[monoideism]

> common sentiment reminds me of reading history about lynchings in Jim Crow era and sun down towns

I'm about as far from woke or PC as you could imagine, but that's an incredibly inaccurate comparison.

Reading some developer scorn or arrogance, no matter how unfortunate or annoying, shares no common features with an actual lynching.

[austincheney]

I am not claiming to be physically beaten, but to me the attitudes as I interpret them feel the same from what I have read compared to what I have experienced in how it feels and how it impairs my career progression/mobility. Earlier when I used the word hostility it wasn’t for elaboration.

[edent]

Perhaps you would describe yourself of being aware of the negative power that racialised language can have on people? And now you've realised that, it seems wrong to draw distasteful comparisons - not least because of the potential reaction of your peers.

It is almost like you've had an awakening and realise that it is important to understand how important it is to behave in a politically savvy way.

If only we had some words for that...

[NikolaNovak]

Depending on your location, if "woke" is where you're going to, empathically not.

Around these here parts, the term means many many things, and it involves anything from anti-vaccination & homeopathy and far further medical fringes (Crystals and essential oils for everything up to and including cancer or covid etc), through vast conspiracy theories up to and including Illuminati and Templars and Masons and everything else, impractical and frequently random / fashionable food choices and restrictions, and so on and so worth. "Sensitive", "Aware", "Liberal" or "Emotionally Intelligent" are not part of local definition of "Woke" anymore. In general, "Woke" and "Science/Fact-oriented" are fairly mutually exclusive here - while that's an unfair generalization, that's exactly the problem - the term has diffused and has a lot of negative in addition to perhaps some positive meanings; but mostly it's used by any given fanatical group to indicate their superiority compared to its antonym, "Sheeple".

If you meant a different word, noting it explicitly would be helpful :)