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It refers to a pretty specific set of views on race and gender.
by junofan 3y ago
It refers to a pretty specific set of views on race and gender.
- f-securus 3y agoCare to elaborate? I’ve read about 5 different explanations for ‘woke’ the last couple of months.
- junofan 3y agoYep, here’s a good overview: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke It’s been around a long time.
- jeremyjh 3y agoThere is more than one usage described in that article. This is the relevant one in this particular thread: > Among American conservatives, woke has come to be used primarily as an insult.[4][29][42] Members of the Republican Party have been increasingly using the term to criticize members of the Democratic Party,
- miles 3y agoCNN's YT channel has this clip of Bill Maher taking a stab at it: How Bill Maher defines 'woke' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzwC-10O0cw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzwC-10O0cw
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- stuckkeys 3y agoBill has has flaws, but he is right.
- mindslight 3y agoIs this a definition that people who identify as "woke" would use? If not, then it seems like just another straw man and set up for talking past one another.
- air7 3y agoYou can derail any discussion by asking for definitions. Human languages is magical in the sense that we can't rigorously define anything (try "Love", "Excitement", "Emancipation" or anything else, really) yet we still seem to be able to have meaningful discussions. So just because we can't define it, doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
- zamnos 3y agoIt's not a derail, it's an attempt to understand the other person. If I say Thing is bad and you say Thing is good but we haven't actually defined Thing, then we could be talking past each other and not actually be in disagreement. Text over the Internet is such a limited medium.
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- smolder 3y agoNope. It refers to what ever people want it to refer to, because it's a label used by detractors, not a cohesive thing.
- mensetmanusman 3y agoThis is one definition, OP has an other that many millions ascribe to. Numbers make right in the definition game.
- smolder 3y agoMillions or not, it's pretty contentious. That said, I'm probably wasting my time fighting the tide, as with complaining about misuse of the word "literally".
- behnamoh 3y agoI mean, I've never seen any liberal calling conservatives "woke".
- smolder 3y agoNo, of course not. It's a certain demographic who have latched onto the word "woke" as Elon used it: first as a label for ridiculous radical-left ideas, and then for anything they associate with the left that they don't like.