Posted on 11/14/2022 8:53:11 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The definition of “woke” changes depending on who you ask.
The term has been used by some conservatives as an insult against progressive values, as seen this midterm election cycle.
However, the term was originally coined by progressive Black Americans and was used in racial justice movements in the early to mid-1900s, being used in a historical recording of the protest song, “Scottsboro Boys” by Lead Belly. In that recording, it was used as a term about staying aware of the potential for racist violence as a Black person in America.
The term, in one of its contemporary meanings, began to gain more recent popularity with the general population at the start of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2014, according to Merriam-Webster Dictionary.
To be “woke” politically in the Black community means that someone is informed, educated and conscious of social injustice and racial inequality, Merriam-Webster Dictionary states.
The term has since been co-opted by some Republicans as a pejorative term this midterm election cycle to signify the identity-based social justice issues that some Democrats and progressives push for, representatives from the Democratic Governors Association and Working Families Party tell ABC News.
Maurice Mitchell, the national director of the Working Families Party and the Social Movement Strategist with Movement 4 Black Lives, calls conservative use of “woke” a “dog-whistle.
“Because ‘woke’ is associated with Black people, it’s been a useful club for those who want to beat those seeking justice over the head with white grievance politics to win elections without deploying explicitly racist terms," Mitchell said.
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I’d be richer than Musk if I had a dollar for every time the Dims accused conservatives of dog whistling.
Anyone who does not know what woke means...is woke!
The left hates being revealed for what it truly is, and seeks to hide behind phony “definitions” which it creates for itself.
left says woke ... right says red pilled ... means the same to the person saying it ...
We need a label for our enemy and Woke is perfectly fine.
What the Left is trying to do is deprive us of a good descriptor because they know that if we can define them, we are one step closer to defeating them.
And defeat them we must!
There is a long history to the term bit near as I can figure “woke” started as a self identifying term for those who claimed they understood how life really, REALLY worked. It was how, in particular, race grievance people described themselves, they were “woke” while others who didn’t endlessly parrot their BS ... weren’t.
As with everything else, the faggots took over the term and made it all about themselves.
Think about that one South Park episode where Chef described to Mr Garrison and Mr Slave how black people dealt with others adopting the slang.
Woke is American Bolshevism. White Americans are the new White Russians.
Woke is Wakanda Forever...Black chick empowerment, the single WORST Democgrphic pox on this country...Black Women.
Woke World is a massive and very dangerous cult.
doesn’t “woke” imply having been asleep about something? see if you can ever get a “wokie” to admit that!
“Woke” means sensitive and sympathetic to causes spun out there by Marx, Darwin and Freud. Oppression Theory, soul-lessness and no-fault perversion are the leading categories. And all of it is “the science”, falsely so-called.
“woke” means ‘stupid enough to fall for the promotion of every human weakness into a virtue’
The left is nothing but a bunch of evil, woke, groomers.
ABC playing it ultra stupid.
Along with “woke” comes a huge steaming helping of gaslighting, denying that it is a purely sociopathic, nihilist psyop.
Let me understand this… To find out what “woke” means to conservatives using the term, they asked “the Democratic Governors Association and Working Families Party?”
the meaning is as fluid as their “gender”, so it prolly changes daily...
ABC is stupid and knows full well what it means.
Woke is synonymous with being conditioned (institutionally indoctrinated) to let others, bully professors and coaches for example, do your thinking for you, particularly when you are following the money.
For example, Joe Biden is woke.
Woke Joe Biden is a unit of the Borg Collective as seen in the TV Borg Cube for example. /semi-sarc
Note that the 13th Amendment does not expressly prohibit woke voluntary slavery.
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