Aren't 'woke' people actually just bullies?

This is also a story about one of the answers to the subtitle of this note, 'Why do liberals keep losing?'

The other day on TV, an education expert named Chikato Oyano was asked by a celebrity mom,
'My child can't seem to tidy up, what can I do to help them learn?'
He replied,
'Being able to tidy up is largely innate, so there's not much you can do about it.'
I was even moved, thinking that Japan had finally reached this level.

There is a person named Ruri Miura, and while there is almost nothing I agree with her on, I do learn from the results of statistical surveys she occasionally presents.
There was an eye-opening section in a book titled 'Affairs and Justice,' which was written in a dialogue format with Nobuko Nakano, a neuroscientist I also cannot empathize with.
Miura-san introduced a personal advice column that Chizuko Ueno wrote in the Asahi Shimbun, where she would punch down at a man in his 70s who complained that his wife wouldn't even let him hold her hand, telling him it was his own fault for not polishing his communication skills. Since Ueno-san always speaks only from a woman's perspective, I was sure that if a woman had asked the same question, she would have told her to dump the man, saying men are fine to have but not necessary, or to just have an affair, so I dismissed her argument in return.
Furthermore, she says it's natural to be unpopular if you lack communication skills, but that's only something Ueno-san can say because she has been popular. And while that might be the truth, there are women who also suffer from being unpopular.

What was eye-opening about this is that it suggested that 'communication skills' are not something you can just improve through self-help alone.

On the day before yesterday (Saturday), on TOKYO MX's 'Atsushi Tamura's Kikitai!', whenever the list of reasons husbands are served with divorce papers in middle age was shown, MC Atsushi Tamura kept repeating things like, 'It's pathetic because everyone lacks communication skills like I do.' It ended up feeling like he was just bragging and the atmosphere became strange, but I actually want him to keep saying it. That communication skills are a special talent.

Now, this is the main point...
Furthermore, the day before that, on Friday, TBS Radio aired a special program with a long, 'woke'-sounding title like a Koki Mitani drama:
'Thinking about microaggressions through late-night dramas, even though I think I understand them'
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Ikuchu Oshima was the host, and the guests were Yuuna Kamiura, who is a producer of a girls' love drama called
'Ayaka-chan is in Love with Hiroko-senpai', and Miyu Matsuzawa, a lesbian activist? Influencer?

As an example of a microaggression word, they brought up the statement:
'(To a lesbian) I've never met one before, so I don't know how to act.'
The retort to this was,
'That can't be true.'
If this were the statement 'There are no homosexuals around me,' one could say, 'No, no, you just haven't noticed,' but here it says 'meet,' meaning to consciously recognize each other, so it's entirely possible, and conversely, I'd want to reply, 'Why do you know about my personal experiences?'

And another one:
'I have a lesbian friend too.'

The retort to this is,
'So what?'
but I think that's actually unkind.
It might be lacking in smarts, but is it a statement that deserves to be criticized that much?
There is clearly no malice, and isn't it actually a phrase used while trying hard to communicate?
It might be an expression that they have no prejudice because they have friends who are, or it might be an expression that they know there are homosexuals, even though many people think there aren't that many in society.
Even if it's not about sexual orientation, there are techniques to find some common topic with someone you've just met, and I'm sure there have been countless failures where that has backfired. For example, if you are introduced to a professional clarinet player and say, 'Oh, I played woodwinds in the brass band too.' You might be told from the side not to compare it to a student club, but if you are told 'So what?' in return, it's over in many ways. In many ways.

Whenever I hear stories like this, I think, aren't 'woke' people harsh on 'idiots'?
Perhaps the largest faction in this world is 'idiots.' 'Idiots' have low comprehension, and since they have little basic knowledge, it takes extra time and energy to update them.
I also try to make an effort in terms of basic knowledge, but if I were to draw a line, I belong to the idiot attribute. Simply in terms of intelligence.

I recently realized that the anger often heard in stories right after the end of the war, like 'The guy who was shouting Long Live the Emperor until yesterday is now talking about democracy,' actually leads to that kind of thing.

In other words, those who were able to update first do not gently enlighten or educate those who follow, but simply mount and insult them. Hasn't that kind of insidious 'idiot bullying' and 'clumsy bullying' been continuing in this country for a long time?

If it really is a terrible NG word, you should point it out on the spot to prevent the next victim. With reasons included. After all, you are not a weak ordinary person, but also a sender. Isn't it actually worse to let it slide and then announce it on the radio, TV, or SNS to make fun of them?

When I googled to check Matsuzawa-san's title, the Miss Chuo University website came up.

In the profile, it says:
I don't hurt anyone. I don't leave anyone behind. I have been continuing such transmission activities for 6 years. I will continue to stick to the kindness I believe in.

Then please don't leave us idiots behind either.

Oh? You young person over there, relieved that you are lucky enough not to be an idiot. Especially you, the straight person.
You were born in an era when arguments were already somewhat available, so you happened to be able to make the 'right choice' easily, but can you say with confidence that you would have reached that idea if you had been dropped into the 70s or 80s?
In the 80s, Tunnels were still playing a character called Homoo Homoo and everyone was laughing. T-san and the Village People who appeared on the Snake Man Show were sending out messages in all seriousness, but they were treated like a joke.
It's like an artificial satellite. Once it jumps into outer space, it orbits on its own, but if it starts from the ground, it requires a huge amount of rocket energy to escape the gravitational sphere.

Even among LGBTQ people, it seems like there are quite a few who don't know much about types other than themselves.
Singer MISIA reported the news that drag queens were excluded from a gay rally in New York as a sad thing, but I wondered if that was different from the nuance of, for example, a Yamanba gal coming to her parent's funeral in that outfit and getting scolded.

Woke people tend to talk about the introduction of overseas culture while skipping over Japan's cultural background. For example, an expert said that the reason there are many de facto marriages overseas is simply because there are many countries where marriage and divorce are not as easy as in Japan, but there are quite a few people who say that Japan is stubborn or too bound by custom. An expert who commented on the news of mass layoffs at a certain IT company in the US, saying it was terrible no matter what, even though they didn't know the detailed situation. The fluidity of the US labor market is higher than that of Japan, so it is reckless to simply compare them, and the situation of the dismissed employees is probably not as miserable or serious as the teacher thinks.

Anyway, back to the topic,
while self-proclaimed high-achievers talk about diversity all the time, I wish they would use their imagination to realize that intellectual levels, communication skills, and other traits and abilities are also diverse. And when someone is wrong, I want them to enlighten others with a gentle approach, like, 'That's true, it's understandable if you didn't know that.'
If you get angry right away, as if to say, 'An adult should be able to understand that much logically...', then the other person will just end up feeling discouraged.

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