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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, if he were saying the same thing, but talking about, say, conservative parents and reversing the names of the politicians, you wouldn't bat an eye.

Also, super weird that you think a pizza guy shouldn't have political views that differ from a rich person. [/quote]

Here’s the thing:
We don’t talk about or even think about “conservative parents” unless you’re doing batsh#t crazy things like trying to ban books or threatening our teachers or local school board. Like, you’re not a topic of conversation in our lives unless you’re getting up to some crazy-ass stuff. Going back to your point - I would definitely be weirded out if someone I knew said “Conservative parents must be destroyed and eliminated.” However, the more likely scenario is that such words would never be uttered because I surround myself with stable people.

This gets to the rub of the matter: 
why does “Woke” - a fictional concept - live rent-free in conservatives’ heads? [/quote]

It's so funny how progressives tripped over themselves 2 years ago to tell everyone to "get woke" and "stay woke."  Now it is a fictional concept. Why should we buy into things like nonbinary, etc, when you all will eventually admit it's fictional? Credibility issues. [/quote]

Assuming you're actually asking and not feigning ignorance to push a disingenuous narrative, progressives pushed "being woke" meaning being aware of how discrimination and racism pervades our society both on a macro level but also on smaller levels many privileged people aren't even aware of. That's what real "woke" means, simply understanding the deck is stacked against POC and it's insidious and intentional.

Conservative "woke," while sharing the same word, does not mean this. In fact it doesn't mean anything and it means whatever the person using it wants you to think it means. This usurping of the word was intentional, to steal it from people who actually want to use it to make the world a better place and hijack it to sow discord.

There is a less insidious example you are probably aware of; "hipster." It originally meant a very specific kind of young person who wore ironic thrift store clothing and listened to bands you've never heard of and stopped listening to them once you had. The word was hijacked and now "hipster" just means any young person who dresses or acts differently from whoever is using the word.

This is not a complicated concept. It has been happening to many different words for many generations. "Beatnik" was the same way. Reasonably intelligent people can easily tell the difference between the original use of the word and the [b]insidious use of the word[/b]. If reasonably intelligent people can do it, why can't you?[/quote]

DP. That’s all fine and good but I hardly think the way the right uses “woke” is insidious. The same thing happened with “political correctness,” which wasn’t originally a term of mockery but came to be one. “Woke” is just a catchall for left-wing identity politics moving beyond racial now to include sex/gender politics. How is it unfair to use the term “woke” this way?[/quote]

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