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Woke used to be a positive term. It referred to people who had their point of view expanded or changed so that they felt more awake than they had before.
Woke used to mean enlightenment.
Woke used to be followed by up and it meant to stop sleeping.
It still means all that, conservatives are just anti-enlightenment.
The term originated from the black civil rights. It was originally used by Marcus Garvey, then again by black mine workers in 1940, and was generally meant to being aware of social and structural chains binding black people from freedom and equality.
Leave it to US right-wingers to coopt a black rights term to mean something they hate.
Edit: I originally had "If I remember correctly," at the beginning, but then I remembered I had an archive spanning the majority of human history at my fingertips and just looked it the fuck up.
Yes. I'm proud to say that I'm woke. I'm also proud to say that I'm a socialist. I don't give a flying fuck what a bunch of toothless, inbred yokels or their enablers think.