An interesting take. Not sure if it goes here.

  • lath@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    2 days ago

    Some points are good, some are ok, and some are bad.

    This part seems bad for me specifically.

    Twitter, which was arguably the hub of wokeness, was bought by Elon Musk in order to neutralize it, and he seems to have succeeded — and not, incidentally, by censoring left-wing users the way Twitter used to censor right-wing ones, but without censoring either.

    An example of how this “not censoring either” is going. https://lemmy.world/post/24259702

    Ideas look good on paper, but then reality drops by and shits on it.

  • zante@slrpnk.netEnglish
    9·
    2 days ago

    Whenever someone uses the word woke, you can immediately know they are unserious.

    • verstra@programming.devOPEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      That’s my main gripe with the article. The term is used by right leaning people exclusively so just its usage hints that the speaker has racist, homophobic or xenophobic views.

  • Idreamofcheesy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    2 days ago

    I had to stop when he said homophobia was coined specifically to be used for wokeness.

    Also he was fine with college women getting mad at sexual harassment, but as soon as it started threatening jobs, that was too far.

    Nah, this guy is just mad he can’t call people slurs.

  • Willy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    21·
    2 days ago

    Really good read. Not sure about his ending with having people prove that certain words cause harm though. There are no words that I can think of that cause harm.