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Thanks to the commenter who reminded me that it's not bad to be reminded that the term is only a pejorative because conservative racists made it so.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke#20th_century

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[-] forrgott@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 week ago

There are people who have not called it Twatter from day one? Huh...

[-] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

It's been Xitter (pronounced "Shitter") since the rebranding

[-] forrgott@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 week ago

I will deadname that shit till the day I die! Or not, I honestly can't be bothered to give a flying fuck, truth be told ..

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