Of course, not Tomi Lahren though…

  • SokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.ml
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    It’s actually kind of a tragedy that the word has taken on that perception. There are some things that can and should be discussed that fall under the “woke” definition. But there’s no good alternative word. DEI is commonly used, but it’s not applicable in some instances when woke still would be. So we’re left kind of floundering around looking for words to describe a concept that is easily summed up as woke, just to avoid the perception of being a close-minded bigot. This isn’t the first, and certainly won’t be the last thing that the right has taken, bastardized, and used until it’s tired and worn out.

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      It’s okay, we had to deal with being called SJWs for a long time as well. This kind of idiotic cock blocking isn’t going to stop people from slowly evolving out of the unjust systems of thought we’ve inherited.

    • whome@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 year ago

      Same with social justice. To me it’s one of the most important topics. I hate the SJW memes.

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        What are you talking about? SJW memes carried the internet from 2014 to 2018. They provided us with cultural changing cringe and jokes

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      That’s how language naturally evolves. People either give new definitions to words to describe a new phenomena or they come up with new words entirely. In either case, it’s dumb to avoid using words to achieve some sort of political purity. Different words have different meanings in different contexts. If somebody can’t pick up on that, that’s their problem, not yours.

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        1 year ago

        That’s honestly a really shitty take. “Hey, I’m going to take this word that means one thing and how people are fighting for true equality and I’m going to shit all over that word and make it meaningless. It’s just how language evolves.”

        • Gorilladrums@sh.itjust.works
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          Such brain dead logic. Your political views aren’t superior to anyone else’s and language doesn’t bend to your personal biases. If a word is used or invented organically by a large amount of people to describe something, then that word has a new definition, and is thus expanding the vocabulary in the dictionary. That is literally how language evolves. It’s like how the word bug used to mean insect or a small annoyance but then expanded to include concealed devices used for spying and then expanded again to include computer errors. Validity in the world isn’t limited to your myopic views.