“Woke,” a term originating in Black vernacular as a warning against racism, morphed first into a term for liberal social justice advocates then into a conservative swipe against liberals. The term has no standard definition.
Ryan Newman, DeSantis’ general counsel said,"Generally, the belief there are systemic injustices in American society and the need to address them." And in his newly released book,"The Courage to Be Free," DeSantis himself added a third definition:"What constitutes ‘woke’ is open to debate, but for the left, a fundamental attribute of wokeness is the subordination of facts and evidence to anecdote and ideology.
John Feehery, a Republican strategist who served as press secretary for former House Speaker Dennis Hastert, told PolitiFact that"woke" started on the left and the GOP rebukes it reasonably. The poll, backed by the tech industry-oriented, left-leaning Chamber of Progress, ran in November 2022 and didn’t mention"woke" specifically.Fifteen percent of voters said it’s among their top three goals to"make sure schools don’t teach a ‘woke’ political agenda" in a national Hart Researchcommissioned by the left-leaning American Federation of Teachers.
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