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[–] bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Woke is now a synonym for Social Justice warrior.

A person or movement prioritizing moralizing outrage about minor grievances over actual effective societal change.

As my half Nigerian cousin likes to say on issues like white people wearing dreadlocks: “That’s something only white privileged women care about.”

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yes I agree with your interpretation of what woke currently means. I'm saying that this is actually using woke ironically an insult. An unironic usage has no negative connotations.

The best new use of woke is the woke right.

The author James Lindsay has defined it in similar terms, as “a victimhood-based identity politics” whose “victim groups are whites, Christians, men, and straight people”. He argues that the movement is “roughly intersectional” insofar as it is obsessed with identity politics and a grievance relating to anti-white racism. “Like their counterparts on the Woke Left,” Lindsay writes, “the Woke Right have accepted as fact that there’s a conspiracy against people like them and that their only real hope is to lean into the identity grouping and advocate for collective power under that heading”. In these terms, the “woke right” is a kind of ideological doppelgänger, whose members exhibit the same precisionist and absolutist tendencies of their leftist counterparts.

Pierce Morgan uses it more and more often against right wingers to great effect.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Right. The right wingers are arguing (usually without knowing it because they don't understand words) for people to stay asleep and not think or question