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Well I'm glad the woke virtue signaling has been built into the price and doesn't cost extra.

"The camera is, in fact, racist,.." -Snap engineer Bertrand Saint-Preux

Seriously???

Also, I find female voices more soothing. My wife on the other hand prefers male voices in a Scottish accent with her digital assistants. She doesn't now associate male scots with just being an assistant. For crying out loud it's just a damn preference.

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Bertrand is black and he's a really good guy who put his heart and soul into the inclusive camera project, of his own initiative, without anyone asking him to do it. What did he do to deserve your mockery?

Ssshh.. You can't say that on HN. You might anger the WOKE mob!

I don't think I've ever heard a progressive use "woke" non-ironically. It's like a conservative catch phrase.

Exactly my experience as well. I had occasionally heard the term in passing, but it never was more than a minor blip on my radar until I was having a conversation with my outspoken conservative uncle who asked me if I was "woke". (This was years ago, I want to say around 2015 or so.)

I knew vaguely that it was connected to the idea of being aware of social justice issues, but it became clear that what he was really interested in was whether I held the same set of naive, self-righteous, straw-man ideals that are so regularly pilloried in conservative media and labeled as "woke" culture.

For a group that claims to hate identity politics, the right sure is quick to slap labels on everyone and put us against each other.

/r/conspiracy 2001-2009

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