• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      It’s funny, because the “Wake up, Sheeple!” line used to be what conservatives screamed at liberals for failing to understand their latest Ayn Rand inspired diatribe.

      Then liberals adopted the “Wake up!” phrasing to describe structural racism, the enormous socio-economic cost of the Military Industrial Complex, and the inherent class warfare of privatization schemes. That caused “Woke” to fall out of fashion with the right.

      Now it’s totally lost any context. “Woke” just means being visually queer coded or insufficiently religious. Its barely more than a slur.

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        2 days ago

        specifically it was used by AA people in the start, now it has been co-opted by the right wingers and perverted, much like they did with “punisher”