When the MAGA Super-Girls and Super-Boys say "woke," it's not a compliment. Marjorie and The Guy Who Made up His Resume To Win Votes, for example.
The extreme right uses "woke," as a pejorative. It's bad to let kids read books about slavery. Or books written by minority writers they deem to have a "hidden agenda." It's terrible for teachers--a fireable offense--to talk about human rights of any stripe.
Just as The Guy Who Made Up His Resume, the inventors of "woke" don't bother with truth-telling. If a position goes against their own, it goes in the "Woke" basket, pretending that only liberals are curious, enlightened and tolerant. They want us to all go back to the past, to the imaginary lands of "Great" and "Again."
If you, like me, want to hang out with people who don't fear truth-telling, the podcast On Being is a great place to start. Krista Tippet has been interviewing scientists, artists, theologians, poets, and thinkers for over 20 years. The conversations are always illuminating.
You can listen to the rich archive on the podcast, or you can go to On Being and listen to them or read transcripts.
For those who welcome awakenings and don't glorify sleeping in caves of right-wing opinion (which is all of you) check out Krista's community.
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