"Wokeness" and "Cancel Culture" are

[Cyrano]

two made-up Republican memes that are total bullshit. My guess is that even many Republicans don't agree with each other on their meanings.

To me, they are conversation enders. Anytime some idiot says one of them to me, or some pundit utters them, I'm gone.

[Ferrets are Cool]

1. Jesus was woke.

[Oneironaut]

13. Especially when he rose from the dead 😋

[yankee87]

2. After these, what word next?

Qpublicans are good at working off the same message, that even though it’s made up, the base gets triggered by it. After these get played out, new outrage will come.

[Cyrano]

3. Yep. They are masters of the meaningless. But

if you ask them what their agenda is, you get only a blank stare.

[nycbos]

4. To me there are two kinds of "woke"

Good "woke" one acknowledging the current injustices that exist in our society, and confronting the fact that they are partly due to the fact we haven't dealt with past injustices. And more importantly Wyoming to be part of the effort to try and find solutions to the problems to make our society better.


I'll let Jonathan Pie talk about the bad kind of woke

I'll wager the 10 bucks in my wallet that 99% of people of Mexican origin aren't offended by a Mexican restaurant in the UK handing out fake sombreros to college students as a means of promoting their restaurant.

[betsuni]

5. No they aren't. They appropriate words and give them different meanings.

Just like politically correct, social justice warriors. For years, young women thought feminism meant hating men or trying to be like men -- "I'm not a feminist but ... ."

[czarjak]

6. To be fair, they did change the meaning and definition of deplorable. Right?

[liberalmuse]

7. Manners and calling out bad behavior.

There was too brief a time when racists had to hide their racism and misogyny or face being publicly called out for their abominable behavior (cancel culture). Being woke is simply acknowledging that people different from yourself deserve to be treated as fellow human beings and deserve to have the same basic human rights (people of color, gays, different genders, etc.). I believe in the basic tenets of wokeness and cancel culture, no matter how the right tries to frame these things or ridicule them. They used to demonize "political correctness" which is also another phrase for manners, respect and civility. They've also demonized compassion and basic human kindness over the years as things that make one weak. They will always try and bastardize a good thing, twisting meanings and flipping words in attempts to justify their crass, lowest common denominator human behavior.

[Cyrano]

10. Yep. I think you've nailed their modus operendi

[central scrutinizer]

8. "Political correctness" used to be their pejorative

Along with knee-jerk or bleeding heart liberal.

[mwooldri]

9. My reply to "woke" is generally along the lines of ...

... "who's asleep?"

[Scrivener7]

11. Also Antifa. Made up so that white supremacists would have someone to fight with.

[usonian]

12. They are a cult and these are code words.

Don't overthink it.

[StormKing]

14. It's like "Global Warming"

Republicans grab the phrases that their chosen enemies use and use those phrases to scare their base.

It's a formula.

[Initech]

15. Same with the Critical Race Theory bullshit - all crap made up for Fox News ratings.