Don't let the evil right demonize being woke

[RAB910]

[lapfog_1]

1. boebert would not understand this reply

she doesn't know the meaning of antonym.

[peppertree]

6. Or 'awareness' or 'culture', or 'maturity'

The whole reply would stump her.

But then, fascist mega-donors would stuff her little mouth full of money - and make it alright again.

[Maine Abu El Banat]

19. To be fair

She probably would have been stumped with opposite.

[TigressDem]

31. Which is EXACTLY the point.

Assault Weapon Barbie only knows what she wants to know.

[DBoon]

2. They believe "Ignorance is Strength"

[Baitball Blogger]

3. "Antonym" is too big a word for her.

You should have said that Woke is the opposite of ignorance.

[republianmushroom]

4. like

[Blue Owl]

5. Bimbobert is all joke no woke

[TigressDem]

32. +10,000 nt

[markodochartaigh]

7. I think that being woke

requires empathy more than anything else.

[NullTuples]

8. She's right, she will never be woke. It's Fundamentally not possible for her.

Woke was a term coined by Black Americans. An oversimplification would be, "don't get complacent or think you are safe just because you think you have it good right now".

“Woke is definitely a black experience —woke is if someone put a burlap sack on your head, knocked you out, and put you in a new location and then you come to and understand where you are ain’t home and the people around you ain’t your neighbors. They’re not acting in a neighborly fashion, they’re the ones who conked you on your head. You got kidnapped here and then you got punked out of your own language, everything. That’s woke— understanding what your ancestors went through. Just being in touch with the struggle that our people have gone through here and understanding we’ve been fighting since the very day we touched down here. There was no year where the fight wasn’t going down." - Georgia Anne Muldrow

https://griotmag.com/en/stay-woke-is-the-new-watchword-heres-why/

[mwooldri]

9. I try to keep it simple.

If you ain't woke you must be asleep. And I prefer my elected representatives to be awake.

[IronLionZion]

10. She can stay asleep

[OMGWTF]

11. My RWNJ bro-in-law said he wanted to get a part-time job at the local library but decided not to

because he'd have to work with "woke" people. I asked him what he meant by 'woke', and he said, "You know, transvestites, queers, and things like that." I was stunned into silence by his ignorant and hateful comment and was trying to restrain myself from throwing my clam chowder at him. In retrospect, I regret not saying that he was wrong and that it's been scientifically proven that homophobes are likely to be closeted, self-loathing homosexuals themselves. It would have been priceless to see his expression as he's essentially being called a queer.

This is a broke 70-year-old guy in poor health who lives alone in an old trailer with SS as his only income, and who has never been on a date with anyone or anything and has no friends. Fk him. I don't have to be nice to assholes. No wonder he has no friends.

[keithbvadu2]

20. His friends are Fox and friends.

[calimary]

23. Please NEVER let their aggressive hostility stun you into silence!

That’s what they WANT! You, rendered unable to rebut them and challenge their complacent refusal to be fully informed. Heaven forbid a third person was within listening distance and heard no response or counterpoint or rebuttal or fact-checking!

That’s how people get steered toward what I’d describe as wrongthink. They don’t hear any counter argument or pushback. And therefore, they wind up concluding there IS no opposing position or ACTUAL facts. “Well, nobody said anything… must be true then.”

DO NOT give the enemy an unearned run! The facts you contribute is the clarity and truth they’d otherwise miss out on. And it helps protect against the damaging spread of misinformation.

[LiberalLovinLug]

12. Why are we afraid to own the word?

It took literally decades for a lot of Democrats to embrace the term "liberal" after the word was totally demonized by the right. I have watched as the word has been rehabilittated to a large degree. Even though I understand some more conservative Democrats still do not wish to embrace that label.

And that de-fanging started with the first brave souls not afraid to call themselves liberals and be proud of it. Why shouldn't we be. The Latin root being "liber" meaning FREE. Free choice, free healthcare, free public education, free and fair democratic elections, etc..

I don't know what took us so long.

Now perhaps we didn't even invent the term "woke". Or it was some obscure abbreviation someone made that was immediately latched on by the propagandists of the right to be used as a slur. Much like "open borders", or "defund the police".

But fighting against the term is what Republicans WANT. Why not embrace the term. Throw it back in their faces like Leslieoo7 is doing. Think about it, why would you accept as an insult, someone telling you that you are more awake than they are about whats happening around them?

Don't look up. Don't get woke. Why don't we say, "thankyou and?...."

[soldierant]

14. Back in the day -

and I do mean back - I'm thinking chaucer's day - the word meant somethng close to magnanimous. I think it was the Knight's Tale which asked the pilgrims to decide "who was the most liberal" and it's pretty clear that politics is not the issue. Who was the most ger=nerous, the least greesdy, the most willing for others to be happy even if personal loss was involved.

Come to think of it ... no wonder Republicans hate it.

[calimary]

24. How 'bout "thanks! Go ahead and stay asleep!"

Or - “yep! Proud to be awake when others are asleep at the wheel. Those who stay awake can spot the bad guys coming.”

Those who stay awake know when danger is near.

[Mr.Bill]

13. When people ask me what woke means,

I'm pretty blunt. I say it's an awareness that the police are murdering unarmed black children without being held accountable. I know it means more than that but that usually ends the conversation.

[Initech]

21. I view being woke as having independent thought free of the Fox / AM / megachurch / Infowars cult.

[Mr.Bill]

25. That is also correct. n/t

[liberal N proud]

15. A saw something somewhere that makes a great comeback

Jesus was the most woke person ever.

[SomedayKindaLove]

26. Woke like Jesus

Pass it on.

[nolabear]

16. A wonderful stanza from a Wm Stafford poem:

From “A Ritual to Read to Each Other”

“For it is important that awake people be awake,
or a breaking line may discourage them back to sleep;
the signals we give – yes or no, or maybe—
should be clear: the darkness around us is deep.”

[Initech]

17. Yeah like I'm going to let uneducated ignoramuses like Boebert attack the educated.

In my opinion being "woke" means being educated and not being a mindless puppet for the Murdoch / right wing cult.

[ificandream]

18. I think there's a simple answer to "woke" ... Repughlicans are ODD.

They're odd because they hate women. They hate gays. They hate seniors. They hate freedom. They hate everything that's good. What to use against Repughs is they're odd. No one likes to be odd, but Repughs have shown over and over again they just are.

[keithbvadu2]

22. Ashli Babbit was 'woke'.

Ashli Babbit was 'woke'.

[SomedayKindaLove]

27. Woke

Ask Republicsne what it means and i doubt many say it is an awareness of racial prejudices and discrimination.

To them, it's anything that disrupts Republican-decided "normalcy", which can cover just about anything.

[Skittles]

29. ask a repuke to define femminism, socialism, communism, etc

repukes are fucking clueless, they believe what they are TOLD to believe

[Skittles]

28. WOKE is the antonym of REPUBLICAN

YES INDEED

[drmeow]

30. Most of this response would be lost on her

She's the type of person KISS was coined for/about - keep it simple stupid could also be keep it simple [cause they're] stupid. If bothered to be on those types of social media platforms I might be tempted to say "to be woke is to be mature and intelligent, and you are neither of those"