Father Heathen
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Sounds like something a triggered soyboy cuck snowflake would say. Get based and red-pilled, libtard.
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A new law from Mike Godwin (yes, that Godwin)
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Father Heathen
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An aside, I hate the term "woke". Shouldn't it be "awakened"? Just sounds dumb to my ears. Also, nobody is ever fully "awake" as far of society goes. Nobody is fully free of ignorance and blind slots. Also, those who loudly declare themselves to be "woke" often tend to be sanctonious hypocrites.
Dude, you are woke. You might be more woke than I am. But neither of us are as woke as my girlfriend, she's really woke.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
I'll use the term "woke" whenever I want.
It's how I roll. Call me a rebel.
By the way. Go woke, go broke.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
I say better a ******** than a ********.
Gargovic Malkav
Well-Known Member
"Rebel" wasn't the first term to come to mind.
Gargovic Malkav
Well-Known Member
I think this is exactly why I don't like that word.
Even though I know it's not necessarily used in a pejorative way, I tend to associate it with the radical bunch among them; the ones who express contempt and verbal aggression towards anyone who is not as "compassionate" as they themselves are.
I believe it's this mentality that can ironically warp good intentions the into the narrow-mindedness, oppression, and hypocrisy they are trying to fight.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
It's a great linguistic weapon for a proper woke assault.
Secret Chief
Very strong language
Well, you thought wrong.
Secret Chief
Very strong language
Yes and no. You are right of course that the latter is grammatically correct but the term originates from African American Vernacular English (sometimes called AAVE).
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Augustus
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Isn't that kind of the point of using "woke" pejoratively? There are indeed a class of insufferable, virtue signalling hypocrites who deserve criticism.
The problem is people with different ideologies often see the world through "different glasses" where they look at the same set of facts and see something completely different.
Among other failings, a sizeable minority of "the left" will always be sanctimonious, bien pensant hypocrites and a sizeable minority of "the right" will be bigots.
So when people mock the "woke" they think they are targeting sanctimonious bien pensant hypocrites, not simply opposing any form of social justice. Of course, depending on how strong the the ideological distortion is on their "glasses", some people do limit their criticism to a narrow 'elite' while the worst cases end up seeing "wokeness" as everything proposed by the "left".
In turn, depending on the how strong the the ideological distortion present in the glasses worn by those on "the left", some can see that many people do simply mock the band of sanctimonious, bien pensant hypocrites as they believe they harm society, while others think 99% of those who mock the "woke" only do so because they are awful racists driven by hate and prejudice.
And then you get the vice-versa about "the right" being fascists and nazis...
Such are the joys of partisanship and a vicious cycle of discourse that gets increasing detached from reality.
Heyo
Veteran Member
Reading through the other comments, I think I wasn't that far off. As words are defined through their usage, the pejorative meaning will become common use, and then the word will fade into oblivion, like "hip" did for the hippies.
Secret Chief
Very strong language
Well, yes the rightwing want it to be a pejorative. If being concerned with disadvantage is made bad, then being reactionary can remain good. Likewise brexiters wittily turned remainer into remoaner and now we are free to send asylum seekers to Rwanda.
Heyo
Veteran Member
And "punk" is no longer a pejorative. It works in both ways.
And liberals really hate being called a ****. Those 2
sides have succumbed to Trump's style of expression.
It seems that Godwin has joined the ranks of piqued
partisans who merely curse the other side, & wallow
in feelings of insight & cleverness.
RestlessSoul
Well-Known Member
I’ve only ever heard the term used in the context of the “war on woke”, a tool used by the political right to divide working class people against each other. An effective tool, I should say.
I'm lost in the asterisks.
Libertarians hate being called ********, ****, and ***********************************.
At least commies have a thick skin. You can call us anything and we don't mind.
Nah, we're used to it by now.
Especially on RF...gawd, we're despised here.