I thought it meant being aware of how society is still repressing women, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+ etc. Despite white men supposing otherwise.
Was this continued discrimination a secret? Someone has to be at the top of the pile and if you are already there it is easier to kick down the pretenders.[/quote]
It seems to have been more of a secret to the privileged, who don’t experience the negative impacts, such as white, middle aged, middle class mountain bikers (I’m including myself in this category).
To take an example that might resonate more on here than wondering about the disproportionate numbers of black people who are shot by police or sent to prison in the US, we recently had a thread on here about under-representation of women and ethnic minorities in mountain biking – there were those suggesting that there isn’t a problem because no one is actively preventing people with brown skin and / or vaginas from accessing the trails. A more “woke” stance might recognise, for example, differentials in prizes for women in races, lack of being treated seriously in bike shops (again, for women), sexist advertising from the bike industry, sexist editorial from cycling media etc. as a factor in deterring participation.
The same “woke” logic suggests that, for example, the relative likelihoods of a rich white guy who went to Eton and a poor black lad raised in a shithole council estate in massive poverty (and being stopped-and-searched by the police every time he walks down the street), becoming either a cabinet minister, or another prison statistic might not just be down to the Etonian “working harder”
EDIT: Nested quote thing not worked, hopefully you get the gist….
