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In reply to the discussion: Can someone please explain to me what the right wing meme "woke" means? [View all]Caliman73
(11,767 posts)35. It all typically means anything that challenges hegemony.
White, Male, Christian hegemony.
They take words that have actual meaning, and use them to symbolize "going to far" or radicalism. If you think that women and minorities deserve to be treated with equal dignity, then you are "woke". This means that you want to oppress White men and are looking to enslave them.
They project their own desires onto their opponents becaue the power is the issue, Always.
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Can someone please explain to me what the right wing meme "woke" means? [View all]
AZLD4Candidate
Apr 2022
OP
"Woke" can be traced back to the early-to-mid-20th century and was used by Black Americans as a call
WhiskeyGrinder
Apr 2022
#1
So, if that is true, the Republicans are openly and proudly insulting black people and wearing their
AZLD4Candidate
Apr 2022
#3
That's fine; its documented use goes back decades. Leadbelly used "stay woke" in a song in the late
WhiskeyGrinder
Apr 2022
#23
It faded out because, you know, like most Black slang, when they get ahold of it...
brush
Apr 2022
#25
+1, GZP appropriates works black people use to demonize knowledge of their horridness
uponit7771
Apr 2022
#19
The use of "woke" by MAGA chuds works basically like an inverse Godwin's Law...
keep_left
Apr 2022
#9
It's another truncated variation of "We can't run on policy, so we make shit up!"
Torchlight
Apr 2022
#32