Re:Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding...
by c-linkage on Tuesday April 15, 2025 @08:04AM
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Just as black people have claimed the "n" word, white racists have now claimed the "w" word.
Still not sure it was a fair trade though.
Re:Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding...
by nailer on Tuesday April 15, 2025 @09:53AM
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People of all backgrounds, which hate Asians, Jewish people and white Americans use the term. Including some members of those groups.
Re:Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding...
by johnnyanmac on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @03:16AM
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>Still not sure it was a fair trade though.
It's never a fair trade. But at least one is a singular word you never have to use in a discussion. The other was a term that de-humanized people.
The meaning of "woke" changes depending on the person saying it, and the one listening, which makes it hard to tell what the person is _really_ trying to say.
Edit: Apparently it was recently popularized by BLM activists, but then took on a different meaning [1]. So it seems ambiguous, which to me makes it not that useful.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke