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Idc how many white leftists make posts trying to excuse their dog whistles, “woke” is a term coined by black people to refer to our own experiences, then co-opted by white conservatives used in a derogatory manner. And now white leftists are trying to make it a trendy joke.
@meagankday as if everybody would be normal if an officeholder said "police reform increases budgets but doesn't decrease brutality, and sexual harassment and abuse against women is pervasive"
my issue with "woke 1 was crazy" is that conservatives bastardized the term woke and then non-black liberals and leftists just straight up adopted that definition instead of pushing back. do yall actually care about ending White supremacy or do yall just wanna "get yours"?
Kinda going crazy seeing a) "woke" dated to 2020 instead of inchoately forming ~2012-4 following trayvon martin & michael brown and b) nary a mention of MeToo as being its other plank. Like I said, it's being used as a moving target and more should be cautious of a Chris Rufo 2.0
Conservatives co-opted a term referencing Black consciousness and used it to denigrate pro-Black and progressive politics and liberals followed suit by referring to a decade of pro-Black and progressive politics as “woke(derogatory)” to bond with confederates. Where’s the humor?
It is alarming to see how adopting principled abolitionist positions are being chalked up to some sort of “early woke” mass psychosis rather than decades of study and resistance on the part of Black communities. Our ancestors will not be written off that way, and neither will I.
“Woke” when used by white people is ABSOLUTELY a racist dogwhistle and y’all can fuck all the way off trying to rewrite history just because white leftists have once again been caught being racist
Men want to kill rapists in the abstract, when presented with a victim and a perpetrator, the rapist is a innocent man falsely accused by a lying hoe.
Every time, wihtout exception.
This is so embarrasing. On the anniversary of Michael Brown's murder by the Ferguson Police Dept, "Woke 1 was crazy" is such an insensitive way to capture the spirits of people who put all of them in office
Trump's Dept. of Education has "indefinitely frozen" investigations into civil rights violations at schools - including reports of racist abuse of Black students and sexual abuse of female students - so the Office of Civil Rights can instead focus on banning transgender athletes
That this “Woke 1” conversation is happening on the anniversary of Michael Brown’s death, the death that kicked off Ferguson and Black Lives Matter, which coincided with Gazans supporting protestors on how to deal with tear gas … Americans have such a short memory.
This made me think: do we know the names of medieval dogs? Yes. From a 15th c. English manuscript called The Names of All Manner of Hounds, where we have such names as: Quester (on a quest), Sable (black), Amyable, Dawngere (danger), Lusty (high-spirited), Saresyn (Saracen).
Woke 1 was crazy when we briefly pretended to be against police departments sucking up 75% of every single city budget everywhere while killing indiscriminately with zero consequences and demanding to be thanked for it
You can actually do irl focus groups to find out whether “killing rapists” is a male view or a female view by going up to a group of men or women and saying “I think we should just kill rapists” and watching the men go “yeah totally.” and the women go “woooahhh dude cmon.”