200+ things that Fox News has labeled "woke"
Media Matters.org
For the past three years, Fox News has been obsessed with wokeness. Since the aftermath of George Floyds murder by police in May 2020, Fox News personalities and guests have applied the label woke to a staggeringly wide array of topics. Few entities have escaped the network's demonization, from the military to M&Ms, New York prep schools to NASCAR, social media to mall Santas.
The progression of woke from its origins in the Black community to its eventual status as a conservative dog whistle has been well-documented, yet right-wing media including Fox News cant seem to settle on a definition. However, the lack of a clear definition hasnt stopped Fox from indiscriminately throwing woke at hundreds of things.
The problem is a two-way street: Fox personalities struggle to define woke because they have attributed the term to nearly everything under the sun, stripping it of any meaningful definition and surrendering it to right-wing dog whistles. In doing so, Fox News has solidified the words status as a derisive catch-all for anything involving marginalized groups or progressive policies, arguably increasing its effectiveness as a means of inspiring outrage among its audience.
Read more: https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/200-things-fox-news-has-labeled-woke
Woke listing PDF link: https://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/D8File/2023/06/08/200-things-that-fox-news-has-labeled-_woke_fnl.pdf
GreenWave
(6,754 posts)scarletlib
(3,411 posts)Defunding the police is woke but so are the police. Communist China is woke. All the major sports teams are woke and on and on.
Its stupid.