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Anything the right doesn’t like basically. Solar panels? Woke. No war crimes? Woke. Trans rights. Absolutely woke.
Agreed. It’s whatever conservative leaders want their base riled up about.
classic
Should update this somehow to include “communist” and “socialist”.
I think technically that would be a downdate
Currently, it’s a largely meaningless buzword used exclusively by a hate group to smear something as bad.
It’s my barometer of “should I take this person seriously”. If they use the term it tells me they’re a bit too far in the deep end.
not Republican
15 years ago when woke was more a liberal word I just thought it was dudes pretending to be feminists to get laid. Now that conservatives took it over, they seem to use it as a label for anything they don’t like. So that means anything woke is now good.
Its kinda like how conservatives used to call the left snowflakes but now we call them snowflakes because they throw temper tantrums about the smallest things.
Caring about other people
Eyes open, you can see thru the bs.
Aware of social injustices and a desire for them to be removed.
Being aware of, and trying to fix structural inequality
“Woke” is the latest term used by American Republican strategists to paint the left as self-righteous, superficial and condescending. It’s taken over for “Social Justice Warrior”
The word has existed in American politics since the 1930s.
It is only recently that it is being used by Republicans as a negative term.
sure, yeah, and I’m sure they didn’t invent “Social Justice Warrior” either, or “Politically Correct” before that
Depends on who is using it. It’s either “Aware of structural institutional and social conditions that affect outcomes absent individual intent” or “Everything I personally feel is bad or makes me uncomfortable.” Most people use it to mean the latter these days, and it’s a meaningless shibboleth that describes everything in general and nothing in particular. Trans is woke, LGBT+ is woke, race is woke, education is woke, government is woke, private companies are woke, my stove is woke, beer is woke, whiskey is woke, Christianity is woke, Atheism is woke, everything is woke, and nothing is woke, and no one knows or cares what it means but they’re very mad about it.
Lol! Yep!
To me woke is a term that right wing, sexist, racist, miserable, shitty people use.
Hey now, don’t forget about the racists! It was adopted as a pejorative by the racist far-right because it “sounds” black.
Technically, it IS black. That’s where the term started.
Very true. But the fact that it sounds black allows it to be used to efficiently encode white supremacy with plausible deniability. It’s probably why it’s still used by racist ghouls more than a decade after it was regularly used in the traditional sense. Like, Elon Musk starts ranting about the “woke mind virus” about six years after anyone was regularly using the term. And it really only returned to common usage for a few months.
Oh man,good point.
Eddited.
It didn’t use to be. Lead Belly was an early user of the word.
Initially used by Black USAmericans to mean “aware of the racist reality we live in”. Then racists started mocking Black people for saying it and using it as a slur against social movements. Now people mostly treat it as a meme word meaning vaguely left-wing, but in a funny way.
Woke means being good and genuinely accepting of all human beings regardless of anything. Also being accepting of human rights also and not being afraid to speak up for goodness too.
at this point its more of a way for assholes to out themselves by raving about how “woke” everything is.
but essentially it means to me being aware of things (more than just racism)
