…I just used the search function to look up the word “woke” here on the boards prior to 2020.
I found this interesting thread.
There was this thread about the devstating effects of wokedness:
This thread about how being woke somehow set all the trees on fire.
How being woke magically turned a T Shirt inside out and backwards:
And that one time where being woke caused a paralysed arm:
But do you know what I didn’t find?
Anybody declaring themselves woke. I only found a single reference to woke used in a similar context to the way its used in this thread while scrolling this thread:
which said “Everything is viewed through an intersectional woke SJW lens.”
What we are observing here is entirely new. As someone who has been paying close attention over the last few years to the way things tend to trend, the elevation of “woke” to be used as a catch-all for all things progressive wasn’t a thing that was happening a couple of years ago, it became more prominent in the last year, in the last six months its uses has accelerated, and in the last month its gotten to the point that everybody seems to think everyone has been using that word forever.
Nek minnit: "CRT admonishes all white people for being oppressors while classifying all Black people as hopelessly oppressed victims, and it is being taught in schools and we need to ban it because it is making white people feel uncomfortable. So no more teaching about the horrors of slavery! "