• @librejoe
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    104 months ago

    How is star wars woke. Woke is a social construct conservative people use.

    • @NeptuneOrbitOP
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      44 months ago

      That’s the joke. It’s not really a criticism. It basically implies Peter is being racist.

    • @[email protected]
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      4 months ago

      Woke is a social construct conservative people use.

      My dude, Woke is a concept that the culture wars have stolen and mangled. It goes back over a hundred years.

      And you won’t be surprised at all regarding who they stole it from.

      How a Black activist watchword got co-opted in the culture war.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke#Origins_and_usage

      Edited to confess I don’t use it in the original context either. I use it like the article mentions near the end:

      "People today who identify as woke see themselves as having been awakened to a new set of ideas, value systems, and knowledge”

      I don’t actually use it out loud (primarily because of what conservatives have done to the word), but yeah, once you start looking behind the curtain, it’s hard to view it any other way but as an awakening.

    • @[email protected]
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      14 months ago

      I suppose it would be a very boring movie if all actors were just asleep the whole time.