• Hairyblue@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    When Republicans talk about woke, they mean the LGBTQ community and other minorities. That is why they are anti woke. They are anti LGBTQ. It is a word bigots use to hide behind. “Woke, you know what we mean” wink

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      Oh no, it’s much more than that. Remember when DeSantis told a judge that he defined “woke” as anything that acknowledged the existence of systemic racism?

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        Right, it doesn’t even stop at LGBTQIA+ anymore. Anything short of the perfect bigot can be put under a microscope and declared a “sympathizer” to the “woke agenda.” Heck, cis people that aren’t conforming to their gender well enough are acceptable casualties, as we saw in the Philadelphia deli case a few days ago.

        Something fascism, something McCarthyism.

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      Exactly. They’re scared to use the meaning and use woke instead. Scared frogs.