Curry Pervert wrote: Tue Nov 26, 2024 5:21 pm The right wing/capitalists have caught on, especially over the last 10 years, to the power of the bastardisation of language. You see this with the misuse of words like 'woke' and 'triggered'. It also leads to places where nobody knows anything, because up is down, black is white etc. Just look at how easily and regularly even fairly ordinary people will refer to the Democrats as 'Marxists', 'Communists', 'Far Left'.... they are blatantly none of those things to anybody with any political literacy, and yet, here we are. It's only going to get worse. They're banking on things like the Illusory truth effect. Someone wrote (might have been Orwell? also this is paraphrased) that if you can get people to a place of not knowing what to believe, they are easier to manipulate. That's the goal.

Gramsci wrote: Tue Nov 26, 2024 2:02 am

ChudFusk wrote: Mon Nov 25, 2024 12:52 pm

losthighway wrote: Mon Nov 25, 2024 9:43 am I'm so conflicted because I worry there is no term that a 21st century Civil rights movement can coin, that Maga won't wield like a slur so constantly that it becomes a distorted political liability.

Mother fuckers are now loudly talking about Diversity Equity and Inclusion like they're what's wrong with our country.

It's only a slur if we act ashamed of it. Shitlibs have shied away from the concept of being woke because conservatives say it like it's a bad thing. But the term comes from black vernacular and it still means the same thing when said in the right context.

I think this poll is unfair without a third option of Not Crap.

Fixed.

But I should contextualise a little. I had this poll in my head in the UK context, where it has no relation to its origin in African American language. I was looking at a London news account on the Socials about a new tram/bus hybrid and a bunch of weirdos started calling it a “woke” bus… it seems to now just mean “I’m not a libtard and anything I don’t like is ‘woke’”.

andyman wrote: Sat Nov 30, 2024 1:01 pm Great if not just for its ability to identify conservatives lacking any sort of empathy or social thought outside their own privileged, white experience.

"More stupid wokeness" etc.

ranxerox wrote: I have never personally heard someone claim 'wokeness' for themselves.

hbiden@onlyfans.com wrote: Sat Nov 30, 2024 4:23 pm

ranxerox wrote: I have never personally heard someone claim 'wokeness' for themselves.

I’m definitely woke (but not woke mob). Doesnt bother me if they accuse me.