Did you know that "woke" had origins in AAVE slang?

[InsecureLivesMatter]

Yes, I did know that

No, I did NOT know that

Contrary to popular belief, it DOES NOT

HAHA! who cares

Updates

11 mo

theconversation.com/.../where-woke-came-from-and-why-marketers-should-think-twice-before-jumping-on-the-social-activism-bandwagon-122713

[snackthatsmilesback]

Yeah. If I remember right it meant something like "aware of discrimination/prejudice against racial minorities," and now has expanded to mean aware of discrimination/prejudice against all minority groups.

I never understood using it as an insult...

[nolabels]

"Woke" is the past tense of the word, "Wake", a 13th- century Middle English word meaning to awake or to awaken.

It clearly describes the degree of awareness of one in such a state.

A person in such a state has recently been awakened and is not aware of much that is going on around them.

[Sasahara]

Pretty sure the word existed before African Americans ran with it and made some people completely unable to understand any meaning of the word.

[InsecureLivesMatter]

Some people were lecturing me that I shouldn't use "woke" because it is a racial slur or it is otherwise offensive and culturally appropriating.

[Sasahara]

From my understanding, its something like this:

-Black SJWs took the word and gave it a new meaning
-Anti-SJWs start using the word with the same meaning the black SJWs did
-Suddenly, because anti-SJWs use the word that way, SJWs feel using the word that way has to be bad, therefor SJWs pretends to be unable to understand the word, calls it a slur, and mock people who use the word that way (except for the original black sjws who gave the word that meaning of course)

Feel free to use the word

[Anonymous]

Jesus fucking Chrysler on the turnpike!

That word again. MAKE IT STOP!

[InsecureLivesMatter]

WOKE WOKE WOKE WOKE WOKE WOKE WOKE WOKE

[InsecureLivesMatter]

I WILL WOKE YOU IN THE WOKING WOKE YOU WOKING DAUGHTER OF A WOKE!

[Anonymous]

I think BLM started it.

[FunkyMonkee]

What's an AAVE?

[InsecureLivesMatter]

African American Vernacular English.

[FunkyMonkee]

People like Elon Musk?
From what I recall, I heard Alex Jones start using that term about 20 years ago and he was referring to those who, today, CLAIM to be woke but really aren't!!

[InsecureLivesMatter]

Is this a troll or what? Do you know what we mean by African American? Contrary to popular belief, white South Africans are called Afrikaners. In reality, Musk is likely of Dutch descent. Just because I was born in the US doesn't make me a Native American.

[FunkyMonkee]

The term means, people who are now Americans but were born in Africa, like Elon Musk.
I would think it does!
What you're referring to as native Americans are American Indians. Just like there are Peruvian Indians in Peru.

[InsecureLivesMatter]

We don't live in a literate society. "American Indians", or just "Indians", by the way, is an old way to refer to indigenous people, like oriental for Asians.

[InsecureLivesMatter]

Now going by that logic, Greta's black friend is a European American.

[InsecureLivesMatter]

You may be right but we are talking about ethnic/cultural-wise rather than national. There is a HUGE difference. And in most cases ethnicity and culture derive from race/skin pigment.