They've got a point!
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Still is if you aren't a twat
Nowadays I prefer the term "correct".
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Who've been the most successful opponents of fascists historically?
And who've lost their countries to fascists?
what are you saying? because it reads like you think nazis are anti-fascist which is WILDLY out of pocket so i'm sure you're trying to say something else, it's just not clear what
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The meaning is actually pretty clear. Being "woke" means being aware of social injustice, specifically the systemic racism in US society. Being anti-woke simply means that you outwardly deny said systemic racism but in reality it means you're condoning it.
Being “woke” means being aware of social injustice
From the left-liberal perspective, sure. But Libertarians and far-right theocrats have also employed the term as a positive self-descriptor, insisting that they had a more enlightened and historical view.
Being anti-woke simply means that you outwardly deny said systemic racism
Racists have employed the term to mean they blatantly reject the history put forward by liberal scholars. It's a form of political denialism, not unlike climate change denial or holocaust denial.
The irony is in how reactionaries will embrace the term and its synonyms positively - Dark Enlightenment, Great Awakening, Objectivism, "Wake up Sheeple!" - to imply they're the ones who truly understand the victims of state persecution (inevitably, rich white cis/straight men).
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Still is if you aren't a twat
I honestly don't see people using "woke" positively these days.
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Nope. One side are Nazis, dude. If you're not opposed to fascism, got some bad news for you...
I guess the idea is that if you're spending all your energy being anti-MAGA then you aren't focussing on the real struggle (class warfare). But of course one can focus on class warfare while still being anti-MAGA.
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When did we decide that the worst people in the world get to decide what words mean
It's just how linguistics works I guess.
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You could choose to be neither.
Participating in culture wars manufactured to drive social-media-engagement isn't obligatory.
That's a shit argument that casts aside billions of human beings and their rights as such. And your follow-up is even more trolly? Fuck off.
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I guess the idea is that if you're spending all your energy being anti-MAGA then you aren't focussing on the real struggle (class warfare). But of course one can focus on class warfare while still being anti-MAGA.
"MAGAt" works, too, FWIW
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Thanks to the commenter who reminded me that it's not bad to be reminded that the term is only a pejorative because conservative racists made it so.
I'm fine with ignorants and some twats, but not both at once.
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You could choose to be neither.
Participating in culture wars manufactured to drive social-media-engagement isn't obligatory.
"Choosing to be neither" is choosing to be an ignorant twat but too afraid to own up to it.
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Reminder that woke was originally used as a positive term.
What's amusing is that the Wikipedia article traces its origin back to the Republican Party.
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Also a reminder that woke is used negatively by the same people who cannot tell the difference between badly photoshopped letters and a gang tattoo.
That was depressing. I knew our president was dumb, but I still didn't think he could be that dumb.
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I guess the idea is that if you're spending all your energy being anti-MAGA then you aren't focussing on the real struggle (class warfare). But of course one can focus on class warfare while still being anti-MAGA.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I absolutely agree. And, the shit part of it all? It's been going on for pretty much all of recorded history (class warfare, that is).
Edit: To clarify my position a little, I see choosing MAGA as willfully submitting to the parasitic "elites".
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Thanks to the commenter who reminded me that it's not bad to be reminded that the term is only a pejorative because conservative racists made it so.
Saying a person is woke is like saying they are not a mindless sheep going through life asleep at the wheel.
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Thanks to the commenter who reminded me that it's not bad to be reminded that the term is only a pejorative because conservative racists made it so.
So conservatives version of this is their deweaponization of the word nazi? Fuck this timeline.
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Saying a person is woke is like saying they are not a mindless sheep going through life asleep at the wheel.
But they call people on the left sheep? How can this be true? /s
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"Choosing to be neither" is choosing to be an ignorant twat but too afraid to own up to it.
This is how they view the entire non-hegemonic wprld. They admit it. -
Thanks to the commenter who reminded me that it's not bad to be reminded that the term is only a pejorative because conservative racists made it so.
I agree that wokeness is more enlightened than ignorance, but I also wonder how woke it is to scorn the less enlightened so hard.
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what are you saying? because it reads like you think nazis are anti-fascist which is WILDLY out of pocket so i'm sure you're trying to say something else, it's just not clear what
Who has historically defeated fascists?
I don't think that's a hard question to understand.
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It's just how linguistics works I guess.
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