Back then, to me it meant “being alive to structural iniquities that lead to black kids getting arbitrarily executed by cops” Now it means “power-tripping sociopaths trying to leverage mob-control powers to take over sclerotic institutions”
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You’d have to be a true asshole to not be woke by the first definition. You’d have to be pretty gutless patsy not to resist and reject woke by the second definition. The semantic drift from woke (2014) to woke (2019) is so extreme we shouldn’t use the same word for both.
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Def doesn't feel like Childish Gambino's "stay woke" is refer to the same thing
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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The epithet of woke has curdled in thr mainstream even as the underlying ideas have grown more powerful.
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Well, have they? The "underlying ideas" is ONE way to understand the world. It's not the only way. Your attitude is why Woke went off the cliff -- an insistence that they represented the one true ethics and understanding, that would brook no opposition.
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