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    It didn't take THAT long, but the term has been hijacked by the usual reactionaries and status quoers who would prefer that America somehow find its way back to the 1950's and not have to come to terms with centuries of inequality and injustice.

    It's a mock now - a slur. "Hey, ya little wokies, nyah, nyah, nyah."

    Like children.

    Are there some who overused the term, or made it a "better than thou" boast? Of course. But all it means is being aware. Acknowledging the issues that are right in front of our face.

    It's something we all should aspire toward. When people mock the term, all I really hear is that they'd prefer to remain in the dark.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BartenderElite View Post
    It didn't take THAT long, but the term has been hijacked by the usual reactionaries and status quoers who would prefer that America somehow find its way back to the 1950's and not have to come to terms with centuries of inequality and injustice.

    It's a mock now - a slur. "Hey, ya little wokies, nyah, nyah, nyah."

    Like children.

    Are there some who overused the term, or made it a "better than thou" boast? Of course. But all it means is being aware. Acknowledging the issues that are right in front of our face.

    It's something we all should aspire toward. When people mock the term, all I really hear is that they'd prefer to remain in the dark.
    It means you are in a Cult. The church of wokeness. You must kneel, take oaths and vows, and demonize non church members, like any other religion.
    Keep changing the names. It doesn't change the meaning.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Irish View Post
    It means you are in a Cult. The church of wokeness. You must kneel, take oaths and vows, and demonize non church members, like any other religion.
    Well, Trump supporters sure know their cults. So, there's that.

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    The term gets mocked for the same reason Liberal became a pejorative. Those using it have abused the term and then attacked those who don't automatically accept its use as defined by Progressives.

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    Quote Originally Posted by T. A. Gardner View Post
    The term gets mocked for the same reason Liberal became a pejorative. Those using it have abused the term and then attacked those who don't automatically accept its use as defined by Progressives.
    They will change it to something else in a few months. They always change the language to persuade low info people that this cult/idea/philosophy is Difffferent than the last failed one.
    Keep changing the names. It doesn't change the meaning.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Irish View Post
    They will change it to something else in a few months. They always change the language to persuade low info people that this cult/idea/philosophy is Difffferent than the last failed one.
    They have to keep ahead of the words that end up giving them a bad name like "Liberal," which actually should now be the acronym:

    Loser (or Liar your choice)
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    Quote Originally Posted by BartenderElite View Post
    It didn't take THAT long, but the term has been hijacked by the usual reactionaries and status quoers who would prefer that America somehow find its way back to the 1950's and not have to come to terms with centuries of inequality and injustice.

    It's a mock now - a slur. "Hey, ya little wokies, nyah, nyah, nyah."

    Like children.

    Are there some who overused the term, or made it a "better than thou" boast? Of course. But all it means is being aware. Acknowledging the issues that are right in front of our face.

    It's something we all should aspire toward. When people mock the term, all I really hear is that they'd prefer to remain in the dark.
    I do not recall ever even hearing the word until giggling righwing posters started using it, evidently believing it was a clever put-down

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    I do not recall ever even hearing the word until giggling righwing posters started using it, evidently believing it was a clever put-down
    An introduction to it.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke

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    Quote Originally Posted by BartenderElite View Post
    It didn't take THAT long, but the term has been hijacked by the usual reactionaries and status quoers who would prefer that America somehow find its way back to the 1950's and not have to come to terms with centuries of inequality and injustice.

    It's a mock now - a slur. "Hey, ya little wokies, nyah, nyah, nyah."

    Like children.

    Are there some who overused the term, or made it a "better than thou" boast? Of course. But all it means is being aware. Acknowledging the issues that are right in front of our face.

    It's something we all should aspire toward. When people mock the term, all I really hear is that they'd prefer to remain in the dark.
    more "this is fine" nonsense. Woke IS mindless. if you are not woke you are deplorable-and you have no value.
    It's chanting and parroting PC -never mind dissent , that's not allowed- if you dissent you get cancelled
    happens all the time

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    I do not recall ever even hearing the word until giggling righwing posters started using it, evidently believing it was a clever put-down
    It's a PC term. Cons didn't start it.

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    Now a right wing, brain dead, hackneyed trope to broadbrush and degrade things that are good, as usual.
    A cult of angry, ugly, cynical and often racist morons.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dukkha View Post
    It's a PC term. Cons didn't start it.
    Cons are the ones obsessed with using it.
    I never use it.
    And I might be wrong, but I do not recall any established liberal posters here using it is a sustained way.

    Giggling deplorables think when they use it, it is a clever put down. A tepid attempt at mockery

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    Cons are the ones obsessed with using it.
    I never use it.
    And I might be wrong, but I do not recall and established liberal posters here using it is a sustained way
    The problem isn't whether you use it or not. It is a political word invented / used by the Left over time. Today it is becoming, as I pointed out earlier with the word Liberal, a pejorative with negative connotations for Progressives and Leftists used by their opponents.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    I do not recall ever even hearing the word until giggling righwing posters started using it, evidently believing it was a clever put-down
    That is also my experience. And in each of these tropes, there is a kernel of truth somewhere which is entirely unrepresentative, it gets mashed up by Hannity or Limbaugh or some other propagandist hater and made into a cause celeb. Never is it something in the common experience of most Democrats. I become aware by some jerk here who starts throwing it around because they repaste WND or whatever disreputable crap they copy and paste.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BartenderElite View Post
    It didn't take THAT long, but the term has been hijacked by the usual reactionaries and status quoers who would prefer that America somehow find its way back to the 1950's and not have to come to terms with centuries of inequality and injustice.

    It's a mock now - a slur. "Hey, ya little wokies, nyah, nyah, nyah."

    Like children.

    Are there some who overused the term, or made it a "better than thou" boast? Of course. But all it means is being aware. Acknowledging the issues that are right in front of our face.

    It's something we all should aspire toward. When people mock the term, all I really hear is that they'd prefer to remain in the dark.
    The concept of woke is nothing more than a matter of race hustling and victim prestige. It should be a pejorative term, because the ideology behind it is designed to manipulate people.

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