octopus_ink@slrpnk.net to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke#20th_century

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Reminder that woke was originally used as a positive term.

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