It's amazing to me how that word has come to represent basically everything right-wingers don't align with or oppose. It's becoming ultra lazy.
I mean, the use of that word has been so diluted - particularly by boomers who can't deal with social change - that it's just a catch term underlying fears and anxiety of things they don't agree with.
Remember back in the 70's to 90's when parents would get chunky over things like KISS concerts, video games, or rap music? That was their 'woke'. Anything they didn't agree with that defied their traditional view of social conventions. Today's use of 'woke' by these people are really just an extension of this by virtue of changing social conventions that make people uncomfortable or feel threatened. And some things just never change, such as people being suspicious of anything LGBTQ or 'gay' as people used to call back then.
It must be exhausting to constantly complain about what's 'woke' all the time. DeSantis' already braised frontal cortex must be perma-fried fighting 'woke' so much.
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