Comment on Wake up sheeple

NarrativeBear@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• wieson@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Woke means you’re awake to the injustices in society

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  • PhoenixDog@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yup. Being woke means you care about others around you. Which the right undeniably hates.

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• Grass@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  wasn’t woke used as a slang for denoting good things in the past?

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  • ugjka@lemmy.ugjka.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It started in afro communities and “woke” meant they were socially conscious and aware of racial injustice and systemic oppression

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    • thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      We should be using this meaning of it

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      • Sadbutdru@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        We are.

        It’s just that some (bad) people think that being woke is a bad thing, and they are overrepresented in the culture at the moment.

        To be fair, some (not necessarily bad) people also use woke to mean ‘comes from a good place, but gets taken too far and is a bit cringe’, similar to ‘hippy-dippy’ or ‘touchy- feely’ in the past, I don’t hold that against them too much.

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