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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Amusing until the idiotic end of his statement lol

[–] Trekman10 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's mocking people who actually complain about wokeness by attributing something so absurd to it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah, it can be very hard to tell the difference between someone using it mockingly and being serious sometimes.

[–] hughperman 0 points 1 year ago

I feel out of touch that it doesn't strike enough resemblance to anything I read, so didn't set my parody alarm off.

[–] aBundleOfFerrets 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Woke is used for satire almost as much as it is used for bigotry. The word has almost no meaning at this point. (Based?)

[–] MadSurgeon 2 points 1 year ago

Ask anyone to define woke and it's suddenly just a list of all their biases and bigotry.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Sad our society has become too woke to recognise parody.