I had expressed similar concerns when I started but stuck around. I don't know what the intended purpose of the site is, but I don't worry too much about the information I post here anymore than what I post elsewhere. My assumption is that nothing is private.

@itsmedammit that's definitely a good strategy on any site these days.

This whole thing is surprising. I somehow feel less safe about Agnostic.com. That other website seems to be not just a nod to the right, but a festering hate camp. I admit that I did not go in beyond the article, but just looking at the group titles and punching fist logo was enough to give me a bad impression. Makes me think of those guys who made tons of money using sensationalized websites, both pro and con whatever.

Admin may have a point about right wingers being less tolerated here. IRL I have seen Republican Atheists feeling uncomfortable and unwelcome simply because there is often an assumption that every Atheist is left. I imagine it must often feel similar to how I feel when people assume I must belong to a church. lol AFAIAC, belief and politics are two separate spheres. Someone here once blocked me for having the audacity to state just that. She ranted and practically called me a racist whatever.

However, I do not think it is my imagination that I see more vitriol coming from the right. Maybe it has to do with the skewed numbers.
I dunno. I have seen bad behavior on both sides and have been dismayed. I have dealt with it by avoiding much political debate. Granted, we are in a unique time in history, so it is difficult to always avoid.

Like you, I take a little time to digest. A number of others have reacted more quickly and already have jumped ship. Their absence is a bit glaring. I am sad for the disruption and for the loss of what we had.

More troubling are the lack of transparency and the manipulations.

That has just been my observation. As it was pointed out, young SJWs also use it. Personally, I don't hear the term used with them but I see the same attitude. They like to think they are the only ones with a clue.

Would not doubt it.

@itsmedammit Wouldn't he have had to, to have engaged us as he claims to have done in his "article"? He could not have done so objectively as "Admin".

Beware, you may be purged.

@Beowulfsfriend uuuummmm, what?

You are right, that it is popular with weirdos. I guess the ones I have seen have been also Christian.

How is it that so many people who are obviously on the internet a lot all so adamantly sure of such polar opposite definitions of 'woke'? This the the most confusing thing I've encountered on agnostic.com since joining years ago.

Sorry if we "woke" you. lol

@itsmedammit I'm awoken to the to the fact that if you get 100 (or 10000 !) American people of the same stripe, whether it be agnostic, religious, 2A , sports fans.....whatever, you'll get the same behavior out of the same % of them. That this "admin" actually wrote this very long article on something that any thinking adult knows.....

The urge to categorize is overwhelming for some people, they are helpless in the face of it. For them the world has to be Black & white; Labeled A&B, left or right and numbered 1- 2, maybe on a rare occasion, 3.
Then we wonder how religion slithered onto humanity? I just told you how

@twill Yup, far as I can tell, people are people.

You seem to connect everything to the donald.

Im not sure this is healthy for your mental capacity and well being as a human animal.

There is an entire cosmos that exists outside of the myopic american two party system paradigm.

The matrix seems to have your mind. Not sure you don't love this prison for your mind, though.

@SCal Hi there. Well If I do Love this prison then everything is just fine.

Thanks for the clarification.

That’s some good shit you’re smokin’...

This is the only context in which I've heard the term "woke" used.

@creative51 I think you need to check with @demifeministgal since she’s the one who’s pontificating up there...

@Robingray Umm not my fault you don't understand the young hip lingo. Bye boomer!

@JonnaBononna And yet the seniors and boomers here don't get that! Think I'm lying about what my demographic says! Silly old fools! Haha

@creative51 Have you ever been on that site? They have a Qanon group.

@OldMetalHead Stroh 160 from Austria. It puts Bacardi 151 to shame.

@creative51 it's like 151. You mix it obviously.

@creative51 I have done shots of Everclear, so I guess I'm insane I've used it as you would vermouth in gin martini to spike the alcohol. The Stroh is spiced it can be drank on the rocks fairly easily with fruit. I've been a bartender for 40 years.

It's slang.

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@LovinLarge So is "baby daddy", also annoying. I think I got up on the wrong side of the bed today. lol

@itsmedammit I hope you will always feel free to speak your mind here so we can kick things around and get the benefit of each others' insights.

I also think this is a very important thread and I thank you for it.

@itsmedammit

Im not sure there could br many things more pointless than worrying about peoples grammar on social media.

@SCal You may have missed the point. I wasn't talking about a one instance typo or something.

@itsmedammit

I see that. I did not miss the point. Your complaints are futile.

A lot of what he writes on the other site seems as though he is just seeing this discord here at Agnostic through the eyes of the conservative groups here. I noticed that his writing was mostly blaming the left for attacking the conservatives on the site, and why he started the slug site. Not really any comment about how the right side would be rude, name call, and blocking people from even checking their group out. When I first joined, I decided to go over to see what the conservative group on this site was all about and I was already blocked. How's that for being open minded and inclusive?? I suppose the snowflake conservatives just don't like to be challenged on their ideology because it is so empty of reason.

@Redheadedgammy Wait--you were already blocked? Guess they weren't much interested in inclusion, were they? My opinion is that YOU are always reasonable, good-humored and unlikely to hurl names, invectives, etc. So--if they pre-blocked YOU--I can only imagine how many more of us have been made ''undesirable."

@creative51 The definition I gave derives from the internet search of "woke" that I did five minutes ago.

@TheMiddleWay Is it you who's keeping him informed of these threads that might not serve his interests?

@TheMiddleWay It's not paranoia when one makes representations on behalf of someone else.

@TheMiddleWay Greater awareness is good. Using the term "woke", as I have generally seen it used, to imply that one is somehow superior because of his/her state of being "woke" is annoying at best.