by far the worst contribution of woke discourse has been making the observation that "everything is political" code for "everything is part of my victim game"
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"political" vs "not" has always been about which side of the line one stands on like wokes themselves remark, but the reversal of having "political" as the default is more tiresome than the erasure of issues of pretending some things are not
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conversely, people who hate "politics" because "politics" is code for "woke" tend to adopt a similarly totalizing point of view, replacing "everything is politics" with "everything is business"
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maybe I'm too charitable but to me it's an issue of shared language, at least when someone who's sufficiently self-aware "hates politics"
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it is, they're all language games and the preference for any specific one over the others seem to be to a great extent related go socioeconomic status + occupation (and maybe personality?)
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as annoying as bizspeak and sciencespeak and politispeak applied to everyday things might be, these are all perfectly normal developments from people doing these things for a living ("politics" included, though it's more tool than occupation)
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myeah you'd expect the left to be woke to this sort of structural discrimination/exclusion (so much free legitimacy just left on the table!) but once you're in a language game it becomes really hard to take an outside view
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yeah, and im getting a feeling that a group's (any group's) dynamics following their stated ideals is something that happens once in a blue moon, far from being the norm
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