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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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[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Man, fuck english idioms. Will never get over how "that's shit" = bad but "that's the shit" = good

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 day ago

Greater brevity: "Holy fuck!" Something bad happened. "Holy fuck!" Something awesome happened.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

That's quite the example.

[–] bampop@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

"bollocks" = bad / nonsense / lies

"the bollocks" = the absolute best you can get