I think woke was a cool word with important meaning for a while, and it has some great historical context behind it that made it work. Reactionary media did what they always do though and I think it's safe to say the word has completely lost all meaning outside of those aforementioned historical contexts. These days everything is "woke" and the new reactionary concept of "woke" is so far from what woke actually means as to render the term useless.

What word are they going to ruin next? How will they ruin it? Am I being the reactionary by thinking that woke has been ruined as a word? Place your bets below

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    "Globalist" might go mainstream.

    As in "I don't hate Jewish people but the problem is globalists..." Wink, wink.

    • Retrosound [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      Trump literally said "nationalism, not globalism, shall be our credo" in his inaugural address.

    • JuneFall [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      If Globalists like in the old usage (referred to liberals like Hayek and other who tried to get free trade neoliberalism all over the world) would be used it would at least have a meaning.