yasmine *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧non-Black people stop using the word “woke” pejoratively
online cat@rosewaters
no
@commiequeer is your vocabulary that limited or?
consider reading a Black woman’s take on it https://wearyourvoicemag.com/race/white-people-ruined-on-fleek-woke
consider reading a Black woman’s take on it https://wearyourvoicemag.com/race/white-people-ruined-on-fleek-woke
White People Ruined "On Fleek" And Now They Took "Woke"
Woke will lose its Blackness, it will fade into whiteness–the same whiteness which assumed the term was just misconjugated verb. ‘Woke’ has been added to the Oxford Dictionary. Woke–if you didn’t know this already–originated from African American Vernacular English (AAVE), which is a dialect. Woke is a “Black word” and while some may love that …
@commiequeer the word "woke" was coined by Black activists as a response to the oppression faced by Black people, specifically police brutality -- as explained, repeatedly, by numerous Black activists -- so the fact that you think it's acceptable to use it pejoratively or as some kind of joke is foolish and embarrassing lol
@rosewaters
People are dying and you're mad because you cant maintain control over language
People are dying and you're mad because you cant maintain control over language
@commiequeer I make one post about something which irritates me and suddenly that means I don't care that people are dying, lmfao. Surely trivialising language that is used by a group overwhelmingly affected by police brutality/murder by cop is, like, bad? You underestimate the power of language at times like this
witches.live is racist@commiequeer @rosewaters hi sweetie it's free to just not reply like an asshole and "what about x?" on someones post :3
infinite love ⴳ@commiequeer @bewitchyourmind might help to not dig in your heels when comrades are offering you critique
@trwnh @commiequeer honestly idk if they're white but maybe we should all take time to listen to brown and black ppls takes on our racism in language without saying its "policing" or "controlling" cuz that's gaslighting as hell
@trwnh @commiequeer it's hard to listen to critique sometimes, a hit dog will holler as they say
@bewitchyourmind @commiequeer doesn't really bode well to dismiss this as "virtue signalling" instead of recognizing that whiteness and its cultural hegemony have real effects on people of colour. apparently that's not ideological enough
@trwnh
My comrades? I dont even know you people
My comrades? I dont even know you people
@commiequeer must you know someone to take comradely criticism? people of colour are telling you what makes them uncomfortable; that's not "policing language".