Comment on Why do people call it “woke”?
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days agoOveruse the word, make it mean nothing, remove its power, push the people back into oppression.
Conservatives have really been leaning on this tactic a ton lately.
Unfortunately, it seems to work every time.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 2 days ago
Liberals have been the ones doing it, which is why no one cares or fears being called a Nazi, racist, bigot, -phobe, fascist, or any of the other overused leftist favourite names to call anyone who doesn’t agree with them anymore.
It was working, it radicalised their loyalists and scared a lot of regular people into submission, but like you said - overuse, especially when it was clearly not appropriate, made the tactic less and less effective.