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In reply to the discussion: Can someone please explain to me what the right wing meme "woke" means? [View all]BarackTheVote
(938 posts)as a call to wake up to the unique difficulties facing the Black community in America, the racism and prejudice that are baked into our system as a way to support white privileged at the expense of Black communities, holding them down as a perpetual under-class.
The Right Wing latched into it because theyre racists, they know they benefit from white privilege, they fear Black people entering their spaces, their industries, their workforce, their families. Woke is also an example of African American Vernacular English, which the Right and racists demean and make fun of constantly because they think it sounds uneducatedwhen its really just the evolution of language in a segregated community.
CRT, Cultural Race Theory, is an advanced legal theory that has a similar motivation to becoming wokeexamining our laws, testing them for baked-in racial prejudice, and challenging the laws that are inherently racist in order to create a more equitable society. Obviously, the Right hates CRT for the same reason they hate woke, because even they know its not cool to be racist, so they dont like being called out as racist, they dont like being confronted by the fact that a system that supports whiteness and represses Blackness, and not just their own merits, have helped them get what they have.
To be Woke is an aspirational goal. CRT is a just and vital way to examine our laws and society. One of our greatest failures is how we have allowed the Right to sieze and poison our terms and language. Its like New Speak: the goal of New Speak is to reduce the language down as much as possible to eliminate thoughts that are contrary to the status quoand that is EXACTLY what the Right has been doing for decades
poisoning Liberal, Progressive, Political Correctness, Social Justice, Woke, CRT. And yet, we continue to let them take the language from us, and usually without a fight.
Stay Woke and fight back against this before we dont have the language to fight back against them at all!