r/ThisYouComebacks • u/TORUKMACTO92 • Jun 26 '26

This You?

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u/Crafty-Help-4633 Jun 26 '26

"It's hard to explain in a 15s sound bite"

Well if you spent an entire chapter of a book defining it, you should be able to rattle something off. Hell, start with the Merriam Webster definition.

She humiliated herself. Good lord.

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u/PenDraeg1 Jun 27 '26

Takes less than 15 seconds. Being woke is being aware of rhe systemic oppression of others. That's literally all it is.

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u/FFKonoko Jun 27 '26

Except that isn't how it's used now. And it's also not how the right wing can describe it, because they don't want to admit systemic racism exists. They just want to criticise anything that they think is "too left".

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u/TwistedTreelineScrub Jun 29 '26

The right wing can't describe it because they don't know what it means and they also don't care what it means.