• Wwerginer@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    When did the original meaning leave? I thought woke had always meant being aware of social issues.

    • Secret Music@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      5 minutes ago

      With the way that it’s been used in the last few years, it was starting to look like ‘woke’ means when a female character gets treated as anything other than a damsel in distress in superhero movies. Also, ‘woke’ is when gay people.

    • TheBenCommandments@infosec.pub
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      Maybe around the time the right started using it but couldn’t define it then everyone realized it just meant whatever they didn’t like.