Wokal Distance has an excellent thread that explains why all of these little brat “journalists” are always using the phrase “I’m so exhausted” to signal each other on Twitter:
Can anyone explain where the “I’m so exhausted” trope came from, and why it’s such a thing among people in upper class intellectual professions? https://t.co/8lYHVG5kxZ
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) April 21, 2021
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— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) April 23, 2021
The phrase “I’M SO EXHAUSTED” in upper class intellectual professions comes from Social Justice activism and belongs to the same constellation of concepts as:
-emotional labor
-do the work
-triggered
-trauma
-self-care
-white fragility
So, “I’m so exhausted”:
A Thread? https://t.co/FBGslQpcIL
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— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) April 23, 2021
When upper-class professionals performatively say “I’m so exhausted” they aren’t saying “I did lot of physical labor today and now I’m tired”
The “exhausted” in the phrase “I’m so exhausted” is exhaustion in terms of what woke Social Justice activists call *EMOTIONAL LABOR*
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— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) April 23, 2021
Once we know what “emotional labor” is explaining why people say “I’m so exhausted” will be simple
“Emotional labor” originally referred to having to manage one’s emotions in a particular way as a part of one’s work requirements
IE: being required to be polite to customers
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— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) April 23, 2021
This idea was pulled from it’s original context and the meaning was expanded to include every day social interactions. Thus “emotional labor” was used to analyze the effort required to manage emotions, both others and your own, in every day relationships and social situations.
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— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) April 23, 2021
The term “emotional labor” was then co-opted by Social Justice Activists who claimed that since society was fundamentally oppressive, oppressed minorities had to do emotional and social labor just to cope with the unjust and unfair social expectations of an oppressive society.
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— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) April 23, 2021
The idea is that society places social and emotional expectations on people which force them to engage in certain social and emotional behavior whether they want to or not. According to Social Justice Activism, keeping up with these expectations is a type of emotional labor.
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— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) April 23, 2021
IE: feminists often claim patriarchy expects women to adopt the role of home-maker; a role requiring them to be sweet and happy while managing the behavior of both themselves and children, and this is a form of emotional labor women are unjustly expected to do, uncompensated
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— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) April 23, 2021
According to woke Social Justice, the White Male Cisgendered Patriarchy has placed its emotional and social norms on everyone. This means that unless you’re a White Straight Cisgendered Male you’re (allegedly) doing constant emotional labor just to cope with all the oppression
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— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) April 23, 2021
This is why:
-Being black is exhausting (pic 1)
-Being a Woman is exhausting (Pic 2)
-Being a non-binary sports fan is exhausting (Pic 3)
-Being trans is exhausting (Pic 4) pic.twitter.com/UiXLMWYqN6
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— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) April 23, 2021
And also why:
-Being fat is exhausting (pic 1)
-Being a lesbian is exhausting (Pic 2)
-Being latinx is exhausting (Pic 3)
-Being pansexual is exhausting (Pic 4) pic.twitter.com/dmVSQqsEYk
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— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) April 23, 2021
The idea is once you “wake up” to the fact society is forcing you into white cisgendered straight male ways of emotional and social engagement, then managing the expectations society is trying to force on you while you’re trying to resist them takes a lot of emotional labor.
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— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) April 23, 2021
The thing to remember is that in the woke Social Justice worldview it isn’t just the expectations which are exhausting. Being “woke” to the systems of social forces that oppress you and managing the expectations of those systems adds another layer of emotional labor…
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— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) April 23, 2021
that the woke person has to do as they dismantle the systems of oppression in society. They are “saving the world” and fixing society while managing all the toxic, patriarchal emotional responses society programmed into us…and they aren’t even getting paid!!!
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— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) April 23, 2021
This is why upper-class professionals claim to be “exhausted.”
When an upper-class professional says “I’M SO EXHAUSTED” they are claiming to be emotionally depleted from all the work they do managing all the toxic social and emotional behavior going on around them….
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— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) April 23, 2021
Both activists and upper-class professionals claim the mantle of both the victim (“I do this for free while not being compensated and I’m being oppressed”) and the hero (“I’m managing all these people’s emotions while fixing society and bringing about Social Justice”)
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— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) April 23, 2021
Thus being exhausted is a sign someone is:
1. aware of how society *really* works and are resisting the system unlike all you sheeple.
2. Managing the toxicity of everyone around them while fixing the oppression.
Not all heroes wear capes, but all of them are exhausted.
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— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) April 23, 2021
As such “I’M SO EXHAUSTED” serves as a signal that someone is both aware of the systemic oppression, understands it, feels the weight of it, and is resisting it while managing all the toxic not-woke people who are unconsciously spewing their non-woke toxicity everywhere…
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— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) April 23, 2021
This is why it is becoming common. If you aren’t exhausted, then either you don’t know whats going on (you’re not woke to the system, you’re asleep) or you’re not resisting the oppression and fixing it… if you were, you would be exhausted….just like them.
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— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) April 23, 2021
I realize there are exceptions (IE, if someone says “I just lifted weights for three hours and I’m so exhausted” they are likely just tired) but in activist and media circles this is what is going on, and this is what it means.
Thank you for reading.
/fin
Selling a lie is hard work, the truth on the other hand speaks for itself.
@ they are flaming out, they have no staying power, they can’t handle the grind, they fight with no honor, they show strength against the weak, the vulnerable, thee outnumbered, thee elderly, once exposed to resistance, they melt, our elected officials have allowed them to terrorize the public, they must be held accountable as well, they are even more guilty. They are cursed.
This reminds me of how blacks used to complain that to be promoted at work they had to work twice as hard as whites to get the promotion. They were right: by black standards, a black does have to work 200% to do what a white person would consider 100%. Anyone who works with blacks sees this daily. They take more unofficial social breaks, they work at a slower pace, they make more mistakes.
Work of any kind is intellectual labor. The things that whites don’t have a problem with, like thinking about what they are doing while doing it, being quiet so as not to interrupt their coworkers, sitting still when necessary, these are problems for blacks, so it IS laborious for them. What a bunch of uncute children they are.
As for white millennials complaining about essentially the same thing, they are just stooping to be like their black idols. Their jobs aren’t hard.
You “woke” people might be battling the forces from prayers of righteous people who are kneeling down and praying to God to remove you perverts from this nation. I think it is going to eventually require fire — nuclear — megaton class.
This how true genius operates. Instead of temporary symbols like Big Beautiful Wall, he pushed entire system into madness and self destruction.
The SJW scum are always striking a holier-than-gawd drama queen pose. Such heroes they are, bearing the vast burden of being “woke” while the “stupid, ignorant White trash” mindlessly continue to spew their “toxic micro-aggressions”!
They & the kikes who created them should be forced to dig their own mass graves.
Lets hope this means they are suffering from collective mental burn out, and won’t be able to work intellectual jobs any longer. We’ll know this is so, when they start demanding decades long holidays in Fiji untill they recover – all paid for by the evil working class white taxpayer, of course!
“It’s so exhausting” enduring the annoying ideology and constant lies put out by the upper class and upper middle class White liberal elites.