• Cam@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Its not woke. If its been around for awhile, its not woke. Woke words are new made up words or words used in a context to prove a progressive point.

    “Trigger” is a woke word when you say “Im so triggered by that”. However in this context “Johnny, do not pull down that lever, it will trigger the breaker box” is not woke.

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      1 year ago

      How long do you think the word woke, with any of the definitions (specifically the original), has been in use?

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        1 year ago

        I do not know. I first heard the term back around 2019 I believe and I always used an “urban dictonary” definition.

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      Woke words are new made up words or words used in a context to prove a progressive point.

      So works (or phrases) like:

      • Civil rights Act of 1964
      • Equal Pay Act of 1963
      • Brown v. Bd. of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954)
      • Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967)
      • Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. 644 (2015)
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        1 year ago

        Chill out dude. Im not going to argue with you Y’all on the internets.