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Woke is more the opposite of what you point out.

This is a better example: https://www.reddit.com/r/UBC/comments/197gid8/segregated_bla...

It’s weaponizing people emotions and instinct to want to “be a good person” to push policies that are actually harmful to the people they claim to care about.

All this to say I still think Karp is corny.

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That's the new, corrupted, propagandistic form of the term. It's not what it really means at all.

It's not the opposite, it's kind of both. It stands for good things (awareness of inequality) - but it has landed in a place where it is perceived by people as having a prescriptive or condescending tone. This is largely because of the way the right has twisted and co-opted it.

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