The far right is constantly warning that if you go woke, you’ll go broke. But when it comes to the new Barbie movie, they couldn’t be more wrong.
Barbie, which follows Barbie (Margot Robbie) and Ken (Ryan Gosling) as they leave Barbie Land to explore the real world, earned a whopping $162 million in its opening weekend, Variety reported Monday. This is the biggest opening weekend of the year, and the biggest opening weekend for a female director ever.
The film had already made $22.3 million at the domestic box office from Thursday previews, the biggest preview haul of the summer. It blew the previous record of $17.5 million (made by Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 in May) out of the water.
Originally the term meant in the black community to be awake and watch out for racist cops and officials.
The right didn’t like that of course and appropriated that word, redefining it as positive discrimination of non-white and women so all something that should be stopped and went from there to mean anything vaguely leftists or non-conservative values.
So it doesn’t have one fixed value. By now it’s just a political term that makes people angry but nobody really knows why.