How did American “wokeness” jump from elite schools to everyday life?
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#2I still don't get the term latinx.
Have they considered... Latin. As in, Latin America, for instance?
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#5I still don't get the term latinx. Have they considered... Latin . As in, Latin America, for instance?
It's incredibly offensive. They're projecting how English works on gendered nouns onto other language (Spanish) and then getting worked up over it. It's astounding that the people pushing the term don't see the irony.
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#6Fundamentally languages have been evolving in a reductive manner, which is why adding syllables to terms like in "Latino/Latina -> Latin-x -> Latinx+" won't last. People will quickly eschew these terms for things that are easier to pronounce.
There's no malice in this - just a natural evolution of language towards efficiency.
As such its an endless cycle: new stuff is introduced to everyday language then reduced to something simpler - often using words that fell out of use, shadowing them with new meaning.
It's quite possible the new word for "Latinx+", whatever it is, will simply be considered genderless - if societal pressure manages to displace the old terms.
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#7I'm glad that the Economist points out at the end that 'wokeness' has become a favorite of business, and the reason is pretty obvious, as a movement it's self-defeating because all identitarian politics eventually ends in infighting, with its subjective, choice and preference based worldview it's actually ill-equipped to move anything.
It might exist in academia or PR departments or journalism or facebook pages and twitter threads but it does very little to affect material relations and power structures, so it's if anything the Left and not anyone else who should be concerned with it.
It's always surprising to me that this seems to be such a Conservative topic of concern who if anything should be glad that it occupies so much mindspace.
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#8I'm glad that the Economist points out at the end that 'wokeness' has become a favorite of business, and the reason is pretty obvious, as a movement it's self-defeating because all identitarian politics eventually ends in infighting, with its subjective, choice and preference based worldview it's actually ill-equipped to move anything. It might exist in academia or PR departments or journalism or facebook pages and t…
It's like wokesters complaining about X-fragility. One does get fed up from the constant droning on.
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#9Well given that they have to redefine terms under new names and to create a newspeak for all of this, it was not long until it had spread unchallenged from the social-sciences classrooms in universities to the workplace and we now see rejected concepts that were left in the past to later resurface under a redefinition under newspeak.
A great way to confuse the general public and push an agenda to create a culture of silencing anyone opposed to view points someone disagrees with.
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#10I think this is the result of the gradual femininization of our culture. It started with the feminist/gender-studies types and slowly caught on.
Not because people necessarily wanted to change, but cancel culture makes it so that you can't risk nonconforming.
At first it was little things like switching to softer language and giving kids participation trophies so that they don't feel bad. Now it's spread to the point that they feel the need to invent words like Latinx just in case a couple of latinos feel left out.