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'Woke' is a very loaded word. A heads up that if you use it in the way you just did, people will assume certain things about you. Unless you don't care, in whic
by Eisenstein 3y ago
'Woke' is a very loaded word. A heads up that if you use it in the way you just did, people will assume certain things about you. Unless you don't care, in which case continue so that everyone knows what assumption they should make.
- worthless-trash 3y agoI don't think you can assume someones internal views by use of word, especially such a term with a complex history that means different things to different people. The way you present it seems to have more problems than the 'not care' use case.
- Eisenstein 3y agoYou can debate all you want the merits of it. I am stating a fact.
- concordDance 3y agoSome people will assume X and some will assume Y and the majority won't bother to assume anything.
- worthless-trash 3y agoI wasn't debating.
- DropInIn 3y agoThe quotation marks denote a very specific form of usage, one that generally implies a disregard/disrespect for those who use the word legitimately. Using the word isn't the issue, it's How you use it. Like using the word Jew. It's fine if you're saying "I'm a Jew" but not fine if you say "Get a load of that Jew over there". Is that clear enough?
- imran0 3y ago[flagged]
- lostlogin 3y agoIt’s funny, I’d have said that calling everything woke or seeing wokeness everywhere was a pseudo-religion. Criticising something is fine, but doing it by calling the issue ‘work’ just doesn’t seem to add to any argument.
- inferiorhuman 3y agodoing it by calling the issue ‘work’ just doesn’t seem to add to any argument. Well that's what they get for typing with their fingers covered in pudding.
- worthless-trash 3y agoI disagree with your definition. Quotation marks reference the quoted word when used in context. Btw, has this subthread been pruned from from the main discussion thread ?
- DropInIn 3y agoThe use of quotations on a Single word which had no unusual usage in common parlance and which was not being used to request clarification is implicitly being air quoted... Y'know, the thing bigots do to cowardly deride others. Are you playing a game here?
- lynx23 3y ago[flagged]
- Eisenstein 3y agoDo you agree that 'woke' is a loaded word? Do you agree that by using that word in that way it signals a certain type of political/ideological viewpoint? Do you agree that if someone did not want to signal that viewpoint it they should know?
- lynx23 3y agoNo, No, and No. Simply because I dont agree with language police, as a principle.
- Eisenstein 3y agoYou can call things 'language police' all you want, but assumptions are based on reality and experience, and pushing back when they are obviously true is silly.
- lynx23 3y ago> reality ... experience ... obviously true ... silly And you seriously believe this condescending way of talking down to people is great? Your choice, your opinion. Maybe reality will catch up, maybe you will catch up with reality, time will tell.
- Eisenstein 3y ago[flagged]
- lynx23 3y agoGreat, as a person with a disability, I am used to patronizing people like you. Go ahead, and get lost.
- Cthulhu_ 3y agoI mean to avoid using it, the parent could have rephrased it as an "I don't want to offend anyone". That's not "woke", that's decency.
- imran0 3y ago> I don't want to offend anyone. I like your intention, but that is impossible.
- flippinburgers 3y ago[flagged]