Stop with the woke-bashing already. You’ve beaten it to death, relegated it to cliché status. And most of all, you’ve confirmed yourselves to be the closed-off, anachronistic, conveniently Christian lemmings you’ve always been.
If “woke” means being tuned in to injustice and caring about others, then that’s really all one needs to know about the word. Sure, it seems in some ways some have taken it too far, and that’s a fair critique. But you’ve lumped everything into this one word, and that’s wildly unfair and inaccurate, and lazy.
Woke culture is mostly people who recognize that change and discovery are givens and we don’t live in a static, cookie cutter world—as much as such a place would please people like Donald Trump and the whole crew at The Heritage Foundation. Woke culture views the Bible differently, less like a cudgel, which might be the biggest wrinkle of all, the most heinous affront to the average MAGA loyalist.
Wokeness gets associated with someone who believes Social Security actually is an entitlement, that mRNA vaccines and their predecessors actually do save lives. It gets associated with people who believe scientific research always deserves a seat at the table and is critical to our continued well-being as a species. Wokeness gets associated with people who, without the benefit of 20-20 hindsight, thought Covid restrictions were sensible– in light of the fact we were dealing with something we’d never seen before that spread through people who gathered in close proximity to one another. Wokeness is a label slapped on those who reasonably think 8 billion of us are having an effect on planetary systems, that we are most definitely affecting CO2 levels while trying to live like that’s not the case.
“Wokeness”, somehow, is sadly perceived as weakness masquerading as genuine concern, when in reality it has become a catch-all, a buzzword, corrupted and used by conservatives to rile up the base, like “Niagara Falls” used to rile up Moe and Larry.
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