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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
It fucking sucks. It's indoctrinating a whole new generation of sexism
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
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.
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