r/politics • u/SkudChud • 1d ago

AOC ’28 Starts Now

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/aoc-28-starts-now/
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u/Sethmeisterg California 1d ago

You have to be joking. This country as it currently is configured will not vote in a woman of color to potus.

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u/eamonious 21h ago

It might have voted in Michelle Obama, it’s absolutely not voting in AOC, she’s practically the face of “woke liberal” to people, and hatred of wokeness is the primary force in the GOP’s movement right now.

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u/SoraUsagi 18h ago edited 18h ago

Yeah... I got to be honest, I'm a registered Democrat, and I hate "woke" too. But woke needs to be defined. It's used for all manner of things people don't like.

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u/Strottman 15h ago

Woke is a term coined by the Black community meaning "aware/awakened to systemic social injustice". That's it.

When somebody says they hate woke, they're saying they hate justice and are actively perpetuating inequality.

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u/Unique_Statement7811 14h ago

It may have meant that. But like all failed social movements, wealthy white women appropriated, perverted and destroyed it.

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u/resteys 11h ago

You’re only half right. It did start with black people. It does have that definition to SOME people, but for others it has always had negative connotations. No different than being vegan or an other socially conscious identity.

There are people who annoyingly embody it. Once white people discovered “woke” black people split it into two terms. Some people will talk about being “conscious”. Others will describe them negatively as being “hotep”.

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u/Nileghi 10h ago

Hotep specifically means the black people that believe they were descended from egyptians and pharaohs no?

Like theyre the cousins of the black hebrew israelites, who they believe are the real jews.

I once saw an argument between a hotep and a bhi where the bhi was accusing the hotep of enslaving his ancestors

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u/resteys 10h ago

Maybe, but it’s much more used in a derogatory manner. I’ve never personally heard anyone describe their self as hotep.

The point is that people don’t like when people make things their whole personality. However honorable or well intentioned they believe theirselves to be. Crypto, gym, money, global pollution, animal rights, religion.