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[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 119 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Replace the second panel red with “woke and gay”

[–] superkret@feddit.org 44 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] josefo@leminal.space 37 points 10 months ago (3 children)

that's why the word was invented, to replace the obvious intolerance for openness

[–] LowtierComputer@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Hahahah that's what they want you to think. Woke is from like the 60s. Do some research on it. It's pretty interesting.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Actually in ancient etruscan...

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 5 points 10 months ago

... person meant mask. If you call someone a person, you accuse them of playing a role. Fact.

[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

are you saying you're woke on the subject? I thought it was from rap culture.

[–] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 7 points 10 months ago

It's from black culture. You tell your friends to stay woke so that when the cops stop them for no good reason, they remember to treat the cop like a wild animal and be careful around them. If you're black and you treat a cop like a human being, you'll get shot. So you gotta stay woke.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So it doesn't mean awake anymore?

[–] LowtierComputer@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah he thinks it means whatever the fuck the American fat right media says it does.

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Don’t you dare fix that typo.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

Yeah that's definitely going into my vocab now.

[–] LowtierComputer@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Hahahaha no sir

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

Especially when they get co-opted by Euro-Americans.

[–] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

It's why the word was co-opted by the Far Right, and popularised as an insult. Otherwise they'd have to say "kind".

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

It actually comes from African-American culture and has a history that's several decades old.

[–] dan@upvote.au 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I still haven't looked into what "woke" actually means, but from what I can tell, it seems to mean anything far-right people don't like.

[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

In left-leaning spaces it means "cognizant of the injustice pervading society". On the right it means "uppity".

[–] nixcamic@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

cognizant of the injustice pervading society

I mean that's what it means to people on the right also they just think that's a bad thing.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yeah, seems like "woke" is anything we're not supposed to approve of this month.

I do find the word "woke" incredibly useful.

The moment the word exits someone's mouth (as a complaint), I save a ton of energy on how to handle any further information they share (highly suspect).

Edit: I've actually discovered some great art and culture by being warned away from it's "wokeness", too.

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 15 points 10 months ago

Hey buddy! I may be woke. And I may be gay! And... What was the third thing you called me?

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

That’s probably being kind compared to what would be said if it actually were a problem.

[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Yup they think they are the open minded ones or whomever doesn’t immediately fall down to them and refer to their words as gospel as not open minded or interested in ‘a discussion’.

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Is that this generations version of "fake and gay"?