Right wing kooks using the word woke is actually pretty funny. The rest of us are just out here thinking that perhaps everyone should be able to live with a modest amount of dignity and these dudes think it’s some magic spell we’re chanting.
Fuggen’ “wokeism” kills me every time! What on earth does that mean to them??
78They can't even define it. Remember the author who wrote an entire damn book about wokism, and she couldn't even define "woke" in a live interview for which she had ample time to prepare.
I'm starting to think their brains are wired differently. They don't think, they just react to stimuli.
44It's not that these people can't define "woke" it's that they do not ever want to admit (either out loud or just to themselves) they are racists or complicit in being assholes to entire groups people. The word "woke" is the wallpaper that can never be peeled back for exposing the mirror behind it.
14Tragically in this case, ignorance is not bliss, but an IV drip of manufactured rage.
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I just thought it was the evolution of the social justice warrior pejorative.
Look at this SJW, complaining about cops shooting civillians without trial.
10They don't know, they just want some "ism" of their own to throw at the people calling them out for being the racist, sexist, and homophobic fascists that they are.
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Even that joke he stole from someone else and made it worse.
47Like his wealth, which he did not meaningfully earn, but still gets to use, benefit from, and control.
IMHO, that dork hates wokeness because it's a movement of human to human empathy, and you can't have a compassionate society and billionaires at the same time.
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Good to know he’s also confidently incorrect about humor theory.
If humor required some intuitive truth then entire genres of comedy wouldn’t work including absurdism, surrealism, and most wordplay.
Also some of the funniest shit I’ve ever heard relied on “wokeism”. There’s a lot of dark humor in struggling against bigotry.
Elon musk is that kid who thinks he’s bullied for being a nerd when hes actually being mocked and not included because he’s a bigoted asshole whose idea of humor comes from 4chan
36My understanding is that being 'woke' is just kind of not being an asshole to people.
Elon is basically saying, it's funnier to be an asshole to people.
Here's a tip. Don't be an asshole to people. The joke is never worth it.
31Woke is not a new term.
"Woke is an adjective derived from African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) meaning "alert to racial prejudice and discrimination".
But yeah, that usually comes along with not being a jerk to people.
17My friend said some stuff about "wokeness" the other day but when I explained the origin (which I described as simply being aware of the many injustices of the system) he paused and said, "...shit, I guess I'm woke"
7Has changed over the years though. Today it’s probably more like “anything which does not adhere to a strict conservative Christian nationalist agenda” which includes but is not limited to awareness of racial injustice.
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What a loser lol
30So… Elon is woke?
17Elon is a lie?
7Elon is a loser.
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We should remind Elon Musk about his inflation tweet.
Tell him to search for Elon Musk Inflation.
12Can you stop circle jerking random Musk bullshit. I already block like 5 different subs to try and get away from it.
7See if your lemmy client lets you block arbitrary strings so these posts get hidden automatically, wherever they are from.
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Bigoted asshole is bigoted.
6Hahaha very funny Mr Musk! Please raise my salary so I can feed my family. Very good joke hahaha!
4Billionaires that can't even keep a marriage going make me feel pity for them.
Honestly my life is irredeemable and an unremarkable small pile of lukewarm garbage.
But I look down at Bezos, Musk, et. al. The ability to recognize when one has enough is a basic quality of humans.
3Nice post of a tweet from 2022 and 2021.
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