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I just want you to know, you’re not getting downvoted by the “woke mob”, you’re getting down voted for making an idiotic joke and insisting on making some random conversation on history about “woke politics”.

What's the use of karma points if not spending them to make fun of the dogma? Those points don't buy bread, and you can't even put them on your resume.

I feel bad for you.

We can discuss your feelings, if you want.

Some vampires may even be as old as the 14th century, which is when people first started using "they" as a gender neutral third person pronoun.

Some 18th century people didn't like it because they thought it was too colloquial but its been a part of English for a fairly long time, roughly 10 times as long as the "Internet age".

What are you trying to say here? Can you elaborate? As far as I'm aware English predates the internet.

I think it’s alluding to “they” being non binary/woke to refer to a single person

Using "they" to denote genderless singular has been common in English for more than a century.

I'm not agreeing or disagreeing, just answering the question as I saw it :)

The singular "they" is in fact about as old as the singular "you" (which was also strictly a plural before then).