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Blaming the "woke" people and not corrupt police officers that indiscriminately murder people or the system that protects them is pretty telling.
by BadHumans 2y ago
Blaming the "woke" people and not corrupt police officers that indiscriminately murder people or the system that protects them is pretty telling.
- mythrwy 2y agoCan we blame both, but not use the term "woke"? Just "activists" is fine.
- MisterBastahrd 2y agoIt certainly makes it easier to ignore the people doing the complaining.
- anthony_d 2y agoI guess that depends who you want to ignore.
- krapp 2y agoNo, because despite how effective the establishment has been at co-opting and poisoning the term, "woke" comes directly from the black activist community, and pretending that legacy and context doesn't exist and isn't relevant to the conversation would be... tone deaf at best? "Wokeness," in the original intended sense - the sense for which people have given their lives in the streets and suffered the arbitrary brutality of American policing for decades, not the sense that incels and racist shitbags use for irony - is the entire point. As soon as your worldview and vocabulary erase the former and continue to normalize the latter you've become part of the problem.
- mythrwy 2y agoBut what about people with sleep disorders or narcolepsy? Use of this word could be a microaggression causing them severe mental stress possibly leading to suicide! And all because you wanted to keyboard social justice warrior! Which, BTW, has not helped, in any way, one person or thing yet and it does cause problems. Also not what this site is for.
- krapp 2y agoYou should try to put more effort into expressing intelligence than cleverness, because this is just juvenile.