A professor I had in undergrad once use the term “vernacular treadmill” to describe that process. It just keeps spinning and we have to update what we define as insulting as it becomes used that way.
Yep, first they used ‘political correctness’ then it was ‘SJW’, then ‘virtue signaling’, and now ‘woke’. They’re all trying to say the same thing; that people on the left don’t actually believe the things they say but feel pressured to conform to… something? A media narrative? A desire to not be perceived as a total asshole? But we’re all totally fakers.
They’ve been using woke for awhile now, I guess it’s DEI’s turn.
It’s because there’s very little they truly believe in, so when they see people on the left have actual convictions they assume they’re liars just like themselves.
They’re all trying to say the same thing; that people on the left don’t actually believe the things they say but feel pressured to conform to… something? A media narrative? A desire to not be perceived as a total asshole? But we’re all totally fakers.
A professor I had in undergrad once use the term “vernacular treadmill” to describe that process. It just keeps spinning and we have to update what we define as insulting as it becomes used that way.
Yep, first they used ‘political correctness’ then it was ‘SJW’, then ‘virtue signaling’, and now ‘woke’. They’re all trying to say the same thing; that people on the left don’t actually believe the things they say but feel pressured to conform to… something? A media narrative? A desire to not be perceived as a total asshole? But we’re all totally fakers.
They’ve been using woke for awhile now, I guess it’s DEI’s turn.
It’s because there’s very little they truly believe in, so when they see people on the left have actual convictions they assume they’re liars just like themselves.
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“Euphemism Treadmill” on Wikipedia. Very interesting subject!
Quite possible that’s what he said or possible he misspoke by accident.