I think woke was a cool word with important meaning for a while, and it has some great historical context behind it that made it work. Reactionary media did what they always do though and I think it's safe to say the word has completely lost all meaning outside of those aforementioned historical contexts. These days everything is "woke" and the new reactionary concept of "woke" is so far from what woke actually means as to render the term useless.
What word are they going to ruin next? How will they ruin it? Am I being the reactionary by thinking that woke has been ruined as a word? Place your bets below
I'm going to call tankie ruined when it's said during a presidential debate or campaign. Woke has been. I could definitely see this election year being the year tankie makes it into that context
Listen here, fat. Donald Trump is one of those uhhh... what do you call them... Tanker fellows!i got called a tankie in 2020 for saying we should have universal healthcare so idk, seems ruined to me.
"tankie" is already supposed to be an insult though, so not the same
Adrian Zenz had already used the word. It's only a matter of time.
It would be extremely funny if chuds started calling libs "tankies" and tankie became the new bipartisan shit-flinging insult a la "unamerican"
Reactionaries and Liberals alike are ruining the word Tankie. Anyone remember when it was a peice of out dated slang we used to dunk on each other?
Tankie breached containment, and it makes me wanna die
I used it a bit back when I was an anarchist (although I am still not what I would have called a tankie), but even then seeing its usage spread it got really hard for me to use it unironically or to take anyone who did seriously.
it makes it really easy to ignore people though. or taunt them with something like "you're just insecure about people being to your left" if i feel punchy
I like tankie because you can just bring up how unambiguously history has vindicated the tankies, and shit like this proves Kruschev should have done more.
Remember when "fake news" referred to fabricated scam articles posted on Facebook from sketchy sources in other countries? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
I remember going from never hearing the words fake news in my life and one day hearing that phrase come out of the mouth of every news anchor and written on the front page of every website. All somewhere in the year 2016.
Which I assume was the work of the CIA
Then the media started getting caught lying over and over again. Those graphics with a quote from CNN on one side and them saying something different on the other really made an impact on people.
"Globalist" might go mainstream.
As in "I don't hate Jewish people but the problem is globalists..." Wink, wink.
Trump literally said "nationalism, not globalism, shall be our credo" in his inaugural address.
If Globalists like in the old usage (referred to liberals like Hayek and other who tried to get free trade neoliberalism all over the world) would be used it would at least have a meaning.
I've never seen reactionaries latch onto a word quite like woke, so it'll be around for a while. This is the first time I'm seeing the two major camps of American reactionaries collide, as in, the online freaks and your peepaw who lives in the suburbs. Normally they'll share an outlook, but aren't communicating in the same terms.
The fact that old people use woke tells me it's gonna be stuck in the consciousness for a while. They're the same people still who call anyone younger than them a millennial.
You're right that it doesn't mean anything anymore. It vaguely means anything promoting queer or non-white people. It's just a consumer brand now
I'm going off the scale of words my 90 year old grandmother has heard of
To be "woke" politically in the Black community means that someone is informed, educated and conscious of social injustice and racial inequality.
It refers to a school of social and cultural liberalism that has become the dominant discourse in left-of-center spaces in American intellectual life. "Wokeness” centers “the personal is political” at the heart of all politics and treats political action as inherently a matter of personal moral hygiene - woke isn’t something you do, it’s something you are. See: White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo.
"Ruling class" or "bourgeoisie", except they will use it to label anyone they dislike, such as LGBT+, minorities and the poor.
The only reason I think bourgeoise has survived for so long, and will continue to survive, is because nobody can spell it. And if you don't know the term, you wouldn't know how to say it by reading it on paper either.
So maybe the takeaway is that we need to use big hard to pronounce words so the reactionaries can't steal them from us
Osti calisse de sacrement, pourquois ca? Comme Hakim disais, le langue Francais est un perte de temps.
Molière était pas québécois alors je m'en câlisse de son opinion tokébakicitte tabarnak
Comme Hakim disais, le langue Francais est un perte de temps.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pY-0JfEdLY
I suppose I would say "pardon mon cul", in that situation.
you: "I'm going to try to spell a French word"
me: "I'm going to sing the Mickey Mouse club song with different letters"
We are not the same.
So the same as their definition of “the elites” where somehow a boat dealership owner is not the elite but a blue haired barista is
Lathe time: Liberals double down on redneck-based insults and then flat out say "bigotry is for poor people", and it actually helps them win.
I don't think there's another word like woke
"woke" is a term that was grassroots created by Black people, and then later demonized by whites/chuds
If MAGA Communist chuds get their way, the word "communism" will be ruined.
But it'll be further buried, under the heap of social chauvinist rubbish, whether socdem or patsoc.
Baizuo basically means what right wingers think woke means, I suspect as Chinese Americans assimilate into American culture and get chuddified it might make it into the popular consciencesness.
This one will be extra fun if it hits the mainstream because you'll get a slurry of completely ignorant pronunciations of it
Not to mention the potential for chud-on-chud violence as the ones who can pronounce it correctly get called ebil CCP-loving commies by the ones who can't.
No doubt libs will seize on the excuse to further ramp up their sinophobia.
Rod Dreher used the term sometimes, but also he's the weirdest man who's ever lived and had his own vocabulary
I think Baizuo has had its day, such as it was. Nobody says it any more. I don't think even Chinese say it.
CHUDs love to claim to be endlessly fighting for white people's interests, but they have invented more slurs for white people than the left.
Fuse them into the ultimate chud buzzword:
Beta-femin*zi-hippie-triggered-politicallycorrect-soyboy-bluehair-groomer
That feels like one of those german words that's like 5 other words welded together
Politcically correct, moralf*g, do-gooder, unamerican, coastal elite
