The great irony is they're finally using the term correctly. To be "woke" means to be aware of, alert to, and concerned about social injustice and discrimination.
That is exactly what they don't want in schools or shoved down their throats: basic human decency.
PC was used correctly too. Doesn’t word “woke” mean two diff iterent things to users supporting that and opposing? To these opposing it’s more clearly represented as “wokeism”, almost a religion that demands you obey it’s rules or be treated like a religious one heathen (as religions often do). To supporters it’s like you said - closer to “being aware of and concerned about social issues”.
Thats exactly how conservatives think though isn't it? Its almost always some variation of: I don't want YOUR group around MY group. They don't seem to grasp the notion that a diverse group of people with diverse experiences and beliefs can come to the same conclusion about something so they turn it into an "ism".
well, they've had euphemisms and dog whistles since forever, and the people who were direct with their bigotry are still direct with it. this could even be seen as a step back from outright bigotry, implying that some of these people are less comfortable expressing direct transphobia / racism / sexism with the understanding that they are in fact losing power
because being against equal rights for people especially women's and LGBT rights is still extremely bigoted, especially if it's because you're upset at the loss of power over those groups, whether or not they see themselves as bigots
For fuck's sake, can this debate die already? It's one those made up words that no-one agrees on the meaning of, so people with the exact same views about the real world will fight to the death over it, because they're using completely different definitions of the word.
It used to just mean "progressive" with a positive connotation, then it got oversaturated and some progressives started using it to describe the kinds of people who fake having progressive ideals just to make themselves look good or sell shit. Then conservatives started using it to describe all progressives again, but this time with a negative connotation. Then some of those conservatives started using it to describe literally anything they don't like.
The problem is that the meaning's changed so fast that whatever meaning you're using, chances are there's someone around you who defines it differently, leading to a lot of pointless conflict that could be resolved if we just all agreed on a meaning, or stopped saying the fucking word.
ok but when someone says "Hollywood is too woke these days" or "Stop pushing your woke agenda on my children!" it's not exactly a mystery as to what they really mean.