Calling for Biden to admit to being "Woke" is a GOP strategy to build

[applegrove]

a broad brush slur on liberals. Biden should say he is a liberal. That has already solid meaning. The GOP, and the likes of DeSantis, have not finished shoving uncomfortable things into the "Woke" basket. It is not settled. I was called Woke a year ago and I liked it. But this word has now taken on Swift Boat Veterans for Truth arc. Not true that 7 year old children of Woke parents get taught Critical Race Theory or the ins and outs of lgbtq intimacy but it is in the Woke basket anyhow. Lies. And a successful label, like SBVT was. It sunk Kerry.

[jpak]

1. Proving once again that repugs are clueless morans

Signed woke and proud

[applegrove]

3. I flushed out my thinking on it. Here it is again.

Calling for Biden to admit to being "Woke" is a GOP strategy to build a broad brush slur on liberals. Biden should say he is a liberal. That has already solid meaning. The GOP, and the likes of DeSantis, have not finished shoving uncomfortable things into the "Woke" basket. It is not settled. I was called Woke a year ago and I liked it. But this word has now taken on Swift Boat Veterans for Truth arc. Not true that 7 year old children of Woke parents get taught Critical Race Theory or the ins and outs of lgbtq intimacy but it is in the Woke basket anyhow. Lies. And a successful label like SBVT was. It sunk Kerry.

[Mister Ed]

2. I hadn't heard of this, but...

Biden is far too canny to play their little games. Betcha he turns it to their disadvantage.

[Lovie777]

4. Again, what is woke?.......

some imaginary made up bullshit.

[Srkdqltr]

6. Pretty much. If you are not woke you are? Sleep?

[2naSalit]

12. Kind of puts a twist on...

All those cries of "Sleepy Joe!"

But they can't define anything, not even their repurposed words.

[CrispyQ]

15. LOL!

He should call them on that! I'm either Sleepy Joe or woke, I can't be both. They are nothing but reactionary morons. They don't think anything through.

[eShirl]

5. he's smart and competent, too... and honest, and... I could keep going on...

[Buns_of_Fire]

7. My standard response is "Define your terms."

So far, in the two times it's happened, the person couldn't (or was afraid to).

It's a Frank Luntz-type messaging trick, trying to make an otherwise innocuous word into something negative. And it'll work with the drooling brain-dead bubbas of their base.

[applegrove]

8. Good one.

[2naSalit]

11. +1

[Samrob]

9. Biden should say, "I'm beyond "woke." I am AWAKE. Awake to all the lies, insurrections, and

conspiracies, greed, corruption and hatefulness of the MAGA-GQP, and anti-democracy forces around me and across the globe. And I am going to fight FOR America against them until I no longer have breath,""

[2naSalit]

10. +1

[kysrsoze]

13. Simple response... "I care about people other than myself. That's not 'woke,' that's decency."

[bigtree]

14. there's nothing wrong with being 'woke'

...the opposition to it is a deliberate slur against black people.

Opposing the term is a main feature of book banners and racist demagogues.

Pres. Biden should not, and would not, run from support for this progressive defense of history and awareness.

[Xoan]

16. Tell your black friends that woke is a slur.

[applegrove]

17. It wasn't. But the extremists in the GOP are trying to make it into one.