• Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.uk
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    14 days ago

    I don’t have a precise bead on when woke entered my lexicon, but it wasn’t really a thing until it became a rhetorical cudgel for the far right.

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      14 days ago

      It was a thing way before the right realized it was a useful scare tactic, but less well known.

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      12 days ago

      it’s not that difficult to figure out from first principles, being “asleep” is a pretty old way of saying someone is unaware of something, and “woke” is obviously like “i just woke up”, so presumably “being woke” is the opposite of “being asleep”.