Nope, and if you ask them to explain what they mean by woke, they can’t.
No, don’t use the edited version. The original is so much better.
“A book for basic dickheads”
To the average person, woke is just the new, more concise word for politically correct.
Understanding is woke
Woke is “them filthy non-whites and liberals workin hard and gettin everything that I should be gettin on a silver platter on the fact that im a pure bred american patriot!” while looking like an 8th generation result of rampant cousin fuckin.
Nah, it’s being trained on them like the words socialism or communist have been.
Meaning is use. “Woke” is used consistently, but differently, in different political circles, so it has more than one meaning.
It means “politically correct”, but users don’t want to admit they’re incorrect so they made up bad grammar instead.
But doesn’t “politically correct” means not saying nasty truths? Like saying that Trump just “abused kids” instead “raped kids”.
I see it as a scale from extremely polite to extremely offensive, where you just try to stay polite while being honest. I think the federal and provincial PMs, and the mayors aI know, have been good at this. Listen to the Canadian or UK Parliements, they even have strict rules to keep things in order.
Personally I have mixed feelings.
On one side - I consider being polite to be basic decency.
On the other side - I feel like this “do not call it murder, call it unaliving” and such are just lies by omission of a word.
In my view, “unalive” is just as useless a word as “woke”. Pre-MAGA federal politics could be politically correct without either of these new “words”. We don’t need federal politics to observe this. Anyone can visit their municipal debates and watch counselors and mayors being politically correct with each other. At least in my experience. The shock value language is mostly used by news-like outlets to make headlines and public attention.
This is a fair point, but I’m still calling it “Woke Superman” because it’s funny.
Sitting around:
“Hey, wanna watch Woke Superman?”
“That the one with the dog wearing a cape?”
“Yes.”
“Yeah, put it on.”
They were never gonna like an adaptation of Superman that was true to the source material. Of course Superman is woke. That’s always been the point of Superman.
Superman is first and foremost a superhuman cop.
Cops didn’t fight the kkk.
Im sorry, darling, but he is first and foremost a fighter of crime… like any other super hero. And who fights crime? Cops. Superheroes are supercops.
And lets not forget that he is a tool of american imperialism and american exceprionalism. Nothin’ woke 'bout that.
The police use fighting crime as a pretext for the protection of capital and the oppression of minorities, their actual functions.
I agree with that, but this pretext is the reality in superhero stories. Cops are portrayed as the good guys, and superheroes collaborate with them if anything.
Cops and superheroes share this; They fight crime. And so if we imagine a child reading superhero comics, they will most likely think; I also want to fight crime! And who in our society fights crime? It’s the cops.
Superheroes are a constructed reality to turn children into cops.
Tweet von @CasioWiser:Anonymous got that woke mind virus @elonmusk Antwort von @YourAnonNews: You fools throw around the word “woke” like it’s some kind of slur, it’s actually quite funny. You probably don’t know the meaning of the word, so let us school your tiny little mind. The word means that we’re alert to social injustices - such as racism and discrimination, that we’re cool with LGBTQ+ rights, we’re aware of economic disparities between the super-rich and working class, and that we’re cool with equal rights for all people. So - when you use it as a slur, we understand that you are against these things - that you are pro racism and discrimination, that you are not ok with LGBTQ+ people and you’re cool with the super-rich raping the working class - and that you’re not ok with equal rights. Don’t hide, just come out and say it - tell everyone you’re a Nazi.
Understanding is woke
Wife woke, phones woke, kids woke
Not raping and howling slurs? Woke
please just let me snooze for 10 more minutes, I’m so tired
Beat me to it
Superman is an illegal immigrant1, who has stolen American jobs and fought the president2. Clearly woke.
- Kryptonian by birth though one can argue him being found and adopted by the Kents might make it moot.
- Lex Luthor was president for a while and that was a whole thing.
There’s no argument, Clark Kent is an illegal immigrant just like the kids who arrived here before they had memories and trump and ice are deporting them
I know what they were using it for.
Yeah. Being woke requires you to be aware of what is happening.
Superman just shows up, and says “TIME TO SAVE PEOPLE!!!”. But he in general doesn’t know anything.
To be woke, he’d need knowledge of WHY the orphanage is on fire. He just happened to be flying around, saw a fire, and saved the orphans.
He’d be much angrier if he knew the orphanage was on fire because state legislatures cut funding to support the orphanage all so some dipship govenor can buy a 6th yacht.
I mean… he is also a reporter and a genius. Chances are he’s well aware of inequalities.
Superman got his start beating up slum lords. That’s not a joke. Superman started out as the sort of guy who rooted out corruption. The “aw, shucks” version of Superman is both a bit of a later development (and also kind of the persona that he takes on as Clark Kent)
The Netflix ‘daredevil’ season 1 really did a much better version of this.
He’s all too aware. As powerful as he is, he doesn’t have the ability to solve everyone’s problems everywhere all the time. This is a source of tremendous grief for him. That’s the whole reason he’s a compelling character and not just wish fulfillment.
I mean, ge did try to solve all the problems once, that lead to the injustice story.
The latest one smashed a few planes and tanks, and dropped a dictator on a cactus. I don’t think he was just stopping by for a rescue.
I didn’t know superman had wings and swung a mace around.
I always enjoy seeing old school examples of “wokeness”, and while I’m the farthest thing from patriotic I like seeing the fighting of prejudice framed as a patriotic duty as well
you know, that shit felt so good when we were young and being patriotic didn’t mean we were self serving everyone hating bastards :)
It kinda is a targeted political agenda, but not all targeted political agendas are evil.
“Hey can you stop being a piece of shit and instead choose to be kind?” is the targeted political agenda, which is highly offensive to pieces of shit.
Superman is the very definition of woke, and that’s a good thing.
On the one hand, his arch nemesis is an extremely wealthy CEO, so was ahead of its time in that regard. On the other, Superman refuses to do harm, even to him, when the truly woke would eat such a person in a heartbeat.
This is now the bar for me accepting Superman as woke. He is gonna have to guillotine Lex Luther. If he just Karate chops his head off, I will let that count as well.
didnt the version of superman that killed Lex Luther also create an evil authoritarian state?
That Superman killed the Joker because the Joker killed Lois.
He seems delightfully woke to me.
Superman fought Nazis and the KKK.
