I'm trying to find some good class based analysis on the subject. I feel like Matt has spoken about this sort of thing on his vlogs but its kind of hard to search through those to pinpoint a specific talking point.
I'm trying to find some good class based analysis on the subject. I feel like Matt has spoken about this sort of thing on his vlogs but its kind of hard to search through those to pinpoint a specific talking point.
Ah I do know that a lot of bougie white women are into woo and new age bullshit and Q touches on a lot of that.
Right, I'm aware of that. A lot of women into like healing crystals and what not are big Q people, but I'm trying to find the why behind it.
The complete absence of meaningful, non-hierarchic, models of spirituality in a society with materialism pushed to its very extreme, probably. That and the lack of local community.
Get back to me on that because I really don't know.
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Why is this thread the first I'm hearing of "woo", and it's in every dang comment?
Because one is most likely to have encountered it through RationalWiki, which is a nexus of libshittery. According to them the term comes from use by writers in the 90s as a put-down.
Pseudoscience/spirituality stuff, like healing crystals or essential oils.
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It's not called woo by supporters (at least as far as I'm aware), and I'd guess the name comes from the sound you imagine people make when they're doing "magic" (or maybe the sound ghosts make or something).
I've only ever heard it used in a derogatory way, usually for crap like ESP, telepathy, or ghosts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6XthQpk8uk&ab_channel=POPSMOKEVEVO
jk