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Woke is here to stay

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  • jon-nycJ Offline
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    jon-nyc
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    #22

    Measuring words is a good way, but as I said before, there’s a difference between words produced by the general population and those of, say, Ivy League anthropology departments or the staff at Deadspin.

    A detailed historical record of all social media posts would be ideal. Measuring word frequency which is objective, yet with a general audience rather than press or academic studies.

    "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
    -Cormac McCarthy

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    • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

      Measuring words is a good way, but as I said before, there’s a difference between words produced by the general population and those of, say, Ivy League anthropology departments or the staff at Deadspin.

      A detailed historical record of all social media posts would be ideal. Measuring word frequency which is objective, yet with a general audience rather than press or academic studies.

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      Horace
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      @jon-nyc said in Woke is here to stay:

      Measuring words is a good way, but as I said before, there’s a difference is words produced by the general population and those of, say, Ivy League anthropology departments or the staff at Deadspin.

      A detailed historical record of all social media posts would be ideal. Measuring word frequency which is objective, yet with a general audience rather than press or academic studies.

      of the three charts in the piece, only one is focused on academic papers. One is a from polls of what people believe about a certain woke idea, and one is about "print media" and its word frequencies.

      Education is extremely important.

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        #24

        Again, print media and academics are their own subcultures.

        "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
        -Cormac McCarthy

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          #25

          I have no doubt that a Trump election will make twitter and facebook and reddit explode with references to white supremacy. What that establishes is that many people are primed to make that specific complaint in response to a certain election result. These people will not have been on the fence about white supremacy before the election, then swayed towards it after. These are indoctrinated people who will or will not be motivated to complain publicly, based on the results of the election.

          Education is extremely important.

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            #26

            So we are in complete agreement that a Trump election would bring on a surge in wokeness by your favored metric.

            "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
            -Cormac McCarthy

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            • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

              So we are in complete agreement that a Trump election would bring on a surge in wokeness by your favored metric.

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              #27

              @jon-nyc said in Woke is here to stay:

              So we are in complete agreement that a Trump election would bring on a surge in wokeness by your favored metric.

              None of the three charts cited in the original piece are about social media.

              Education is extremely important.

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                #28

                Which is my problem with them. He’s not trying to measure the broader culture.

                "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
                -Cormac McCarthy

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                  #29

                  If your point about Trump causing wokeness boils down to a claim that Trump being elected will cause people to complain about Trump being elected, and those complaints will often have a woke angle, then we are in complete agreement. I consider that a nearly meaningless point, but if you think it's meaningful then you can continue to run with it.

                  Education is extremely important.

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                    #30

                    No you’re straw manning my position again.

                    "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
                    -Cormac McCarthy

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                    • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                      No you’re straw manning my position again.

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                      @jon-nyc said in Woke is here to stay:

                      No you’re straw manning my position again.

                      Regardless of what your position may be in your own head, the measure you've chosen by which it can be proven, will actually prove nothing more than what I described. That people would complain about Trump on social media, often with woke language, if Trump were elected. Which, duh.

                      Education is extremely important.

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                        #32

                        It was actually the measurement you defended. I only made the point that you need to look at what ‘everybody’ says rather than just journalists and cultural anthropologists.

                        "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
                        -Cormac McCarthy

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                          The three different charts from three different sources of information in the original piece (polls, academia, and print media) are not "everything". Granted. Though I would argue that they are not focused on marginal sub-cultures, and that they cover quite a bit of the mainstream. I am not impressed by google trends as a better measure.

                          Education is extremely important.

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                            Was it polls? Or one poll question? Maybe with longitudinal data. He didn’t share at least from what you quoted. And the other two are subcultures. Hardly marginal, but insulated enough that they could trend differently from society as a whole.

                            "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
                            -Cormac McCarthy

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                            • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                              Was it polls? Or one poll question? Maybe with longitudinal data. He didn’t share at least from what you quoted. And the other two are subcultures. Hardly marginal, but insulated enough that they could trend differently from society as a whole.

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                              @jon-nyc said in Woke is here to stay:

                              Was it polls? Or one poll question? Maybe with longitudinal data. He didn’t share at least from what you quoted. And the other two are subcultures. Hardly marginal, but insulated enough that they could trend differently from society as a whole.

                              And a better measure would be?

                              Education is extremely important.

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