Comment on Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Director Says It Did Gay Romance "Right" By Not Going "Woke"

• 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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      • ChristerMLB@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        could you give me some examples of that common usage?

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