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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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[–] rockettaco37@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago

Oh god... Imagine actually accepting tolerance.

I swear that "woke" is what these fucking troglodytes say when they know they've lost an argument. It's like some sort of primal defense mechanism.

[–] JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

It isn’t an insult. I don’t feel insulted by being called woke. I distribute a lot of harm reduction supplies and I get a lot of eye rolling, hard exhaling, shouldn’t they just take responsibility for themselvesing, I had hard times in my life tooing, etc. I am woke. Fuck you gonna do about it? Nazi wimps.

I feel insulted it is used in the name of bills designed to inhibit help to people in crisis. But I am (maybe) accidentally in a job that wasn’t meant to exist? I don’t seem to report to anybody? So I am going to do whatever I want until they fire me. And what I want to do is harm reduction and crisis intervention.

Edit: and since the Internet has maybe provided me with a soapbox, I will continue. You can seek help even if you aren’t homeless. It is better you do before that is even a possibility. If you feel substance use is diminishing your enjoyment of life, come for help.

I do understand hesitation. In some places, this costs money. Even in places these services are free, you feel shame. People are judging you. And — to be honest — a lot of healthcare providers are also judgemental. And I am currently in a small town of fewer than 2000 people. Your private business is maybe going to be everyone’s entertainment. Be strong. Once you do get into the mental health and substance use pipeline, we are mostly good and we are mostly there because we have big hearts yearning to help.

A lot of the reason I have opted to spend much of my time in the community is to overcome those barriers to access to help. Come say “hi”. I will say “hi” too. Maybe that is the first step. Worst case scenario is we were friendly to each other. Gross!

And if you are one of those skeptics who have said I am enabling substance users and let me know that opinion— even angrily — water under the bridge; you are not the first person experiencing substance related symptoms; we got you. Don’t let embarrassment stop you, please. Come back for help whenever you like. Seriously, I’m happy to help. I look forward to meeting you (again). And — if you don’t live near me — someone in your area is too.

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

Hey, that's just name calling. It's better to describe them by what they actually are: narcissistic, egocentric, racist, homophobic, misogynistic, narrow minded haters.

[–] UncleGrandPa@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago

The anti woke crowd .. hear that it is in someway anti racist

And dismiss it . They like their racism... It makes them feel important and powerful

[–] Tiger_Man_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 64 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 hour ago

image of text without link to source or text alternative

😞

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Whoa, fuck yeah Linus Torvalds

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 8 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

On top of all of that he used "I couldn't care less" correctly.

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Do people use that incorrectly a lot?

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 11 hours ago

There's a whole country of them.

[–] damdy@lemmings.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm just impressed they used 'couldn't care less' correctly.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

english as a second language tend to be more careful with their usage of idioms

[–] 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.

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[–] AniZaeger@lemmy.world 12 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

The same people also see being "progressive" as a bad thing. I swear, if they had they way, we still be amazed at the sight of fire while living in our caves.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah but have you noticed how despite the fact that they normally hate progress and change because it makes their control harder, they're utterly obsessed with AI.

This place is obsessed with Ai (LLMs) to be fair.

[–] Quadhammer@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

If you're not woke your eyes are closed

[–] FuckFascism@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago

Or just plain stupid

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago (6 children)

The opposite of being woke is being asleep and oblivious to what's going on. It's crazy people say they aren't woke and think that's like a good thing lol.

It's like saying "I'm a fucking idiot" and being smug about it

[–] drhodl@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

“I’m a fucking idiot” That IS what I hear whenever a magat bleats.

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[–] wowwoweowza@lemmy.world -3 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

Can we really reach MAGA racists with memes like this? Where’s the conversation about actually helping them awaken?

[–] drhodl@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

I'd offer to help you but I need to change my cat's litter.

[–] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

you go ahead and do that

[–] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 7 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

After ten years of maga, and thirty or so years of watching R point in exactly this direction with every conservative policy or position, and every argument I ever had that included being called a "bleeding heart" or worse, I'm just here to wait for us to get it over with already, and then warm my hands on the smoldering wreckage of our nation that remains when Trump is done wrecking it.

Eventually I will die of old age while continuing to give no shits about maga or anything they have brought upon themselves while consigning the rest of us to the dystopian hell hole they cheered and voted for. The nation will still be recovering from Trump though, if we're lucky.

They've wrecked the lives of countless people with their slavish devotion to a candidate who embodies the worst of what US culture has ever had to offer. Some of those people are people I love and care about, but they are all people.

And on top of it all - they still have no objection to where things are headed until it affects them personally.

Fuck every last Trump voter. I'm very happy to let better, less jaded people than I am go the Andrew Johnson route. (not that I think it was a good idea the first time either) I don't need or want any maga in my life.

[–] wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

In short: pissing into the wind?

[–] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 3 points 8 hours ago

You are if you have any interest in getting me to take a kinder, gentler approach to Republicans. 😂

[–] crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 108 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Reminder that woke was originally used as a positive term.

[–] Stillwater@sh.itjust.works 115 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Still is if you aren't a twat

[–] JumpyWombat@lemmy.ml 67 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Also a reminder that woke is used negatively by the same people who cannot tell the difference between badly photoshopped letters and a gang tattoo.

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[–] meep_launcher@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago

Just saw the recent south park episode- absolutely killed. Poor Cartman is nothing withoutout the woke 😢

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