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1. jrm4+en1[view] [source] 2025-01-13 19:24:18
>>crbela+(OP)
Black person here.

Like most discussions of "woke" and "wokeness," this one too fails HARD by not fully and directly addressing the origins of the term -- and by "fails hard" I do mean will almost certainly do more obscuring than clarifying by starting from an information-deficient premise.

Including, e.g. "The term 'woke' has its origins in the Black American community as a signifier of awareness about ones political and social situation..." is a bare minimum.

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2. jimbok+x23[view] [source] 2025-01-14 05:26:38
>>jrm4+en1
Sure but that has almost nothing to do with how it’s used today.

Language and the meanings of words change over time, and it’s all but impossible to make people go back to using tre old definition.

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3. snozol+nu3[view] [source] 2025-01-14 10:27:26
>>jimbok+x23
It's what it meant until white people started lecturing each other on what it means, then conservatives started using it as a derisive catch-all for anything conceivably liberal or simply empathetic.
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