myrmepropagandist@cshentrup Maybe using “woke” a term with a long history to mean “senseless” is a huge mistake.
That’s kind of my whole point here.
Cord North@futurebird Sorry, I'm genuinely confused about "woke" having a long history meaning "senseless". All I've ever heard is that it's meant something like "aware of racial persecution or oppression by white people against Black people". Is there a parallel history?
Or am I reading your comment way too literally and we're talking about the co-opting of the word by the right?
@CEvaN I’m admonishing someone for using it that way; it’s bad enough that people mine Black culture with impunity but to have a perfectly beautiful concept like “woke” trashed makes me livid and more solid in my resolve to use it correctly.
Wokeness is exactly what we are lacking and the ugly irony of the abuse of such a powerful concept isn’t lost on me.
Mrinappropriate@futurebird @CEvaN If we all start to use “ enlightened “ rather than “woke”, we may see progress. 🤞
Ben Ramsey@MrInappropriate @futurebird @CEvaN When “intellectualism” is considered derogatory by the same folks, they’ll also figure out how to turn “enlightened” into a negative thing, too.
Larry Garfield@ramsey @MrInappropriate @futurebird @CEvaN Before woke it was SJW. Before that it was "politically correct." It's all variations on "how dare you question the status quo that has me on top."
Claudio Zizza 🦜@ramsey @futurebird @CEvaN The arrogance of ignorance. Sadly, it has traction. There appears to me to be a huge swathe of the population who are inverted snobs about education, far less intellectualism. Hence the success of #tRump for eg. #LowestCommonDenominator