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"The woke mind virus is making Netflix unwatchable" Elon Musk, April 2022. Accurate.

rnd0 4y ago
"the blue bus travels over denmark" rnd0, April 2022. Also gibberish. I mean, as long as we're going to be spewing content-free sentences I might as well get mine in. "Woke" isn't a useful term because today in 2022 it basically means "anything a conservative doesn't like". "Woke mind virus" is particularly egregious -that's pure hyperbole without even a pretense of meaning. The problem with Netflix in the main isn't that they show too many people who are white, or show two many people who are LGBTQ+. The problem with Netflix IN THE MAIN is that they are cracking down on a subscription policy no one wants while increasing prices beyond what people believe are reasonable while at the same time hemmoraging content. It doesn't help that they have demonstrated over the last decade that you cannot rely on their own content to actually tell a full story (because it will get cancelled prematurely). None of that has anything to do with the "woke" bugbear -it would be equally true if Netflix's political stance matched OAN.
- gorwell 4y ago
  The "woke" all have the same opinions and aggressively attack any deviation. It acts like a parasite or virus that contains a payload of dogma replicating itself from host to host. It turns rational people into zombies, so mind virus describes it very well. Challenges to the dogma are considered dangerous as it threatens the ability for the virus to spread. You're right that the virus could be a different variant, like the anti-woke variant, and it'd be a problem too if it parasitized as many brains.
  - rnd0 4y ago
    What are those opinions, please; if there is no variation then that ought to be easy enough for you to detail. >It turns rational people into zombies, so mind virus describes it very well. If you believe in literal zombies, I'd gently suggest to you that your own grip on rationality may not be as firm as you believe.
  - orangepurple 4y ago
    It may not be unfair to claim that it's "everything conservatives don't agree with." While that may or may not be true, it more specifically refers to a type of hivemind.
    - rnd0 4y ago
      >While that may or may not be true, it more specifically refers to a type of hivemind. It sounds to me like you meant "colliqually" -as in "in informal or slang usage", not "specifically"? In every conversation I've had on the subject where I've tried to nail down a definition of the term, the intended meaning is always different. Unless I'm very mistaken (please correct me if I am) there isn't an objective universally-agreed upon definition of what Woke means. It's used the way "liberal" was in the 1990's or "SJW" was in the 2010's -an empty pejorative that ultimately only adds noise to any conversation it's unironically used in.
- orangepurple 4y ago
  Since you assert that "woke" isn't a useful term because today in 2022 it basically means "anything a conservative doesn't like" and Elon Musk uses the term liberally, do you agree that Elon is not a conservative?
  - rnd0 4y ago
    I don't honestly give enough of a shit about Elon to remember what his politics are. All I care about is that "woke" is empty rhetoric which is in practice meaningless.
- fleddr 4y ago
  Saying that "woke" means anything conservatives don't like is a very woke thing to say. Woke is post modernist far left garbage which ends at center-left. Not at "far right".

rnd0 4y ago

"the blue bus travels over denmark" rnd0, April 2022. Also gibberish. I mean, as long as we're going to be spewing content-free sentences I might as well get mine in. "Woke" isn't a useful term because today in 2022 it basically means "anything a conservative doesn't like". "Woke mind virus" is particularly egregious -that's pure hyperbole without even a pretense of meaning. The problem with Netflix in the main isn't that they show too many people who are white, or show two many people who are LGBTQ+. The problem with Netflix IN THE MAIN is that they are cracking down on a subscription policy no one wants while increasing prices beyond what people believe are reasonable while at the same time hemmoraging content. It doesn't help that they have demonstrated over the last decade that you cannot rely on their own content to actually tell a full story (because it will get cancelled prematurely). None of that has anything to do with the "woke" bugbear -it would be equally true if Netflix's political stance matched OAN.

gorwell 4y ago
The "woke" all have the same opinions and aggressively attack any deviation. It acts like a parasite or virus that contains a payload of dogma replicating itself from host to host. It turns rational people into zombies, so mind virus describes it very well. Challenges to the dogma are considered dangerous as it threatens the ability for the virus to spread. You're right that the virus could be a different variant, like the anti-woke variant, and it'd be a problem too if it parasitized as many brains.
- rnd0 4y ago
  What are those opinions, please; if there is no variation then that ought to be easy enough for you to detail. >It turns rational people into zombies, so mind virus describes it very well. If you believe in literal zombies, I'd gently suggest to you that your own grip on rationality may not be as firm as you believe.
- orangepurple 4y ago
  It may not be unfair to claim that it's "everything conservatives don't agree with." While that may or may not be true, it more specifically refers to a type of hivemind.
  - rnd0 4y ago
    >While that may or may not be true, it more specifically refers to a type of hivemind. It sounds to me like you meant "colliqually" -as in "in informal or slang usage", not "specifically"? In every conversation I've had on the subject where I've tried to nail down a definition of the term, the intended meaning is always different. Unless I'm very mistaken (please correct me if I am) there isn't an objective universally-agreed upon definition of what Woke means. It's used the way "liberal" was in the 1990's or "SJW" was in the 2010's -an empty pejorative that ultimately only adds noise to any conversation it's unironically used in.
orangepurple 4y ago
Since you assert that "woke" isn't a useful term because today in 2022 it basically means "anything a conservative doesn't like" and Elon Musk uses the term liberally, do you agree that Elon is not a conservative?
- rnd0 4y ago
  I don't honestly give enough of a shit about Elon to remember what his politics are. All I care about is that "woke" is empty rhetoric which is in practice meaningless.
fleddr 4y ago
Saying that "woke" means anything conservatives don't like is a very woke thing to say. Woke is post modernist far left garbage which ends at center-left. Not at "far right".