A.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆Jan 9, 2023

Black people: "woke" is a word we coined to indicate a new and growing awareness of the intrinsic and structural nature of American racism.

White conservatives: we have no idea what you're talking about, but also we find that extremely insulting to us personally.

Show threadnot a martian, honestJan 9, 2023
@JuliusGoat I do remember that month or so the word came up and it used by people in a positive way. Then somehow it got turned into an insult and people ran with it.
Show threadA.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆Jan 10, 2023
@kyonshi It had been around for decades.
Show threadnot a martian, honest
@JuliusGoat yes, but at one point it entered the mainstream discourse
Jan 10, 2023 at 9:51amWeb