• 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

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      And if they use ‘wokism’ that just an extra level of idiocy.

  • Progressives 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.

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    Do you know the roots of the word’s usage in this sense? “Correcting” it is far more cinge-worthy in my book

  • Why are you the authority to change how people talk? At the risk of sounding harsh: no one cares what you think.

  • Saw someone the other day describe Portland as 'full of whimsical anarchists" or something.

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    I feel like the term woke has too much history with progressive movements to change now

  • 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.”