eh. there's also polka.
Comment on Why do people call it “woke”?
FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
“They” don’t like the term “woke” because like all good music it has Afro-American origins. It started off as describing somebody who was aware of racial discrimination and over the decades broadened in meaning to include a host of other social issues. And then it was thrown into the culture war meat grinder.
I like the parallel to the “wake up, sheeple, do your own research” crowd. I hadn’t noticed it before. It’s funny how two uses of this inoccuous verb that can probably be traced all the way back to the Proto-Indoeuropean language have ended up on opposite sides of the aforementioned meat grinder.
ethaver@kbin.earth 3 weeks ago
swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
It’s like ska but with more horns
frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
I like the parallel to the “wake up, sheeple, do your own research” crowd.
Or “take the red pill”
Any time someone says something like that, they invariably mean “start believing what I believe”
sbeak@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
interesting, so it was originally about awareness!