keenkoon@lemm.ee to gamingcirclejerk@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago"Woke people are saying non-woke games are woke to boycott non-woke entertainment", wtf?i.imgur.comimagemessage-square113fedilinkarrow-up1387arrow-down118
arrow-up1369arrow-down1image"Woke people are saying non-woke games are woke to boycott non-woke entertainment", wtf?i.imgur.comkeenkoon@lemm.ee to gamingcirclejerk@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square113fedilink
minus-squarePunnyName@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down2·edit-21 year agoUsed to be it meant “not asleep”, in that you were aware of social injustices: a la “wake up sheeple!” But it was co-opted by right-wingers as a catch-all term like “political correctness”, and has since lost the original meaning.
minus-squareJackbyDev@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 year agoIt was around the 2016 US presidential campaign when the shift happened.
Used to be it meant “not asleep”, in that you were aware of social injustices: a la “wake up sheeple!”
But it was co-opted by right-wingers as a catch-all term like “political correctness”, and has since lost the original meaning.
It was around the 2016 US presidential campaign when the shift happened.