>> " “Woke Right” is far more succinct and therefore potentially far more impactful." <<
I'm still waiting for someone to explain to me why being "woke" is a bad thing. As I understand it, given what the right who use it as a pejorative rail against when using it, being "woke" means recognizing that there are people different than you who should be treated fairly. Recognizing the truth of American history and the systemic racism and sexism that have been part of it.
"Woke" isn't exactly the term I'd choose for this, but it's what is being used. So what, exactly, is bad about being "woke".
I’m rather confused by comments questioning the term “woke Right”. Do these people live under a rock?
Woke used to mean ‘awake’ in African-American slang, and was indeed a good thing. But it’s been captured and redefined as “using identity politics, grievance and victimhood”. It’s by applying this now common meaning, which has gone around the world (it even exists in French as a noun: le wokisme), that the ethno-nationalist woke Right can be identified. In the US, it’s white nationalists. In India, it’s Hindu nationalists. In China, it’s Han nationalists. In France, it’s native French nationalists. And so on. They are woke because they base their politics solely on their ethnic or ethnic-religious identity, their feelings that they are victims of a plot to destroy or replace them, grievance linked to that victimhood and a revanchist desire to put down perceived internal and external enemies (the chief internal enemy being “the woke left”).
I still don't understand what the term you're using, "Woke Right," means. Is this a term that illuminates the current battle between Musk and Ramaswamy and the MAGA vox pop? If so, which side is "woke?"
If not, is their a particular battle line you can point to? I'm sure it's that my thinking is too rigid, but help an old guy out. I'm not a native speaker of the new lingo, oy and the pronoun thing, but I'm trying.
>> " “Woke Right” is far more succinct and therefore potentially far more impactful." <<
I'm still waiting for someone to explain to me why being "woke" is a bad thing. As I understand it, given what the right who use it as a pejorative rail against when using it, being "woke" means recognizing that there are people different than you who should be treated fairly. Recognizing the truth of American history and the systemic racism and sexism that have been part of it.
"Woke" isn't exactly the term I'd choose for this, but it's what is being used. So what, exactly, is bad about being "woke".
I’m rather confused by comments questioning the term “woke Right”. Do these people live under a rock?
Woke used to mean ‘awake’ in African-American slang, and was indeed a good thing. But it’s been captured and redefined as “using identity politics, grievance and victimhood”. It’s by applying this now common meaning, which has gone around the world (it even exists in French as a noun: le wokisme), that the ethno-nationalist woke Right can be identified. In the US, it’s white nationalists. In India, it’s Hindu nationalists. In China, it’s Han nationalists. In France, it’s native French nationalists. And so on. They are woke because they base their politics solely on their ethnic or ethnic-religious identity, their feelings that they are victims of a plot to destroy or replace them, grievance linked to that victimhood and a revanchist desire to put down perceived internal and external enemies (the chief internal enemy being “the woke left”).
I still don't understand what the term you're using, "Woke Right," means. Is this a term that illuminates the current battle between Musk and Ramaswamy and the MAGA vox pop? If so, which side is "woke?"
If not, is their a particular battle line you can point to? I'm sure it's that my thinking is too rigid, but help an old guy out. I'm not a native speaker of the new lingo, oy and the pronoun thing, but I'm trying.