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[–] 10 points 4 months ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    We should be using this meaning of it

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months 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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