- 11 days
People saying “woke” to describe things they don’t like is brilliant.
It means you know immediately whether or not someone is a moron and so makes it easy to avoid them
neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
11 daysProgressives are terrifically creative at coming up with new language. We’re so good at it that we freely abandon old phrases the moment the right picks them up as pejoratives.
I say stop. Woke is great. Also start marching on defund the motherfucking police again.
- farmgineer@nord.pubEnglish10 days
Do you know the roots of the word’s usage in this sense? “Correcting” it is far more cinge-worthy in my book
- 11 days
Why are you the authority to change how people talk? At the risk of sounding harsh: no one cares what you think.
- 11 days
Saw someone the other day describe Portland as 'full of whimsical anarchists" or something.
- sompreno@lemmy.zipEnglish11 days
I feel like the term woke has too much history with progressive movements to change now
- 11 days
I usually just call myself a communist and it gets the message across
- 10 days
Not a fan of terms and lumping people together into groups. Seems like we can boil it down to simply: “Don’t be a dick.”
- 8 days





