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Woke Human Rights (lemmings.world)

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[–] SlopppyEngineer 18 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

"Woke" has had many meanings over the years. Originally it was used as "watch out for racist police" in the black community.

Then it was picked up by right wing people, and it was given the meaning of "anti-racism" and being woke was being against racism. Being against woke became a way to say anti-anti-racism, so being pro-racism without explicitly saying so.

After that, more meaning was tacked on. It started being used for all kinds of LGBTQ+ stuff. Then it was also associated with anything leftist and eventually landed on "anything I don't like".

So yeah, it can now just as well being redefined as human rights, as right now anti-woke is just repressing other people's rights.

[–] schema 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Spot on. It's a placeholder word for whatever vile shit they don't want to say out loud. Same as DEI, which seems to be taking over more and more.

[–] Soup 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

More than that it also gets to be about things outside of rights, like representation in media. They slap that shit on everything that acknowledges that someone who isn’t a very specific kind of person might exist. It’s not technically a right to have, say, a black super hero so they’re “able” to dodge around the entire human rights discussion to continue being just reall fuckin’ awful.