apropos of nothing in particular, i’d love to read a history of how the word “woke” went from black vernacular to mainstream slang to a term of derision.
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especially since the origin of the term in black english feels connected to the contempt and derision now attached to it
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And it’s crystal clear who shifted the meaning of it.
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I’ve noticed “fam” getting the same treatment
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@lingopod to report on this - their episode on the word “cuck” was so good - if that’s any indication, they would do “woke” justice tooThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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don't discount the step of white people using it sincerely, then overusing it, then ruining it, all that stuff is important too
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if it had remained exclusively black I don't think it would have much, if any, derision attached to it
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Just like bling.
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I feel like traces back to that class of performatively left-leaning, practically a low-key bigot sort of pundit, like Singal, busting it out when they wanted to show they were on the right side, then getting sneerier with it as their true politics crept back into their personae.
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100%!!!! I saw it become a term of derision among white people on the left first, because other white people just started calling everything woke once they learned the word. & I never understood how they didn’t realize they were just making fun of AAVE
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I miss 5+ years ago when people would occasionally jokingly say
#staywoke, which is beyond recovery now
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