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I mean, Woke used to mean "being aware of systemic oppression" and now it's shorthand for "anything not white, straight and male"
Slang always gets coopted by those in power
To the same end, "Fake News" was a term used heavily by liberals in response to the enshitification of right wing news around 2015. When Trump first started gaining momentum, there were a bunch of news stories that got amplified that were completely made up or used dodgy means to exploit statistics and stuff. The right started shouting it back to everything they didn't like and now it's theirs.
Pretty sure the term was popularized by Trump himself, who called a journalist "you are fake news".
The liberals then used it to basically replace previously common used words like disinformation, propaganda or simply hoax, to describe right wing slop of questionable veracity. While the right wing itself kept using it to claim liberals were the ones lying.
I can believe that. The chain of custody is weird with stuff like that. I was mostly aware of it because we listened to not at work and I used to hear the host pretend to call people out with that term
before that "fake news" was the daily show with jon stewart
It fucking sucks. It's indoctrinating a whole new generation of sexism
I don't run into too many kids these day, but when I do, I usually have to play the "That's a really fucked up thing to say" card
A tale as old as time
People believed that they would just let the new generations grow up without indoctrinating all the isms on them?
Do they think boomers were born racist/sexist?
True, I was naive to think humanity was making progress
Well they do now. The fact that people are ever more aware of facts like this is progress from ten years ago.
That's a silver lining at least
I think we are still overall, it's hard to tell when we can't see outside of the present. One example that gives me some faith is that according to stats I've seen the BLM protests had more popular approval in the US than the civil rights marches and MLK at the time.
Wasnt woke first used by black americans to refer to being aware of the race construct? Similar thing happened to Karen, its origin comes from primarily black american women working in customer service jobs and using it to refer to entitled white customers who use the “white woman’s tears/distress/discomfort” as a tool to exort her power?
Yes, it was used in that way as early as the 20s I think, or earlier. On the wiki page about "Karen" they mention that:
Just keep changing words faster and faster
Woke? You mean shalazombabom