• LePoisson@lemmy.world
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    25 days ago

    Woke isn’t being progressive. It’s being progressive to an extent beyond any sort of logic, virtue signaling constantly, and then calling anyone who disagrees with you morally or intellectually inferior

    I fucking hate that the idea of being woke was poisoned and turned into this when it very much is not and never was.

    Woke is acknowledging the systemic racism playing out daily in the United States of America.

    I think most of what you wrote isn’t even true to be honest, it’s a well strung together list of annoying tropes which doesn’t even happen nearly as much or widely as some would suggest. It’s a neat little “here’s a bad way of caring” package but it ain’t the truth.

    I appreciate the effort you went through to write the post and I understand your viewpoint. At the same time, this is a great example of how the term “woke” has been co-opted into meaning something it never really did. Being awake to the injustices present in our lives isn’t a bad thing. Turning woke into a slur to wrongly characterize and misdirect away from its true original intent has been an effective, and gross, way to get people to automatically reject real critique.

    • shalafi@lemmy.world
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      25 days ago

      You’re both right, but it’s far too late to take the word back, no point in going on about the origins.

      • Katana314@lemmy.world
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        24 days ago

        No it isn’t.

        I am woke, and that is a good thing, and anyone complaining about that is an idiot.

        • Soulg@sh.itjust.works
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          24 days ago

          I’d be described as woke, but I’ve always hated the term. Maybe it’s because I was just growing into it right as it became the bogeyman phrase, I don’t know.

    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
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      25 days ago

      Woke is acknowledging the systemic racism playing out daily in the United States of America.

      If only. But like all of your societal problems, it’s being exported to all kinds of places, often where it has little relevance, but where it can be used for political gain by soulless individuals.