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Tedesche@lemmy.world 8 months agoIt’s real simple: woke has a negative connotation for a reason. I won’t deny that the context is complex, but if you think most people react positively to the phrase, you’re living under a rock.
That reason is right wing propogandists who have a long history of trying to appropriate language others are using and using it as a negative label within their own community to try to distract from all the bullshit they’re doing to those bigots they are distracting.
That’s it.
What is this “long history” you speak of? Point to it for me. Demonstrate you know what you’re talking about.
Believe me, I have no love of conservatives, but you still have to back up your points with facts.
It’s very easy to debunk Trump’s points with facts because he has none.
It has a negative connotation only for nazis and racists. For everyone else it has a clear, well defined meaning. Anyone who uses it as pejorative is a racist, nazi propagandist.
You’re just plain wrong. As evidenced by the mainstream media using it as such. They’re not pandering to Nazis. They’re pandering to mainstream liberals, and they see it as a negative term. Go cry to them. Boo-hoo.
mainstream media
mainstream liberals
I believe you have proved my point.
You sound so woke
Ooh, sick burn.
What would you have us use instead then? They were going after “empathy” last month. No matter what word you choose, Nazis are gonna Nazi.
Could we please stop calling this mediocre LARPers Nazis? My grandfather was a Nazi, party book, SA uniform and all… and he would be ashamed of the MAGAs et. al.
I would recommend we stop using a term altogether and simply make our points. Words can always be deconstructed and redefined. The fact that we create and cling to them is our own fault. “Woke” was a term created by the Left and redefined by the Right. It’s very frustrating to me how we’ve totally cooperated with way the Right is redefining the term by responding to it as though they have a legit understanding of it. Which we have done simply by responding. So many of us are like “they don’t know what it means!” But they do. We defined it for them, and now we just don’t like that they’re using it to attack us. The definition of “woke” is “liberal bullshit.” And it has meaning to all conservatives; the fact that liberals think it’s meaningless doesn’t matter. We don’t even use the term anymore, because we’ve acquiesced to the conservative definition. That means they’ve won, with respect to that specific term. So, stop using it. Let them have it. Move on.
“Woke” is a term bigots and racists took over to use to hate on “tolerance” without saying they hate “tolerance”. Take it back.
woke has a negative connotation for a reason
yea, because right wing propaganda has turned it into a pejorative.
i don’t know how i gave the impression that i give a fuck what maga thinks. but i don’t.
if you think most people react positively to the phrase
where did i say or imply that? you’re making assumptions based on what you feel, and those assumptions are wrong
again, woke is a GOOD thing, and anyone who says otherwise is a sack of shit and should be ashamed
yea, because right wing propaganda has turned it into a pejorative.
LOL, it hasn’t done that in its own. Stop giving them more influence than they’re due. Woke language even has librarais cringing, and it’s not because they oppose the message.
Woke messaging has a problem with exaggeration, the same as all political messaging does. You guys say things like “all gender identities are social constructs,” when that’s clearly not the case. You say things like “all racism is due to systemic racism,” when clearly that’s not the case. People see this. They’re not stupid. They see that your assertions are wrong. I align with the message, I really do, but I’m tired of “woke” messengers fucking up our message with their hyperbolic bullshit. This plays right into Trump’s hands! And until you dipshits see it, he will continue to take advantage and win. So, I’m sorry if you don’t like me pointing it out, but you’re the fucking problem!
I’ve never heard anyone say either of those things but I don’t have an argument against the first one based my understanding of gender.
Well there’s a progressive attitude. I imagine a rainbow swastika.
The only swastikas being flown on flags are from MAGAts.
Taalnazi@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Woke is awesome, and I’ll own the “negative” connotation. Fuck MAGA asshat fascists; they seek to eliminate what little democracy was even there.
Tedesche@lemmy.world 8 months ago
To you. To others, it means something quite different.