Trying to see if we’re all on the same page. Thanks
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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.
Aware of social injustices and a desire for them to be removed.
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.
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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.
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It didn’t use to be. Lead Belly was an early user of the word.
As a definition? Someone covered it already: aware of social injustices at bare minimum. As a flag? Basically a stand-in for a word that would get someone else banned on a platform. Woke to a rightoid means a woman, ethnic, or of a culture that isnt white/christian/cishet nuclear family profile. I have heard “woke” used to describe Latin Jazz before. It literally just meant ethnic to him.
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.
Depends on the context: When used positively it means being aware of social injustice or having empathy for your out group.
When used negatively it means anything/anyone they don’t like, and they mostly don’t like people who are a different color skin, gender, ablement, or sexual orientation to themselves.
Caring about other people
Being aware of, and trying to fix structural inequality
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)
The past tense of wake of course.
I have always thought of it as having just stopped sleeping, but I think it’s been reworked into a slur used on people capable of empathy. I’m still not clear on why empathy is a bad thing though.
Recently stopped sleeping.
Or.
How twats refer to anything they don’t agree with, anything that involves a minority, or any person or thing or institution they don’t like.
Calling something “woke” is basically saying “I am an idiot.” The usage of the word means indicates literally nothing about the subject and only reflects the speaker’s lack of education.
