WOKE:
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Trump happens to be right....again...Woke has certain meaning in the right wing circles and an entirely different meaning in left win circles.
Black Liberal: The government thinks they can hand me a check and all is forgiven but I’m woke, that won’t fly.
Conservative; I was watching a Netflix show and there was a black character, an Asian and gay character. I’m tired of woke Hollyweird.
Some people see it positively and other negatively so when you attack “woke” you can’t be sure how anyone takes it...it’ll be based on their perspective, culture etc.
Desanctimonius defined it as Cultural Marxism. I’m am very confident that you won’t have a 90% number agreeing with that definition at all.
“Where have we seen this before?”
Well, any time an incumbent President is running... which essentially is the situation with Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIF2rdXnpMo
He also used it here. He didn’t say he never uses it or didn’t use it he said he didn’t like the term because lots of people don’t really know what it means which is right. (See above post). People complain that Trump doesn’t learn but here he is trying to find a better way to communicate the point. Maybe he’s doing because he hears it differently coming from Desanctimonius...in this case, good.
Woke is used to describe those people who believe they are superior to those who do not agree with them.
Trump is allowed to be in favor of all those things, and his supporters should learn to support those things.
If we stop using the term “woke” most opposition will evaporate.
I don’t think so. By that measure, Rich Lowry and most National Review writers are “woke.”
Wait, so do you believe that Democrats are claiming things that are racist aren't racist, so you believe the right is claiming things that aren't woke, are woke?
Andrew Cuomo.
I don’t believe Lowry has it right. The word woke was not “taken over by conservatives,” it was becoming used by the left to describe themselves, and as such, being “woke” was considered a virtue. Still is.
Poor Bill must be spinning in his grave at the leftist muck-raking rag that NR has turned into over the past 20 years...
WOKE:
Its their term. Why would we use it, too.
We should call em what they are - communists & totalitarians.
Poor Bill my smelly Obama. Buckley was always a liberaltarian and the current Nat Rev is just a natural result of his thought processes.
Woke literally means you “woke up” to the “fact” that you are an oppressor merely because you are either white, a male or are straight. And because you are an oppressor you have to be more than happy to do whatever the oppressed tell you to do because your ancestors oppressed their ancestors. That includes holding back your children in favor of their children which a good woke person would gladly do.
Yeah it’s complete bullschit, but that what it means
Trump supports woke, just doesn’t want the label.
I’m woke every single morning...by an alarm clock.
To bad I clicked on this before I realized it’s from The National Review!
As far as their crap goes I am gone.
BYE, BYE NOW!
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