You can blame Apple for that too, nipples == app store ban. Instagram etc cannot afford being kicked off the store.
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I'd look into that if I was you. Reddit doesn't seem to have censored that aspect of it's content.
That’s mostly fair. But the post was responding to those who bundle a nebulous group of people they don’t like into “woke ideology”. “Woke” from what I can tell pretty much means being respectful of others who have differences and caring for people.
Which is pretty much what you wrote. As in, respecting each others differing opinions.
So I don’t really get this lumping people into a group. And using woke as a negative. It’s very weird and why I often as people to define what they mean by it.
Often the definitions are wildly different and surprising. Yet people use the word as an ‘bogeyman’ word. Eg, earlier in this discussion it turned out that the person using it was using it as a byword for holocaust denial. Which was a new one on me.
To have grown up discussions, using terms like “woke” or “lefty libs” or whatever to group large non-organised sections of society together is not the route to a positive debate. People within those ‘groups’ don’t agree with each other, and by creating a barrier of “you’re in that group I hate” it immediately creates animosity.
Yes, “woke” as an antagonistic term is not helpful.
It is akin and also not helpful to throwing out the words: “transphobe” and “book banner” and “gay-basher”
These words are simplifying and reducing the “other side” into single groups to attack. It’s not helpful.
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Fantastic news. And glad he fired Vijaya Gadde. Very pretentious know-it-all clown and her interview on Joe Rogan’s podcast was deplorable.
From this onlooker, it means he’s conceded the argument and cannot define the thing he hates.
Too few realize the long-term consequences of this acquisition. It has a chance of going under but a much higher chance of becoming a weaponized pr machine for folks with questionable agendas. And yes, the latter is the only way to justify its price.
Edit: removed the speculation of Elon running for the President... Duh
Edit: removed the speculation of Elon running for the President... Duh
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I hope he does because the alternative is worse. I also hope that this acquisition marks the beginning of the end of the social media disease. Not likely to happen though...
The term "woke" was invented by those people themselves. They wanted to feel somehow "superior" because they are "woke" while others are "asleep" when it come to discrimination and other negative stuff. So it was a smart move from the right to turn this positive connotation into a negative one.
In Germany we had the annoying hashtag #ichbinhier (#iamhere). People posted that hashtag to show that someone said something really bad against someone else or a group, but they were here to show support for the "victims" of a post or tweet. I hated that hashtag, because it basically said "We are the good ones". It is pretty much like the word "woke".
What you say is true, unfortunately, and creepy as hell. Mao and Stalin would have killed for this surveillance capability.
I don’t agree I’m afraid. Those terms are specific to a person. If someone is a transphobe then they are a transphobe. Much like if someone is racist then they are a racist. Maybe ‘book-banner’ is more akin.
But I’m less bothered about someone calling me personally woke, than I am about someone referring to large groups of people as “woke elite” or such a thing as the “woke ideology”. There is none. I am happy to own being woke because as far as I can tell, at its heart, it only has positive connotations of being respectful and caring.
I’d say a better parallel is more like lazily referring to republicans as fascists. Certainly not all are. Probably some are. But lumping all in is wrong and provocative.
Glorious times indeed. The world is healing 🤣
The only people insulting on this thread are those opposed on elon’s takeover.
Nice. Let's finally see some positive changes.
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Elon was not born a US citizen so currently cannot ever run for president.
Twitter is a garbage platform. It's completely full of fake accounts and spam messages. Garbage!
“The reason I acquired Twitter is because it is important to the future of civilization to have a common digital town square, where a wide range of beliefs can be debated in a healthy manner, without resorting to violence.”
Riiiiiiiight. Because unfettered, anonymous postings don't become cesspools of hate, crackpot conspiracy theories, and foreign provocateurs.
Riiiiiiiight. Because unfettered, anonymous postings don't become cesspools of hate, crackpot conspiracy theories, and foreign provocateurs.
That seems impossible in today's society. Everyone has to go out of their way to verbalize and nitpick everything. People can't just be an adult and ignore the comment, nor can they take it with a grain or salt, nor can they understand someone's opinion that differs from theirs and respect it.