• DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe
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    8 months ago

    There was a great clip of some chud who argued himself into accepting trans people with that exact kind of reasoning.

    It’s a mental illness, you can even see brain chemistry differences -> They deserve therapy -> failing that, corrective surgery or hormones-> oh

    I don’t know if it stuck, but it was still hilarious. And it demonstrated the point rather handily that the rational folks are all already on team Woke.

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      8 months ago

      It’s taken a while to figure out the meaning, but the reading I did basically defines “Woke” as generally being aware of the world and its problems, (Or in other words, not having your head in the sand). It’s baffling that the term has been used as an insult by anti-intellectuals.

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        8 months ago

        It’s baffling that the term has been used as an insult by anti-intellectuals

        The end of your sentence is the unbaffler you need.