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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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[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

big tech firms aren't pushing woke anything. they're the most anti-woke shit out there.

Yeah, I was meaning more the 'woke narrative' shit. The tech firms are working hand in glove with conservatives to push the narratives that get ignorant twats all riled up about 'wokeness'. I updated that part for clarity.