Hello to all here on this forum. I'll be mainly be lurking about, seeing if I can scrounge up anything which satiates my appetite. At the very least, so far from my observations, this place isn't a haven for the sort of woke crowd, common online these days. Least, I've not seen them hanging about too much in the left hand path section.
Hello, I hope you enjoy the discussions of the community here.
Reading your comments, your use of the term "woke" has prompted a few thoughts. I must admit this is a term I try to avoid, as it makes me uneasy, for a couple of reasons.
In the first place, as "woke" is slang for "awakened", one has to assume the converse of "woke" would be "asleep" - or perhaps "sleepin' " , if one enters into the spirit of the vernacular idiom. Is it better to be thought
sleepin' than
woke? I'd have thought not, on the whole.
In the second place, the term "woke" is in fact taken from the US black vernacular for having been awakened to the extent of racial prejudice and discrimination in society. So, using "woke" as a term of
denigration seems to me to have a whiff of racism about it. In fact it could be seen as a bit of a masonic handshake between people with underlying racist sympathies, a dogwhistle term, when used in this way.
I realise that words like this change their meaning or connotations almost from day to day, so maybe my distrust of this term is already out of date. Nevertheless it's one I personally avoid.