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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCalling for Biden to admit to being "Woke" is a GOP strategy to build
a broad brush slur on liberals. Biden should say he is a liberal. That has already solid meaning. The GOP, and the likes of DeSantis, have not finished shoving uncomfortable things into the "Woke" basket. It is not settled. I was called Woke a year ago and I liked it. But this word has now taken on Swift Boat Veterans for Truth arc. Not true that 7 year old children of Woke parents get taught Critical Race Theory or the ins and outs of lgbtq intimacy but it is in the Woke basket anyhow. Lies. And a successful label, like SBVT was. It sunk Kerry.
jpak
(41,760 posts)Signed woke and proud
applegrove
(118,813 posts)Calling for Biden to admit to being "Woke" is a GOP strategy to build a broad brush slur on liberals. Biden should say he is a liberal. That has already solid meaning. The GOP, and the likes of DeSantis, have not finished shoving uncomfortable things into the "Woke" basket. It is not settled. I was called Woke a year ago and I liked it. But this word has now taken on Swift Boat Veterans for Truth arc. Not true that 7 year old children of Woke parents get taught Critical Race Theory or the ins and outs of lgbtq intimacy but it is in the Woke basket anyhow. Lies. And a successful label like SBVT was. It sunk Kerry.
Mister Ed
(5,944 posts)Biden is far too canny to play their little games. Betcha he turns it to their disadvantage.
Lovie777
(12,330 posts)some imaginary made up bullshit.
Srkdqltr
(6,326 posts)2naSalit
(86,804 posts)All those cries of "Sleepy Joe!"
But they can't define anything, not even their repurposed words.
He should call them on that! I'm either Sleepy Joe or woke, I can't be both. They are nothing but reactionary morons. They don't think anything through.
eShirl
(18,505 posts)Buns_of_Fire
(17,197 posts)So far, in the two times it's happened, the person couldn't (or was afraid to).
It's a Frank Luntz-type messaging trick, trying to make an otherwise innocuous word into something negative. And it'll work with the drooling brain-dead bubbas of their base.
applegrove
(118,813 posts)Samrob
(4,298 posts)conspiracies, greed, corruption and hatefulness of the MAGA-GQP, and anti-democracy forces around me and across the globe. And I am going to fight FOR America against them until I no longer have breath,""
kysrsoze
(6,023 posts)bigtree
(86,005 posts)...the opposition to it is a deliberate slur against black people.
Opposing the term is a main feature of book banners and racist demagogues.
Pres. Biden should not, and would not, run from support for this progressive defense of history and awareness.