How the word 'woke' was weaponised by the right

[Towlie]

(The Guardian) How the word ‘woke’ was weaponised by the right

Like “politically correct” before it, the word “woke” has come to connote the opposite of what it means. Technically, going by the Merriam-Webster dictionary’s definition, woke means “aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice)”, but today we are more likely to see it being used as a stick with which to beat people who aspire to such values, often wielded by those who don’t recognise how un-woke they are, or are proud of the fact.

Case in point: (Washington Post) YouTube pulls video of DeSantis panel discussion urging no masks for children

In a statement shared with The Post on Friday, [Florida Governor Ron] DeSantis’s spokesman, Cody McCloud, called the video’s removal “another blatant example of Big Tech attempting to silence those who disagree with their woke corporate agenda,” arguing that the panelists’ academic affiliations qualify them to speak about the crisis.

(from Tom the Dancing Bug)

[hunter]

1. I'm SJW and proud. Bring it on.

Inherited it from my mom.

[CurtEastPoint]

2. Ditto, but self-taught!

[vercetti2021]

3. Lord

Woke = not having my head up my own asshole and sees the world for everything that's wrong with it.

It's like the red pill blue pill thing that they love to toss around. The blue pill is reality. The red pill is to stay in a false sense of reality.

They claim they wanna red pill people. In their case. Put people in a false sense of reality for their own gain.

Sorry I'm blue pilled. I'm woke. I live in reality. Not a right wing propaganda fantasy land where donnie fat ass is still president.

[JHB]

4. It's their new favorite chew toy, just was "polical correctness" became about 25 years ago

They love the feel of it in their mouth as they gnaw on it.

[brush]

5. When slang gets adopted by the mainstream it's time to abandon it.

Now's the time.

[Shermann]

6. It's used in a cynical way by right-wing pseudo-intellectuals

Fox's brand of pseudo-intellectualism apparently creates the illusion by continually coining new (or hijacking old) terms and phrases.

I saw a Fox interview with Bill Barr, and as a non-Fox viewer I could barely follow what he was talking about.

[Jerry2144]

7. Just like

They are making it an insult just like they tried to make Liberal. IT's only the stupid who think that woke or liberal is an insult or anything bad. Too bad there are about 75 million stupid people in this country...

[keithbvadu2]

8. The RW has their own version of 'woke'.

The RW has their own version of 'woke'.

They now realize the importance of voter suppression with terms like 'voter integrity'.