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> so it doesn't seem like your comment was as rhetorically effective as you may have thought it was To you, sure, I agree > Nowadays the term "woke" is almost
by pipeline_peak 4y ago
> so it doesn't seem like your comment was as rhetorically effective as you may have thought it was
To you, sure, I agree
> Nowadays the term "woke" is almost exclusively used as an insult and not as a self-description
Almost exclusively, really?
> it actually has the feel of self-identifying the user of a term as having a particular sociopolitical leaning.
Why is that such a concern to you?
- lapcat 4y ago> Almost exclusively, really? Don't take it from me, take it from Wikipedia. ;-) "By 2021, woke had become used almost exclusively as a pejorative, with most prominent usages of the word taking place in a disparaging context." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke#Woke_as_a_pejorative_term https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke#Woke_as_a_pejorative_term > Why is that such a concern to you? I wouldn't say it's a concern. It's an observation.
- pipeline_peak 4y agoThe wiki quote you replied with references the well known left leaning New York Times. I don't see any data that proves your point that woke is almost exclusively an insult. An observation is merely to collect information, you went out of your way to bring it up. I'm just curious as to what your motive is.
- lapcat 4y agoI remember when the NYT propagandized for the Iraq invasion. Anyway, I have no aspiration to prove this point, you can believe whatever you want to believe. But at least believe that my impression is not unique in this respect. We all, everyone here in the HN comments, went out of our way to write comments and replies on the internets. It's actually not that hard to type stuff. At the moment, I've got too much free time on my hands.
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