Its becoming increasingly common for people on "our side" to not only have no idea what words mean, but have warped them so wildly from their actual history and meaning that its almost comical.
Which, ironically, is them falling for the Left game of constantly redefining words and getting lost in definitions to win arguments, something that only benefits them at this stage.
In fairness to a lot of people on this side of things, a lot of this terminology has a long enough history that frankly a lot of people are just plain too young to remember the original meaning of things.
Online right-wing culture would probably do well to develop its own version of the Jargon File, honestly.
I remember when I was a young lad wading my way into cultures for the first time. We had a meme for this exact scenario and defense for it.
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As in, spend time to learn what is being talked about and immerse yourself in it before you start talking. You might realize that you aren't breaking new ground or don't know things if you spend the time listening instead of trying to shove your opinion in.
But I recognize that would get in the way of the grift for guys like this, and the virtue signal for the people commenting how much they hate the Wokes like soooooo much you guys.
When I was a young lad, you would be sent a link to the Jargon File so that you didn't sound like a total newb and/or annoy others by misusing existing terminology.
The concept of "learn the culture before you speak" was essentially the same, but there was a greater degree of formalism behind said culture.
Fair enough, concept is the same. One simply puts more onus on the newfags to actually put effort in before making a fool of themselves, thereby gatekeeping out those who lack the brain or patience to be worth allowing in, while the other requires some top tier person putting in constant effort to maintain such a document.
One big issue there is that there is almost no consensus or "unbiased, trustable source" that we can all agree on to maintain such a thing. It was probably easier back then for you with the smaller group and more aligned interests that brought people there.
Its becoming increasingly common for people on "our side" to not only have no idea what words mean, but have warped them so wildly from their actual history and meaning that its almost comical.
Which, ironically, is them falling for the Left game of constantly redefining words and getting lost in definitions to win arguments, something that only benefits them at this stage.
In fairness to a lot of people on this side of things, a lot of this terminology has a long enough history that frankly a lot of people are just plain too young to remember the original meaning of things.
Online right-wing culture would probably do well to develop its own version of the Jargon File, honestly.
I remember when I was a young lad wading my way into cultures for the first time. We had a meme for this exact scenario and defense for it.
As in, spend time to learn what is being talked about and immerse yourself in it before you start talking. You might realize that you aren't breaking new ground or don't know things if you spend the time listening instead of trying to shove your opinion in.
But I recognize that would get in the way of the grift for guys like this, and the virtue signal for the people commenting how much they hate the Wokes like soooooo much you guys.
When I was a young lad, you would be sent a link to the Jargon File so that you didn't sound like a total newb and/or annoy others by misusing existing terminology.
The concept of "learn the culture before you speak" was essentially the same, but there was a greater degree of formalism behind said culture.
Fair enough, concept is the same. One simply puts more onus on the newfags to actually put effort in before making a fool of themselves, thereby gatekeeping out those who lack the brain or patience to be worth allowing in, while the other requires some top tier person putting in constant effort to maintain such a document.
One big issue there is that there is almost no consensus or "unbiased, trustable source" that we can all agree on to maintain such a thing. It was probably easier back then for you with the smaller group and more aligned interests that brought people there.