4 ms·
we’re flagging pg now?
by dec0dedab0de 2y ago
we’re flagging pg now?
- bloopernova 2y ago> we're flagging pg now? I assume it's because the term "woke" will almost always derail a thread.
- jimkleiber 2y agowell, people who use it to self-identify often use it in terms of being aware, a positive attribution, and I assume people who use it to identify others use it in terms of being judgmental, a negative attribution. So yeah, it's a highly charged term.
- Daishiman 2y agoI have never seen anyone in a social network self-identifying as "woke". I have seen it countless times being thrown as a vague, shapeless accusatory things that can go from people being overboard in their language policing to opposing real, actual fascism.
- rcruzeiro 2y agoPrecisely. One commenter above got close to the point but then completely missed it: they suggested that people get into “wokeism” with good intentions, such as wanting to reduce things like sexual harassment. Then, they ponder whether there is a way to reduce sexual harassment without becoming “woke.” They fail to realize that you don’t simply declare yourself “woke.” It is a label others assign to you once you decide you are no longer going to tolerate things like sexual harassment.
- Mountain_Skies 2y agoSame with SJWs. Lots of people wore that label until their actions caused it to become negative, at which point everyone who proudly wore it pretended to never have ever heard of it before their ideological enemies started using it. No doubt some new label will replace woke, be worn proudly, get tarnished by the people who wear that label, and once again they'll try fleeing from the associations they created.
- Daishiman 2y agoFalse, people with an axe to grind decided to accuse everything they don't like of being woke or SJW the same way that Americans scream "communism" at everything they don't like. It's the lowest form of public discourse, spewed by ignoramuses who have nothing of value to contribute to conversations.
- nemo44x 2y ago[flagged]
- pinkmuffinere 2y agoForgive me — what’s a prig?
- MarkSweep 2y agoIt is defined in the first two sentences of the article. I’ll duplicate those sentences here: > The word "prig" isn't very common now, but if you look up the definition, it will sound familiar. Google's isn't bad: >> A self-righteously moralistic person who behaves as if superior to others.
- malcolmgreaves 2y ago[flagged]
- felipemesquita 2y agoFrom the article’s first couple sentences: > The word "prig" isn't very common now, but if you look up the definition, it will sound familiar. Google's isn't bad: A self-righteously moralistic person who behaves as if superior to others.
- pinkmuffinere 2y agoAh sorry, I should have checked the article before posting
- dang 2y ago"Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community." It's reliably a marker of bad comments and worse threads. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- 2y ago
- ajkjk 2y agoHopefully flagging is based on the content and not the writer.
- qingcharles 2y agoThis sort of thing makes me nervous. When the owner of a forum finds the masses don't unflaggingly support his take on something, what's the reaction? Elon has recently shown us what happens on Twitter when you don't tow the line. I don't know that Zuck is meddling behind the scenes, but it could just be that he doesn't telegraph it as boldly as Musk.
- ickelbawd 2y agoYes, why not? Why should he get a free pass for his bad takes?