• Darkard@lemmy.world
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    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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      1 year ago

      Ten years ago it was called “politics”.

      Keep your 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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          I don’t use it because it’s social suicide, but I think either everyone should be allowed to use it or no one should. But that’s like an opinion on USA tipping culture. You can have your opinions, just don’t exercise them unless you’re ready for trouble

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            That’s the beauty of freedom. You are free to use it. Other people are free to shun you for being a fucking racist bigot.

            Freedom is grand.

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        “Political”

        White and political.
        Male and political.
        Straight and political.
        Christian and political.

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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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        Still is. If someone who doesn’t think anyone else but white, straight people are allowed representation in our diverse world calls you woke as a slur, you wear that as a badge of honor

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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.

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        People who base their identities about calling things woke or not woke are in fact very likely to be racist, or sexist, or homophobic, or transphobic.

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        Depends on what you consider bullshit. And if you complain about woke you probably have stupid opinions.

        True that some ‘woke’ game suck, like that most recent saint’s row. But that’s because the writing is terrible, not because it includes minorities. Just an example

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        The bullshit wouldn’t be pushed if marginalized people in our society would be treated the same as everyone else and you know it. Grow up and stop being annoyed with black mermaids ffs