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[–] [email protected] 44 points 5 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 37 points 5 days ago (3 children)

that's why the word was invented, to replace the obvious intolerance for openness

[–] LowtierComputer 9 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Hahahah that's what they want you to think. Woke is from like the 60s. Do some research on it. It's pretty interesting.

[–] Zorque 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Actually in ancient etruscan...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

... person meant mask. If you call someone a person, you accuse them of playing a role. Fact.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

are you saying you're woke on the subject? I thought it was from rap culture.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

It's from black culture. You tell your friends to stay woke so that when the cops stop them for no good reason, they remember to treat the cop like a wild animal and be careful around them. If you're black and you treat a cop like a human being, you'll get shot. So you gotta stay woke.

[–] surewhynotlem 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

So it doesn't mean awake anymore?

[–] LowtierComputer 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah he thinks it means whatever the fuck the American fat right media says it does.

[–] Whats_your_reasoning 10 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Don’t you dare fix that typo.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Yeah that's definitely going into my vocab now.

[–] LowtierComputer 1 points 4 days ago

Hahahaha no sir

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Especially when they get co-opted by Euro-Americans.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

It actually comes from African-American culture and has a history that's several decades old.

[–] HowManyNimons 2 points 4 days ago

It's why the word was co-opted by the Far Right, and popularised as an insult. Otherwise they'd have to say "kind".

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I still haven't looked into what "woke" actually means, but from what I can tell, it seems to mean anything far-right people don't like.

[–] Soggy 16 points 5 days ago (1 children)

In left-leaning spaces it means "cognizant of the injustice pervading society". On the right it means "uppity".

[–] nixcamic 8 points 5 days ago

cognizant of the injustice pervading society

I mean that's what it means to people on the right also they just think that's a bad thing.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yeah, seems like "woke" is anything we're not supposed to approve of this month.

I do find the word "woke" incredibly useful.

The moment the word exits someone's mouth (as a complaint), I save a ton of energy on how to handle any further information they share (highly suspect).

Edit: I've actually discovered some great art and culture by being warned away from it's "wokeness", too.