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  • I hate Elon because he is a capitalist crushing the working class, an alt-right con artist and takes credit for things he didn’t do.

    I hate Taylor because she is a performative liberal who espouses progressive politics but doesn’t follow through making her a hypocrite.

    I hate both because they are billionaires and neither should have been able to accumulate as much wealth as they have.



  • Yes you’re correct.

    I have read and had to cite multiple times Crenshaw’s paper on intersectionality so I should have been clearer with my language and known better.

    What I should have said is I want specificity in the language of describing who and what problem is trying to be addressed so it could very well be a feminist, systematically racist issue affecting African American women, rather than simply ‘it’s woke’.


  • Haha no I didn’t think you were saying I’m a bad person.

    I honestly don’t mind if you did, I’ve been called much worse.

    I’m genuinely appreciative of being called out. Challenge what anyone says IMO.

    I really was ignorant of how far back the term was used (I was aware of the 2010’s usage etc) so it’s important context for me to learn this.

    So much of black American culture is squashed and by me saying that ‘you shouldn’t use woke because right wingers use it’ is in some ways me being racist or at least culturally imperialist.

    To be clear though that wasn’t my intent when I made up my original comment about ‘woke’ I was really just expressing my frustration that the right have adopted it so wholeheartedly seemingly every time it’s mentioned it’s always a ‘wink wink nudge nudge’ you know what we really mean when we say it and I’m pissed off about it to the point whenever I hear anyone use the term I immediately try to get to the bottom of what they really mean when they use it because invariably it’s the racist/sexist/xenophobic etc usage rather than the originally intended one.


  • Custoslibera@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerule
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    5 months ago

    You’re not wrong.

    I did completely gloss over the fact this term existed long before it was co-opted by the right.

    I’m wrong about that for certain.

    If I was to make an excuse I suppose it would be that I just don’t hear leftists using this term much in its original form. It has been twisted and hijacked and that is sad.

    Maybe we should take it back but IMO I’d rather just call an issue what it is rather than create umbrella terms that encapsulate a variety of really complex topics.

    If it’s a feminist issue it’s a feminist issue.

    If it’s a representation issue it’s a representation issue.

    If it’s a systemic racism issue it’s a systemic racism issue.

    I’d rather we call it what it is than ‘woke’ but fully open to criticism of this position based on the fact this is ignoring its origin.