Surely the problem with “woke” is that right-wing media grabbed it as a boogeyman and plastered it everywhere, right? I mean, what does it even mean to say “[woke] tried to solve … issues”. It’s a word. It doesn’t have any agency.
The only definition I’ve ever heard (because right-wingers don’t attempt to define it) is “awareness of systemic discrimination (particularly by the USA towards black americans)”. If a handful of people talking about how the USA has some bad history and what that means for the country today… The same people getting their feelings hurt over “woke” are just going to get them hurt over some other word that they make up. Like if nobody had ever heard of “woke” they’d be crying about “diversity” (oh wait they are) or “justice” or “peace” or literally anything because words don’t have meaning to that crowd beyond something to get offended over.
Surely the problem with “woke” is that right-wing media grabbed it as a boogeyman and plastered it everywhere, right? I mean, what does it even mean to say “[woke] tried to solve … issues”. It’s a word. It doesn’t have any agency.
The only definition I’ve ever heard (because right-wingers don’t attempt to define it) is “awareness of systemic discrimination (particularly by the USA towards black americans)”. If a handful of people talking about how the USA has some bad history and what that means for the country today… The same people getting their feelings hurt over “woke” are just going to get them hurt over some other word that they make up. Like if nobody had ever heard of “woke” they’d be crying about “diversity” (oh wait they are) or “justice” or “peace” or literally anything because words don’t have meaning to that crowd beyond something to get offended over.