Can someone define “woke” for me?

[WuWei]

Amazing

[Oryx]

@WuWei

Amazing

Go back and read my posts again, I guess? From the beginning I said dictionaries don’t define words, they reflect the way people define them.

[WuWei]

Explains a lot.

[Oryx]

@WuWei

Explains a lot.

Like what?

[WuWei]

Same vocabulary. Not same dictionary.

[e7alr]

Linguistics are a wonderful thing. A group of like minded individuals coin a phrase to signal their virtue while maligning those who don’t agree with them, only to loose control of the usage and end up tarred and feathered by their creation.

[WuWei]

Hive minded people

[e7alr]

That works.

[Samm]

@biggestal99

@Paul_Thomson

The record of wokesters “being aware of and actively attentive to important societal facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice)”, without doing anything constructive or effective to improve the lot of the individusls suffering those perceived injustices has made “woke” synonymous with “virtue-signalling” in the eyes of many.

you forgot the word conservative at the end of your statement.

i dont see learning about problems in the past in the United States is a bad thing.

you obviously do.

You’re trying too hard Alan.

[Samm]

@biggestal99

@Samm

It’s our right … it’s anybody’s right. Evolution, remember?

changing a precise term into one that is vague is not evolution.

Of course it is. The expansion of meanings of words is fundamental to language evolution. Take the word gay, for example.

… or assault rifle.

[Samm]

@biggestal99

@Samm

The second part does not mesh with the woke agenda.

there is no such thing as a woke agenda.

its contrived by cons.

Denial is integral to the woke agenda.

[Samm]

@biggestal99

@thinkingman

the looney left sure does. they want to erase anything from history that by their new arbitrary standards upsets them

they are terrified about learning, remembering, teaching actual history

which is why cons removed the racial component from the Rosa Parks story.

Now you’re just making ■■■■ up. That too is in the woke agenda.

[Samm]

@Oryx

@Samm

@Oryx

Hilarious. The dictionary doesn’t make moral judgements, it reports how words are used.

And that’s exactly what @thinkingman said … “they refer to how it is considered.”

Which is exactly what I said. “How it is considered” means how it is used, which is exactly what the dictionary is reporting. It’s not a lib conspiracy.

So then, you agree with him. Why did you not say that in the first place?

[Samm]

@Guilds

@Supreme_War_Pig

Sheesh. Now dictionaries are picking on conservatives. This may be the moment that they jumped the shark.

They will never jump the shark…the shark jumps them.

Much like, conservatism never fails, it can only be failed.

Or maybe I need more coffee.

Better switch to decaf … you’re starting to hallucinate.

[Samm]

@Oryx

@thinkingman

“define” and report how something is used are not the same

keep trying tho dont forget the emotes.

It seems you have a fundamental misunderstanding of how dictionaries work. They don’t define words and then we’re all stuck using those definitions. The dictionary reports how words are commonly used. If common usage changes, then the dictionary changes to reflect that, not the other way around.

No … The dictionary does both.

[DougBH]

@Samm

@biggestal99

@Samm

The second part does not mesh with the woke agenda.

there is no such thing as a woke agenda.

its contrived by cons.

Denial is integral to the woke agenda.

There is no such thing as woke and we will fight for the right to teach it’s principles in elementary school.

[Oryx]

@Samm

So then, you agree with him. Why did you not say that in the first place?

He thinks the dictionary is a liberal conspiracy.

[e7alr]

This has the scent of a bailey distraction.

[Oryx]

I’m not sure what that is, but the thread is about how words are defined.

[Supreme_War_Pig]

@Oryx

I’m not sure what that is, but the thread is about how words are defined.

Motte and bailey.

For you see, dictionaries have no place in a discussion about definitions