Why aren't anti-vaxxers considered "woke?"

[Renew Deal]

It’s based on a similar premise. Why can’t we call Hegseth, Trump, and RFK Jr “woke anti-vaxxers?”

[marble falls]

1. I like it! They hate having turnabouts.

[hlthe2b]

6. I get the reflexive reaction, but please see my post downstream. This is a terrible suggestion.

[marble falls]

8. They can't steal words from us and getaway with it. Use the words on them and they'll drop those words ...

... like hot potatoes. We dragging our words back.

[hlthe2b]

9. This is too serious a matter to play word games with. No. I'm out. Determinedly!

A bit like a minority of so-called Feminist women wanting to reclaim the "C" word, because the Brits don't consider it a slur. Well, as one who suffered under the free use of that slur by men in a decidedly male-dominated workplace, I can assure you any attempts to "reclaim" backfired big time! And, I bear the emotional and career-damaging scars to prove it.

[Blues Heron]

2. Because woke means aware and anti vaxxers are anything but. It's a synonym for "awake"

[Renew Deal]

3. Anti-vaxxers would claim to be awake.

[Blues Heron]

4. It means awake to reality, not made up right wing shit

[hlthe2b]

5. NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! "Woke implies ENLIGHTENED" (whether you like the educated or not)...

To imply the IGNORANT are ENLIGHTENED or WOKE or whatever you want to say (besides DANGEROUSLY & WANTON IGNORANT) is to buy into their premise.

Vaccination decisions do not simply impact the individual. People HAVE to wake up to the fact that the most important reason we push vaccination is to limit the risk for US ALL! Many cannot be vaccinated because they are too young to do so, too immune-compromised, or similar. So they can only be protected by all of us being vaccinated to reduce the risk sufficiently that they do not have to remain in a damned bubble. Remember the bubble boy? That was real.

Hell no, these RW MAGAT anti-vaxxers are NOT "WOKE." Anything but-- unless you believe the RW frame of "woke" used against the BEST OF US is somehow appropriate.

[RockRaven]

7. Because it is an entirely squishy definition, and woke is whatever they need/want in any given moment.

One rule of thumb, however, is that woke is whatever their "freedumb" agenda is not and vice versa. So they cannot be woke antivaxxers because they are already freedumb antivaxxers.

[Johonny]

10. I prefer the term asshole...