Posted on 06/06/2023 12:54:09 PM PDT by thegagline
Donald Trump hasn’t been known for his scrupulously correct use of language, but he now wants to police the use of “woke.”
“I don’t like the term ‘woke’ because I hear, ‘woke, woke, woke,’” he said the other day. “It’s just a term they use, half the people can’t even define it, they don’t know what it is.”
Of course, Trump wasn’t randomly volunteering his equivalent of an elementary rule of usage from Strunk & White. His newfound disdain for the term “woke” has everything to do with his contest with Ron DeSantis for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination. *** Trump recently talked up the disgraced former governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, by arguing that the Empire State’s response to the coronavirus was better than Florida’s. Cuomo expressed his appreciation. Now Trump is embracing the Left’s contention that conservatives are throwing around the term “woke” as a catchall insult without knowing what it means.
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As it happens, it was invented long ago, and not by the Right. The term dates to the first half of the 20th century when it was used by African Americans to describe how they should be aware of threats from white people — “Stay woke.” ***
Then, as often occurs in American political and social life, it got repurposed. Conservatives took the word over and began applying it to cultural radicalism largely involving issues of race and gender.
*** In the absence of a better word, “woke” is unavoidable — so unavoidable, in fact, that Trump used it to describe the military on the same day he knocked it as nebulous and overused.
He knows what the word means, and so does everyone else.
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100% fealty or risk being cancelled. Where have we seen this before?
‘Woke’ has become the right’s ‘racist’.
It’s all about how Trump has decided to attack DeSantis from the left, using leftist talking points.
Poor Trump.
Anytime DeSantis scores a major victory against Disney, abortion, wokeism, Bud Light, etc. Trump hast to come out in favor of such things just so he can be in opposition to DeSantis’s policies.
Woke was being used by the self-described “woke” to signal certain deranged “virtues” and demonize non-radicalized Americans they believed didn’t and couldn’t share their values.
Rich Lowry.
He’s still alive?
who knew?
No one trusts Rich Lowry. He’s been against Trump since 2015, except when he put out a book on nationalism during the Trump Presidency to make money.
An issue. Admittedly.
How so? The neo marxism behind woke intersectionality (oppressor vs oppressed) is a real thing.
What do you know? Trump is more “thoughtful” than thoughtful republicans such as Rich Lowry. Who would of “thunk” it?
Trump isn’t a leftist, he’s a Trumpist. He will say and do anything that he thinks will get him a political advantage. Thanks to Trump we all still suffer from the ethanol in our gasoline.
I don’t mind the term but it’s a bit too over used , I’d rather people say HOW something is “woke” like if it’s anti-White or Anti-Christian (for example)
Then call it what it is - neo-marxism.
Wow, I didn’t realize “woke” was ebonics basically... ya learn something new every day!
Stalinism is the more correct word.
I hate using stupid slang terms in conversations like that. It’s better to come up with a more appropriate, effective term to use — like “promoting perversion” or “environmental stupidity.”
You beat me to it. See Post #18.
I agree. The term “woke” helps conceal the true intentions of these people.
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