From Jay Bazzinotti: Why are conservatives so up in arms over "woke"?

A Federal judge demanded the chief lawyer for DeSantis to define what “woke” means. The lawyer said, “It would be the belief there are systemic injustices in American society and the need to address them.”

You see, republicans don’t want systemic injustices to be addressed. They want to enshrine those injustices. The want to be able to put down black and brown people; they want rape and statutory rape laws watered down; they want to be able to pollute the environment with impunity; the want to be able to discriminate against handicapped people; they want to be able to discriminate and segregate for any or no reason.

“Wokeness” seems to be realization that republicans have been doing their damnedest to marginalize and criminalize people of color and women, and to legalize the destruction of the environment.

Republicans are desperate to create laws that allow and encourage all-White communities where store owners can refuse service to b****s; can pay their worker below-minimum wage; can skimp on safety and safety equipment; can assault and abuse women with impunity; can dump poison in the ground and water; can eliminate costly safety equipment (re: Ohio train derailment). They want to be able to redline and blackball and destroy education so that b****s are not allowed to move up for forward. “School to jail” is the republican philosophy, and in their for-profit jails they can use prisoners for s***e labor.

That’s why they don’t like “wokeness”. Wokeness is people waking up to what the republicans are doing. Once educated people tend to stray from being Republicans. They can’t have that, so they ban and burn books and destroy schools, especially for minorities. They are against wokeness because it gets in the way of them controlling and subjugating people.

In “real life”, if it weren’t for gerrymandering and v**er suppression, Republicans would rarely win an e******n. Their positions are anathema to almost everyone. Wokeness is part of the dawning of realization on the part of people who might otherwise be conned into believing that war is peace, ignorance is strength and freedom is s***ery. The only freedom you need is the freedom to shop at Walmart. Republicans will tell you how to act otherwise. When to say the Pledge of Allegiance; when to go to church and which god to worship; when to kneel and sit and stand; when to “support the troops” no matter who they are raping and torturing; when to “comply” to cops who are shooting people in the back; when women can and can’t say no to sex and to lie back and enjoy their rape and when and how they can pro-create.

Of course, they are going to be against “wokeness”. It makes it harder for them to control the people they don’t like.