Exactly right from Rhian Graham of the #Colston4. This quotation can’t be shared enough. theguardian.com/world/2022/jan… 
This is how Merriam-Webster-Webster defines ‘woke.’ So when the right uses it as an insult, they are revelling in and actively promoting a contrary definition, as in
‘Unaware of and actively disinterested in important facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice).
Who would be proud of that? Who would think that is a moral code worth living by?
Who would be proud of that? Who would think that is a moral code worth living by?
Who would want to call on their children to be blind to issues of racial and social justice? What kind of society would result from that? A society that abandons the possibility of racial and social justice is a society that
agrees on the perpetuation of racial and social injustice, that abandons hope for the future and constantly lowers the threshold of the injustices that society is prepared to tolerate and seeks to reverse gains that have been made
This the ‘anti-wokeism’ that ‘common sense’ Tories, Spiked, and the likes of Marjorie Taylor Green would like us to embrace: a depraved cynicism and gloating nastiness that leads inevitably to the perpetuation of social barbarism, which is why
We should embrace ‘woke’ whenever they use it as an insult, and be proud when they use it as an insult, and seek to spread ‘wokeness’ even as we reject the cynical stupidity of those who have weaponised it as an insult.
And do everything we can to make the world more woke, because it needs it.
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