"The woke mind virus is making Netflix unwatchable"
Elon Musk, April 2022. Accurate.
Elon Musk, April 2022. Accurate.
I mean, as long as we're going to be spewing content-free sentences I might as well get mine in.
"Woke" isn't a useful term because today in 2022 it basically means "anything a conservative doesn't like". "Woke mind virus" is particularly egregious -that's pure hyperbole without even a pretense of meaning.
The problem with Netflix in the main isn't that they show too many people who are white, or show two many people who are LGBTQ+. The problem with Netflix IN THE MAIN is that they are cracking down on a subscription policy no one wants while increasing prices beyond what people believe are reasonable while at the same time hemmoraging content. It doesn't help that they have demonstrated over the last decade that you cannot rely on their own content to actually tell a full story (because it will get cancelled prematurely).
None of that has anything to do with the "woke" bugbear -it would be equally true if Netflix's political stance matched OAN.
You're right that the virus could be a different variant, like the anti-woke variant, and it'd be a problem too if it parasitized as many brains.
It sounds to me like you meant "colliqually" -as in "in informal or slang usage", not "specifically"?
In every conversation I've had on the subject where I've tried to nail down a definition of the term, the intended meaning is always different. Unless I'm very mistaken (please correct me if I am) there isn't an objective universally-agreed upon definition of what Woke means.
It's used the way "liberal" was in the 1990's or "SJW" was in the 2010's -an empty pejorative that ultimately only adds noise to any conversation it's unironically used in.
>It turns rational people into zombies, so mind virus describes it very well.
If you believe in literal zombies, I'd gently suggest to you that your own grip on rationality may not be as firm as you believe.
All I care about is that "woke" is empty rhetoric which is in practice meaningless.