference is by looking at forgiveness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Canceling someone as punishment is no act of forgiveness, as is no other punishment. It is about payment from one side, retribution from the other \u2015 no Compassion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Weird is, for instance, a non-Compassionate woke Christian, since the New Testament is all about forgiveness \u2015 no punishment. In the story about the adulteress who was about to be stoned to death, Jesus dared to ask the mob with stones in their hands whether there was one without sin: “Let him throw the first stone.” That is Compassion, no wokeness of the retribution kind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So, what is the source of woke intolerance?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This may lie mainly in a lack of deep respect. Respect, of course, has many faces.<\/a> Respect for rules can be the opposite to respect for people. The latter is necessarily deep. The former has no depth unless the respect goes to the people concerned by the rules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n