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Why do some of you consider "Woke" as an insult? It just means being alert to injustice. THAT'S A GOOD THING lmao

You might as well be trying to insult someone by calling them an abolitionist lol.

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The people that think woke is bad are the same people that think abolitionists ARE bad.
Pikachu ·
@canusernamebemyusername

lol some of them.
That's the thing. People who reckoned that black folks were less than human would have called people who thought black folks deserved human rights "woke".
reflectingmonkey · 51-55, M
@canusernamebemyusername @Pikachu exactly, the same happens in certain uneducated crowds where being book smart and using more sophisticated words is ridiculed and seen as pretentious where its really that being smart makes dumb people feel dumb so they become defensive. "woke" people make conservatives look morally bankrupt so they try to retaliate to maintain the status quo they so need.
Pikachu ·
@reflectingmonkey

That's actually an interesting comparison.
I myself have been criticized for using a vocabulary which outstrips that of my counterpart and that can only be a reflexive attack from insecurity,
I think it may be that same reflex which causes some far right folks to cry "woke!" as an insult.