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They've got a point!

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They've got a point!

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Thanks to the commenter who reminded me that it’s not bad to be reminded that the term is only a pejorative because conservative racists made it so.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke#20th_century

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    Reminder that woke was originally used as a positive term.

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      Not really. It was just another fart sniffer word some groups liked to use.

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      Still is if you aren’t a twat

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        Nowadays I prefer the term “correct”.

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        I honestly don’t see people using “woke” positively these days.

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      Also a reminder that woke is used negatively by the same people who cannot tell the difference between badly photoshopped letters and a gang tattoo.

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        I think it’s wild that the word ‘woke’ entirely replaced the selective outrage on the 2010s over “CRT,” a bogyman that most white conservatives still cannot define.

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          My stupid ass: “why did the conservatives have an issue with Cathode Ray Tube TVs?”

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            Because super smash brothers is woke

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              Fuck yeah it is.

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            Lol, yeah that was constantly the problem I had back then, especially since MAGA was using “CRT” as the scare word, and not nothing to mention that it means “Critical Race Theory,” a phrase well in-line with other subjects in other fields, like Biblical Critical Theory.

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          See also: politically correct (PC) and social justice warrior (SJW)…all just fancy ways to call someone a commie pinko bleeding heart socialist. The Red Scare never really stopped, and neither did the Lavender Scare

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        That was depressing. I knew our president was dumb, but I still didn’t think he could be that dumb.

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          I struggle to understand how you guys in the US missed the signs. I mean… stuff like “they are eating the dogs” should sparkle some doubts, right?

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      No reminder needed for me, but for those who might want to do a deep dive:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke#20th_century

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        I wince any time someone says something like “Wake up!”, “Take the red pill!” etc.

        It invariably means “Start believing the shite I believe”

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      What’s amusing is that the Wikipedia article traces its origin back to the Republican Party.

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