A GOP war on 'woke'? Most Americans view the term as a positive, USA TODAY/Ipsos Poll finds

[Scott]

 

Republican presidential hopefuls are vowing to wage a war on "woke," but a new 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."

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-war-woke-most-americans-100008176.html

 

[Yellowtail]

"to be informed, educated on, and aware of social injustices." ????

[BritManToo]

How I view 'woke'

Like every other totalitarian movement, what some call liberalism and others more recently often describe as Cultural Marxism has developed an ideology which its adherents use to justify the imposition of tyranny on the society they seek to overtake. The ideology of America’s contemporary totalitarian left can be called wokeism.

 

The four intellectual pillars of wokeism are:

1. Anti-white racism disguised under the euphemism social justice.

2. Rejection of traditional morality, which is primarily carried out by the promotion of sexually deviant lifestyles such as homosexuality and transgender. In a truly surreal inversion of reality, they paint traditional morality as immoral by charging it with being homophobic, transphobic, and similar terms.

3. Environmentalism based on the notion that it is desirable and possible to arrest climate change.

4. Intense hostility toward Christian religion, which they negatively paint as patriarchal, intolerant, and oppressive.

 

4. is a bit of an odd one, 'cos the wokes love Islam even though it's more extreme and way more homophobic and anti-women's rights than Christianity.

Edited March 9, 2023 by BritManToo

[formanth]

It just means more distractions. "Look over here! Not there, now go back to saleep".                          Sow fear, animosity and division. Distort and subvert original representations, intentions and meanings.

Has worked for millennia. 

[Eric Loh]

Republicans policies and actions are toxically unpopular and yet they continue to pushed past the boundaries of acceptability by the general public and even some conservatives. It's like a death wish. 

[Yellowtail]

1 minute ago, Eric Loh said:

Republicans policies and actions are toxically unpopular and yet they continue to pushed past the boundaries of acceptability by the general public and even some conservatives. It's like a death wish. 

Examples ? 

[KhunLA]

To the title 'positive' ...

... they didn't poll anyone I know .. ????

[Eric Loh]

7 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

Examples ? 

Climate change, tax cuts, abortion, election denialism, Ukraine war, vaccine, mask mandate etc. GOP is an unpopular party that will never win if the election is based on popular votes. Their own hope to to win by the the medieval relic electoral college which is also unpopular among general population. 

[Yellowtail]

13 minutes ago, Eric Loh said:

Climate change, tax cuts, abortion, election denialism, Ukraine war, vaccine, mask mandate etc. GOP is an unpopular party that will never win if the election is based on popular votes. Their own hope to to win by the the medieval relic electoral college which is also unpopular among general population. 

That's what I thought, carry on 

[Hanaguma]

36 minutes ago, Eric Loh said:

Climate change, tax cuts, abortion, election denialism, Ukraine war, vaccine, mask mandate etc. GOP is an unpopular party that will never win if the election is based on popular votes. Their own hope to to win by the the medieval relic electoral college which is also unpopular among general population. 

Strange then, that they WON the popular  vote in the 2022 mid terms.

[Bkk Brian]

1 hour ago, Scott said:

Ipsos Poll finds a majority of Americans are inclined to see the word as a positive attribute, not a negative one.

Great news for 2024 let MAGA keep up the good work of using their war against woke, it will lose them the election, again................

[bamnutsak]

This American's view?

 

Woke = Progress.

 

And you can't stop progress, no matter how perjorative a word you use to frame it.

 

 

[ozimoron]

1 hour ago, Yellowtail said:

"to be informed, educated on, and aware of social injustices." ????

How can "educated and aware" not be considered as a positive? Oh, wait....

[Eric Loh]

7 minutes ago, Hanaguma said:

Strange then, that they WON the popular  vote in the 2022 mid terms.

Not a general election but still GOP underperformed in 2022 House election especially in seats that have candidates with extreme views on abortion and the 2020 election. 

[ozimoron]

1 hour ago, KhunLA said:

To the title 'positive' ...

... they didn't poll anyone I know .. ????

The probability would be like winning the lottery 9 times in a row. That doesn't mean nobody else won it. 

[mr336]

3 hours ago, KhunLA said:

To the title 'positive' ...

... they didn't poll anyone I know .. ????

Only Disney employees.

[LatPhrao]

3 hours ago, BritManToo said:

How I view 'woke'

Like every other totalitarian movement, what some call liberalism and others more recently often describe as Cultural Marxism has developed an ideology which its adherents use to justify the imposition of tyranny on the society they seek to overtake. The ideology of America’s contemporary totalitarian left can be called wokeism.

 

The four intellectual pillars of wokeism are:

1. Anti-white racism disguised under the euphemism social justice.

2. Rejection of traditional morality, which is primarily carried out by the promotion of sexually deviant lifestyles such as homosexuality and transgender. In a truly surreal inversion of reality, they paint traditional morality as immoral by charging it with being homophobic, transphobic, and similar terms.

3. Environmentalism based on the notion that it is desirable and possible to arrest climate change.

4. Intense hostility toward Christian religion, which they negatively paint as patriarchal, intolerant, and oppressive.

 

4. is a bit of an odd one, 'cos the wokes love Islam even though it's more extreme and way more homophobic and anti-women's rights than Christianity.

555  File under:  'Fry in own words' .... until crisp ... "I try to never disagree with fools, but I will ignore them once identified." 

[Gandtee]

4 hours ago, BritManToo said:

How I view 'woke'

Like every other totalitarian movement, what some call liberalism and others more recently often describe as Cultural Marxism has developed an ideology which its adherents use to justify the imposition of tyranny on the society they seek to overtake. The ideology of America’s contemporary totalitarian left can be called wokeism.

 

The four intellectual pillars of wokeism are:

1. Anti-white racism disguised under the euphemism social justice.

2. Rejection of traditional morality, which is primarily carried out by the promotion of sexually deviant lifestyles such as homosexuality and transgender. In a truly surreal inversion of reality, they paint traditional morality as immoral by charging it with being homophobic, transphobic, and similar terms.

3. Environmentalism based on the notion that it is desirable and possible to arrest climate change.

4. Intense hostility toward Christian religion, which they negatively paint as patriarchal, intolerant, and oppressive.

 

4. is a bit of an odd one, 'cos the wokes love Islam even though it's more extreme and way more homophobic and anti-women's rights than Christianity.

'I try to never disagree with fools, but I will ignore them once identified.'   I've taken your advice.

[vandeventer]

3 hours ago, bamnutsak said:

This American's view?

 

Woke = Progress.

 

And you can't stop progress, no matter how perjorative a word you use to frame it.

 

 

Most Americans view woke= stupid

crt= stupid

progressive= backward

gun control = disarming good Americans

[ozimoron]

3 minutes ago, vandeventer said:

Most Americans view woke= stupid

crt= stupid

progressive= backward

gun control = disarming good Americans

Proof that republican illiteracy is a thing. Home schooling has a lot to answer for. 

[Bluetongue]

25 minutes ago, LatPhrao said:

555  File under:  'Fry in own words' .... until crisp ... "I try to never disagree with fools, but I will ignore them once identified." 

I like it when someone lays out an argument sensibly, whether I disagree or not, and that is then followed by people who clearly disagree but cannot lay out logically and sensibly why. Their response is to play the insult card, and thus lose the debate to any reader that is undecided. But their sense of having won the debate still exists, that is woke. Of course nothing will stop "woke", demographics and the great dumbing will see to that.

[ozimoron]

Just now, Bluetongue said:

I like it when someone lays out an argument sensibly, whether I disagree or not, and that is then followed by people who clearly disagree but cannot lay out logically and sensibly why. Their response is to play the insult card, and thus lose the debate to any reader that is undecided. But their sense of having won the debate still exists, that is woke. Of course nothing will stop "woke", demographics and the great dumbing will see to that.

His problem is that the member in question rarely (I'm being generous) provides links to back up his arguments. 

[candide]

7 minutes ago, vandeventer said:

Most Americans view woke= stupid

crt= stupid

progressive= backward

gun control = disarming good Americans

Poll with one respondent?

[onthedarkside]

Troll posts removed

[rudi49jr]

57 minutes ago, vandeventer said:

Most Americans view woke= stupid

crt= stupid

progressive= backward

gun control = disarming good Americans

That’s the problem with right-wingers/conservatives/evangelicals: they think their own view represents that of the vast majority. But it (almost)never does…..

Edited March 9, 2023 by rudi49jr

[Yellowtail]

4 minutes ago, rudi49jr said:

That’s the problem with right-wingers/conservatives/evangelicals: they think their own view represents that of the vast majority. But it (almost)never does…..

That’s the problem with left-wingers/leftists/hedonists : they think their own view represents that of the vast majority. But it (almost)never does…..

[rudi49jr]

5 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

That’s the problem with left-wingers/leftists/hedonists : they think their own view represents that of the vast majority. But it (almost)never does…..

Turns out in this case 56% of Americans (which is a majority, and not just the loony left) disagree with you:

 

“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.”

[Yellowtail]

1 minute ago, rudi49jr said:

Turns out in this case 56% of Americans (which is a majority, and not just the loony left) disagree with you:

 

“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.”

Do you have a like to the survey? 

[Eric Loh]

5 minutes ago, rudi49jr said:

That’s the problem with right-wingers/conservatives/evangelicals: they think their own view represents that of the vast majority. But it (almost)never does…..

Don't think they care as they are performing to their captive minority audience for the purpose of grifting and partisan loyalty that help them win in the electoral college. GOP is simply not interested in developing popular agenda. They can survive just by catering to their base. Trump has shown that unpopular candidate with little interest in public policy can still win. America politics is an embarrassment.  

[riclag]

5 hours ago, BritManToo said:

How I view 'woke'

Like every other totalitarian movement, what some call liberalism and others more recently often describe as Cultural Marxism has developed an ideology which its adherents use to justify the imposition of tyranny on the society they seek to overtake. The ideology of America’s contemporary totalitarian left can be called wokeism.

 

The four intellectual pillars of wokeism are:

1. Anti-white racism disguised under the euphemism social justice.

2. Rejection of traditional morality, which is primarily carried out by the promotion of sexually deviant lifestyles such as homosexuality and transgender. In a truly surreal inversion of reality, they paint traditional morality as immoral by charging it with being homophobic, transphobic, and similar terms.

3. Environmentalism based on the notion that it is desirable and possible to arrest climate change.

4. Intense hostility toward Christian religion, which they negatively paint as patriarchal, intolerant, and oppressive.

 

4. is a bit of an odd one, 'cos the wokes love Islam even though it's more extreme and way more homophobic and anti-women's rights than Christianity.

I like your opinion so much .

I had to look up the meaning .I found one site , urban dictionary  that describes it basically started out as a social justice euphemism and then it was recklessly taken over to assert they have a moral high ground and their opinion  is correct while rejecting any criticism !

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Woke

Edited March 9, 2023 by riclag