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The most Texan of all expressions - Y'All - is ungendered and therefore woke

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Cam@lemmy.world
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Its not woke. If its been around for awhile, its not woke. Woke words are new made up words or words used in a context to prove a progressive point.

“Trigger” is a woke word when you say “Im so triggered by that”. However in this context “Johnny, do not pull down that lever, it will trigger the breaker box” is not woke.

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HikingVet@lemmy.sdf.org
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How long do you think the word woke, with any of the definitions (specifically the original), has been in use?

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Cam@lemmy.world
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I do not know. I first heard the term back around 2019 I believe and I always used an “urban dictonary” definition.

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HikingVet@lemmy.sdf.org
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So you have no idea what you are saying?

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partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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Woke words are new made up words or words used in a context to prove a progressive point.

So works (or phrases) like:

  • Civil rights Act of 1964
  • Equal Pay Act of 1963
  • Brown v. Bd. of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954)
  • Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967)
  • Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. 644 (2015)
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Cam@lemmy.world
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Chill out dude. Im not going to argue with you Y’all on the internets.

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