A new poll from USA Today/Ipsos found that 56 percent of respondents viewed the term woke as a positive, meaning to be “aware of social injustices.” A majority of Republicans, according to the data, meanwhile believe the term means to be “overly politically correct” and to police the speech of others. Sharpton also accused Republicans of weaponizing words like “woke” for political gain, something he claimed the party also did with the Defund the Police movement.

Glenn Youngkin cruised to victory in 2021 riding a wave of parental anger over teaching inclusive history in public schools.If you don’t fall into the “woke” column, then you belong to a separate “sleep” group, as nicknamed by Al Sharpton during a Friday MSNBC appearance. “Right now, we're seeing racially conservative pundits and politicians positioning themselves as adversaries of the multiracial Black Lives Matter movement,' said Lopez Bunyasi. 'One of the rhetorical tools they are using is the maligning of a term that has been in use by Black people and in Black politics for well over a hundred years.' Have the anti-woke attacks been successful? Tehama Lopez Bunyasi, a political scientist at George Mason University and co-author of the book 'Stay Woke: A People's Guide to Making All Black Lives Matter,' said the legislation is 'perhaps the most explicit way we see the co-optation of the term 'woke' today.'

In addition to championing the Stop WOKE Act, he has stated that the Sunshine state is ' where woke goes to die.' Ron DeSantis, a possible GOP presidential candidate, has built a persona crusading against wokeness. GOP wins House majority: Republicans send a message to 'woke' businesses- get out of politicsįlorida Gov.

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