@EliHarbart [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : Newspaper from 1860 criticizes progressives for being #woke (right wing talking points go back way farther than I thought) [URL redacted]
"HAVE YOU GOT YOUR TICKETS READY FOR THE ELECTION ?
The Free Negro North.-In many parts of the North, the Wide Awakes are composed mainly of Negros. Lincoln's strength is in no inconsiderabls degree, swelled by buck Negroes ; and these are the people that Yankee emissaries ask the South to submit to !--But it is not possible that Southern white men can be guilty of such baseness--Southern women will not permit it !
The day of amalgamation has not come, in the South. Massachusetts may mulattoize herself, and doubtless will--but when she seeks, with the other Northern States, to initiate the doctrine in the South, by imposing on us a free negro Vice President, the day will have come for dissolution. The South must belong to the White Race !"
#SlurWhiteSupremacy
#IdentityAmericanBlackAndAfricanPOC
#OrgClassifPPUSPOTUSAbrahamLincolnContext
#OrgUSWideAwakes[Wikipedia]
#MetaphorWokeWakefulnessAwakeAddendum Note presumably the 'Sherman' in the subreddit title is a reference to
#IRLHistoricalFigureWilliamTecumsehSherman #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyKamalaHarris[commentary]
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Archived on 2 September 2021 at 8:45pm [URL redacted]
@RandyUtsumi [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [14]: #FFS #GBNews
You're more #Woke than #Channel4akeNews #BBC & #Sky
#WTF does the #TexasAbortionLaw mention #SixWeeks
Never mind 6 weeks after the last period
The law doesn't say six weeks
And if the unborn baby is six weeks old that's TWO missed periods! [URL redacted]
@JohnnieEwings [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : Why is the word ‘Woke’ used as an insult?? It literally means alert to social discrimination and injustice #Woke
‘Wide awake’ was used in this context in ads by Lincoln in 1860 #WideAwakes and Leadbelly was telling folk to “stay woke” in 1938 🎵 [URL redacted] [URL redacted]