It’s a broad label for anything they don’t like (LGBTQ+, feminism, DEI, etc.), but doesn’t “woke” mean you are awake? Would that imply that things that are not “woke” or are “anti-woke” are “asleep”?
Then they go on about conspiracies (“climate change is not real”, “deep state”, “5G is harmful”, “vaccines cause autism”, the list goes on unfortunately…) where they’re claiming that you need to “wake up to the truth”. Surely they don’t consider “woke” to be “the truth”, so shouldn’t they call it something like “asleep”, “sleepy”, “snoozy”, or similar?
I needed to use a lot of quotation marks there…
It’s from the 30s, actually.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke
Implies waking up to the systemic violence and oppression and beginning to do something about it.
Then it began being used as a bad thing because people were understanding systemic harm and those in power did not like it.
Overuse the word, make it mean nothing, remove its power, push the people back into oppression.
same happened with anarchism. I bet someone will come reply to me, saying that anarchism is actually bad because it means “chaos” and “no laws”, yada yada.
Im willing to bet that everybody who doesn’t like anarchism, doesn’t know what anarchism is.
What is anarchism?
No rules, just right.
And who decides what is right? I’m not being antagonistic on purpose, but anarchy believes in the good of people much more than we have any reason to believe.
I was quoting burger king, I’m sorry I don’t think that anarchism is compatible with the violent tendencies inherent in human nature.
Haha oh sorry, we don’t have burger king in Western Australia, didn’t recognise it! (It’s called Hungry Jacks or HJ’s here)
Conservatives have really been leaning on this tactic a ton lately.
Unfortunately, it seems to work every time.