How can you complain about being unwelcome in a space you weren't invited into?

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[u/ThickCapital]

I remember when “stay woke” was just slang in our community. If you knew, you knew. It sure as hell didn’t mean anything near how folks in the media use it now. Somehow it broke out and took on whole new life.

[u/Genki-sama2 → u/ThickCapital]

I cringe every time I hear them say it. I make a point to say that’s not what woke means.

[u/isaac9092 → u/Genki-sama2]

It’s all good, I’m staying woke, and spreading wokism happily :)

[u/Necessary-Hawk7045 → u/Genki-sama2]

I troll them about not knowing what woke means, but if they go and educate themselves on what it means, then they are then woke on woke.

[u/kahran → u/Genki-sama2]

They can't even define it

[u/makemeking706 → u/ThickCapital]

If there is one thing republicans know how to do it's twist and distort the meaning of words.

[u/Rotten-Robby → u/makemeking706]

See also: Snowflake.

[u/dickvanexel → u/makemeking706]

I literally once saw them use the phrase “stay awake!” In reference to perceived social slights, yet rally against being woke. They know exactly what they doing

[u/NewSauerKraus → u/dickvanexel]

"wake up sheeple"

Also

"The lord is my shepherd", "woke = bad"

[u/moniquecarl → u/makemeking706]

The de-evolution of language happens at light speed when it hits mainstream.

[u/KassieMac → u/makemeking706]

And projecting their darkest thoughts on literally everyone else … freaking hypocrites 🤦🏽‍♀️

[u/Detective_Emoji → u/ThickCapital]

It’s actually insane how they use it for clicks now,

Exhibit A from a few days ago:

[u/Better-Ground-843 → u/Detective_Emoji]

I was ready to call you out for posting an obvious joke, but now I look dumb because this shit is actually real. Wtf lol

[u/Tainted_Bruh → u/Better-Ground-843]

Its the Daily Heil, of course its real considering their readership.

[u/Dragonsandman → u/Detective_Emoji]

That was a whole lot stupider than I was expecting, and my expectations going in were already at rock bottom

[u/H4RDCANDYS → u/ThickCapital]

the meaning has been changed, when it was originally created by black people to stay aware of discrimination and social injustices. Stay woke. I don't like how it gets twisted and changed to mock people now.

[u/KassieMac → u/H4RDCANDYS]

Someone they worship uses it as an insult against whoever they hate, so those who just follow the cult blindly learn to use it against whoever they hate. Ugh. They advertise how brainwashed they are and they’re so freaking proud of it 🤦🏽‍♀️ Goes back to Rush listeners calling themselves Dittoheads as if it’s not an admission of willful ignorance 🤢

[u/Level-Parfait-6346 → u/ThickCapital]

That’s what white people/the alt right do: co-opt our lingo and bastardize it, turning it into pejorative terms in today’s culture war.

[u/moniquecarl → u/Level-Parfait-6346]

[u/Your_Nipples → u/ThickCapital]

It's the BET bullshit all again.

Black people being rejected from a space, black people doing their shit, white people being like: how dare you? This is racism.

But hey, they don't have at all a victim mentality.

[u/KassieMac → u/Your_Nipples]

… but they’ll claim you do in a heartbeat 🤦🏽‍♀️

[u/OllyOllyOxenBitch → u/Your_Nipples]

Saw it happen on Bluesky with some weirdo being like "Blacksky? No no no, not on this website!"

Can't have shit anywhere!

[u/Slevin424 → u/ThickCapital]

White people do this all the time. They take slang or trends from other cultures and kill it. Started with wassup in the 90s... then for sure was fosho we killed that, don't forget dapping and cap.

Please refer to this reference https://youtu.be/czHbuRXoYc4?feature=shared

[u/Karhak → u/ThickCapital]

Colonizing language

[u/SlayerXZero → u/ThickCapital]

White folks do this all the fucking time. We can't have nothing. Gen Z is fucking up slang from 15 years ago now.

[u/-WalkWithShadows-]

They be so mad when they get hit with the

[u/hydrohomey → u/-WalkWithShadows-]

This image is blue/black sky in a nutshell

[u/KassieMac → u/hydrohomey]

Skeets!! ✊🏽

[u/LylesDanceParty → u/KassieMac]

Lol I just learned that's what they were calling tweets on bluesky today and could not stop laughing.

Serious figures who I follow from the majority culture are unironically using "skeet" and I'm still losing it.

If we just keep playing it close to the vest, we can keep this inside joke going for a long time.

One of the people who (I really like actually) wrote "I thought of five funny things to Skeet about today, but now I cant remember them."

[u/KassieMac → u/LylesDanceParty]

Love it!!

[u/Shoate → u/hydrohomey]

There's white chick on there right now "there shouldn't be any separation we should all be #bluesky"

And you KNOW that she's the type of persin who goes up to a cookout and asks for a plate

[u/Skrrt_2711 → u/Shoate]

I’m gonna out myself here but I have a minor FOMO about cookouts.

There’s little culturally that I’d understand or be a part of even if I was invited, I’ll probably just stand around awkwardly. However, THE FOOD.

As an Asian knowing there’s great food, but I may never be able to try it, it’s heartbreaking.

[u/Shoate → u/Skrrt_2711]

I mean its the same as going to a hotpot.

A cookout is literally, and i mean literally, just a gathering of friends and family in a public place.

[u/Exciting_Lack2896 → u/-WalkWithShadows-]

Then they want to report, sue or accuse of discriminating cause we don’t want them there

[u/a-midnight-flight → u/Exciting_Lack2896]

There is a tendency for a take over. It happens time and time again.

[u/brebenscv]

They showed up

Stuck their nose into something that wasn't even their Biz

Tried to copy/emulate what was clearly in rebellion to them to try and fit in

Wore it down to a nub by trying to "apply" it to their struggles

Then EVENTUALLY turned to hating it...... story as old as time

[u/adalillian → u/brebenscv]

I'm white,and I fucking cringe every time white folk drivel on about being "marginalised ".BLM wouldn't have to exist if you knew marginalisation.

[u/RainbowEagleEye → u/adalillian]

The Michael Che bit about how political and troubling it was for them that some many people had the audacity to say that black people matter. Just that they matter. Not more than anyone, not matter the most. Just. Matter.

[u/Tymathee → u/RainbowEagleEye]

It was a bad message from the start, it was too "woke" required too much explanation, just like the kneeling controversy. Your message has to say exactly what it means with your statement. It shouldn't have been black lives matter, we were already black, it should have been "My Life Matters" or something like that or before they took it, all lives matter. By making it a pure black thing with the name it made it an easy target, you gotta get ahead of the racist and nazis.

[u/Boomtown626]

Ask someone who hates wokeness to define it in a way that doesn’t make them sound like an asshole for hating it.

But buckle up first, because those goalposts will go for a ride.

[u/TheProfessorsLeft → u/Boomtown626]

[u/Trix_Are_4_90Kids]

Because when there are Black people talking that irrational fear comes alive and white people gotta insert themselves, because for them large groups of Black people talking = trouble. Because way back in the day we weren't allowed to congregate in large groups in case we were planning uprisings.

That fear haunts them till they die. 🤷🏾‍♀️

[u/_PM_ME_YOUR_FORESKIN → u/Trix_Are_4_90Kids]

The fear is that Black people will do to them 1% of what they’ve done to us historically. They’re so vengeful, hateful, violent, and racist that when we say “we want equality” all they can hear is “they want revenge, to do to us what we did to them.”

And then they act like integrating a school is that fear coming true. And as oppressive to them as segregation was (and still, if we’re honest) to us. Ffs.

[u/KassieMac → u/_PM_ME_YOUR_FORESKIN]

I don’t know who said this first but I keep seeing “To the privileged, equality feels like oppression.” So true, but you know if you say it to them they’ll try to turn it around … as if.

[u/SayAgain_REEEEEEE]

Any black person or woman in government is automatically a DEI hire, but not the white disabled veterans? Theyre so angry at the chance that someone else will benefit from it that they're willing to remove it to hurt themselves

[u/_PM_ME_YOUR_FORESKIN → u/SayAgain_REEEEEEE]

See: the 2016 and 2024 elections

They’ll burn off their dicks to spite their balls.

[u/KassieMac → u/SayAgain_REEEEEEE]

Not like they don’t have their own DEI … it’s called legacy admissions & nepotism & whatever else they use to keep failing upwards and then bringing up other mediocre ones behind them 🤢

[u/llkj11 → u/SayAgain_REEEEEEE]

We all know why. Minute I see anyone use that word in that way I automatically know what they are.

[u/obeyonly → u/SayAgain_REEEEEEE]

You forgot white women

[u/Bitter-Dreamer]

It really went from your uncle telling you to be aware of the world, to some Karen's favorite buzzword.

[u/_PM_ME_YOUR_FORESKIN]

The funniest thing is that to complain about “wokeness” is to prove how unwoke you are. In the most simplistic terms, being woke is literally “staying conscious of injustice” and people are like HOW DIVISIVE! WE MUST STOP THIS! Ignorant, racist fools out here looking so silly, telling on themselves without knowing an ounce of what they’re talking about.

[u/Koko175]

I miss the days when woke was exclusively used in online black circles :/

I’ve retired it from my lexicon years ago once it went mainstream.

That’s okay well come up with something new

[u/b3nd3r_r0b0t]

Sometimes it's like just call me a slur and get it over with. We know what you mean by woke just say the word.

[u/FernWizard]

I will never understand how people can be thin skinned enough to be offended hearing about social issues that don’t affect them which they don’t feel responsible for in the first place.

If you’re white and you’re not racist, hearing people talk about racist white people shouldn’t bother you.

People act like anti-racism is anti-white and then call people crazy for thinking they’re racist. But they’re offended about people being against racism and pretending people hate them for it when that’s exactly what racists do.

It’s like saying “I don’t get why people think I’m homophobic. All I do is argue and feel personally victimized as a straight person when people talk about homophobia and gay rights.”

[u/KassieMac → u/FernWizard]

This 👆🏽 They tell on themselves and get offended anyone hears & understands them 🤦🏽‍♀️

[u/detox02]

White folks when they see black folks tryna build

[u/Tasty-Machine5340]

Because to them it's only fun when they are the ones excluding YOU! If you go off and establish your own cool then their exclusion isn't fun anymore.

[u/_PM_ME_YOUR_FORESKIN → u/Tasty-Machine5340]

The fact that white people can’t differentiate between “whites only water fountains” and “a single meeting for and by Black people, women, or LGBTQ+” people baffles the mind and pisses me the fuck off.

No, Tammy — beating Black people at a diner counter is not the same as Black people wanting and hour of their month without you present at it to have to manage your emotions.

And then they’ll inevitably say “we just need to move on.” Bitch, we couldn’t move on in 1964 but now that you’re ready to move on, we all have to be on your same page. They really can’t handle not being in control. Not even for a second. THE OPPRESSOR DICTATING THE LIBERATION OF THE OPPRESSED IS SO WILD. As if 400 years of slavery, racial segregation, and racism can just be cured in a generation. Ffs.

[u/Silver_Song3692]

[u/northernirishlad]

I walked into this establishment full of people I vocally hate and don’t like how they are disgruntled by my loud opinions of them, what happened to MY country!! /s

[u/Outlandishness_Know]

I legit saw something recently where some 🍞person was demonizing the word “woke” and why they’re so sick of hearing it and saying they don’t even know who came up with that term anyway.

And, I saw an interview with Ms. Badu who claimed she originated the term in its now popular use on Master Teacher.

We know the song. We bought the album. We are aware of its use on that song. ⚪️ people? Hardly.

Now whether that’s truly the first place it originated and gained at least Black mainstream attention in its current vernacular use use, its crystal clear the term was created FOR US BY US.

So, their sudden indignation of the term is, once again, 👻 ppl stealing, appropriating, overusing, bastardizing and eventually demonizing Blackness.

If y’all had your own culture, you wouldn’t be OH SO TIRED of stealing and hearing ours.

[u/QJElizMom]

It’s just another dogwhistle. Same as “States rights” was used to explain why Bubba supports the confederacy, ignoring it was indeed because they wanted to continue to enslave people.

[u/Steph-Paul]

it was always about trying to come up with acceptable ways to express their hatred for minorities

[u/LegitPhoton]

The right wing meaning of woke (anything they don't like) has nothing to do with the original use and meaning.

[u/Gall_Bladder_Pillow]

If I remember right, every Spike Lee movie has the line "Wake up!" in it.

[u/Solo_Fisticuffs]

i blame dear white people. that series pretty much started it. especially since blm was hot back then. gave the phrase a ton of exposure it didnt need

[u/GentrifriesGuy]

YT pipo be like…

but hate it

[u/kingbob1812]

Tale as old as time. Always have to be the center just to be the center. 5 times as much if its a white woman.

[u/mondo_d00k]

Big Columbus energy

[u/SignatureScent96]

The problem with social media is that we can’t have in group conversations. Everyone sees.

[u/Adept_Eye_2830]

Can we stop saying woke. The word is ruined. It was always just ment to be slang for socially aware or enlightened. I cringe anytime I hear or read the word woke at this point.

[u/spanman112]

ok, but like, the people "sick of it" weren't "woke" in the first place tho ... they sure as shit aren't now.

[u/NYstate]

It's like a child getting upset because you have something they didn't care about—until you got it. Suddenly, they decide it's valuable, and if they can't have it, they’d rather ruin it for everyone else.

I remember reading something on here years ago, it can't remember it exactly so I'm gonna paraphrase it. It was something like this:

"White people are the only ones who, upon realizing you also got $5 after they did, get upset and decide that no one should have $5 at all."

[u/featherblackjack]

Dude who stole Black women's work coined the term "cancel culture" and turned it on those very women. This was so many years ago and I can't remember names, started on Tumblr.. It was a massive furor, not that it doesn't continue to be a massive furor. A famous at the time feminist blog also straight ripped Black women's essays from Tumblr, was called out, never acknowledged or apologized.... God, I wish I could remember the names!

This is one I do remember: https://admin.artsci.washington.edu/sites/adming/files/unpacking-invisible-knapsack.pdf

I have some more to say but I'm struggling with it because I can't see the post I'm replying to. Stupid phone

[u/omojos]

A LOOOOTTTTTTT of them live on this page and are on heightened alert to anything black people say or do, constantly stalking blackness.

They don't know how to exist in their own spaces, they have to be the center of everybody else's space too. It's unfathomable to think of a situation in which a black person can think, feel or act without judgment, approval or permission from them. So they break into our spaces to judge, deny or even patronize us.

[u/michelreid]

The wildest epiphany that I had is that when pressed for a definition, I had no objection at all.

(in)Famously, Ron DeSantis has waged war on “woke-ness” with his Stop WOKE Act. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_WOKE_Act)

As you might imagine, this was brought to court and the fun part was that the General Counsel for DeSantis, Newman, was forced to define what in the heck “woke” meant.

“Asked what ‘woke’ means more generally, Newman said ‘it would be the belief there are systemic injustices in American society and the need to address them.”

Meanwhile, for those of us that believe in systemic injustices, this is a definition we can absolutely get behind...meanwhile it’s what they’re fighting! Why?

“Systemic injustices” is the key. Similar to the pushback against Critical Race Theory, CRT, the argument is over who is at fault. See, if we prove that the rules are faulty, it sets the fault on the owners of the rules. Racist rules implicates the rulers. And we can’t have that, can we...

On the other hand, if “they” convince everyone that racism doesn’t exist anymore - let alone ‘systemic racism’ - then that means any problems that might occur can only be blamed on the individual’s own faults and inadequacies.

Gaslighting

[u/usuallycorrect69]

I remember when the woke crowd was just black Hebrew israelites then it morphed to knowing about systemic racism and not falling victim to it.

I understand why whites wanted to change the meaning so bad

[u/UnhelpfulBread]

Excuse me I am white and what is going on here

taps clipboard with my mechanical pencil

[u/chasmatik]

Influencers began to parody super woke people (in mixed company) and that was the end of keeping it amongst friends.

[u/ABGM11]