Woke!

[Diesel]

Makes sense to me and that's all that really matters - to me.
I know that. I you call me woke I'll have to assume you are ignorant of proper grammar usage and you meant to signify that I have recently arisen from a slumber.

And you don't see how that in fact makes you the ignorant one?

 

[Diesel]

You are excusing ignorant grammar of blacks. Question for you: Do you believe all blacks have poor English grammar or are they just more susceptible to poor English grammar because of their culture?
Which in turn I will consider you to be even more ignorant, or more accurately, willfully dumb.

Nothing like a discussion about wokeness to bring out your racism. You're being a racist asshole unless you seriously don't know that language evolves, which I do not believe.

 

[anonymoose]

And you don't see how that in fact makes you the ignorant one?

Do you realize that according to Webster’s that the slang form of woke can have two diametrically opposed meanings? Look it up. Useless term because of that.
Example: I say “you are woke.” This could either be taken as an insult or a compliment.

 

[anonymoose]

Nothing like a discussion about wokeness to bring out your racism. You're being a racist asshole unless you seriously don't know that language evolves, which I do not believe.

If I said all blacks are ignorant of proper English grammar, that would be racist.
Not all are of course.
Many whites are also ignorant of proper grammar. Does that make me a reverse racist?

 

[Lionfish]

 

[Diesel]

Do you realize that according to Webster’s that the slang form of woke can have two diametrically opposed meanings? Look it up. Useless term because of that.
Example: I say “you are woke.” This could either be taken as an insult or a compliment.

You do realize, don't you, that the pejorative definition was invented by reich wing assholes in their typical, lazy, juvenile way of reacting to a progressive movement? It's the same reason you morons think "Democrat" is an adjective and why you all insist on calling people by grade school nicknames instead of their given names.

Your obtuseness in this discussion is annoying. You're acting like a petulant child (go figure) who is incapable of grasping what "woke" means. Maybe you are, but I think it's more likely that you're just upset about wokeness because that's what the reich wing told you to do. Plus, there's that whole white privilege thing that wokeness threatens directly.

 

[Diesel]

If I said all blacks are ignorant of proper English grammar, that would be racist.
Not all are of course.
Many whites are also ignorant of proper grammar. Does that make me a reverse racist?

Don't fuck with me. You don't stand a chance. You referred to all Black people.

 

[Jarod]

If I said all blacks are ignorant of proper English grammar, that would be racist.
Not all are of course.
Many whites are also ignorant of proper grammar. Does that make me a reverse racist?

Anyone who cares about “Proper English” when the point is clear, is simply a snob.

Style over function.

 

[anonymoose]

You referred to all Black people.

You have me confused with APL.

The word "woke" originated from African-American community in the 1930's then resurfaced within the community in the 2010's.

Take that up with him.

You referred to all Black people.

Well if true I’m sure you can back that up by reposting where I said that. If you can’t, I understand.

 

[anonymoose]

Anyone who cares about “Proper English” when the point is clear, is simply a snob.

Style over function.

Yet the point is not clear. Look it up in Webster’s.
But yes, I am a snob to a degree.
We all are.

 

[AProudLefty]

You have me confused with APL. Take that up with him.

Well if true I’m sure you can back that up by reposting where I said that. If you can’t, I understand.

Hmm severe lack of reading comprehension.

 

[AProudLefty]

Do you realize that according to Webster’s that the slang form of woke can have two diametrically opposed meanings? Look it up. Useless term because of that.
Example: I say “you are woke.” This could either be taken as an insult or a compliment.

Yes dumbass the MAGA made it an insult. You clearly are a MAGA idiot.

 

[anonymoose]

Yes dumbass the MAGA made it an insult. You clearly are a MAGA idiot.

Take that up with Webster’s. I never use the term except for here mockingly.

 

[AProudLefty]

Yet the point is not clear. Look it up in Webster’s.
But yes, I am a snob to a degree.
We all are.

You are not a Brit so stop pretending to be one. Watching Benny Hill and Monty Python doesn't count, you cheeky bastard.

 

[AProudLefty]

Take that up with Webster’s. I never use the term except for here mockingly.

I know. You mock Black people. You are a racist.

 

[AProudLefty]

Cope.

 

[AProudLefty]

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Michael Shellenberger comes to the rescue!!

Wokeism Is A Poster

A little over a year ago, I flew from San Francisco to New York to speak at a book event with John McWhorter. HarperCollins had just published San Fransicko, and Penguin had just published McWhorter’s Woke Racism. In both Apocalypse Never and San Fransicko, I argue that progressive politics has become a religion. In Woke Racism, McWhorter argues the same thing.

Detecting a pattern, I opened up my journal and wrote a set of religious categories across the top, including “Original Sin,” “Guilty Devils,” “Myths,” and along the left-hand side wrote a set of progressive issue concerns: climate change, trans, crime, racism, etc. I started filling in each of the boxes with relative ease.

Upon landing, I transferred my rough notes to a Google Sheet and showed it to my friend Peter Boghossian. Peter immediately grew excited by the project and with the help of a few others, we spent the next few weeks filling out all of the boxes. Lo and behold, we discovered we had created a Woke Religion Taxonomy.

I wrote an article, “Why Wokeism Is a Religion,” to accompany the release of the taxonomy, and it was, until I wrote about the attack on Paul Pelosi, the most popular article on my Substack.

Many complained that they couldn’t read the Taxonomy because the type was too small, and they encouraged us to create a poster out of it. I’m happy to announce that we’ve done just that, and the poster came out looking great. We printed it on thick, high-quality paper that will last 100 years or longer.

Please consider buying one for yourself and giving away a few copies. It will make a great holiday gift for someone you love. If you like, I’ll sign it and dedicate it, too. Shoot me an email if you’d like me to write something specific. Othewise I’ll sign it over to you and use the email that you use through the Substack payment service, Stripe.

Zero words from you. All you can do is copy and paste.

 

[anonymoose]

I know. You mock Black people. You are a racist.

You mock them by using the word. It is you who is the racist.
I’m a racist because I advocate a healthy diet. trashcan5 will confirm that. She even started a thread on it.

 

[AProudLefty]

You mock them by using the word. It is you who is the racist.
I’m a racist because I advocate a healthy diet. trashcan5 will confirm that. She even started a thread on it.

I didn't invent the slang. The Black community did. You are a racist.

And why the hell are you talking about "trashcan"? I have no idea who that fool is.

 

[Jarod]

Yet the point is not clear. Look it up in Webster’s.
But yes, I am a snob to a degree.
We all are.

We all are, but that is no excuse to try not to be. Differences in a use of grammar might indicate education or economic status, but not ingenuity or intelligence or dedication or hard work.