Thanks to the commenter who reminded me that it's not bad to be reminded that the term is only a pejorative because conservative racists made it so.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke#20th_century

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[+] -11 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

I just don't like the term woke (even if I'm probably more 'awake' than I'm not, lol, whatever that means) because it's loaded and represents too many 'ideologies', at times conflicting. I'm reasonable.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The ideology of being aware of structural social injustices?

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    That's just having eyes and ears, lol. And a heart to be on the side of the oppressed and not the oppressor, I guess. I prefer using other words, that's all. Best case scenario, it's tacky/vacuous; worst case scenario it means I consider the oversexualization of everything (and even infantilization like Sabrina Carpenter's whole act, for instance), 'polyamory' and AGP transexualism, for instance, valid ways of living/thinking simply because I don't think people should be persecuted because they put on a short skirt (or the same but they have a penis)/like the same sex/are not nationalistic Europeans...

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