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Lebowski wrote:Out of interest do you guys know what woke means?
From the Oxford English Dictionary: “woke, adjective: Originally: well-informed, up-to-date. Now chiefly: alert to racial or social discrimination and injustice; frequently in stay woke.”
If you regard that as an insult?????????
Exactly, it’s been weaponised by the right as an insult. I’d also agree with the comments on here concerned with how far our country has lurched to the right in the last 10 years. London 2012 was such a joyous inclusive occasion and now we see how many nationalistic flags please have in their bedrooms. I have severe concerns about our country and the path we are on.
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Grandad's boy wrote:This thread is not Gloucester Rugby, it's politics.
That's why it's in the Not Rugby thread,
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Gloucester Mute wrote:Wokes 1 Society 0
Woke = someone aware of injustice.
So you would prefer a society made up of people without awareness of injustice. Imagine for a moment what that would be like.
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Lebowski wrote:Out of interest do you guys know what woke means?
From the Oxford English Dictionary: “woke, adjective: Originally: well-informed, up-to-date. Now chiefly: alert to racial or social discrimination and injustice; frequently in stay woke.”
If you regard that as an insult?????????
Indeed, using some as an insult is a massive red flag to me as what does it say about that person?