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TIL that 'woke' isn't just a buzzword for outrage baiters
Saw a twitter thread last week where a guy argued that adding a trigger warning to a history documentary was 'woke nonsense destroying education'. I used to just roll my eyes and scroll past. But then I actually watched that documentary about Japanese internment camps. The warning took maybe 10 seconds. It just said some footage might be disturbing. That tiny disclaimer didn't ruin anything. It gave people a heads up. Now I wonder how many hot takes I've accepted without checking the actual context. Has anyone else watched something after seeing it get trashed online and found it was totally fine?
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wren2303d ago
That 10 second warning in the documentary basically just said "hey heads up this part is rough." The way people talk about trigger warnings online you'd think they were shutting down entire films or something. It's just a basic decency thing, like telling someone a movie has jump scares. The whole panic around it feels manufactured when you actually look at what the warnings contain.
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singh.harper3d ago
Man, that's the whole thing right there! I saw a clip from that same documentary getting ripped to shreds on Reddit, people were calling it "brainwashing" and all that junk. Then I sat down and watched the whole thing on PBS. It was literally just a straightforward history lesson with a five second note at the top about the footage. It's wild how a tiny thing like that gets blown up into this whole culture war nonsense. Really makes you wonder how many things we've all judged without actually seeing them for ourselves first.
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