• Hairyblue@kbin.social
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    When Republicans talk about woke, they mean the LGBTQ community and other minorities. That is why they are anti woke. They are anti LGBTQ. It is a word bigots use to hide behind. “Woke, you know what we mean” wink

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      Oh no, it’s much more than that. Remember when DeSantis told a judge that he defined “woke” as anything that acknowledged the existence of systemic racism?

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        Right, it doesn’t even stop at LGBTQIA+ anymore. Anything short of the perfect bigot can be put under a microscope and declared a “sympathizer” to the “woke agenda.” Heck, cis people that aren’t conforming to their gender well enough are acceptable casualties, as we saw in the Philadelphia deli case a few days ago.

        Something fascism, something McCarthyism.

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        Woke was specifically a term used by black activists that was, as always, co-opted by racists and turned against them with the help of “centrists.”

        And now even the well meaning white nerds are ignoring that it has always been about issues of systemic racism in America.

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      Exactly. They’re scared to use the meaning and use woke instead. Scared frogs.