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In a lot of places, not just far-right assholes, the word “woke” has taken on the role of terms like “social justice warrior” and “political correctness” - i.e. in describing a self-righteous, superficial, performative and preachy kind of style.

LOL no, “woke” is anything that acknowledges LGBT+ individuals exist and have a right to live their lives as they want is woke. These fucking snowflakes cry about being asked to pick fucking pronouns, even when there is 0 impact on the game.

Crying ‘woke’ instantly tells me all I need to know about someone. The same goes for people who try to pretend it’s about preaching a message instead of acknowledging these people can and do exist.

What the man seems to me to be trying to say is that their goal was to do a medieval gay romance in a way that was not preachy or superficial – is that not good? Isn’t there a bit too much token representation and pinkwashing going on?

And you’re parroting the message loud and clear. Acknowledging their existence is always tOkEn RePrEsEnTaTiOn

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ChristerMLB@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

LOL no, “woke” is anything that acknowledges LGBT+ individuals exist

…so the guy who directed a game where you can have a medieval gay romance, does not acknowledge that LGBT+ individuals exist?

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- Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  …why do you think he has to say he’s not “doing that woke shit” while doing nothing particularly different from “that woke shit”? He had to get on front of people who agree with him who were going to cry about a gay romance existing, but now they have a narrative to follow when it comes up.
  
  In other words, “it’s different when we do it”
  
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  - ChristerMLB@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Alternatively, as I wrote: in some places, the word “woke” has taken on the role of terms like “social justice warrior” and “political correctness” - i.e. in describing a self-righteous, superficial, performative and preachy kind of style - and he wants to distance himself from that style.
    
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    Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    
    i.e. in describing a self-righteous, superficial, performative and preachy kind of style - and he wants to distance himself from that style.
    
    LOL, this is exactly what I’m talking about, because we agree to a point that woke replaced those words. But those words as well were just nice ways of complaining that minorities existed.
    
    The “social justice warrior” moniker was only ever BRIEFLY your definition, because it was quickly picked up by rightoid chuds as a thought terminating epithet they could say without getting booted for saying slurs. Saying that’s what it means now is just carrying water for the people who use it as an epithet, because your definition does not match common usage. I watched the change happen from that side of the fence, and it was part of what woke me up to the reality of the situation, and see through the lies people pushed (that unsurprisingly sounded a lot like what I’m hearing in this conversation).
    
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NostraDavid@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

LOL no, “woke” is anything that acknowledges LGBT+ individuals exist and have a right to live their lives as they want is woke.

OK, body type 2. My experience is that it is a slippery slope, and every time something is accepted, some weird Tumblrite-type comes out the woodworks with a new need; want; requirement. - it’s never-ending. It’s fucking weird, and I’ve turned non-accepting over the years.

Does that mean that MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ peoples are all evil devils? Obviously not. But I’m not kowtowing to a tiny minority that wants the majority to make way for them, in places where it’s really not needed, nor wanted. I just wanted to play videogames.

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- Dremor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Removed under rule 2.
  
  Try to not push your arguments in a offensive way next time.
  
  Any person has the right to be acknowledged as they are, not as other want be to be.
  
  Speaking of vocal minority, I’d add the one who tries to erase any LGBTQ+ from anywhere visible (books, games, speech). Which you seem to support, according to your comment.
  
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