On Being "Woke"

[Deep State Witch]

I saw Anthony Rapp and Wilson Cruz from "Star Trek: Discovery" over the weekend at AwesomeCon. Someone asked them about the whole controversy about Star Trek being too "woke". Here's what Wilson had to say.

I want to say I’m so tired of this negative connotation for the word ‘woke’. You want to stay asleep? You want to close your eyes, and you know [and] have a nice slumber that allows you to imagine a world where everyone is the same, and you know, everyone loves the same way and identifies the same way? That is boring s–t! And it’s not real.

So you are asleep, and I prefer to be wide awake. I prefer to see people for exactly who they are and appreciate them. And maybe I don’t understand, or maybe I don’t identify exactly with your experience, but I respect you as a human being for having it. And all I require from you is that you give me that same respect in return. And if that’s being ‘woke,’ then I’m woke.

[Ohio Joe]

1. Very well said

[The Unmitigated Gall]

2. Pukes have a word for everything right and good...

To make it look bad. It’s what they do.

Fuck ‘em.

[inthewind21]

4. Their "marketing" need some work

A very lot. Teabagging Teabaggers. Sponsored by Dick Army! LMAO I'm never going to stop shaking my head at that one.

[Skittles]

19. yes

they have demonized feminism, being anti-fascist and now being enlightened - they want everyone as ignorant and bigoted at them

[ificandream]

3. Love it. Hit the R'Pughs with that.

[Martin Eden]

5. "Woke" is so much better than the alternative.

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The ignorati have long used "liberal" as a pejorative, and now they're attacking "woke" the same way.

We should never be defensive or back down to those deplorable bigots. Wear it proudly and righteously throw their ignorance back in their faces!

[mjvpi]

11. Bingo. I'll gladly be accused of having an open mind and an open heart. What could be better?

[Martin Eden]

14. Helping to build a better society

Which exemplifies open minds and open hearts.

[mjvpi]

15. You're correct. Socialist should have made the list.

I’ll accept being called a Democratic Socialist, although I’m a life long registered Democrat. I believe that is what FDR and Kennedy/Johnson were doing. But I’m an old, life long Democrat. My idealism is still intact. I think that interdependence can be synergetic. Screw Ayn Rand.

[BumRushDaShow]

6. In my household growing up

one of the exhortations that my mom would say all the time was "Don't let them define you". And she meant it too... She would quickly say "Don't define me" to anyone who tried to pull out some bullshit about her.

That's my advice to Democrats. Don't EVER let someone else "define you" and what you stand for or believe.

[world wide wally]

7. Then go back to sleep, pukes

[ancianita]

8. "Woke" is a Black idiom appropriated by white supremacists and anti-Democratic corporate forces.

It's their cover for their racist politics. Here's more on "woke."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke

[AllaN01Bear]

9. will someone tell me please in a form of a scentance what this means ? thanks

[Handler]

10. I much prefer to be woke

I see it as paying attention to what’s going on around me and others.

[11 Bravo]

12. The same cretinous cousin-humpers who think "Sleepy Joe" is a devastatingly clever putdown ...

also seem to think that "woke" is equally pejorative.

Dumb asses - each and every one of them.

[Dirty Socialist]

13. GOP IN A COMA

I think it’s serious

[gulliver]

16. The Dem Party should be adamantly and vocally against "wokeness" as a pose.

I think that the vast majority of Dems find it extremely annoying and an immoral drain on our credibility. It's priggish and vain at best. It's just not something people tend to notice about themselves, so they do it with what they think are good intentions. It's a shame, but it's just no good as a position and even less good as a pose.

People can, of course, say what they want about themselves, claim to be whatever they want to claim, claim enlightenment and agree to agree with themselves that's what they've achieved. Those folks just should be kept away from the Dem mic when what they say bungles for us all. The Dem mic should be used to say, "The non-team-playing, self-elected, ineloquent, off-putting 'activists' speak only for themselves."

[MustLoveBeagles]

17. K&R

[Behind the Aegis]

18. "Woke" is a complicated term.

The original meaning, I fully am behind it. The white appropriation of it, not so much. It is used much more as a "purity" test. The RW version...why should we really fucking care how they use it or misuse it? Inclusivity is not synonymous with "woke" and those who use it that way are looking at the idea in the wrong way. That said, there are those on our side who use it, as I said earlier, as a purity test or to jam their verion (or the latest version) of "wokeness" down the throats of people, usually on our side. "Star Trek: Discovery" is very good at inclusivity and bringing in topics of that nature without it being at an "after school special" level of finger-wagging.

Any good idea or concept can be perverted, misused, or distorted. Sometimes, it can be difficult to see or admit when a good idea is being corrupted, but it happens. Political correctness is another idea, if executed well, is useful to liberalism and progress, but if it is not, then it is a shitshow.

[TigressDem]

20. Repukes only say "WOKE" cause the meaning of Enlightend is beyond them.

And Educated.
And Empathetic.
And Compassionate.
And most words containing more than 5 letters.

[Samrob]

21. Woke Aware, Alert, Informed. Traits that brainless cult members do not have.

They hate us for our "wokeness"