• Trekman10@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      It’s mocking people who actually complain about wokeness by attributing something so absurd to it.

      • Holyginz@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Ah, it can be very hard to tell the difference between someone using it mockingly and being serious sometimes.

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          1 year ago

          I feel out of touch that it doesn’t strike enough resemblance to anything I read, so didn’t set my parody alarm off.

    • ferret@sh.itjust.works
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      Woke is used for satire almost as much as it is used for bigotry. The word has almost no meaning at this point. (Based?)