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From: Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net>
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Subject: Re: Sunny Hostin: It's "Un-Godly, Not Christian" To Criticize "Woke" Culture
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2025 04:30:50 -0500
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In article <vpl6af$24fdr$7@dont-email.me>, atropos@mac.com wrote:
> "shawn" <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:
>> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>>> "Ubiquitous" <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

>>>>  "And so Whoopi will often tell me, 'I've never been asleep,'" she added.
>>>> "And that's how I feel... so it angers me when people are like, 'This woke stuff 
>>>>  gotta go.' That's telling me that you don't care about my lived experience
>>> 
>>> Well, you got that one right, Sunny. I don't care about your 'lived
>>> experience'. You're one of the most racist people on TV. You're a horrible
>>> person and whatever experiences you've had concern me not in the slightest.
>>> 
>>> And what the hell is 'lived experience, anyway? What other experience could
>>> you have other than that through which you've lived?
>> 
>> I'm sure she means her "lived experience" which makes her better to
>> talk about this subject than you and your "lived experience".
>
>Well, sure, but why not simply call it 'experience', since there can be no
>other kind?
>
>People-- particularly on the Left, but sometimes on the Right, as well-- seem
>to feel obligated to constantly make up new jargony terms for stuff that can
>already by described using normal words in the English language.
>
>'Social distance' is another one that leaps to mind. Why did we need a new
>term for that? Why couldn't we just call it 'distance'? It's literally means
>the same thing.

Not to defend that weasal, but "social distance" refers to distance of people in 
crowds.

>Another one that recently seems to have spread everywhere is the use of
>'giving' to mean 'implies' or 'seems like'. This is particularly popular among
>GenZers. They say things like,
>
>"She's giving jealousy" instead of "She seems jealous."
>
>and
>
>"That trailer's giving STAR WARS" instead of "That trailer seems like a STAR
>WARS copy."

I thought it was short for "emminating", but yeah, it's stupid.

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