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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I pointed you to that piece by Elizabeth Spiers. You did not talk about or critique what she said. You started talking about total warfare. ????????
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She complained about people turning woke into a pejorative. As if that's wrong, that it shouldn't be stolen and turned against itself.
I responded by stating that she's missing an obvious reason for its being stolen (which is a critique of her). My criticism was that, to be woke is to weaponize expression. The woke have been some of the loudest voices for boycotting or firing, rather than engaging, speech they do not like.
When this occurs, one cannot complain when his opponents start using similarly extreme bad faith tactics, like stealing his buzzwords and turning them into insults.
I don't know how she misses this, or where she finds the temerity and lack of self awareness to scold people for using the term as an insult. She actually seems offended by it.
Welcome to the war, Liz. Nobody likes it, but if neither side is willing to drop their extreme responses to each other, expect it to escalate.
(One wonders if she'd be similarly dismayed at people crying for firings and boycotts.
Underdog Bias seems to permeate all these arguments. Those perceived to be on the short end of the power dynamic are allowed to engage in extreme responses, but those on the other end may not.)
