Without any hate speech or whatever. What is now WOKE that was once PC and vice versa?

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    No.

    PC was not using offensive language that’s degrading to traditionally disadvantaged groups

    Woke a African American word used back in the 30’s to describe the understanding of the racial bias inherent in the systems of America.

    Both are completely misused and misunderstood by Republicans and to use anti-x to mean “I want to remain a complete asshole”.

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    They’re related but not the same. Political correctness is about taking steps not to offend anyone. Wokeism is more about acknowledging societal issues and lack of inclusivity.

  • Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    I think that “woke” (as it used now by right wing mouth breathers) is a combination of “PC” and “satanic”. Because from what I remember in my childhood, “satanic” was the word of choice for right wingers to use when they didn’t like something. “PC” was used in an insulting way by certain people but it was far more popular at the time to just accuse anything they didn’t like of being devil worship.

    “Woke” is the exact same shit as that. Just repackaged so that edgelord teenagers also think it’s cool to call everything “woke”. And instead of the devil, it’s the LGBTQ+ community, which is probably the same thing to them anyway. But it’s all spear headed by the same fucking people or types of people, along with their legion of useful idiots this time.

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      Basically it is the trendy word to say, “This thing does not align to my narrow world view and is therefore bad and wrong.”

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    Yes, and it was “bleeding heart” before that.

    The reason this insult has such staying power is because it’s apt. Reactionaries are correct when they say liberals by in large don’t really care about minorities or the disadvantaged, they just use them for political power.

    The mistake is in thinking that liberals represent the left.

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      Yeah - it’s always been just a weird way to try to tie a negative connotation to “cares about other human beings and doesn’t want to hurt their feelings unnecessarily.”

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    I thought one would call someone being “PC” , “Woke”, as ment to be derogatory.

    Like the left saying that they are PC. But the right calling it Woke to defame any of those actions…

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    It’s political correctness expanded to also care about how people talk about gender issues and such. That’s all. And it’s so hilarious to see people feel threatened by such an inoffensive idea as ‘maybe respect people and how they want to be addressed or referred to.’