"Woke"

[Darth Omar]

So being woke on the injustices in other countries is a joke?

We used to call that ‘informed’ lol.

The world is an ugly place in many places. Always has been. That’s what’s so great about this country. We’re the beacon on the hill. People can complain about their grievances here—but they never leave.

[AProudLefty]

We used to call that ‘informed’ lol.

The world is an ugly place in many places. Always has been. That’s what’s so great about this country. We’re the beacon on the hill. People can complain about their grievances here—but they never leave.

So why aren't Trump supporters leaving?

[domer76]

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.

Just another in a long list of mantras that these RW lemmings repeat like a fucking parrot.

MAGA
Hoax
Fake news
Benghazi
Marxist
Tyranny

[domer76]

I never even was aware of the word until deplorables became obsessed with it. No liberal I am aware of on this board uses it.

On this board, the word wouldn't even be used except for you and your deplorable buddies.

That makes it your word.

Why would you even use it if PC terms bother you? Liberals here are not using it.

I had to look it up to find out what it meant. I’m in agreement with you. I’ve never heard a liberal use the term referring to themselves. Just another parroted RW term

[Doc Dutch]

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.

Those of us who are old enough were "woke" in the 1960s during the Civil Rights movement. A common mistake of the young is to assume they invented everything and it's never been done before. Yes, even us Boomers in the '60s.

woke
/wōk/ adjective•US
alert to injustice in society, especially racism.

[Callinectes]

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.

First time I heard it was after that scumbag Michael brown assumed room temperature. BLM used it to "awaken" blacks. To what I have no idea, but what it seems to have devolved into is black people were slaves a few centuries ago, and evidently it is time to fight another civil war to address those issues(which no longer exist, BTW). Those people would have been "awake" a lot sooner if they had payed attention in junior high school history class

[Micawber]

See what is going on is these total immoral shitstain no life loser evil scum sucking vermin are morally repugnant and
wrong about everything factually, so the manufacture grievances and concomitant symbols from whole cloth and
assign it to their moral, ethical, legal and spiritual superiors to make themselves able to live their miserable dispacable scum sucking loser ass hate filled lives without slitting their necks every day when they look into their vacant souless valueless existences.

Agree? I think everyone knows I'm right.

[Micawber]

Those of us who are old enough were "woke" in the 1960s during the Civil Rights movement. A common mistake of the young is to assume they invented everything and it's never been done before. Yes, even us Boomers in the '60s.

woke
/wōk/ adjective•US
alert to injustice in society, especially racism.

Sort of like when the movie Rock Star came out and all these 25 year olds told me how good Elton John's Tiny Dancer is.
Pretty annoying that.

[Doc Dutch]

Sort of like when the movie Rock Star came out and all these 25 year olds told me how good Elton John's Tiny Dancer is.
Pretty annoying that.

Exactly like that.

In my day, Boomers were telling the old folks (i.e. Greatest Generation) how tough life was in the 1960s.

[T. A. Gardner]

So being woke on the imagined injustices in other countries is a joke?

There, fixed it for you.

[AProudLefty]

There, fixed it for you.

Oh innocent women and children suffering or being killed are imaginary? Gay people being imprisoned or killed is imaginary?

[T. A. Gardner]

Oh innocent women and children suffering or being killed are imaginary? Gay people being imprisoned or killed is imaginary?

Depends on the country doesn't it?

[AProudLefty]

Depends on the country doesn't it?

Correct. Some people have it great. Some don't.

[Doc Dutch]

Depends on the country doesn't it?

The concern is for our own country, our own people. While I agree there is exaggeration from both sides, the fact remains there are problems in our nation when innocent people are being killed by our own government forces. That should never, ever happen.

[cawacko]

IF Biden loses this thread could be a great example why. Young people think he’s not woke enough and old (white) liberals don’t even know what woke means. Total generational divide.