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That often occurs. SJW and woke originated on the left before being co-opted by their opponents as insults. Naturally, many on the left now dislike those terms.
by Veen 4y ago
That often occurs. SJW and woke originated on the left before being co-opted by their opponents as insults. Naturally, many on the left now dislike those terms.
- tsimionescu 4y agoThey are disliked because they are cliche, but I haven't heard anyone on the notoriously censourious woke left calling them slurs, the way TERFs are trying to describe the quite neutral term.
- regularfry 4y agoThey're disliked because they've been overused to the point of losing any practical meaning, and it's transparent that they're only used for point-scoring and intra-tribal signalling. There's just nothing there to get that annoyed about, really. What I think the difference shows is that there is a fundamental part of the hierarchical/authoritarian mindset that objects to being labeled by someone in the out-group no matter the label, and that objecting to that labeling is itself an in-group marker.