• Darkard@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    When someone says “woke” I immediately assume that they have an opinion of the thing in question that they know will be seen as sexist, racist or -phobic in some way that if they said directly would get them called out on.

    It’s just another cowards way of saying “I’m not racist but…”

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      I think it’s gotten to the point that anyone who actually uses “woke” as an insult just looks completely ridiculous now.

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      Ten years ago it was called “politics”.

      Keep women and non-Anglo Saxon people politics out of my war games based on real world conflicts - Gamer™

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        Ten years before that it was “political correctness” when gamers weren’t allowed to use the n-word.

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      Platforms should start considering “woke” a slur, cause that’s pretty much how it’s used.

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        Thus successfully agitating liberals into censoring a word that originally was created by the black community to highlight the calling out of systemic racism and it’s lasting effects on society.

        Which means the assholes win.

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      That’s probably a fair assumption at this point, but I wish there was a word for egregiously obnoxious shoehorning of culture war stuff that wouldn’t get immediately diluted into a generic partisan shibboleth. For instance when they were doing the Enhanced Edition of the first games, and using the characters as mouthpieces to break the fourth wall to whine about gamergate, I don’t think you really have to be a bigot to be annoyed by it or want to put a label on that sort of thing.

  • JJROKCZ@lemmy.world
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    It contains women and POC not being completely subservient to the nearest white man at all times and so they consider it “woke”