wasn’t woke used as a slang for denoting good things in the past?
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NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I though “woke” was the term that implied people being asleep, or are they use them interchangeably now?
Grass@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
ugjka@lemmy.ugjka.net 17 hours ago
It started in afro communities and “woke” meant they were socially conscious and aware of racial injustice and systemic oppression
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
We should be using this meaning of it
Sadbutdru@sopuli.xyz 14 hours 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.
wieson@feddit.org 1 day ago
Woke means you’re awake to the injustices in society
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Yup. Being woke means you care about others around you. Which the right undeniably hates.