I am offering a dollar to ANY of you that can define Woke for me, especially you Deutschmeister. Cuz the way I see it, conservatives have literally created an adjective to weaponize the diversification of our society. So please educate me.
I am offering a dollar to ANY of you that can define Woke for me, especially you Deutschmeister. Cuz the way I see it, conservatives have literally created an adjective to weaponize the diversification of our society. So please educate me.
I agree. I have never heard anyone use that term except hard right conservatives. I would love to kniw what they mean by that. It seems to mean anything they don't approve of.
In MAGA World the expression Woke! has no true meaning. It is a rallying cry, a symbol, a catch-all used to label mindlessly anyone who stands for something they do not -- even though in some cases they don't know what they stand for themselves and don't necessarily agree on the details of what does motivate them.
To an intellectually informed discussion Woke! is the equivalent of a can of Coca-Cola to a healthy diet. I mock it because it is the childlike symbol of MAGA shallowness and how devoid they are of true ideas and plans to move our nation forward. It demonstrates in one fell swoop that the MAGA agenda has become fully what they are against instead of formulating a coherent plan of what they are for and moving our nation forward. I'll challenge others in turn: name one country that has prospered and become an internationally respected global leader over time with such a backward-looking plan. I can't think of one in history. Instead the Taliban comes to mind. At the risk of stating the obvious: that's not a good thing.
Though I do agree with your "definition" of Woke. I have two problems with attributing all of this to MAGA, republicans have had no plan for moving this country forwards since they became the party of no in 2010. They have coalesced around moving the country back to their "better" time of the 1940's and 50's
Fair points. For my part I date much of this movement to the early 1990s, with the irrational anti-Clinton hatred, the rise of talk radio as a force in generating and sustaining political talking points, and the impact of Newt Gingrich and his grievance-based agenda seeking a constituency. The Tea Party then became the bridge that ultimately passed it along to MAGA, which is leaving its own imprint, and in a particularly destructive manner. My two cents' worth anyway.
"Woke" means "to be aware of." Its use began, I think, with black people referring to awareness of racism. I've seen it used by right-wing conspracy theorists to refer to being aware of what they think are hidden truths about the government.
The Republican propagandists consciously expanded it to label anything that liberals say or do that might seem silly to the magas, so that now it's well-entrenched by the right-wing media as a term of derision.
Example: Some liberals wear buttons displaying their preferred pronouns, thus showing awareness that not everyone''s gender can be defined as one of two possibilities. To magas,, this is ridiculous.
I am offering a dollar to ANY of you that can define Woke for me, especially you Deutschmeister. Cuz the way I see it, conservatives have literally created an adjective to weaponize the diversification of our society. So please educate me.
I agree. I have never heard anyone use that term except hard right conservatives. I would love to kniw what they mean by that. It seems to mean anything they don't approve of.
In MAGA World the expression Woke! has no true meaning. It is a rallying cry, a symbol, a catch-all used to label mindlessly anyone who stands for something they do not -- even though in some cases they don't know what they stand for themselves and don't necessarily agree on the details of what does motivate them.
To an intellectually informed discussion Woke! is the equivalent of a can of Coca-Cola to a healthy diet. I mock it because it is the childlike symbol of MAGA shallowness and how devoid they are of true ideas and plans to move our nation forward. It demonstrates in one fell swoop that the MAGA agenda has become fully what they are against instead of formulating a coherent plan of what they are for and moving our nation forward. I'll challenge others in turn: name one country that has prospered and become an internationally respected global leader over time with such a backward-looking plan. I can't think of one in history. Instead the Taliban comes to mind. At the risk of stating the obvious: that's not a good thing.
Though I do agree with your "definition" of Woke. I have two problems with attributing all of this to MAGA, republicans have had no plan for moving this country forwards since they became the party of no in 2010. They have coalesced around moving the country back to their "better" time of the 1940's and 50's
Fair points. For my part I date much of this movement to the early 1990s, with the irrational anti-Clinton hatred, the rise of talk radio as a force in generating and sustaining political talking points, and the impact of Newt Gingrich and his grievance-based agenda seeking a constituency. The Tea Party then became the bridge that ultimately passed it along to MAGA, which is leaving its own imprint, and in a particularly destructive manner. My two cents' worth anyway.
"Woke" means "to be aware of." Its use began, I think, with black people referring to awareness of racism. I've seen it used by right-wing conspracy theorists to refer to being aware of what they think are hidden truths about the government.
The Republican propagandists consciously expanded it to label anything that liberals say or do that might seem silly to the magas, so that now it's well-entrenched by the right-wing media as a term of derision.
Example: Some liberals wear buttons displaying their preferred pronouns, thus showing awareness that not everyone''s gender can be defined as one of two possibilities. To magas,, this is ridiculous.