• FrostyTheDoo@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    It’s so infuriating because those first 2 things technically are woke in the original sense of the phrase. It was never supposed to have a negative connotation, it just meant having your eyes open to the ways of the world and having a discussion about how to improve them for everyone. How did we let that get twisted into something we want to avoid at all costs?

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      6 days ago

      How did we let that get twisted into something we want to avoid at all costs?

      Not we, its the ruling class

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        Fair point. The next target is DEI, people already get defensive when things are called DEI as if its a new slur

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        And they did it because people started to point out that Jesus was a social justice warrior and there really wasn’t much they could say to counter that uncomfortable truth.