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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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[–] damnedfurry@lemmy.world -5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

woke is net a left wing counterpart to “redpilled” it’s a term at least 160 years old

Okay, I know when it's a waste of time to keep reading a comment. This is Advanced Bad Faith, lol.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago

i'm being for real. and that you deny real history and say real history is "bad faith" is terrifying. you're being willfully unaware of what's going on around here and declaring yourself to be superior in knowing what's going on