So I found a tactic that's working in my YouTube comments- thought I'd share.
If someone complains that a software I recommended is "woke", I ask them "what does that mean? Can you say more about that?"
They never say more. They delete their comment instead.
My tactic is to make them say what they mean. They won't.
Because they're cowards.
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in reply to now it's veronicaexplains.net • • •Me: "what does that even mean? What part of Debian are you referring to?"
Them: [self-destructs]
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in reply to now it's veronicaexplains.net • • •Someone said I was censoring conservatives by [checks notes] asking what they mean.
So I asked them to describe how asking questions was censorship, and... they deleted the comment!
It's almost like they're afraid to say it.
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in reply to now it's veronicaexplains.net • • •FWIW I do occasionally ban folks from commenting on the channel, mostly when they're using violent rhetoric or objectifying me (or others). For the most part those comments get sent to the "holding area" thanks to word matches, where I can then ban folks without anyone seeing the comment.
Zero tolerance for assholes.
DaMan_AB
in reply to now it's veronicaexplains.net • • •Kinene⭐🐻
in reply to now it's veronicaexplains.net • • •My tactic (verbal) is to be my inner child and keep asking, "Why?"
If it drives parents crazy, it should work with fascist morons.
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in reply to now it's veronicaexplains.net • • •yeah, stupid people have never been rare, but I think the contemporary firehose-of-soundbytes meme culture has engendered a vast pool of chronically overstimulated folks who honestly have *no idea* why they believe any of the things they believe, and have no tools to even begin addressing the question.
When the only cases in your switch statement are "I agree" or "I'm mad", being asked to define yourself is probably one of those divide-by-zero things that just leads to a kernel panic.
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in reply to now it's veronicaexplains.net • • •Well actually, not all fools 🤪
(Trusting you recognize silly vs. obnoxious reply)
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in reply to now it's veronicaexplains.net • • •I'm just going to leave this here. No reason.
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in reply to now it's veronicaexplains.net • • •I feel reasonably confident in guessing they want a reaction (preferably a fight), not a response.
I also have to wonder if this is of a piece with those folks who regard "asking for clarification" as aggressive. An especially tedious behavior in supervisors. (I've heard two unrelated reports of this nonsense lately, & I have to wonder if it is becoming a thing.)
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in reply to now it's veronicaexplains.net • • •On most occasions when a person uses 'woke' to describe something, the wokeee will genuinely not really know what the person is specifically criticising. So to ask them to explain is quite honest but with a little side dish of a troll-ette which is a perfect combination.
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in reply to now it's veronicaexplains.net • • •Sensitive content
Hmm.. 'them' has a point though. Ok, maybe this helps a little..
youtube.com/watch?v=_Let6RDuZJ…
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in reply to now it's veronicaexplains.net • • •You don't need to buy it, or subscribe to it. You don't have to have an account or give permission to share your data with our few selected partners. You don't need to repurchase it every time it's updated and you don't need a new CPU for a latest update. You don't even need to buy a special computer to run it.
AND THATS WOKE!!!1!!one
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in reply to now it's veronicaexplains.net • • •David Peach
in reply to now it's veronicaexplains.net • • •ive never understood why "woke" is supposed to be an insult. Its literally the opposite of asleep/oblivious.
People are idiots unfortunately.
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Unknown parent • •@Veronica Explains @Dev Albino People can be deprogrammed. It's not easy, but it can be done.* The best way to do it is to break the thought-stopping patterns that have generally been imposed on them. This seems like a really effective way to do it.
* I know this from first hand experience.
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in reply to now it's veronicaexplains.net • • •I decided recently that arbitrarily labelling people or things as "woke" is nothing more than a modern variation on lazily throwing about a "communist" label.
As in it's not enough to just say there's people or policies they don't agree with or having preferences, it needs to sound like an "insult" either by adopting an existing word or making one up.
Along with "libtard", "leftist" and a bunch of other words they can't articulate when challenged on explaining their reasoning.
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in reply to now it's veronicaexplains.net • • •...or they don't actually fucking KNOW what it's supposed to mean, they just hear it on MAGAnews...
Douglas
in reply to now it's veronicaexplains.net • • •I know the perfect meme 🌝
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in reply to now it's veronicaexplains.net • • •They won't say, because woke means being aware of and against systematic oppression. Someone who defended their client said that was what woke meant using lots of liberty to do so.
I doubt anyone wants to admit that is why.
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in reply to now it's veronicaexplains.net • • •We know EXACTLY what "woke" means.
In the name of "fighting wokeness," Republicans have been banning thousands of books all over the country, including several award-winning books famous for explaining to children why the Holocaust was a bad thing.
So when they say "woke" they mean "not a Nazi."
And just like that, you know both why it makes them so mad and why they don't want to explain it.
Billy Smith
in reply to now it's veronicaexplains.net • • •This tactic was used successfully by teachers & librarians in Florida.
When parents were asking them about the teaching of Critical Race Theory, teachers would ask, "What part of the syllabus are you talking about?"
Most of the time, the parents didn't know what CRT was. They were just repeating talking-points & trigger-words that they had been told to ask about.
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in reply to now it's veronicaexplains.net • • •I can see why they would delete such comments: Fox "News" seems to use "woke" as a general insult devoid of meaning. Once they realize that (a) all they meant was "I don't like it", and (b) how much effort it would take to explain why they don't like it, they delete the comment rather than spending hours trying to critique some software that they couldn't figure out how to use.
Besides, maybe they don't want to admit to watching Fox News.
metafilter.com/199618/200-thin…
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They want to treat registered sex offenders as outcasts forever —Did a sex offender write that code? Ew, avoid that software. Is a sex offender giving a software talk? You are unsafe in that room.
More FUD from shills of Microsoft, which is in its death throes. Trying to smear FOSS contributors. (like RMS?)
People who can't stand a bit of controversy, who are led by media, by partial quotes taken out of context, shouldn't join any movement that goes against incumbent powers. 🐧
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in reply to now it's veronicaexplains.net • • •but, but, don't you think being bigoted is cool? 🥺
Absolute fucking clowns, 🤡 when the real world strikes they can't face it.
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Unknown parent • • •I know I'm going to regret this question, but: What does that even mean?
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Unknown parent • • •@redti
okay, redti is clearly a bot or a troll. Buh-bye.
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Unknown parent • •@redti How are "cancel actions" supposed to "expose" this?
How are the people who are saying, for instance, that the LGBTQIA+ community should be allowed to exist the ones who are causing division, and not the group who are trying to exterminate them?
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