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Except as a sibling poster points out, for every 1 job posting using the word folk, there are about 80 using the word people. So really it’s the anti-“woke” cr

Except as a sibling poster points out, for every 1 job posting using the word folk, there are about 80 using the word people. So really it’s the anti-“woke” crowd are unable to look at anything without feeling oppressed by the “woke”.

poszlem 4y ago
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- yowzadave 4y ago
  I think a more likely explanation is that President Obama used to frequently say “folks” in his speeches, probably in an effort to sound more colloquial/friendly. My guess is that many more people would be influenced by this than the smaller group of online people who get weirdly fixated on woke discourse.
- dang 4y ago
  You've been abusively posting copy-pasted offtopic stuff. If you keep doing that, we're going to have to ban you. I don't want to ban you, so please stop. (Edit: please see the note at the bottom of this comment, because you're clearly over the bannable line right now.) Your account is rate limited because you get involved in flamewars and use HN for ideological battle. That's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. We've asked you to stop more than once: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34030923 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34030923 (Dec 2022) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33819680 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33819680 (Dec 2022) Do you really think we should not moderate this place? That would burn it to a crisp and leave it unrecognizable. It's our job not to let that happen. Rate limits are one of the few software ways I know of that help with that. Edit: It looks like you've not only been breaking the guidelines; you've been using HN primarily for ideological battle. That's one line at which we ban accounts. See https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix=false&page=0&query=primarily%20test%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... for past explanation about this, and (if you don't want to be banned), please stop. (No, this has nothing to do with which ideology you're for or against. We don't care. What we care about is not letting ideological passions destroy this community.)

poszlem 4y ago

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yowzadave 4y ago
I think a more likely explanation is that President Obama used to frequently say “folks” in his speeches, probably in an effort to sound more colloquial/friendly. My guess is that many more people would be influenced by this than the smaller group of online people who get weirdly fixated on woke discourse.
dang 4y ago
You've been abusively posting copy-pasted offtopic stuff. If you keep doing that, we're going to have to ban you. I don't want to ban you, so please stop. (Edit: please see the note at the bottom of this comment, because you're clearly over the bannable line right now.) Your account is rate limited because you get involved in flamewars and use HN for ideological battle. That's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. We've asked you to stop more than once: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34030923 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34030923 (Dec 2022) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33819680 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33819680 (Dec 2022) Do you really think we should not moderate this place? That would burn it to a crisp and leave it unrecognizable. It's our job not to let that happen. Rate limits are one of the few software ways I know of that help with that. Edit: It looks like you've not only been breaking the guidelines; you've been using HN primarily for ideological battle. That's one line at which we ban accounts. See https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix=false&page=0&query=primarily%20test%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... for past explanation about this, and (if you don't want to be banned), please stop. (No, this has nothing to do with which ideology you're for or against. We don't care. What we care about is not letting ideological passions destroy this community.)