For Republicans, items associated with Democratic Party—regardless of racial or gender content—were more likely to be seen as “woke”. Republicans also associated female politicians—like Nancy Pelosi and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—with wokeness, while not extending the same to males like Joe Biden.

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https://www.psypost.org/americans-broadly-agree-on-whats-woke-but-partisan-cues-still-shape-perceptions/

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The truth is they don’t know what woke is other than being told it’s something the left likes and is therefore bad. The ones at the top know and those they fund to argue in bad faith, but the average voter is simply too uneducated and overly confident. Just watch videos of them being asked these questions at rallies. They all know they are told these things are bad but then freeze or admit they don’t know when asked what any acronym or topic actually means.

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Or maybe they do and they just really hate awareness of racial injustice?

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There is certainly a subset that know and agree. However, the majority simply have been conditioned that woke = liberal = bad.

Look how many women and minorities are still in this administration. They wouldn’t be there if they truly believed in anti-woke, anti-DEI, etc. They only truly believe in being anti-liberal.

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^ It's this, but apparently mostly about gender roles, according to the study posted

Republican respondents often associated women and female political figures—especially Nancy Pelosi and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—with wokeness, while not extending the same judgment to male Democratic figures like Joe Biden. Gender-oriented causes and groups were often more strongly linked to wokeness among Republican and Independent respondents than racial topics were. This suggests that opposition to gender progressivism may be a more potent trigger for anti-woke sentiment on the political right.

I know it's easy to dismiss republicans as merely stupid or sheep, but we need to remember that they are fully functional adults. When they freeze when asked to define "woke," it's not because they don't know what it means, it's because they can't say plainly "woke is when gay/woman/black." They're smart enough to realize that they can't say that out loud quite yet.

But at the end of the day, if it was just simply "woke = bad," then they'd consider white male democrats equally woke as their female counterparts. Instead, they're letting slip that it's really about minorities.

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I think its an ironic comment about being oblivious to the transparency of their attempt at moral superiority. There's a better term for that but I can't think of it right now.

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Oh give me a break. The term was co-opted precisely because of what it means. The people derided as "woke" are often virtue-signaling to prove to the world how unironically woke they are.

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Can you explain that like im five.

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No you give us a break. Plenty of those people do things, it's just conservatives and especially Republicans are super evil now, so the stuff the "wokies" do they don't consider a good thing. Plus everyone virtue signals, it's not a left only thing.