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recently_Coco@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

It’s from the 30s, actually.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke

Implies waking up to the systemic violence and oppression and beginning to do something about it.

Then it began being used as a bad thing because people were understanding systemic harm and those in power did not like it.

Overuse the word, make it mean nothing, remove its power, push the people back into oppression.

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adry@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
same happened with anarchism. I bet someone will come reply to me, saying that anarchism is actually bad because it means “chaos” and “no laws”, yada yada.

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- grandel@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Im willing to bet that everybody who doesnt like anarchism, doesnt know what anarchism is
  
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  - overload@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    What is anarchism?
    
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SacralPlexus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
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There is an interesting precursor from the election that made Lincoln president. There were groups of young people forming “Wide-Awakes” clubs and demonstrating.

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- Quexotic@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Free coffee at meetings?
  
  Seriously though, a club sounds nice. Individualism is overrated.
  
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prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Overuse the word, make it mean nothing, remove its power, push the people back into oppression.

Conservatives have really been leaning on this tactic a ton lately.

Unfortunately, it seems to work every time.

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- FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Liberals have been the ones doing it, which is why no one cares or fears being called a Nazi, racist, bigot, -phobe, fascist, or any of the other overused leftist favourite names to call anyone who doesn’t agree with them anymore.
  
  It was working, it radicalised their loyalists and scared a lot of regular people into submission, but like you said - overuse, especially when it was clearly not appropriate, made the tactic less and less effective.
  
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sbeak@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
ahh interesting, I did not know that

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nialv7@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Yeah, but then the neoliberals appropriated it to mean things like changing corporate logos to rainbow colors during Pride month while doing absolutely fuckall for the marginalized.

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- recently_Coco@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Correct.
  
  Those in power overused the word and made it mean nothing.
  
  Neoliberals are a part of that.
  
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