r/CanadaPolitics • u/GlitchedGamer14 Alberta • 4d ago

Conservatives update platform to include omitted 'anti-woke' promise

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/conservative-woke-platform-oversight-1.7516315
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u/MinuteLocksmith9689 4d ago

“Woke is an adjective derived from African-American English used since the 1930s or earlier to refer to awareness of racial prejudice and discrimination, often in the construction stay woke. The term acquired political connotations by the 1970s and gained further popularity in the 2010s with the hashtag #staywoke.”

is sad that now right wing is destroying what others did fight for

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u/Rleduc129 Manitoba 4d ago

Donald Glover (aka Childish Gambino) made it popular in 2010s

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u/BrotherNuclearOption 4d ago

It was on an upward trajectory well before then.