Originally: well-informed, up-to-date. Now chiefly: alert to racial or social discrimination and injustice;
Then I tried to look up the definition for “progressive” in the OED
In any case, Google gave me:
(of a group, person, or idea) favoring or implementing social reform or new, liberal ideas
Followed by the antonym, regressive
becoming less advanced; returning to a former or less developed state
So, to make sure we’re all on the same page here, “anti-woke” means returning to a less developed state. And while that should be obvious to those who realize the right wants female homemakers, policies to end any LGBTQ+ rights, and a country with defined classism and racism, to many it’s just a tribalist sign post everyone supporting them wants to write their name on.
Yes. But Repubs don’t think about what they are reading or writing. The propaganda gets them to attach that word with any other concept of the brainwashers’ choice.
If you do a word association game with Repubs and toss out “woke” they will immediately say “mob.” Some of them cannot even write or say “woke” alone without adding “mob,” it is so ingrained.
You (correctly) imagine “woke” to be regarding awareness about discrimination and (likely) working to stop injustice. Repubs imagine “woke mob BLM Antifa invaders razing cities.” Well, “raze,” is probably above their reading comprehension level, but you get the idea.
“Anti-woke”
Oxford English Dictionary for woke:
Then I tried to look up the definition for “progressive” in the OED
In any case, Google gave me:
Followed by the antonym, regressive
So, to make sure we’re all on the same page here, “anti-woke” means returning to a less developed state. And while that should be obvious to those who realize the right wants female homemakers, policies to end any LGBTQ+ rights, and a country with defined classism and racism, to many it’s just a tribalist sign post everyone supporting them wants to write their name on.
Yes. But Repubs don’t think about what they are reading or writing. The propaganda gets them to attach that word with any other concept of the brainwashers’ choice.
If you do a word association game with Repubs and toss out “woke” they will immediately say “mob.” Some of them cannot even write or say “woke” alone without adding “mob,” it is so ingrained.
You (correctly) imagine “woke” to be regarding awareness about discrimination and (likely) working to stop injustice. Repubs imagine “woke mob BLM Antifa invaders razing cities.” Well, “raze,” is probably above their reading comprehension level, but you get the idea.