# Well dang. If you didn't think Scott Adams was a piece of shit before, just look at him now! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 24, 2023, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-dang-if-you-didnt-think-scott-adams-was-a-piece-of-shit-before-just-look-at-him-now/980277 "2023-02-24T06:16:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 101
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2023, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-dang-if-you-didnt-think-scott-adams-was-a-piece-of-shit-before-just-look-at-him-now/980277/101 "2023-02-26T00:16:51Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > I’m not sure I follow. > > Consider the opposite: the clichéd situation where a right-winger says _“get woke, go broke”_ when explaining that this or that corporation has taken a left-wing stance they disagree with, and so they’re going to take their business elsewhere, and they figure that so many people who agree will do likewise as to cause consequences worth noting due to said speech. > > Forget a _term_ for it; they deploy a whole _phrase_, and with gusto. Is that worthy of a whole phrase? Actually, that does fit the way that “woke” can be used nowadays as a [Shibboleth](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shibboleth). Cliché’d right-wingers (and misguided centrists), use it as a slur that in reality causes them to reveal themselves as having the qualities of a willful ignorant with all the trappings and conspiracies that many right-wingers are following. An example was seen by me in the SDMB, finding first about John Cleese using “woke” as a slur, and then another poster mentioning how right and bigoted he had become. > [@John Cleese Cancels Himself](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-cleese-cancels-himself/954188/132): > > What a surprise /s Not really, as I noticed early, just finding that they start blaming something or calling something as “woke” it is a good shibboleth that works now as a warning to all, the kind of warning that says that one should take anything of what they say from now on with a boulder size grain of salt. What it is even more telling is that Clesse, like many on the right, are adding also “cancel culture” into what woke is supposed to mean among the right-wingers. Turning something that … --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-dang-if-you-didnt-think-scott-adams-was-a-piece-of-shit-before-just-look-at-him-now/980277)._