I mean yeah, everyone knows that "woke" is social progressiveness or social justice, the only people who don't know what "woke" means are right wingers who think acknowledging racism = "woke".
I do think a lot of the people involved in social justice do treat it as some sort of secular religion, which explains the criticisms DeBoer has.
That's what it meant when the big thing was "SJWs" but that term pretty much evaporated when "woke" got gentrified by reaction. To say that right wingers don't know what it means is inaccurate - they've intentionally given it a new meaning. It's fascists playing with language the way they love to do.
I mean yeah, everyone knows that "woke" is social progressiveness or social justice, the only people who don't know what "woke" means are right wingers who think acknowledging racism = "woke".
I do think a lot of the people involved in social justice do treat it as some sort of secular religion, which explains the criticisms DeBoer has.
That's what it meant when the big thing was "SJWs" but that term pretty much evaporated when "woke" got gentrified by reaction. To say that right wingers don't know what it means is inaccurate - they've intentionally given it a new meaning. It's fascists playing with language the way they love to do.
It's just the new dog whistle same as the old whistle.