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Re:Why I Left Rust by User23 on Sunday May 28, 2023 @01:30PM (#36106022)
Once you understand that "woke" is basically a kind of white internecine competition then it stops being surprising that the "woke" movement doesn't really care about non-white persons except as pieces in that game. These events are of course entirely consistent with that interpretation, and so far I've never seen it falsified.
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Re:Why I Left Rust by More-nitors on Sunday May 28, 2023 @02:51PM (#36106685)
this whole "woke" mentality is going out of hand too fast...

I mean, someone bullying some veterans/old men because they're "woke and feminist" isn't going to earn any sympathy from me.

nowadays... "woke" just means "I'm better than you (so I can/will do things that are otherwise unacceptable to you)"

...I think we chose the wrong word. Rather than "woke", it should have been "NO BULLYING" -- which includes all things the real "woke" people tried to do, and forbids all things the wrong "woke" people are trying to do

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Re:Why I Left Rust by TRiG_Ireland on Monday May 29, 2023 @08:52AM (#36113452)
Generally, these days "woke" is a word that regressive bullying assholes use to insult people.
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Re:Why I Left Rust by yodelshady on Monday May 29, 2023 @12:07PM (#36115221)
It definitely strikes me as thought-terminating cliche. If people were calling themselves woke maybe, but I've only seen it as pejorative for several years.

I don't think it's fair to entirely dismiss either, there really is a lot of incredibly toxic behaviour in communities labelled "woke" (and agreeing with further up the chain, I can't help but feel being a bit less "inclusive" and demanding some commitment to the product might help, gatekeeping be damned). But we should strive to accurately describe what those behaviours are.

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Re:Why I Left Rust by account42 on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @08:16AM (#36137421)
Except if you actually look as things it's usually the "woke" elements that best fit the definition of bullying.
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