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Woke or not woke?

Pick the positions you actually agree with. No teams, just claims. Nothing leaves your device.

⚠ Content under review. This page is still being developed and will definitely change.

Pick what you believe

Choose any positions you agree with on each issue. The next issue opens after your first pick.

Trans people exist. 0 picked
Gay people exist. 0 picked
Racism exists (incl. institutions), and it matters. 0 picked
Sexism exists, and it matters. 0 picked
Disabled people exist. 0 picked
Consent matters. 0 picked
Kids should be safe from abuse. 0 picked
Police powers. 0 picked
Your boss shouldn’t be allowed to treat you like meat. 0 picked
Healthcare should be accessible. 0 picked
Housing, affordability and homelessness. 0 picked
Poverty as personal responsibility. 0 picked
Refugees are people too. 0 picked
Climate change is real, and we should respond. 0 picked
History happened, incl. the ugly bits. 0 picked
Some jokes are just cruel. 0 picked
Some “free speech” is “I want to be a c**t without consequences.” 0 picked
Representation in media isn’t oppression. 0 picked
Words can be used to dehumanise, on purpose. 0 picked
Harassment isn’t “debate.” 0 picked
Nazis are bad. 0 picked
Conspiracies aren’t a personality. 0 picked
Facts vs feelings. 0 picked

Your woke score

This is a deliberately blunt toy. It’s about patterns in what you picked, not judging you as a person.

Pick at least one position in every issue to see your score.

Note

Disclaimer. These extremes do not all carry the same harms. We are not saying they are “the same” in scope and scale... only that they represent competing positions on individual issues. Some pull or push harder than others.

The left-to-right binary is itself something of a myth. The political spectrum vastly oversimplifies reality, and often asks you (the real person) to “bucket” yourself (even when that means jumping onboard with people and positions you wouldn’t normally). The concept of the Overton window (the range of ideas considered politically acceptable at a given time) helps explain how discourse shifts, and why “extreme” and “mainstream” are always in motion.

Anti-extremism is partly about recognising radicalisation cycles and feedback loops: how groups can fuel each other’s rhetoric and actions. Many of these issues may not affect you personally, but who you choose to lend your support to affects how society responds to them as a whole.

Further reading: CREST - Reciprocal Radicalisation; CREST - Online Radicalisation; Hedayah - The CVE Cycle; Reason - The Left-Right Spectrum Is Mostly Meaningless.