Trying to see if we’re all on the same page. Thanks
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15 years ago when woke was more a liberal word I just thought it was dudes pretending to be feminists to get laid. Now that conservatives took it over, they seem to use it as a label for anything they don’t like. So that means anything woke is now good.
Its kinda like how conservatives used to call the left snowflakes but now we call them snowflakes because they throw temper tantrums about the smallest things.
Woke: Give the slightest damn anout anyone less lucky than yourself.
Anything the right doesn’t like basically. Solar panels? Woke. No war crimes? Woke. Trans rights. Absolutely woke.
Agreed. It’s whatever conservative leaders want their base riled up about.
Eyes open, you can see thru the bs.
Abridging the liberties of a majority of people (maybe in a very small way) in order to fix a perceived wrong of a small minority.
Not a value judgement; these can be good and bad.
Making a movie or TV series or game or novel or anything, where they decide to reduce the quality of the content to awkwardly pander minority demographics.
I’m not saying “Ohhh noooo! The movie has a gay person! So, it’s woke!”
But if the movie is supposed to be “Cats: A movie about cats” but then 90% of the movie is about a gay human couple, then that’s woke.
If it’s a straight human couple then it’s still equally bad, but instead of ‘woke’, it’s trash.
So yeah, bad writing is bad writing, woke is just another category of bad writing IMO.
Once again I’m not against LGBT+ in any ways, but bad writing is bad writing.
I prefer to watch a properly written, good romance movie where 2 men love each other over a straight romance movie with bad writing and/or 0 chemistry between the couple, that feels forced and awkward.
EDIT: This is what woke means to me, however to the vast majority of people, it has an entirely different meaning, it’s basically anything that deviates from heteronormative, therefore the word lost all its meaning, so even I don’t use it as much.
The definition is one thing. You can easily look it up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke
The use is another. People are obviously not on the same page in the way it is used.
Hence, why I asked the question.
Yeah, I think the word means the same to both groups, and the ones using it in a positive sense just needs to own it. Don’t let the ones using it sarcastically take ownership of that use.
If someone called me “wOkE” to my face, I’d say “yes I’m woke, do you have problem with that?”
Caring about other people
Being aware of, and trying to fix structural inequality
“Woke” is the latest term used by American Republican strategists to paint the left as self-righteous, superficial and condescending. It’s taken over for “Social Justice Warrior”
The word has existed in American politics since the 1930s.
It is only recently that it is being used by Republicans as a negative term.
Woke means being good and genuinely accepting of all human beings regardless of anything. Also being accepting of human rights also and not being afraid to speak up for goodness too.
To save time, we (as in the world of English speakers) are not on the same page regarding woke.
It’s just a new flavor of an old shit sandwich, In my lifetime:
Bleeding heart
PC thug
SJW
Woke mob
It’s all the same bullshit class warfare in reality.
Initially used by Black USAmericans to mean “aware of the racist reality we live in”. Then racists started mocking Black people for saying it and using it as a slur against social movements. Now people mostly treat it as a meme word meaning vaguely left-wing, but in a funny way.
at this point its more of a way for assholes to out themselves by raving about how “woke” everything is.
but essentially it means to me being aware of things (more than just racism)
