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Has anyone in the last five years heard anyone describe himself or his friends as "woke"?
by cafard 11mo ago
Has anyone in the last five years heard anyone describe himself or his friends as "woke"?
- Yizahi 11mo ago"Woke" is currently an euphemism for the N-word. Replace it in every right-winger speech or text, and the message won't change at all :)
- nathanaldensr 11mo agoThat's not true at all. The term indicates adherence to progressive-leftist ideology no matter what one's skin color or ethnicity. The vast majority of woke people are actually white people who often exhibit suicidal empathy (a common European genetic trait). The issue is that progressive-leftist ideology itself is rapidly changing as its adherents purity-spiral, but that's separate from what woke means.
- palmotea 11mo ago> "Woke" is currently an euphemism for the N-word. Replace it in every right-winger speech or text, and the message won't change at all :) No it isn't, and to say so is some hyper-polarized bullshit. For instance: if you were to call someone "woke" I'd be far more likely to picture a white person than anyone from a minority group.
- Yizahi 11mo agoYou and me are both correct. In a singular case so called wOkE would be a white person most of the time. But I was talking about word usage, and rightwingers are very often using it as a catch-all term for everything they are afraid of, kinda like N-word a few decades back. And saying wOkE is socially acceptable, so they can do it openly on TV and radio. And since it is catch-all term, these xenophobes also include in it all other non-white groups, non-straight sexual orientations, women, disabled persons and so on. The usual xenophobe list of enemies.
- Simulacra 11mo agoYes. Several of my colleagues have created a Woke Workers Union. And they call themselves proudly woke.
- catlover76 11mo ago[dead]