Comment on What does "Woke" mean to you?

IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Hey now, don’t forget about the racists! It was adopted as a pejorative by the racist far-right because it “sounds” black.

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  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Technically, it IS black. That’s where the term started.

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    • breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Very true. But the fact that it sounds black allows it to be used to efficiently encode white supremacy with plausible deniability. It’s probably why it’s still used by racist ghouls more than a decade after it was regularly used in the traditional sense. Like, Elon Musk starts ranting about the “woke mind virus” about six years after anyone was regularly using the term. And it really only returned to common usage for a few months.

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  • IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Oh man,good point.

    Eddited.

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• daggermoon@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It didn’t use to be. Lead Belly was an early user of the word.

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