Sardines
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This **** would get roasted today. DEI propaganda!
Was the 80s the most "WOKE" decade of all time?
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Miggs
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Not sure why straight line is laughing. I really did. Suck it @The Thriller and other Utahr educators!
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Yeah that's definitely location-dependent and absolutely NOT anywhere near the average.
Not laughing at your income, laughing at with just a bachelors and "suck it".
Sardines
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The 80s was so woke we were trying to talk to gorillas and dolphins.
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Step-Back Lauri
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This is not a nineties thread. What the hell is wrong with you? Can't you see everyone else are posting stuff from eighties, then you went on and posted a song from early nineties. Do you feel powerful now, huh? Ruined another man's thread, weaved your shameful veil of failure, or was it on purpose? (Truly hope it isn't so, there's just so much evil we already live with.)
Sardines
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Revenge of the Nerds is a sex crime all by itself. I think if you watch it nowadays you are automatically on the registry.
Sardines
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Just so that we're all on the same page, this is what "woke" means:
"Woke" is a slang term that originally referred to being aware of social injustices, particularly those related to racism and inequality. It has since evolved to encompass a broader awareness of various social issues, including gender equality, climate change, and LGBTQ+ rights.
So when someone makes clear that they are firmly against "woke" it is important to understand what it is they oppose.
"Woke" is a slang term that originally referred to being aware of social injustices, particularly those related to racism and inequality. It has since evolved to encompass a broader awareness of various social issues, including gender equality, climate change, and LGBTQ+ rights.
So when someone makes clear that they are firmly against "woke" it is important to understand what it is they oppose.
To be completely honest, the term annoyed me from the beginning, before the MAGAts took it over as a pejorative. Why? Because, in my experience, it always referred to buff, tanned white dudes with trust funds and dreadlocks. Basically, Dennis Reynolds from the episode of Always Sunny where he pretends to be an eco-warrior in order to get laid (except he didn't have dreadlocks).
Sardines
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It's an annoying slang term. Especially to an old white guy like myself. But I actually do not associate it to buff, tanned white dudes, I associate it to black college students on the east coast circa 2010.
One thing the current wave of right wing activism is better at than anyone else in the world is co-opting words, phrases, ideas, definitions, into something that no longer retains any of it's original meaning or significance and now represents something very different than it had. WOKE is represented by this image now.
During the 2016 Trump Presidential campaign the term "fake news" started getting tossed around because of all the, well, fake news that was being generated by bot farms and Russian trolls. Fake news doesn't mean what Trump and Russia were doing during the election anymore, now it means CNN delivering their slightly slanted take on the news.
Language matters and liberals seem bound by their dictionaries whilst the right wing bot/troll armies are weaponizing language very very effectively.
Do we have a solution or do the bots and trolls win the day in this brave new world we are faced with? I mean liberals like to turn their noses up at the uneducated masses that are powering conservative wins, but if they are so damn smart then devise a ****ing strategy to counter them, or better yet, to win them over. If they can't then we're in for four more years of Trump after these four years, and yes I understand current restrictions on Presidential term limits.