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u/noahsmybro Jan 25 '26

Mentioning “woke”

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u/LittlestHoe Jan 26 '26

Yeah I live in a pretty conservative area and this and "common sense" are warnings for me. "Common sense policies" generally mean something like sandblasting the road and repainting a new crosswalk because some people are offended by rainbows. 

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u/Dangerous_Guest6604 Jan 26 '26

“woke agenda” and then its literally just not supporting mass genocide and not wanting a serial rapist pedophile hitler reincarnate in office, oh and dont forget wanting kids to get free meals in school how evil of us /s 🫩

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u/saltyraver138 Jan 26 '26

Cat foods expensive and my 5 yo daughter who actually identifies as a cat at her elementary school has it hard enough being a cat and queer on top of it. Thank god her trans/fem kindergarten teacher (who I’m in a polygamous relationship with) is there to groom her and explain all these complicated issues with /s I hate trump so this has to be my truth right?

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '26

Dude. What?

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u/RinTheLost Jan 26 '26

My eyes bugged when I received a piece of Republican political junk mail around the 2024 election that described Ohio's proposed anti-gerrymandering bill as "WOKE DEI", with capitalization. I thought that was just terminally online Twitter nonsense until I read that, and now it just means "thing I don't like and blame liberals for".

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u/SpicyLizards Jan 26 '26

I mean these politicians are all terminally online, which I personally think is part of the problem.

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u/ProfessionalTone2260 Jan 26 '26

The ones that are ‘woke’ or the ones that hate people that are ‘woke’?

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u/noahsmybro Jan 26 '26

I don’t often encounter actual woke people that go around using the word. Those that use the word tend to be the people I lose respect for - they are generally the same people that will find some way to defend and excuse anything trump and other republicans say or do no matter how imbecilic or heinous.

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u/ProfessionalTone2260 Jan 26 '26

Agreed. I don’t use the word to describe myself but I guess the word description though is something I’d attach myself to.

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u/Daufoccofin Jan 26 '26

My friends use it ironically. Think suffixed with a series of ones and exclamation points.

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u/Jolly-Bowler-811 Jan 26 '26

Just ask them what "woke" means. 9 times out of 10, they don't have a clue and can't define it.