cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4287336
Midwestern Marx is a PatSoc
Claims to be a leftist
Uses the term “woke” unironically
I mean, there’s a difference between using the word “woke” unironically as a bad thing vs as a good thing vs as a regular-ass participle, right?
The latter two I wouldn’t doubt one as a leftist but the former is veryquite cringe
I wish the left, especially black leftists, could reclaim it, but it’s seeming too far gone, unfortunately.
What the fuck does non-woke anti-imperialist even mean
anti-queer and anti-black primarily, that’s the axis these patsoc dipshits base their politics on
They also tend to dislike service workers and teachers. Their perception of the working class masses are bearded white guys in hard hats and that’s it.
Also it seems like these Midwestern Marx people are mostly college professors. When professors call something woke it’s usually because they tried sexually harassing a student.
It’s like Césaire said, the real sin of fascists was to apply colonialism to white people. Much of the western ‘left’ is still only concerned with that dynamic. If the US practiced it’s imperialism only on the global south, you wouldn’t hear a peep. As evidenced by the existence of those who tell you to vote Biden because although he’s doing a genocide, he isn’t quite so ghoulish against the good ol’ USians as Trump would be (he is, but they aren’t concerned with facts).
i figured he was after he defended the rich men north of Richmon song as being 95% about the plight of the working class, interviewing the singer, and called it a revolutionary song for the American masses ect ect.
Revolutionary songs are ones about how poor people are bad for eating snacks that get referenced multiple times at the Republican National Convention
Can’t even describe how annoying the word woke is at this point
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I wish I could go back in time and stop the word “woke” from entering the white people cultural zeitgeist
We need to gatekeep our language more imo, I know it’s hard cause the internet gives people free access to our culture but I’m tired of this shit
Tiktok has been such a facilitator it’s unbelievable. Within a week or two a word I’ve never heard a single white person use will be a part of the average genZer’s/genAlpha’s lexicon. Plus they will then be called “meme words” 💀
I do not really care but something will always be uncomfortable about a 13 year old white kid saying rizz and gyatt in every other sentence.
gyatt
God I fucking hate this term so much it’s not even a word it’s just onomatopoeia 💀 we already have plenty of terms for ass/booty/cake
Language evolves and changes and I’m aware things change between generations but like damn man this feels like a complete regression. I blame capitalism
It really is weird hearing American suburban white kids on TikTok talking like the inner city kids I went to school with when I lived in the US. It’s really irritating to hear black slang referred to as “gen Z slang”
Can’t wait for South African sayings to hit the streets of the Western world eventually lol. It’s all over TikTok. Some cringe 16 year old named Kyle in the Midwest telling someone to voetsek lol. Or some kid going haibo instead of wtf. Or some kid trying to be sassy typing out mxm without knowing what it means or how to pronounce it. Some mom or dad saying eish wena.
A random side note is that I once coined sjoe as a gender-neutral pronoun for one of my conlangs — more specifically ⟨sjoe⟩ is one of the two standard ways of romanizing this word, but it’s the romanization that I use by far the most often because it’s ASCII friendly.
To quickly explain the etymology of the pronoun sjoe: it comes from sj- (root for 3S pronouns) + -oe (standard gender-neutral equivalent to -a / -e). I can go in more depth but I don’t think that’s necessary, you get the picture.
Anyways, after getting comfortable with using the word sjoe in my conlang, I even started sometimes using sjoe in English when referring to third-gender or non-binary characters from my conworld — I justified this practice by saying that the word sjoe was to many of these characters essentially a sacred and untranslatable mark of respect. And then when I started getting comfortable with using sjoe in English for fictional characters, I even started considering using sjoe for myself, because I’d already coined the word and I liked the sound of it and it’s my conlang so I can do whatever the heck I please with it.
…And then one day I decided to look up “sjoe” on Wiktionary on a whim, just to see if this word happened by some off chance to coincidentally also be a real word used in any natural languages.
…
…Alright so it turns out that South Africans, through some bizarre twist of fate, apparently use sjoe as an interjection. Which means that South Africans — although the sjoe of my conlang is etymologically unrelated and not pronounced the same as the interjection sjoe — probably would’ve read the things I’d written about my conworld’s characters as something like, “Phew! castrated whoo!-self as a teenager and became a choir singer, but due to rejection from whew!'s family ended up running away; sheesh! ended up finding a powerful sentient shield in a forest built by an ancient civilization, and with this shield wow! came to uncover all the secrets and conspiracies of yeesh!'s world…”
I ultimately decided against using sjoe for myself.
I can’t imagine how other cultures might feel, like English already directly steals from other languages and claims it for itself
Can’t tell you how many times I’ve cringed cause people can’t pronounce karaoke correctly
“Carry-okey” 🙄
