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it was always "woke"
it should be woke
woke is a GOOD thing, and anyone who says otherwise is a sack of shit and should be ashamed
sincerely,
woke AF woke person who is woke
- Where the fuck is carburetor?
- Woke is literally just the opposite of ignorant
  
  Woke = Enlightened
  
  Not used widely enough with that intent yet, though.
  It might even end up being in the dictionary as "Something that you don't like", instead :P
  Happier times, when it was just the past tense for "wake".
- In England, before 'woke' and 'snowflake' was a saying, people used to say 'it's PC gone mad'.
  Sincerely, someone whose PC went mad.
  
  Have you tried fixing your PC by installing Linux?
  
  Conservatives essentially believe that liberals are all the PC Principal from South Park.
- I never got how it was 'bad' to be woke but at the same time we should 'wake up sheeple'.
  
  War is peace
  Freedom is slavery
  Ignorance is strength
  
  Well, sheeple are the ancient eneny, so you must wake them from the dream that is the world without waking yourself or those you love.
  I dont get how you dont understand this.
  
  Right wing ideals have never been consistent. It's all bluster to push an immediate narrative with no regard to how contradictive it is to their other ideals
- Woke, Anti fascist are bad words now. Sounds like a famous book I read.
- Exactly. Like, what are TV suppose to teach? Don't fraternise with black people? Men should always be dominant over women? Empathy is bad? Christianity is the one and only true religion and Muslims should be deported?
  
  Don't ask if you might not like the answer :/
- For someone who’s so “woke” you’re really societally unaware. But I guess that might be the point….
  
  you’re really societally unaware
  please, enlighten me
  
  For someone who's so "societally aware", you're really a sack of shit. But I guess that might be the point...
- People who say that woke is always bad are wrong. People who say that woke is always great are wrong. The concept is being used for cynically manipulating people to be at each others' throats all the time because that's how fucked up shit companies make amazing amounts of money these days apparently.
  Dunno how lemmy plays into all this, probably by cargo culting what those shit companies were doing.
  
  When the fuck is it bad to be aware of systems and oppression and systems of oppression?
  
  Maybe you’re confusing being aware with specific choices of how to respond. Being aware is always good, but you can always argue with what people choose to do with that knowledge.
  
  People who say that woke is always great are wrong
  LOL bro-- you're in the wrong fucking place here
  woke is ALWAYS great. the opposite of woke is ALWAYS bad.
  i don't know what your maga motivation is, but it's weak.

1980s GI Joe had a diverse and inclusive team to fight the fascist cult-like Cobra group.
And now we have a Cobra Commander like leader and everyone literally falling over themselves to fawn. Apparently we didn't learn the other half of the battle.
- Violence.
  Violence is the other half of the battle. The first half is knowing the right people to perform the violence against, and there's people that can't figure that part out either.

The fact that somehow Big Bird and friends were a threat of any sort to society should tell you what kind of asshole they chose to be. Social media platforms like twatter and meta justify in their minds their assholery. Sesame Street didn't stand a chance against the onslaught of digital dipshit soapboxes.

They were woke through, Mr Rodgers aired an episode soaking in a pool with a black police officer during the civil rights movement. The Nixon administration specifically went after him when they tried to gut federal funding for PBS.

butterfly in the sky!
you grew up to be a piece of shit.
just take a look.
it's in a book,
that you banned.
- Oh man, I really want to hear star trek reading guy sing this.

Its funny how the word they use to describe those with empathy in this case social empathy is woke. That make them asleep, somnolent or just in a coma.
- They tried to co-opt the term for their own uses. They didn't choose it
  
  Look up john ringo. Get woke go broke. That is that asshats contribution. They didn't invent the term snowflake either. The term was in fact first coined to describe them. They got called it enough and took offense enough that they tred to turn it around on those of us who can see how they are.
  All of john ringo's books are the same. You have some libertarian underdog who shows the rest of the characters how they are the most bad ass and/or successful. There is always a 'woke' character that every one hates. Its really kind of sad.

Jokes on them. I have always been awake.
- Jokes on them. I can't sleep.

By the way back then you didn't have influencers and youtubers telling you what to think, and there were no 6 hours video assay telling you how bad the lastest disney movie (because no other animated movie is worth discussing) is. Honestly back then we either turned on the tv or pop in some vhs or later on dvd and be happy about it. I know it's wild to think but we didn't have internt with us all time.
- We didn't have the youtubers or Instagram thots; but we sure had influencers in the form of "talking heads" on television and radio.
  See: Rush Limbaugh (the Alex Jones of my youth)
  
  Where is he burried? I need to visit that latrine.
  
  There's something more insidious about these new talking heads tho.
  
  Even before that there was Walter Cronkite, then Peter Jennings.
  That was back in an era where everyone watched the same "influencers". The good part of that was that for the most part, these influencers were rigorously fact checked so the people who watched them agreed on the same set of facts, and those facts were more or less true.
  On the other hand, there were times when these "influencers" were biased or even hid the truth. The bias was often something they even had trouble noticing. Like, they all believed communism was a big threat, or that police were trustworthy. As for hiding the truth, sometimes when a politician got in trouble the news would drop the story because of their deference to power. They'd also sometimes try to repeat whatever the government said as truth without checking it, or not investigate bad things the government was doing overseas because they saw that as being patriotic.
  Overall, I think it was better when everybody agreed on most things, even if sometimes the news / "influencers" were biased. At least it meant that the government was more or less functional. At least it meant that people were relatively civil with each-other.

Not really a shitpost, but alright.

Then there is also all those mediocre non-voters who empowered by default the motivated-by-hysteria, toxic dregs of society, up and down Main St. and deep within their communities and suburbs.

not a shitpost

I grew up with Mr. Dressup, and his tickle trunk.
- [George Takei voice:] Oh, my!
  MAGAts would be having full-on meltdowns over those names alone!

somebody likes me!

Thank goodness we're told how to think all the right thoughts 24/7 now.
- somehow I don't think defending a free public education program from Maga shit is the same thing as being woke-scolded
  
  It's the same. And that's why woke-scolding is nothing worth complaining about. Big ado about nothing.

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