When someone says “woke” I immediately assume that they have an opinion of the thing in question that they know will be seen as sexist, racist or -phobic in some way that if they said directly would get them called out on.
It’s just another cowards way of saying “I’m not racist but…”
I think it’s gotten to the point that anyone who actually uses “woke” as an insult just looks completely ridiculous now.
Ten years ago it was called “politics”.
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That’s the beauty of freedom. You are free to use it. Other people are free to shun you for being a fucking racist bigot.
Freedom is grand.
I don’t use it because I’m not black so it would be racist for me to… But you do you.
Also I just don’t have the desire to use it.
“Political”
White and political.
Male and political.
Straight and political.
Christian and political.
Platforms should start considering “woke” a slur, cause that’s pretty much how it’s used.
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“I fuck up late”?
He’s saying if some is considered a slur, then it will be censored, if it’s censored then you get odd looking and confusing sentences like that
Can something be a slur if no one is offended by it?
Thus successfully agitating liberals into censoring a word that originally was created by the black community to highlight the calling out of systemic racism and it’s lasting effects on society.
Which means the assholes win.
I remember when being called woke was a compliment. I miss those days :(
Still is. If someone who doesn’t think anyone else but white, straight people are allowed representation in our diverse world calls you woke as a slur, you wear that as a badge of honor
“Woke” apparently means being aware of systemic societal issues, and wanting to fix them. I’ll gladly wear that “insult”.
That’s probably a fair assumption at this point, but I wish there was a word for egregiously obnoxious shoehorning of culture war stuff that wouldn’t get immediately diluted into a generic partisan shibboleth. For instance when they were doing the Enhanced Edition of the first games, and using the characters as mouthpieces to break the fourth wall to whine about gamergate, I don’t think you really have to be a bigot to be annoyed by it or want to put a label on that sort of thing.
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Narrator: It does not.
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People who base their identities about calling things woke or not woke are in fact very likely to be racist, or sexist, or homophobic, or transphobic.
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Depends on what you consider bullshit. And if you complain about woke you probably have stupid opinions.
True that some ‘woke’ game suck, like that most recent saint’s row. But that’s because the writing is terrible, not because it includes minorities. Just an example
The bullshit wouldn’t be pushed if marginalized people in our society would be treated the same as everyone else and you know it. Grow up and stop being annoyed with black mermaids ffs
Like what? what don’t you appreciate? What exactly and specifically about it is bullshit? Are we too afraid to say what we actually hate about the content being presented?
woke doesn’t even mean anything anymore
It actually means a lot of things. Because it’s a dogwhistle.
At this point it’s a train whistle but the bigots have been hearing it so long they’re deaf.
True. Might as well be a foghorn.
for gamers, woke = minority.
There’s a gay person in my game? Woke
A black man or woman is the protagonist? Woke
It must be hard for them to live in the real world.
“I can’t believe they made real life political!”
It must be hard for them to live in the real world.
They don’t live in the real world. They live in some conservative fantasy land manifested through sheer force of hatred and bigotry.
Just a modern dog whistle, used by the worst among us.
Wait, amongus is woke now??
Yes, they refused to violate the Geneva Convention, just more woke big government trying to wokify gamr
It never meant anything. It is just a slur word invented by right wingers for when they face repercussions for their bigotry. They regularly switch out the word when they think it has outlived its usefulness. Older terms were PC and SJW. None of them meant anything.
Used to be it meant “not asleep”, in that you were aware of social injustices: a la “wake up sheeple!”
But it was co-opted by right-wingers as a catch-all term like “political correctness”, and has since lost the original meaning.
It was around the 2016 US presidential campaign when the shift happened.
What having zero personality does to a motherfucker
Also constantly being bombarded with propaganda from the day we’re born. Some folks figure it out, others fall in line with it
What?
Bitching about everyone being “woke” = having no personality.
Because they’re just a parrot, with less charisma or intellect than an actual parrot.
🦜 RAAAAHHH Go woke go broke go woke go broke
It contains women and POC not being completely subservient to the nearest white man at all times and so they consider it “woke”
There is bear sex in it. Must be woke.
“The future liberals want”
Freedom of choice that literally affects no one?
Sign me up!
What if my religion says you shouldn’t go around fuckin’ bears tho?
Then would you give up your bear-fuckin’?
MY religion says I must support bear fuckers at all costs. So I guess it’s a religious war.
I don’t have time for something like that though. If I send you an Amazon gift of several bags of salt, could you kindly spread that over your fields for me? And then send a reaction video, maybe gift me some candles for my curtains and I’ll do the same.
My religion says “if he’s a bear, it’s gay, unless he’s a literal bear” but wildshaping was not known to the sages so we must mediate on this.
So that’s what the classroom litter boxes were for; the bears. I KNEW it! /s
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“I’m deathly afraid of the gay, is there any gay in the game? Because I don’t know what will happen if I’m confronted with the gay!!!”
“Calm down, nothing in there is going to remind you of these urges of yours, play away.”
My translation.
So the guy in the pic is just a homophobic bigot? Or homophobic but also sexist, on account of the female characters looking as worn as the male characters? I’m too old to understand what woke means, but the guy’s post is also confusing to read.
Nobody knows what woke actually means in cases like these because it basically signifies “anything I don’t like or agree with”.
It usually means you aren’t racist, you don’t hate gay people or any other member of the lgbt community, and treat women fairly. So like… a decent human being.
Must be mentally tiring to be a right winger. Especially a gamer ™ one.
As someone who used to have a lot of similar opinions, it really isn’t. If anything, it was energizing to make people squirm and try to prove you wrong, only to have another issue chambered and ready to go.
They thrive on this shit. And after moving left, I’m fucking exhausted.
When your entire ideology is contrarian.
Especially a gaymer one
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And that’s exactly the point, too. Keep you mentally tired and angry so you don’t have the energy to question why too deeply.
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Ah, yes. Both sides. Both sides hate net neutrality. Both sides clamouring to make healthcare worse. Both sides fighting against the right for women to control their own bodies. Both sides hinting that their supporters violently attack the opposition at rallies.
Except maybe not quite so much sometimes.
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There’s a smaller number of rage-filled dumbasses on the left than on the right.
And the rage-filled dumbasses on the left tend to be teenagers who will grow out of it. On the right it’s middle-aged people with brain rot from too much Fox News.
…all the while, reasonable people in the middle are just tired of getting bludgeoned by both sides’ messaging & want to get on with their lives.
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There are other choices.
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At this point if someone starts talking about how “woke” a game, tv show, movie, or book is I assume they either have no real opinion of their own, or are pushing their own agenda
Just play the fucking game. If you like it great, if you don’t then just move on, or at least write a real review about why it’s actually a bad game
Just say all games are woke, whatever that means, and keep the rightoids out of everyone’s multi-player lobbies.
Actually, the reply is from a woke person who is trying to start shit by saying woke people are false-flagging wokeness free games, so that you’ll accidentally play and get indoctrinated by a woke game.
Right? There’s a gay bear mage! That’s as “woke” as it can get judging by whatever they define “woke” as today
Gale or Wyll? I guess I wouldn’t describe either of them as a bear.
Or maybe you made your own gay bear mage. Or maybe you’re rolling a druid and literally making a gay bear.
Sounds pretty woke to me.
It might be because I’m high right now, but I hurt my brain trying to follow that.
It hurt my brain trying to write it, and I haven’t smoked weed in 15 years.
This is mentally ill dribble.
If you’re that worried, just don’t play it because that apparently would be the only thing on your mind the whole time playing BG3
Peering into my crystal ball, I can see that after release there will be at least one post on here showing these guys and their ilk complaining that you have the option to make a trans/nonbinary character. People gave Solasta negative reviews for letting you pick your pronouns
appreciate you posting this because it brings out all the g*mers and makes it easy for me to snipe them 🙏
Anybody who gets sniped in the comment section is a noob who needs to get good and stop being such a little bitch
Skill issue
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Lmao shut up and play the game
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Remember it’s “go woke or go broke but if you go woke you go broke anyway because society”
