• Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.uk
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      5 days ago

      I don’t have a precise bead on when woke entered my lexicon, but it wasn’t really a thing until it became a rhetorical cudgel for the far right.

      • silver@das-eck.haus
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        It was a thing way before the right realized it was a useful scare tactic, but less well known.

      • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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        3 days ago

        it’s not that difficult to figure out from first principles, being “asleep” is a pretty old way of saying someone is unaware of something, and “woke” is obviously like “i just woke up”, so presumably “being woke” is the opposite of “being asleep”.

    • fushuan@piefed.blahaj.zone
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      5 days ago

      It’s… The username of the une who posted the picture. There’s nothing special about it. It’s right there.