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minus-squareBrave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·14 days agoI 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.
minus-squaresilver@das-eck.hauslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·14 days agoIt was a thing way before the right realized it was a useful scare tactic, but less well known.
minus-squareSwedneck@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·12 days agoit’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”.
minus-squareBrave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·12 days agoI take it back, this isn’t a fun conversation lol
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.
It was a thing way before the right realized it was a useful scare tactic, but less well known.
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”.
I take it back, this isn’t a fun conversation lol