“REPUBLICANS HAVE ALWAYS KNOWN WHAT WOKE WAS”

Comparative Reasoning
4 min readJun 29, 2023
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How often have you watched any Progressive media that would point out that Republicans can’t define Woke? Hey, I’m at least one. I’ve cited maybe three times that Republicans don’t know what Woke is, or how to define it. I’ve made posts on Medium and YouTube about Republicans not knowing what the word is, how it’s been co-opted into something new, removing the original meaning. That ends today for me, and I hope for you.

At this junction, you can think back to Republicans stumbling all over themselves trying to define the word or give some kind of example of it. The actual demonstrable truth rests in the fact that it wasn’t that they couldn’t define it, but in fact that they couldn’t define it while retaining the hate and vitriol against it.

Woke was simply black people making sure to shine a spotlight on racism against all racial minorities by their racist white counterparts. It was simple. A simple example would be any minority saying, “You think we’re free because we have jobs? Look at where we are in these jobs and look who controls us.” It was keeping people out of the false comforts of complacency.

Now, certain white people appropriated it trying to get something positive done to get the nation moving in a positive direction. As it started making some headway, Republicans started demonizing Woke on their…

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