Pentagon and CIA shaped thousands of Hollywood movies into effective propaganda

Re:Pentagon and CIA shaped thousands of Hollywood movies int... by wolverine876 on Friday January 07, 2022 @08:34AM (#29838882)

> For all the feigning of ignorance, 'woke' is well entrenched in in mainstream language now.

I can't speak for the other person, but the term is so loaded that it's lost meaning, and it seems important to define your meaning if we are going to talk about it. I agree that it's a bit disingenous to just ask for a definition rather than say, 'that term is so loaded; what do you mean by it?'

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Re:Pentagon and CIA shaped thousands of Hollywood movies int... by throwawaylinux on Friday January 07, 2022 @11:46AM (#29841349)

It hasn't lost meaning at all, it's just that some people don't like the meaning so they misrepresent it or pretend not to know what it is.

It basically means hypocrisy and/or insincerity toward popular progressive causes. That's the meaning. There's also an older one which has mostly been displaced as far as I'm aware, but if it's still used it also has a pretty well defined meaning. In context, at least in this context, it was not ambiguous which meaning was being used.

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Re:Pentagon and CIA shaped thousands of Hollywood movies int... by wolverine876 on Friday January 07, 2022 @11:43PM (#29848689)

> It basically means hypocrisy and/or insincerity toward popular progressive causes.

A bizarre claim only made by people who attack progressives.

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Re:Pentagon and CIA shaped thousands of Hollywood movies int... by throwawaylinux on Saturday January 08, 2022 @12:51AM (#29849004)

What is the bizzare claim?

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Re:Pentagon and CIA shaped thousands of Hollywood movies int... by jdkee on Friday January 07, 2022 @12:22PM (#29841822)

The loaded (freighted) content of the word "woke" is exactly why it has the weight it does in conversation. Similar to a curse word.

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