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.

  • HamManBad [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Why is this thread the first I'm hearing of "woo", and it's in every dang comment?

    • LeninsRage [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      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.