Re: Sunny Hostin: It's "Un-Godly, Not Christian" To Criticize "Woke" Culture

On 2/25/2025 3:15 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

On Feb 25, 2025 at 12:08:14 PM PST, "shawn" <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com>
wrote:
 

On Tue, 25 Feb 2025 19:39:59 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
wrote:
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On Feb 25, 2025 at 10:51:44 AM PST, "shawn" <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com>
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  On Tue, 25 Feb 2025 18:43:43 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
  wrote:
 

  On Feb 25, 2025 at 1:30:45 AM PST, "Ubiquitous" <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
 

   Sunny Hostin claimed on Monday that it was "un-Godly" and "not Christian"
  to
   oppose woke culture, arguing that people who did so only proved that they
  did
      not care about their neighbors.
      Hostin and THE VIEW cohost Whoopi Goldberg discussed their own personal
   histories, saying that because they had always been around people who were
   fighting for things like Civil Rights and other issues, they had "never
  been
   asleep".
      "I thought about the conversations that you and I have had, Whoopi, so
many
   times about the co-opting of the word 'woke,'" Hostin began. "And the fact
   that the right somehow has made it a dirty word."

    The meanings of words change over time, Sunny. You're allegedly a
  highly-educated lawyer, so you should know that.
    Do we need to go over the history of the word 'gay' for that concept to sink
  through that bone spur you call a skull?

    She would likely dance with gay abandon while you talk about that
  history.
 

   "And so Whoopi will often tell me, 'I've never been asleep,'" she added.
  "And
      that's how I feel... so it angers me when people are like, 'This woke
stuff
   gotta go.' That's telling me that you don't care about my lived experience

    Well, you got that one right, Sunny. I don't care about your 'lived
  experience'. You're one of the most racist people on TV. You're a horrible
  person and whatever experiences you've had concern me not in the slightest.
    And what the hell is 'lived experience, anyway? What other experience could
  you have other than that through which you've lived?

    I'm sure she means her "lived experience" which makes her better to
  talk about this subject than you and your "lived experience".

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Well, sure, but why not simply call it 'experience', since there can be no
other kind?

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Because "experience" is a generic term and there's an attempt to put
some special meaning to the term "lived experience."

 Exactly. All the smarmy jargon is supposed to make you think they're somehow
special or smarter than you are.

I'd think that "lived experience" connotes an experience that's befallen one over time, rather than, say, a brief experience purposely sought.
Let's not trash useful expressions for the sake of ridicule.

People-- particularly on the Left, but sometimes on the Right, as well-- seem
to feel obligated to constantly make up new jargony terms for stuff that can
already by described using normal words in the English language.

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Oh, so you mean that should only be allowed by lawyers? ;)

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'Social distance' is another one that leaps to mind. Why did we need a new
term for that? Why couldn't we just call it 'distance'? It's literally means
the same thing.

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It doesn't really. Social distance means staying outside of someone's
social bubble. Which means it isn't a set distance as what I might
require to feel comfortable is likely different from what you or Anim
might require.

 It actually *was* a set distance. Fauci and the CDC claimed it was six feet,
which we now know to have been completely made-up with no basis in science.
 

...

'Six feet' may have been "made up" with respect to 'five feet' or 'seven feet' but not with respect to 'one foot' or 'exchanging spit'.  It's the distance most people can easily fathom...