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woke shaming

woke shaming is when white people shame other white people for not being woke enough, resulting in silence or inaction, which perpetuates problems of racial injustice.

woke shaming between white people serves the narrative of "being part of the problem or not". It has absolutely nothing to do with the solution.

Example:
- you’re afraid to share information or ask a question out of fear of being met with a “well actually” response from your more woke friends
or:
- you share information with good intention without realizing your less woke friends will feel stupid (which they probably deserve to, but ask yourself- does feelings stupid inspire action and solution? Or does it just make you feel better about how woke you are??)
-someone asks you a question and the first thing you do is point out the problems in their logic/assumptions

Solutions:
-thank people for their questions, acknowledge their effort
-don’t be a “well actually” person. ever.
-repost/share information that perpetuates positivity and action/direction
-don’t look into the past at all. None of this “well you never cared before” or “I’ve cared all along” or “I care better or harder than you” bullshit

NOTE:
-if a POC makes you feel ashamed of your ignorance, IT'S OKAY. just listen and learn. The point is, whether or not shame or guilt is warranted as a feeling, it does not inspire action. Woke white people shaming other white people just makes it all about white people and guess what, IT'S FUCKING NOT.
“I posted the anti-racism reading list on my story, but then deleted, it after all the woke shaming I received from my friends who actually went to the protest”
by no justice no peace May 31, 2020
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Food Shaming

The act of judging, criticizing, with guilt the choices of food you are eating. Whether by yourself with others.
Food shaming : Please don't eat the bacon. bacon is from cute pigs in a large warehouse farm. you should eat tofu, tofu is not meat. or Vegan is good, meat eaters bad. Similar to body shaming but with food.
by ErisDiscord June 17, 2015
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pill shaming

The action or practice of making mocking or critical comments about people who take medication.

Pill shaming is most-often directed at people who take/endorse taking psychotropic medicactions as part of a mental health relapse-prevention/recovery plan. As with fat shaming, pill shaming achieves little other than frustrate and humiliate individuals who may already be feeling self-conscious and vulnerable..

Those who indulge in pill shaming are often ideologically driven (eg: scientologists), but sometimes they're just ignorant fools. Since 2013 the act of pill shaming is sometimes called-out on Twitter with the hashtag #pillshaming.
FFS! Don't you think there's enough stigma about mental health already? I found an antidepressant that works for me. Critising people who take psych meds as victims of a psychiatry-big pharma conspiracy does not help me. It's nasty, ill-informed pill shaming.

I really, really dislike being told I am being fooled or oppressed because I take meds. On the contrary, I'm empowered to LIVE #PillShaming
by meta4RN August 4, 2017
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Shit Shaming

The act of embarrassing or shaming someone that has to take a shit. Typically occurring in a public setting such as school, work, etc. Other factors such as little to no toilet paper being present or the smelly farts released while trying to hold it in further elevates the Shaming.
I felt sorry for Bradley, our co-workers were Shit Shaming him hard because the bathroom was out of toilet paper.
by Baku Panurple March 14, 2018
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slut shaming

telling someone that sleeping around with peoples boyfriends is disgusting and they need to keep it in their pants, get they’re own boyfriend, or stay single.
ellinore says i’m slut shaming her but i’m telling it like it is.
by secretssecrets1 April 26, 2020
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Dick shaming

Dick shaming is when women (mostly teenage girls with no concept of sex) complaining about the dick size of a man.
Brenda tweeted to her friends about her boyfriends penis size, totally dick shaming him.
by Dick York January 11, 2018
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slut shaming

The term "slut shamming" was initially invented for the people who think a man with many casual partners is a stud, an alpha, a super manly man and a woman with many casual partners is a slut, a skank, a bitch, a whore because it's hypocrital. However, nowadays it's used by feminists to justify anything, like going half-naked to the store or to "steal" someones' partner.
Sarah: That bitch hooked up with my boyfriend knowing he's my boyfriend, fucking slut!!
Slut feminist: Ayo? you're slut shaming me, I've got all the right to do whatever I want with my body, Imma cancel you on twitter
by DontAskMeThat September 19, 2022
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