Woke
Woke
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- yuekit1
These comments just show how "woke" has become totally meaningless. Because the origin of the term was very much referring to anti-black racism during the BLM protests, now you guys seem to think it means people pretending to be gay or something.
@drgs Unfortunately conservatives at least in the USA aren't nearly as reasonable as you seem to think...here's a typical conservative discussion on wokeness.
The comment calling for a mass shooting was deleted but you can see the general level of the discussion. Whatever the word originally meant it's devolved into hysteria about the gays and drag queens coming to get them.
- What you're doing there Yuekit is hypocrisy and its a symptom at the heart of all of this discussion. Attempting to broaden the meaning and demonise the word..Morning_star
- ...'conservative' as something inherently bad is exactly the same as the baggage that now comes with 'woke'. It's semantic bullshit.Morning_star
- A decade ago the phrase 'his politics are right wing' would be nothing to get anyones knickers in a twist, now it means something close to a Nazi. 'Woke' is...Morning_star
- ..similar in that it's been weaponised. In order to think and speak and communicate effectively language needs consensus.Morning_star
- The mutation of the meaning of woke has been a common effort. You can't just pin it on conservatives.palimpsest
- get my kid out of this school.ApeRobot
- And yet, conservatives are the ones who are having a hissy fit over it and broadening it this way.monospaced
- @mono, Is it only 'conservatives' who have concerns?Morning_star
- oh no u can´t blame it on convervatives ... it was only there number 1 topic at the last Conservative Political Action Conference ... from nikki halley to donneverscared
- jr up to de santis... they have nuffin to do with it clearly...neverscared
- ^this.
also, calling a joke Twitter account a "typical discussion" of anything is laughable. Citing anything on Twitter as other than histrionic is suss.MrAbominable - the old fashioned repblicans lose that culture war they same way as with THC....only they need 50 years to come around ... same old same old...neverscared
- Morning_star I didn’t say all conservatives, I said this is what the discussion is often like in the USA.yuekit
- In Europe, Asia etc there are sane conservative parties. American conservatives have gone off the deep end in recent years, I don’t see what the point is ofyuekit
- pretending otherwise. Remember these are the people who want to re-elect Trump after everything that’s happened.yuekit
- So it was conservatives that first co-opted woke.
The More You Know ★palimpsest - austria is a convervative far right wing hotsopt...even here they are trying to get into the whole woke idiocy... but it doesn´t stick really.. probably toneverscared
- o foreign of a term for their follower base who have a strong disgust for everything exotic anyhow.. conversvatives always so slow and anti-open minded.neverscared
- Ok but you used the term 'conservative' as a category description for all of the poisonous bullshit you won't tolerate. That's my issue. As you point out...Morning_star
- Hi, Your kid is now Trans! We figured "ze / Xem" loves to where woman clothing and is totally into barbies.milfhunter
- so boring that they can´t find anything else to go against... so they exploit a culture war it too idiocy levels ... and bring woke up all the time its so weakneverscared
- ...'woke' has been hijacked but you're doing the same thing to 'conservative'Morning_star
- not really. its called Conservative Political Action Conference ... what else should u call it.. .its written on all their foreheads when they enter that realm.neverscared
- No I’m really not...I don’t think you can compare the Tories, whatever their issues, with the Republicans for instance.yuekit
- I guess Liz Truss was pretty terrible but at least she was willing to resign after fucking things up so badly.yuekit
- Alright Morning, I'll bite. You do know that "woke" is a term used for almost a century to describe being aware of societal injustices, right?garbage
- It's from the 40s. The right is currently trying to mutate the meaning to a new pejorative to use when they have no real argument.garbage
- So yeah, conservative does imply racists that can fuck off. Game works both ways, the right just cries a bit more about it.garbage
- And there are actual neo-nazis in America, and you're full of shit if you say that there aren't.garbage
- And transfolk have existed.. forever. The only reason they right is making it a wedge issue is because, drum roll..garbage
- Conservatives claim to believe in personal freedom. Christian conservatives on the other hand are inherently evil to the core.imbecile
- ..they don't want to talk about health care, they don't want to talk about minimum wage, they don't want to talk about the war spending..garbage
- ..they don't want to talk about corporate lobbying, they don't want to talk about bought out lawmakers..garbage
- You might find a good one occasionally, but like cops, they know who they associate with. Therefore, all terrible by affiliation.imbecile
- ..sure as fuck don't want to talk about Trump and possible espionage and stolen documents, and they don't want to talk about how they just stacked SCOTUS.garbage
- They don't want to talk about the shootings that happen every day, nor the people paid to cover it up. They don't want to talk about accountability.garbage
- They want to talk about a rainbow painting on a kindergarten wall. So yeah, "conservative" is deservedly an insult at this point.garbage
- @Garbage, I appreciate your response. My mistake here is assuming my/european perspective on 'conservatism' was transferable to the US. It isn't.Morning_star
- I agree that to fear the Rainbow instead of Guns, Social Inequalities etc is stupid.Morning_star
- btw libs of tiktok is a rage bait account by the conservatives. literally.
y'all getting baitedpango - I don't think it's wrong to say they're obsessed with this stuff though. There been a boycott campaign against Target and other big retail stores to force themyuekit
- to stop celebrating gay pride month. It's weird because it seemed like society had reached a point of greater acceptance but now it's going backwards.yuekit
- And people who lose their shit over a picture like this never seem to bother asking whether it's representative of anything. Notice how there's no kids in theyuekit
- picture anyway, it just shows some adults celebrating gay pride month. I haven't seen any evidence that drag queens are going into schools across the country oryuekit
- whatever they're imagining. So people have created this hysteria targeting a marginalized minority group based on conspiracies, does that sound familiar?yuekit
- FFS you've all got the same opinion just the words change.robthelad
- those complaining the most are the ones asking to ban books, ban science, and incorporate religion into schools. That's what private schools are for ffs alreadywhatthefunk
- Get ur kids out of public school and put them into your lil echo chamber prisons of choice, why force public schools to bend to your whim, go private traitorswhatthefunk
- lost me at "you guys"canoe
- Taste the Rainbow.shapesalad
- protect your kids.. dont let them watch this https://www.vox.com/… republican douchesneverscared
- I think we need arm trans kids. Or have trans kids fight for the right of gun right.pango
- Hundreds of people showed up for a protest against declaring gay pride month that turned violent...you can't make up this level of stupidity.yuekit
- https://abc7.com/gle…yuekit