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www.theguardian.com/society/shortcuts/2020/jan/21/how-the-word-woke-was-weaponised-by-the-right


Like “politically correct” before it, the word “woke” has come to connote the opposite of what it means. Technically, going by the Merriam-Webster dictionary’s definition, woke means “aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice)”, but today we are more likely to see it being used as a stick with which to beat people who aspire to such values, often wielded by those who don’t recognise how un-woke they are, or are proud of the fact.


The origins of woke, in this context – as forged by African American communities – dates back at least to the 60s, but its mainstream ubiquity is a recent development. Fuelled by black musicians, social media and the #BlackLivesMatter movement, the term entered the Oxford English Dictionary only in 2017, by which time it had become as much a fashionable buzzword as a set of values. Some of those who didn’t keep up with the trend felt left behind: if you didn’t know the meaning of woke, you weren’t.



Rather than rejecting the concept of wokeness outright, today’s detractors often claim they are rejecting the word as a signifier of pretentiousness and “cultural elitism”. However, as Fox and others have shown, it is as much to do with the issues of racial and social justice. Criticising “woke culture” has become a way of claiming victim status for yourself rather than acknowledging that more deserving others hold that status. It has gone from a virtue signal to a dog whistle.

[grumpyhermit]

Aug 14, 2023 17:48:05 GMT -5 Spellbound454 said:

 i wish we had a well organized political left, here. i really do.

You do......... you are saturated in it.

Wokeism.... ie the new religion.....is hard left.

Careful what you wish for.

 the fact that WOKE was coined in the black community

Yes it was... and it was good in the early days.

Until it lost its way and become the familiar old beast that we know so well.

A few posts ago you asked why what you were spouting was bullshit?

This, this, right here. You clearly have no idea about the political landscape in the US. Nor do you seem to realize that you are regurgitating right wing propaganda as fact.

"Woke" didn't lose it's meaning. It's meaning was appropriate and twisted by the far right to mean anything they object to which, incidentally, are most things not white, straight, and Christian.

[Spellbound454]

  It's meaning was appropriate and twisted by the far right to mean anything they object to which, incidentally, are most things not white, straight, and Christian.

Nope, It was hijacked by the far left. I remember watching the BLM marches wondering who a certain contingent of white people were



How nice of them to support their black brethren ...... Only that's not what they were doing

  woke means “aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice)”, but today we are more likely to see it being used as a stick with which to beat people who aspire to such values, often wielded by those who don’t recognise how un-woke they are,

Or un-woke could just mean that you are anti communist, like me.
seeing as the movement has been taken over.

  Criticising “woke culture” has become a way of claiming victim status for yourself rather than acknowledging that more deserving others hold that status.

Anti communists have never claimed victim status.

What kind of movement has victim status at its core prinicipal anyway?

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cdn.ricochet.com/app/uploads/2020/07/blm-marxism-300x208.jpg
Is the address of your image. I looked at cdn.ricochet.com/ and got a page from Starfield by Astroluxe. 

The pic itself is super odd. It does not appear it was taken outside on the street. What is all the pastel stuff hanging behind them? Are they inside a store with that large tile underfoot? 

Or un-woke could just mean that you are anti communist, like me.

seeing as the movement has been taken over.



No no it can't. Woke is about recognizing racism historically concerning how blacks are treated. You keep displaying an unreasonable obsession with Marxism and communism. Why you think those people you pictured represent the majority of the movement is puzzling except it seems you seek out the extremists and ignore everything else. In the US the majority of the signs had things like Black Lives Matter and I Can't Breathe for the George Floyd protests. In RL in the US, the biggest accomplishment of old Marxists was the UAW - the United Auto Workers Union. It was founded in 1935, and Capitalism is still here. 

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Unfortunately the images I found of the George Floyd protests are too big to post which gives a better look at the crowds. Here's one about half the size of the more sweeping ones.

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What kind of movement has victim status at its core prinicipal anyway?

I love softball easy questions. Trump's campaigns in 2020 and 2024 and a big part of his 2016 campaign.

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Anti communists have never claimed victim status.

Nope, It was hijacked by the far left. I remember watching the BLM marches wondering who a certain contingent of white people were

How nice of them to support their black brethren ...... Only that's not what they were doing

IDK. Thousands and thousands of people have marched, and you fixated on that very odd pic of white people. How they can hijack a movement when there are hardly any of them is nonsensical. You are posting as if you are going to be a victim of Marxists and Communists at any moment because it appears its all you can notice. 

[laterbloomer]

Or un-woke could just mean that you are anti communist, like me.

seeing as the movement has been taken over.

Without using the word woke, what pro communist activities are you upset about? 

[djAdvocate]

Aug 15, 2023 2:34:53 GMT -5 Spellbound454 said:

  It's meaning was appropriate and twisted by the far right to mean anything they object to which, incidentally, are most things not white, straight, and Christian.

Nope, It was hijacked by the far left. I remember watching the BLM marches wondering who a certain contingent of white people were



How nice of them to support their black brethren ...... Only that's not what they were doing

  woke means “aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice)”, but today we are more likely to see it being used as a stick with which to beat people who aspire to such values, often wielded by those who don’t recognise how un-woke they are,

Or un-woke could just mean that you are anti communist, like me.
seeing as the movement has been taken over.

  Criticising “woke culture” has become a way of claiming victim status for yourself rather than acknowledging that more deserving others hold that status.

Anti communists have never claimed victim status.

What kind of movement has victim status at its core prinicipal (sic) anyway?

MAGA

[djAdvocate]

you don't just get to redefine a term like "woke" or "liberal".
those terms have accepted meanings.
you can look them up in the Dictionary.