As I said to you in my reply, the word woke is being used outside of the context of anti-racist activism now. It had nothing to do with race when I posted it in my reply. "Self-righteous" is a perfectly good word, and perhaps I should have used that, but that was the first one that came to mind.
My country is burning down right now. I am firmly on the side of the left and was into activism before a lot of you were born. Arguing with me over semantics isn't really going to accomplish anything. If you want to assume I'm some sort of racist (and all white people are, and it's something we have to unlearn), then by all means, go ahead and think that, but I've already given an explanation of why I said what I said and you arguing with me is not accomplishing anything; you could invest that sort of time and energy in things like calling your local Congressperson (if you live in the States) or things that will actually help people in the States. You are coming off self-righteous now with the language prescriptivism, and I assume I hit a nerve because I mentioned "cishet allies", which sounds a lot like tone policing a transgender person TBH.
I'm done having this conversation now. Have a nice day.
no subject
My country is burning down right now. I am firmly on the side of the left and was into activism before a lot of you were born. Arguing with me over semantics isn't really going to accomplish anything. If you want to assume I'm some sort of racist (and all white people are, and it's something we have to unlearn), then by all means, go ahead and think that, but I've already given an explanation of why I said what I said and you arguing with me is not accomplishing anything; you could invest that sort of time and energy in things like calling your local Congressperson (if you live in the States) or things that will actually help people in the States. You are coming off self-righteous now with the language prescriptivism, and I assume I hit a nerve because I mentioned "cishet allies", which sounds a lot like tone policing a transgender person TBH.
I'm done having this conversation now. Have a nice day.