{"id":190247,"date":"2026-04-08T23:46:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T23:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/190247\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T23:46:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T23:46:16","slug":"opinion-are-these-woke-words-dead-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/190247\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Are These Woke Words Dead Yet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">I wanted to play a game where I\u2019m going to say a word, and you guys are going to tell me if it is alive, dying or dead. Sounds great. Let\u2019s do it. OK, \u201cproblematic.\u201d Dead. Hmm, should die. Should die. But it\u2019s around. You know what I\u2019m saying. It\u2019s like it\u2019s around, but it should die. \u201cTriggered.\u201d That one\u2019s going to come back. It\u2019s going to come back, but it\u2019s dead. I still see quite a bit of that, especially on the internet, which is really disturbing because it\u2019s like, \u201ctrigger warning.\u201d And then here\u2019s a video of some horrifically violent thing. It\u2019s like the word does not work. It\u2019s why I love it. I\u2019m just like, thank you for triggering me with the trigger. Yes, it\u2019s like the reaction came seconds before, so I love it. \u201dMicroaggression.\u201d Dead. Dead. OK, \u201csafe space.\u201d Dead. Dead. \u201cFolx\u201d with an X. Dead. Never alive. I mean, that one was, I mean, talk about a ridiculous like, yeah, that really makes me so mad, because I know people who have dutifully and earnestly used that, and it\u2019s like, oh, my gosh. What about \u201cLatinx\u201d? I mean, I think that one\u2019s difficult because I think for a lot of Latin people or Latin queer people, it feels good. And for some of them, it actually doesn\u2019t. And they prefer and I think it can sometimes feel like a Western intervention onto them. I think that one\u2019s complicated. I think it should still be \u2014 like I think people use it. It can live if it wants to? Yes. OK, this is the one that will get me canceled. I hate \u201cLatinx,\u201d and it\u2019s very \u2014 and I talk about this a lot with immigrant friends. It\u2019s very much like a diaspora war thing for me where I was, it\u2019s interesting that you need a word to signal, where you are from. So I don\u2019t like it. I would say most of the people that I know don\u2019t like it, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I wanted to play a game where I\u2019m going to say a word, and you guys are going&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27320,9,11,10,4510],"class_list":["post-190247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-language","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-us-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}