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This weekly thread will focus on the word “Woke” and its meaning, use, and misuse.
Some Starters (and don’t feel you have to speak on all or any of them if you don’t care to):
- What does the word mean to you?
- Is it applied correctly or incorrectly?
- Is it even applicable any longer?
- Do you feel that Conservative media misapplies it, and is “everything I don’t like is woke” an appropriate sentiment or simply uncharitable?
Currently “woke” is a pejorative chiefly used by the political right to smear any opinion they disagree with. It has replaced “commie” or “pinko” or other such terms in the modern age. It is, in effect, the right wing equivalent of the left calling any opinion they disagree with “fascist”.
It had other meanings in the past, but currently it is just duckspeak (as per Orwell) used to indicate disagreement and tribal affiliation.