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    What is this Woke stuff?

    What does it mean to be Woke? I'm not a racist, so what is this story line that I keep hearing about? Are others asking me to claim I'm something I'm not? I don't have to think about that.

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    Just more gutter slang. I ignore it.
    ""A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul" ~George Bernard Shaw

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    Quote Originally Posted by FindersKeepers View Post
    Just more gutter slang. I ignore it.
    I believe the term is misused or used poorly right now, but I think if you understood the history and background of the term you might be ashamed with yourself and the language you have used to describe it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Adelaide View Post
    I believe the term is misused or used poorly right now, but I think if you understood the history and background of the term you might be ashamed with yourself and the language you have used to describe it.
    As the term is used here on this forum -- the only place I've ever heard (read) it -- it has been used in a derogatory sense. You say I "might be ashamed" but that's all you say. You don't explain why.

    If, as you say, the term has deeper meaning, then you probably ought to go after those who are misusing it or using it poorly, as you say. Because, from a reader's standpoint, I can only ascertain the meaning based on the context.

    I will look it up...

    Okay from Merriam Webster:

    Woke is a slang term that is easing into the mainstream from some varieties of a dialect called African American Vernacular English (sometimes called AAVE). In AAVE, awake is often rendered as woke, as in, “I was sleeping, but now I'm woke.” 'Woke' is increasingly used as a byword for social awareness.
    So, it is slang. I was correct in that.

    Words mean something, and in an age when our high schools are graduating students who are barely literate, I should think adults would encourage the correct use of the English language, rather than condone a vernacular that makes people seem uneducated.

    I know kids come up with all sorts of terms that catch on with their generation, but this one doesn't sound good.
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    Quote Originally Posted by FindersKeepers View Post
    Just more gutter slang. I ignore it.
    First I've heard it. What's that tell you?
    At the end of the day...I am still glad that I am me. Tail and all.

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    Quote Originally Posted by silvereyes View Post
    First I've heard it. What's that tell you?
    I did look it up after Adelaide's comment, but I really prefer correct grammar. I don't think there's a good reason to botch up language and then try to justify it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by silvereyes View Post
    First I've heard it. What's that tell you?
    That you aren't woke yet.
    History does not long Entrust the care of Freedom, to the Weak or Timid!!!!! Dwight D. Eisenhower ~

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    Quote Originally Posted by testsubjectalpha View Post
    What does it mean to be Woke? I'm not a racist, so what is this story line that I keep hearing about? Are others asking me to claim I'm something I'm not? I don't have to think about that.
    Its what Bill Maher used to show just how dense Tlaib and Omar are.
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    Quote Originally Posted by testsubjectalpha View Post
    What does it mean to be Woke? I'm not a racist, so what is this story line that I keep hearing about? Are others asking me to claim I'm something I'm not? I don't have to think about that.
    It's to be aware of discrimination, oppression and injustice, and although it stems largely from the black community, I think that it is being applied in a broader sense now.

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    All the little things add up over time. For example, where did 'women of color' come from. Why not men of color. And what are white people, colorless?



    Quote Originally Posted by Adelaide View Post
    It's to be aware of discrimination, oppression and injustice, and although it stems largely from the black community, I think that it is being applied in a broader sense now.

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