Don't Worry, Democrats. Be Woke.

[Nevilledog]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-word-democrats-should-reclaim-after-it-was-hijacked-by-the-gop

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https://archive.ph/fEs5t

Democrats should reclaim a word that has been hijacked by the GOP as a modern-day dog whistle against racial progress, equality, and basic human decency.
That word is “woke.”

Originally used by Black and POC activists to promote awareness of persistent racial and social injustice, the modern GOP has successfully (and disingenuously) mangled its meaning, and created a new bogeyman to fuel white rage, fear, and endless victimhood.

This supposedly nefarious afreet—”wokeness”—has worn many names over the years. It has haunted suburbs as “super-predators,” allegedly drained the government’s coffers as “welfare queens,” terrorized the border as a “caravan” of invaders, and has threatened to remake America into a radical Islamist theocracy with the help of “creeping sharia.”

The word “woke” has, thus, become hideously disfigured and stripped of its true spirit, and is now weaponized by the right wing as a slur against Democrats and liberals who are actively trying to create a more just, fair, and equitable America.

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[FoxNewsSucks]

1. Just like they made "liberal" a dirty word

[Aristus]

2. It's precisely on-brand for people who speak (and spell) a mangled, nearly incomprehensible form of

English to mangle and make incomprehensible a fairly simple word describing a straightforward concept.

[underpants]

3. I think "woke" isn't as effective as thought.

Who’s THE target audience in politics, specifically voting?

Suburban moms. That’s who all the phone calls go to. If they have kids in high school or at lower grades they are aware of woke on their own or from what the kids bring home.

Woke is the kids in the minivan. Like OBAMACARE they went with what they thought was a winner and of course it’s not

[Wounded Bear]

4. And the sad part is that if you ask a RWer what "woke" means, they have no idea...

they tend to slip into gibberish mode with a hummina, hummina, hummina jive.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

5. Ask if they long for the good old days of, "Wake up, sheeple!"

[Phoenix61]

6. Better woke than asleep at the wheel. nt