1ºZachary Cates
They are still selling great. So the so called Woke you talk about but obviously don’t even know the meaning of is just including people that Homophobic bigots which goes with their racism meltdown over.
What does 'woke' mean and why are some conservatives using it?
The term has recently been used by some conservatives as an insult against progressive values.
The term, however, was originally coined by progressive Black Americans and used in racial justice movements in the early to mid-1900s.
To be "woke" politically in the Black community means that someone is informed, educated and conscious of social injustice and racial inequality, Merriam-Webster Dictionary states.
One of its earliest uses was in a historical recording of the protest song "Scottsboro Boys" by Lead Belly. In that recording, it was used as a term about staying aware of the potential for racist violence as a Black person in America.
"Woke" has been used by former President Donald Trump, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, and several Trump-backed midterm candidates including Kari Lake and Mehmet Oz.
Woke is defined by the DeSantis administration as "the belief there are systemic injustices in American society and the need to address them," according to DeSantis' general counsel, as reported by The Washington Post.
"We reject woke ideology," DeSantis said in his election night speech. "We will never ever surrender to the woke agenda. People have come here because of our policies."
The pressure against "woke"-ness in Florida has already led to the apparent erasure of race-related content in education, including the rejection of an AP African American history course in state high schools and vows from college presidents against including some race-related content that covers "intersectionality, or the idea that systems of oppression should be the primary lens through which teaching and learning are analyzed and/or improved upon."
Conservatives and Right Wing Media want to label being Woke as everything evil and sinister in being liberal, but the REAL DEFINITION of Woke is the total opposite of what conservative Republicans have become:
Definition of Woke:
woke
/wōk/
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verb
past of wake1.
adjectiveINFORMAL•US
alert to injustice in society, especially racism.
Florida, Texas and Red States is where WOKE goes to die? In other words Florida, Texas and Red States is where racism, bigotry and intolerance are met with a wink, a nod, a pat on the back and a big smile, where the revival of Jim Crow laws and Apartheid ideology walk proudly hand in hand!
WHAT IS A WOKE COMPANY?
By Zippia Team - Nov. 15, 2022
A woke company is defined as a business organization that has embraced progressive causes and often implements them in terms of company policies.
Topics that might get emphasized, promoted, or even inform policy at a woke company include:
* Race
* Gender
* Transgender issues
* Women's rights
* Minority groups
Woke Military:
When official Department of Defense spokesmen attacked Tucker Carlson—who criticized the military’s integration of diversity-centered staffing mandates—they exposed a crucial gap between what Americans believe their military to be and the true purpose of our trillion-dollar war machine. What is being interpreted as an escalation in the culture wars is actually about how our regime perceives power itself.
No, the U.S. Military Is Not Being Weakened by “Wokeness”
The world's greatest fighting force is stronger because it doesn't require recruits to uncritically embrace American mythology.
To the accusation of wokeness infiltrating the military, this is a line of attack that Republicans have lobbed at military leadership for months now. Earlier this year, an exchange between Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Representative Matt Gaetz grabbed headlines when the congressman accused the military of being too focused on “wokeism,” a claim that Austin rejected outright. Republicans have since blamed various military challenges on the nebulous concept: Annual recruiting goals not met? Wokeness is the reason (though the general in charge of Army recruiting says that’s not true). Making service members get the COVID-19 vaccine? Wokeism. Military readiness lagging? Woke run amok. Republican House members are presently threatening to hold up this year’s national defense bill because they accuse Democrats of sneaking in “woke provisions.”
If today’s right thinks having specific books on a military reading list is too woke and endangers national security, then it’s pretty safe to say they would’ve been part of the unfortunate lot who rejected President Harry Truman’s 1948 executive order desegregating the military years before Brown v. Board and the civil rights legislation of the 1960s. In reaction to Truman’s decision, Army Secretary Kenneth Royall and Marine Corps Commandant Clifton Cates, among others, labeled the order an “instrument of social evolution”—that’s 1948 lingo for “too woke.”
The reason that the military is so often recognized as the best example of how a multiracial America can operate successfully is because it does the hard work—in education, in exposure to a diverse set of Americans, in giving them common purpose and shared identities—of providing a means for us to get to know one another as more than just avatars of identity politics, something the everything-is-woke-but-me crowd traffics in. Despite what the right might believe, it is not at all necessary to insist that the military adopt an uncritical embrace of American mythology to construct a force capable of defending the Constitution. To the contrary, a nation that creates space for examination and critique is one worthy of sacrifice.
A USA TODAY/Ipsos Poll finds a majority of Americans are inclined to see the word as a positive attribute, not a negative one. Fifty-six percent of those surveyed say the term means “to be informed, educated on, and aware of social injustices.” That includes not only three-fourths of Democrats but also more than a third of Republicans”.
“Overall, 39% say instead that the word reflects what has become the GOP political definition, “to be overly politically correct and police others’ words.” That’s the view of 56% of Republicans. Independents, by 51%-45%, say “woke” means being aware of social injustice, not being overly politically correct. Most Americans understand that to be woke is to be tuned in to injustices around us,” said Cliff Young of Ipsos”.
2ºCompanies That Get ‘Woke’ Aren’t Going Broke — They’re More Profitable Than Ever
Sorry, Conservatives Bud Light's gonna be just fine.
“Get woke, go broke,” has become a rallying cry of the political right whenever they see a brand make the slightest effort to align itself with liberal or progressive values. It’s a meme that allows MAGAcountry to believe that there is ongoing, massive backlash to products that acknowledge and celebrate marginalized communities. But the supposed boycotts never seem to be reflected in the bottom line.
Besides, by the time we would expect to notice any effect, conservatives have already moved on to the next outrage. Kid Rock and Travis Tritt declared war this week against brewer Anheuser-Busch for a Bud Light partnership with trans actor Dylan Mulvaney, yet the focus has already shifted to the whiskey Jack Daniel’s because of its ad campaign featuring drag queens — which happens to be from 2021.
Disney
The entertainment giant has come under fire time and again for supposed wokeness. They’ve been canceled for redesigning the theme park ride Splash Mountain to make it less racist, adding LGBTQ characters to their family films, and casting a Black woman, Halle Bailey, as the lead in their live-action remake of The Little Mermaid. Perhaps the biggest blowup, however, came when Disney opposed Florida’s so-called “Don’t Say Gay” law, signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis last year — leading reactionaries to baselessly accuse the company of “grooming” children. The indignation even led to anti-Disney rallies.
However much Disney lost in sales as a result, it was less than a drop in the bucket. Their gross profit for 2022 was $28.321 billion, a 27 percent increase from 2021, and they generally outpaced media competitors. While fourth-quarter earnings fell somewhat short of estimates, analysts chalked this up to streaming costsassociated with Disney+ (which, by the way, now has more subscribers than Netflix). Meanwhile, revenue from the theme parks, the easiest part of the business to boycott, “surged.” What tumult there has been at Disney in the past few months — management shakeups that resulted in the return of CEO Bob Iger, canceled Star Wars movies and ongoing layoffs — are more about strategic vision than any strain from the “groomer” attacks.