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by pc86 1703 days ago
Their motives aren't necessarily sinister, but they are pearl-clutching bullshit without which the world would, in general, be a much better place.

Oh no, this noun if used in an entirely different context means something different! Oh my stars! I mean, give me a break. It is in the best case, bending over backward to avoid even the slightest offense or misunderstanding on something so basic it can safely be taken for granted even among non-native - likely even non-fluent - speakers who are much less familiar and comfortable with English idioms. It is in a slightly worse case, virtue signaling exactly as the GP suggests.
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woodruffw 1703 days ago
I genuinely don’t understand: are you saying that the world would be a better place if more people said “pimp” as in “pimp my ride?”

Pearl-clutching aside, I genuinely struggle to see how that’s true. To my mind, the world would be just about the same.

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pc86 1703 days ago
Not this example specifically, but the world would be better with less of the general mindset. That is, the "hey if I bend over backwards and look for any possible way in which you can twist my words and take offense to them, I'm going to assume that's what you meant and start saying how 'problematic' it is." Let's remember we're talking about a weekend project web app that puts gifs and links in readme files that in all likelihood get read close to never. And the comment that started this jumps immediately to "sexual exploitation and sexual traficking (sic)" because of an extremely common idiom that's been around for at least 25 years or so.

I'm not 100% sure I agree that it's wokeness specifically but there are certainly some parallels at the very least.

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systemvoltage 1703 days ago
The term for this is wokeness. It is typified by overly sensitive, agenda-pushing, irrational behavior that uses offense as a tool to further their political agenda, oppress those who oppose and exemplify eggregious levels of false moral-superiority (and virtue signal to their mob). As President Obama says [1], it is not activism.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaHLd8de6nM

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woodruffw 1703 days ago
This is, again, a lot of fear-laden and breathless language in response to a single person saying that they’re uncomfortable with a word. You don’t know anything about them, much less whether they have a political agenda or “eggregious (sic) levels of false moral-superiority.” What gives?
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