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 Veronica Explains • • •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 Veronica Explains • • •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.
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in reply to Veronica Explains • • •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 Veronica Explains • • •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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(Trusting you recognize silly vs. obnoxious reply)
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in reply to Veronica Explains • • •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 Veronica Explains • • •Sensitive content
Hmm.. 'them' has a point though. Ok, maybe this helps a little..
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in reply to Veronica Explains • •@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 Veronica Explains • • •I like to ask people what they don't like about "wokeness" Is it the treating people with humanity or the compassion they don't like?
Sometimes I change it up with a "Oh no! I don't want to be woke! How much intolerance should I have before I'm no longer woke?"
Nobody has ever responded to these questions.
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in reply to Veronica Explains • • •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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in reply to Veronica Explains • • •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 Veronica Explains • • •I once asked a local guy what 'Woke' meant. He hemmed and hawed for a while and then finally admitted it meant he didn't like something.
The way I see it, when you call anything 'Woke' you are telling me much more about *you* than you are about the thing in question.
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in reply to Veronica Explains • • •for them woke = they don't like it.
But in the morning i feel woke too after some coffee. π
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in reply to Veronica Explains • • •Because they don't know what it means.
To them, it's like telling you the product is shit. They're parroting cult talking points.
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in reply to Veronica Explains • • •I think this is true generally as well. Many people repeat talking points theyβve heard but itβs all surface knowledge. They canβt answer the follow up question because their knowledge is never that deep. They donβt understand policy and havenβt actually absorbed anything beyond the alleged insult.
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in reply to Veronica Explains • • •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.