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jmowreader

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36. Conservatives used to have a lovely term for liberals

Mon Apr 25, 2022, 11:59 AM

Apr 2022

It was “n-word lover.”

Naturally, you can’t run around calling people that without outing yourself as a racist, so they had all sorts of alternate terms for it.

The current alternate term is “woke.”

I consider anyone using the term to be a racist not worthy of being around or holding any office higher than septic tank pumper.

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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

They've been doing it for decades. WhiskeyGrinder Apr 2022 #4

Five or six years ago the "wake-up" call was shortened... brush Apr 2022 #16

No, the term has always been "woke." WhiskeyGrinder Apr 2022 #17

I personally didn't hear it until the 2010s and I'm Black... brush Apr 2022 #22

That's fine; its documented use goes back decades. Leadbelly used "stay woke" in a song in the late WhiskeyGrinder Apr 2022 #23

I remember when my niece started saying it BumRushDaShow Apr 2022 #24

It faded out because, you know, like most Black slang, when they get ahold of it... brush Apr 2022 #25

Exactly BumRushDaShow Apr 2022 #26

"Wake up", "stay woke", "stay alert" all have the same... brush Apr 2022 #31

yes, pretty much anarch Apr 2022 #29

The greatest majority of those using it have no clue of its origins. Maru Kitteh Apr 2022 #14

Just like socialism, Marxism, communism Nevilledog Apr 2022 #34

+1, GZP appropriates works black people use to demonize knowledge of their horridness uponit7771 Apr 2022 #19

I haven't got a clue. It seems they are VERY bad a coming up with pejoratives Siwsan Apr 2022 #2

And "tree hugger". lpbk2713 Apr 2022 #7

Antifa does not support troops or government entities to combat Nazis LeftInTX Apr 2022 #15

"woke" is a left wing term that right wing made into a slur Demovictory9 Apr 2022 #5

So it's coded language for white straight christian power elite? AZLD4Candidate Apr 2022 #8

To them a woke person believes racism and sexism exist Demovictory9 Apr 2022 #20

It' started in the Black community in the 2010s. brush Apr 2022 #37

Whatever it means, DeSantis just passed a law against it: "The Stop WOKE Act." sop Apr 2022 #13

How about "cancel culture"...WTF does that mean? sop Apr 2022 #6

The use of "woke" by MAGA chuds works basically like an inverse Godwin's Law... keep_left Apr 2022 #9

If I hear someone use it, they are hereafter nothing to me. Patterson Apr 2022 #10

Yep, you know immediately they're a winger. brush Apr 2022 #28

I tell people it means they (republicans) Mr.Bill Apr 2022 #11

Because they can't spell "enlightened". Lunabell Apr 2022 #12

When asked the MAGA answer is - if answered- basically anything non-MAGA haele Apr 2022 #18

Buddha vs. White Jesus ymetca Apr 2022 #21

Just one more instance of grammar-school namecalling. grumpyduck Apr 2022 #27

"It's something WE DON'T LIKE, LIBTARD!!!!" hatrack Apr 2022 #30

It's another truncated variation of "We can't run on policy, so we make shit up!" Torchlight Apr 2022 #32

"Woke" comes out of the African American community BarackTheVote Apr 2022 #33

Well said, but we have no way to stop them from... brush Apr 2022 #38

It all typically means anything that challenges hegemony. Caliman73 Apr 2022 #35

Conservatives used to have a lovely term for liberals jmowreader Apr 2022 #36

Read some of the rest of the entries on this thread. brush Apr 2022 #39