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   Michael Halila 🏳️‍⚧️ (mhalila@mastodontti.fi)'s status on Saturday, 24-Dec-2022 23:40:14 JST Michael Halila 🏳️‍⚧️

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   Can we also take a moment to note that "woke", as used here, was originally a Black American term for being aware of systemic racism, and in just a few years, the US right turned it into a totally content-free sneer? And the entire English-speaking media basically just ran with it, to the extent that you now hear it used in _Finnish_?

   Because that's white supremacy for you. Criticism, even awareness, of the racist power structure will not be tolerated.

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     Michael Halila 🏳️‍⚧️ (mhalila@mastodontti.fi)'s status on Saturday, 24-Dec-2022 23:40:15 JST Michael Halila 🏳️‍⚧️

     The great thing about having a culture war that's based on nothing except the deranged tantrums of conservative men is that absolutely anything can be roped into it. Like remote work.

     I didn't know I work for several "woke" employers, but here we are. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/21/jacob-rees-mogg-alan-sugar-daily-mail-home-working-woke

     Nicholas Sarwark repeated this.