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This is an interesting article, I'd like to mention something else: I don't even know what anyone means by "woke" anymore. I recall it having a definition, an
by duxup 2y ago
This is an interesting article, I'd like to mention something else:
I don't even know what anyone means by "woke" anymore.
I recall it having a definition, and then the "internet definition" and then that usage evolved ... and now I see woke now involved if someone just sees a female lead in a movie or something.
Meanwhile there are folks who seem terrified of this abstract concept of "woke". Someone on HN created an account to comment to me about how they've had LGBTQ "shoved down their throats" but they couldn't actually say how.
- mtmail 2y agoThere's no equivalent translation into my native language so whenever I read 'woke' I treat it as a USA specific term like '2nd amendment'.
- thrance 2y agoIt's been coopted by far right politicians in my country, and they just use "woke" verbatim. The purpose of the word is made even more clear here than it is in the US, since it's destitute of any prior historical context or usage: "woke" simply means "things I don't like and want to make illegal".
- thrance 2y agoTo Republicans, who use this word the most by far, it simply means "stuff I don't like". Biden is woke, bad movies are woke, science is woke, etc. It's not that deep really, just a scarecrow they brandish everytime they want to discredit something, anything.
- TaurenHunter 2y agoLOL, that is so not true: https://www.npr.org/2019/10/31/774918215/obama-says-democrats-dont-always-need-to-be-politically-woke https://www.npr.org/2019/10/31/774918215/obama-says-democrat...
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- orwin 2y agoIt's basically judeo-bolchevism with extra steps. Until someone explain to me the intrinsic difference between the two, i'll read "woke" as that, and judge people using the word accordingly.