How I see it…
‘Woke’ is supposed to mean ‘aware / conscious of long-standing social injustice’. As in, you have ‘woken up’ to what is going on.
^By itself, there is nothing remotely objectionable to simply being aware of social injustice.
It’s since been hijacked, although by whom I’m still not sure.
Some persons with fairly extreme and intolerant views, who may be described as ‘the far left’ by some, have used the word ‘woke’ to describe themselves. I’m honestly not sure if many people like this exist, or it’s largely just an imaginary ‘click-bait’ internet nonsense.
In return, many persons associate ‘woke’ with intolerant and anti-social behaviour. This is probably what it’s most associated with now, this negative and unwelcome type of sensitive person (who again, I suspect exists in very limited numbers outside of clickbait / twitter).
Then, many persons with fairly extreme and intolerant views, who may be described as ‘the far right’ by some, now unreasonably dismiss anything with any fair mindfulness towards social inequality as ‘woke’ in a negative sense.
In summary…
- Being mindful of social injustice is not inherently bad.
- Annoying people with extremist far left views should be considered as such and appreciated to be a very small subset of all persons, warranting little attention.
- Brittle people need to stop dismissing everything they don’t like as being ‘woke’.
I’ll add that anyone that uses the word ‘left’ or ‘right’ in a negative sense just appears basic as. Your political affiliations don’t
have to be as dumb as always ‘supporting / opposing a side’, you know
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