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elias7

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46. I like the list, I just don't like the term "woke"

Mon Dec 19, 2022, 08:14 AM

Dec 2022

The term has been co-opted by the left and by the right. For us to use it, it seems to me that to the right and the middle, we’re claiming membership in an exclusive enlightenment club that they’re not part of, and I think it serves to alienate voters from voting D. The right has certainly used the term to ridicule left but that’s just a replacement term for progressive and for liberal and for commie, etc.

I know this is probably not a popular opinion, and I don’t know how the African American community feels about others using the term and changing its meaning, but it comes across to me as spiritually arrogant.

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I have the virus. [View all] kpete Dec 2022 OP

If only *this* virus would go pandemic intrepidity Dec 2022 #1

Greedy, mean, and stupid is no way to go through life, son EYESORE 9001 Dec 2022 #2

"....met with scorn and derision." Especially, from many who,........ jaxexpat Dec 2022 #20

It makes you a beautiful, kind and compassionate PuraVidaDreamin Dec 2022 #3

Me too malaise Dec 2022 #4

There is no remedy for it, either, I hear DFW Dec 2022 #5

on the media, NY PBS show just had a show about nostalgia."woke" is perinea, just a diff name. pansypoo53219 Dec 2022 #6

Perfect! Evolve Dammit Dec 2022 #7

❤️ ✿❧🌿❧✿ ❤️ Lucinda Dec 2022 #8

I think it's terminal liberal N proud Dec 2022 #9

love it llashram Dec 2022 #10

I'd revise number 9 Shermann Dec 2022 #11

K & R...nt Wounded Bear Dec 2022 #12

Hell yea, Where do I sign? nt Prairie_Seagull Dec 2022 #13

Glad you're feeling sane. Kid Berwyn Dec 2022 #14

Life is so full of ups and downs, kpete Dec 2022 #19

glad there are more of us. Mr. Steve Dec 2022 #15

I have it, as well. And have no intention of recovering. niyad Dec 2022 #16

That explains much. I'm Stage IV terminal.! PufPuf23 Dec 2022 #17

We need a woke pandemic dlk Dec 2022 #18

Damn, now I've got it! spanone Dec 2022 #21

Kick. MontanaMama Dec 2022 #22

K&R. nt c-rational Dec 2022 #23

I have seen the Doctor. She ran every test they could think of and the results were conclusive. Ford_Prefect Dec 2022 #24

Amen, ++ appalachiablue Dec 2022 #26

Lifetime case here, & I think it can be hereditary. Great post!! :) appalachiablue Dec 2022 #25

If you are not WOKE (and I hate that term), you are MISANTHROPIC Bo Zarts Dec 2022 #27

I wish we would fight this w/o helping the GOP appropriate another Black term. NullTuples Dec 2022 #28

But oh those poor people who have the "plague" that eats your brain first then leaves you a walking Samrob Dec 2022 #29

Me too The Third Doctor Dec 2022 #30

like republianmushroom Dec 2022 #31

Yup, 10 symptoms, 10 checks. n/t TygrBright Dec 2022 #32

INDEED Skittles Dec 2022 #33

I must have it too. I recycle. pwb Dec 2022 #34

I have it too. mgardener Dec 2022 #35

Same here LetMyPeopleVote Dec 2022 #36

Guilty as charged. calimary Dec 2022 #37

I plead guilty your honor. Please do not Enoki33 Dec 2022 #38

Dammit you scared me! Thought you had covid. Well, spread what ya got. :) Hermit-The-Prog Dec 2022 #39

A Pinko Commie Liberal n/t. airplaneman Dec 2022 #40

KnR. n/t iluvtennis Dec 2022 #41

That is one virus that needs spread nightwing1240 Dec 2022 #42

:) That makes me a liberal too. Hortensis Dec 2022 #43

I don't know if it has genetic implications.......... mjvpi Dec 2022 #44

I know what you mean, I was a liberal having grown up in the 60s FakeNoose Dec 2022 #45

I like the list, I just don't like the term "woke" elias7 Dec 2022 #46

Me too. I got it from my parents. They inoculated me, and my brothers, before we could think on... FailureToCommunicate Dec 2022 #47