• Maple Engineer
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    5 months ago

    Woke is an extremely useful term for identifying fascists, neo-fascists, christofascists, and their enablers and sympathizers. The moment you use the term “woke” unironically I know you’re a fucking idiot.

    • @Limonene
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      345 months ago

      Woke used to be a positive term. It referred to people who had their point of view expanded or changed so that they felt more awake than they had before.

      Woke used to mean enlightenment.

    • @[email protected]
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      285 months ago

      Woke used to mean aware of systemic mechanisms of privilege and oppression in society. I had to stop using it unironically because it turned into a white power derisive buzzword.

      To be fair, it still refers to awareness and sympathy for those who suffer from systemic injustice. It’s just wrong according to hate-driven pro-authoritarian movements to sympathize with outsiders.

      Current use of woke as a term of contempt is an admission if bigotry.

      • Maple Engineer
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        65 months ago

        I know what woke means. I call myself woke. I also call myself progressive and a socialist. The fact that they snear those words at us and use them to cause moral panic among the dumpth doesn’t change that.