• UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    6 days ago

    It used to mean that when it was used by black activists. Now it’s been weaponized by the right and likened to offended white people calling for cancel and failed policies they try to paint as leftist policies.

  • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    6 days ago

    “Woke” has had many meanings over the years. Originally it was used as “watch out for racist police” in the black community.

    Then it was picked up by right wing people, and it was given the meaning of “anti-racism” and being woke was being against racism. Being against woke became a way to say anti-anti-racism, so being pro-racism without explicitly saying so.

    After that, more meaning was tacked on. It started being used for all kinds of LGBTQ+ stuff. Then it was also associated with anything leftist and eventually landed on “anything I don’t like”.

    So yeah, it can now just as well being redefined as human rights, as right now anti-woke is just repressing other people’s rights.

  • JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    6 days ago

    I’m here rallying against the other woke agenda.

    How dare people expect me to have less than 12 hours of sleep?! Have they seen my bed? Have they felt it?? Most certainly not!
    Eat a brownie and have a nap! The man has no jurisdiction under these comfy covers!!!

  • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    edit-2
    6 days ago

    The sort of person who says “woke agenda” (or almost anything else involving the word “agenda”) is often someone I disagree with and find unpleasant, but that doesn’t mean that there isn’t a specific cluster of ideas that he’s referring to which I also often disagree with. I suppose I would refer to these ideas as “the social justice movement” or “modern leftism” rather than “woke”. Simply defining these ideas as “human rights” is disingenuous - you might as well define them as “the truth” if you’re going to simply assume that people who disagree with you cannot possibly even have a point sometimes.