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Re:Gimp 2.99.2 – GTK3 user interface toolkit by Kye on Saturday November 07, 2020 @08:54AM (#25015079)
This concern is older than this term and even older than this usage. What could "woke" as misused by the latest reactionary movement possibly have to do with it?

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/woke-meaning-o...

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Re:Gimp 2.99.2 – GTK3 user interface toolkit by a1369209993 on Saturday November 07, 2020 @12:30PM (#25016575)
I'm not sure I'd call social justice "reactionary", per se, but:

> What could [that sense of "woke"] have to do with it?

Because you asked (well, expressed confusion about) what sigzero was trying to say, and it's pretty clear that's the word-sense they were using?

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