“woke”, used in a US political context (and not as the past tense of “wake”, as from sleep), doesn’t have any meaning in the first place. It’s made-up propaganda noise invented by the far-right. I refuse to parse any sentence containing the word, from the media, because that sentence is guaranteed to contain right-wing propaganda, if only obliquely. I certainly won’t utilize the word in any political way myself - that would mean that I accept as legitimate the propaganda machinations of the right-wing. And they are pure festering slime, so no.
Woke originated in black communities and has held a few meanings over the years. In a political sense, it just refers to having an awareness of social issues.
I will agree with you though that it is meaningless today. The conservative propaganda machine thoroughly destroyed it by conflating it with any and all culture war garbage.
I love interpreting they’re comments with the original definition because it’s so true. “Anti-woke” means they hate the idea of being aware of how the world works.
“woke”, used in a US political context (and not as the past tense of “wake”, as from sleep), doesn’t have any meaning in the first place. It’s made-up propaganda noise invented by the far-right. I refuse to parse any sentence containing the word, from the media, because that sentence is guaranteed to contain right-wing propaganda, if only obliquely. I certainly won’t utilize the word in any political way myself - that would mean that I accept as legitimate the propaganda machinations of the right-wing. And they are pure festering slime, so no.
Woke originated in black communities and has held a few meanings over the years. In a political sense, it just refers to having an awareness of social issues.
I will agree with you though that it is meaningless today. The conservative propaganda machine thoroughly destroyed it by conflating it with any and all culture war garbage.
I love interpreting they’re comments with the original definition because it’s so true. “Anti-woke” means they hate the idea of being aware of how the world works.
childish gambino in his song “redbone” has a line in it that says “stay woke!”
I once saw a blog post comment accusing the author of being woke, and then later in the rant he said the author needed to wake up