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Thread #172164   Message #4166376
Posted By: Donuel
28-Feb-23 - 09:16 AM
Thread Name: BS: (Another) matter of etiquette.
Subject: RE: BS: (Another) matter of etiquette.
while the remark 'you are one of us' is innocent enough, it also sounds tribal with overtones of similar socioeconomic, nationality, political, skin color and shared likes/hates. It does not seem cosmopolitan.

Code words are big in America. For example 'he's one of themism' is everywhere. Currently "them' is anyone who is woke or against Trump.
FOX NEWS reports who is woke like reports of; Cambridge Dictionary goes woke, Google goes woke, AI programs goes woke, the Army goes woke, My Little Pony goes woke, Captain America goes woke, Minnie Mouse goes woke, M&Ms go woke, Wordle is going woke, Video Games go woke, Disney goes woke, Woke agendas, Woke prosecutors, Woke Pentagon, woke religion, woke apocalypse, and even the muppets are going woke (they already did 25 years ago.) All of these are a Republican theme to scare people of the other who is not in our tribe. I honestly don't see the advantage of staying asleep. The thing is, woke is never defined on Fox News. Perhaps it has something to do with history which is getting more censored and controlled everyday.