Big Joel (on his Little Joel YouTube channel) made the point that the word ‘woke’ has come to mean anything that right-wingers don’t like. Anti-bigotry is woke, but so are climate science, vaccines, bike lanes, etc. Some right-wingers say or believe that it has a more specific meaning, but the reality is that anytime they want to dismiss an idea that doesn’t fit their worldview, they can call it ‘woke’ and their audience will understand what they mean.
The word ‘tankie’ has become the liberal equivalent. Forget the idea that it refers to a specific thread of leftism, or even that it has to refer to leftism at all. It’s just the word that liberals use as shorthand for someone who disagrees with them about a specific issue, and there isn’t more to it than that.
Big Joel (on his Little Joel YouTube channel) made the point that the word ‘woke’ has come to mean anything that right-wingers don’t like. Anti-bigotry is woke, but so are climate science, vaccines, bike lanes, etc. Some right-wingers say or believe that it has a more specific meaning, but the reality is that anytime they want to dismiss an idea that doesn’t fit their worldview, they can call it ‘woke’ and their audience will understand what they mean.
The word ‘tankie’ has become the liberal equivalent. Forget the idea that it refers to a specific thread of leftism, or even that it has to refer to leftism at all. It’s just the word that liberals use as shorthand for someone who disagrees with them about a specific issue, and there isn’t more to it than that.