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Please Explain to Me How Being “Woke” Is a Bad Thing?
If the choice is “woke” and aware vs “asleep” and clueless, I don’t get it.
I have been seeing a lot about this whole notion of “woke” culture from the far right being portrayed as a bad thing.
What is “woke” culture, anyhow?
A quick search online brings me to this conclusion — “woke” culture is where people, businesses, and other entities not impacted by certain injustices — for example, white people who will never endure what black people do — start to be aware and actively participate in demanding fair treatment, equality, and the like.
Somehow, this has gotten weaponized — mostly by politicians — to pass laws that are negatively impacting voting rights, abortion, LGBTQA+ rights, and anything else not male and white. “Woke” is seen by these people as pushing an alternative view of the way the world works. That includes the topics of LGBTQA+ rights, critical race theory, and anything else where — to be blunt — white people have always dominated.
But what would the opposite of woke, in this content, be? Unaware? Ignorant? Clinging to the past? Because I cannot for the life of me place a legitimate reason to be the opposite of aware — which is what “woke” is.
