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Funny how all the mainstream gaming media (+ this 2-paragraphs long blog post [?]) only now decided to cover this story, when the curator list on steam exceded 200.000 subscribers and so SBI run to Kotaku to do damage control, and these mainstream media are only quoting PR slogans from SBI website, or interviews with SBI from fucking Kotaku, or try to ridicule the whole idea by calling it conspiracy theories, or calling hundreds of thousands of players haters, white misogynist, racists and all the usual stuff, but none of these mainstream media actually reported on this story in depth, show what SBI management have been actually saying before all of this came to light, what their founder and employee have been tweeting (tweets now conviniently hidden or deleted) or how THEY (yes, they - Sweet Baby Inc) have been trying to weaponize their followers to ban not only the curator's list on steam (even while publicly admitting knowing it doesn't break any steam rules) but also trying to ban the list creator's account (in spite "because he loves his account so much").
I know lemmy is not a place to argue such stuff because it seems even woker than reddit and everyone is in this little bubble, but if you're curious then look up those who's been covering this subject from the beginning, for example:
https://thatparkplace.com/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSJPFQdZwrOutnmSFYtbstA
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQeRaTukNYft1_6AZPACnog
Bottom line is - I can decide for myself what to spend my money on, thank you very much.
What does "woke" mean?
WOKE:
Wisdom
Openness
Kindness
Empathy
It is a state of awareness achieved by intellectually sensitive individuals who have empathy for the plight of others, especially those suffering from injustice and oppression such as racism or systemic bigotry.
This term is also used by people without functional empathy in an attempt to insult and mock those people with empathy.
But “woke” does not mean “persecution”. “Woke” just means that casual racism, sexism, religious and gender bigotry, and general lack of human empathy are no longer acceptable in polite society.
Thanks for this, I had no idea it was an acronym. I thought it had to do with the phrase, "wake up sheeple."
It's not an acronym.
It originally meant "awake" in English, kept that meaning in the American black community after it fell out of use among whites (e.g. "I was having trouble staying woke on the drive"), and was repurposed as slang. The slang meaning was "to be aware of prejudice or racism", with the implication that many blacks were "asleep", i.e. accepted excuses for racist systems, believed that racism wasn't a big deal anymore etc.
I'm not sure whether the word was adopted seriously by leftists generally before the right, or immediately became a catch-all label on the right, but either way, it's become the latter.
Conservatives and some left-critical leftists now use it as a broad term that refers to things like DEI initiatives, anything trans, etc.
The term as it is defined today was invented by a militant black terrorist group called the Nuwabian Nation, a subsect of the Moors (sovereign citizens focused on their African heritage).
The word has been used by black Americans for at least a century as a synonym form"awake", but its definition as a political concept was first used publicly by the founder of the nuwabians, Dwight York.
This is not correct.
The word "woke" as a political term predates that group- York started trying to found a group in 1967, and "woke" was first used to warn black men of threats from racially motivated whites in 1931, by a singer named Lead Belly, then even more directly as a political term in 1971 in a play called "Garvey Lives!"
Whether York used it that way or not, it's clear that he didn't invent the usage.
I'm pulling most of this info from Wikipedia and Google to save anyone else reading the effort.