(03-29-2023, 07:54 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: I think a good definition of "woke" is "seeing everything in life as evidence of systemic racial oppression."

Liberals see "woke" as having your eyes open to reality, while conservatives see "woke" as a ridiculous level of paranoia and seeing racism everywhere, even when it's not actually there.

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(03-28-2023, 11:40 PM)Lucky2Last Wrote: Is that really what the great jags/politics forum debate comes to? A few dumb Mikesez posts?

...followed by personal attacks that have nothing to do with the subject being discussed.

I don't get you, Marty. How can you possibly see that as an attack? It's a point. One that Mikey isn't addressing for a reason.

I spent at least 4 posts attempting to flesh out the nuance of a word, including how it came to be, and how different groups use it, and he tries to create a reductio ad absurdum argument that is baseless and dismissive. That's annoying. I did the same thing back at him, and you home in on my post as an attack? It's a response to: "Is that really what the great red/blue debate comes to? A few dumb commercials?" Do you really believe Mikesez is that stupid? Do you really think he thinks that's what I was trying to say? No. he doesn't. Just like I don't believe what I said. It's not an effective argument both ways, which was the point. 

On a side note, above I used the phrase "home in," but I wrote it as "hone in" and received an autocorrect error. Looked it up. Home in is the more common and older version of the phrase, which I would not have guessed in a million years.

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