• Skua@kbin.earth
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      4 months ago

      See this clearly isn’t the actual meaning because this definition only applies to fiction. See, for example, Conservative party former Home Secretary of the UK Suella Braverman describing protestors opposing her anti-protest bill as the “tofu-eating wokerati”

    • dactylotheca@suppo.fiOPEnglish
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      4 months ago

      confused unga bunga

      Setting aside the fact that that only works for movies, how do you define “politics”? Wouldn’t have anything to do with having non-white, non-male characters now would it?

      • Kaboom@reddthat.comEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Okay, definitions are hard.

        How abour “subjectively bad writing, typically prioritizing a dubious moral or message over the story”

        Does that work better? Woke is a subjective thing, and like a lot of slang, it means different things to different people.

        • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          4 months ago

          Still misses that “woke” is used to describe things without any relevance to writing.

          For example: my office recently changing 1 bathroom per floor to “any gender” was woke according to certain coworkers. What’s that got to do with story?

          • the_tab_key@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            4 months ago

            Well they had to change the signs, right? Must be some text on there… Super woke text. Like 100 woke per letter.

  • Lad@reddthat.comEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Conservative 1: Wake up people!!

    Conservative 2: Don’t be woke!!

    What do?

  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    4 months ago

    In fash doublespeak woke just means not “white”. That’s why they can’t/won’t explain. It’s no mystery.

  • buh [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    4 months ago

    they know what it means (or rather what it means when they proudly claim to be “anti-woke”) they just won’t explain it because then it will be obvious that they don’t actually care about equality or “fairness” and just want to go back to the social order of the 1700s

  • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    4 months ago

    It’s kinda funny to think that the “woke mind virus” is actually real, just the exact opposite of what conservatives think it is. Something that they are spewing around, and its effects are lack of critical thought x)

  • Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Woke is the new words conservatives have to learn because they’ve used the old ones as bully words for so long they’ve taken new and derogatory meanings.

    Not that they’ll read that but here’s part of the test answer for those who can.

    • DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Conservative and certain Blue MAGA Liberals can’t seem to understand the definition of Tankie(s). They like to think it means any communist. They are a special of dumb dumbs.

  • Yggnar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    During the testimony, Warren’s attorney, Jean-Jacques Cabou asked those within DeSantis’ administration what “woke” meant to them.

    The governor’s general counsel, Ryan Newman, said, in general, it means “the belief there are systemic injustices in American society and the need to address them.”

    https://www.fox13news.com/news/what-does-woke-mean-gov-desantis-officials-answer-during-andrew-warren-trial

    They know what Woke means, and it’s just as fucking backwards and asinine as you’d expect. Imagine trying to criminalize people fighting for equality. It’s the only word I’m aware of that is simultaneously classist, racist, misogynistic, and anti-lgbtq thanks to how the right have chosen to use it.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I don’t know why it’s so hard. I means “Things I don’t like, especially when it pertains to anything that could be called liberal.”

  • The Snark Urge@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    The other day a conservative on Lemmy (!) called me a wokeboi blueanon, so I am qualified to help with the definition:

    Awareness of structural and systematic inequality and oppression and the need for radical (systematic) reforms for same.

    • d00phy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      So going by context, and correct me if I’m wrong here, but doesn’t the existence of “blueanon” imply that conservatives who use the word recognize that Q is bullshit?

      • rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        4 months ago

        I think it more so derives from the same place Q derives from rather than deriving from Q himself.

        Chanboard users refer to each other as anons. I am still somewhat confused, as the conservative would presumably refer to op disparagingly as a “blue[British word for ciggie]” as opposed to “blueanon”, seeing as how “anon” has connotations of comradery. This is further compounded by the fact that we have usernames. We’re not anonymous. We’re pseudononymous.

        If I had to guess, this is due to moderation preventing the use of slurs in regular speech in most regions of Lemmy.