# Don't Give Them the Time of Day

**URL:** https://discourse.nixos.org/t/dont-give-them-the-time-of-day/80022
**Category:** Links
**Created:** [September 10, 2026, 6:11am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/dont-give-them-the-time-of-day/80022 "2026-09-10T06:11:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 1
**Showing post:** 2

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![nosferatu](https://discourse.nixos.org/user_avatar/discourse.nixos.org/nosferatu/32/17768_2.png) [@nosferatu](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/nosferatu)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2026, 2:07pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/dont-give-them-the-time-of-day/80022/2 "2026-09-10T14:07:38Z")

</div>

I’m not opposed or pro your message but I did want to inform you of something

> I use “woke” in quotes because I refuse to give legitimacy to a term explicitly made up by alt-right and far-right groups to villainize human respect for all people.

Woke was actually created by black Americans to bring awareness of police brutality and racism still going on post civil war. It was coined just after the great depression. Don’t give racists credit they don’t deserve.

---

_[View the full topic](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/dont-give-them-the-time-of-day/80022)._