To the young Republicans in attendance, the vernacular feels a bit cringe. “We don’t really use ‘woke’ as our term,” says Evan Masse, a student at the Community College of Rhode Island. Chris Johnson, the managing director of Young Conservatives for Carbon Dividends, likened its use to how an out-of-touch uncle might search for the words to describe a nephew at the Thanksgiving table. “I think a lot of older folks use it if they don’t really know what they’re referring to,” he says. “It’s a catchall colloquialism.”
Several young conservatives I spoke with at CPAC echoed some version of that criticism of party elders. Some worry that going so hard on “woke” — a term now used almost entirely derogatorily by Republican detractors — will turn off upcoming generations of voters already disinclined to support the GOP. Others simply said it had lost its meaning, as many once-favored slang terms do, when the septuagenarians in Congress started punctuating their Fox News hits with it. This next generation of GOP activists nevertheless support the principles behind the “woke” wars — the market basket of education- and gender-related policies being passed in red states across the country. They just really wish the Olds would stop saying “woke.”
You might as well tell boomers to stop posting minions. "Woke" hit some lizard neuron deep in their brain and they will keep saying it until they're dead.
"Woke" is the new "politically correct" but it's easier to say and type, so it puts less of a stress on the synapses of your average reactionary.
It’s because they can’t publicly call people the N word so “woke” is the best next thing
Works fine for me.
Noooo, don't associate us with awareness and yourselves with unconscious ignorance. Anything but that!
WOKE republican zoomers trying to CANCEL their elders for being POLITICALLY INCORRECT
joining the gullible rube ideology and being surprised that everyone around me is a gullible rube
why would a Young Republican know anything about what's cool? they're objectively lamer than any boomer. Unhip and meaningless and Cringe as it is, complaining about Woke has been a rhetorical superweapon for the right. Just by implanting it in someone's brain they convey their entire paranoid, aggrieved worldview. It beats previous reactionary scarewords by being totally nonspecific, so that the enemy can truly be lurking in every shadow and behind every corner. Maybe it won't work on fascist zoomers, but they don't vote anyway.
plot twist, young kkkonservatives want their uncle to stop saying "woke" and start saying "jews" (This is what the nick fuentes interview with alex jones basically was, anyway)
I must not be woke. :up-yours-woke-moralists:
Woke is the mind-virus. :melon-musk:
Woke is the little-death that brings total obliteration. :gayroller-2000:Where the woke has gone there will be nothing. Only :grillman: will remain.
Mr. Beast party creates universal healthcare, but you have to agree to be in one of his videos to access it.
I don't mean to temper your optimism, but this is exactly what was said about boomers too. They were considered a massive political break from their parents (WW2 vets). Boomers were rock and roll, they were hippies, they would run away from home to join a commune in the woods and drop acid. From the perspective of someone in the 70s, it seemed like a massive shift was imminent at any moment.
And it didn't turn out that way, material interests always win. Maybe millennials won't have the housing security as boomers, so that may be the deciding factor.
It'll be the deciding factor for many of them to advocate for tepid social democracy that gets bumped around by fascism for decades as the empire declines, possibly winning a couple of reforms along the way.
I hate how I can’t hope for anything to be better than the worst case scenario. Score one for sinking into hedonism while I still have time I guess?
It's only the worst case if you think the existence of the US is necessary for a socialist future, when the opposite is probably true.
I’m more worried about the mask off fascist hell hole slaughtering millions of people but yes
We’ve been waiting for the Baby Boomers to go extinct for about two decades and counting. We had an almost totally unchecked plague rip through the USA and it mostly just killed off the Silent Generation. This cultural shift won’t happen just by waiting.
a massive political shift is coming as boomers die out and Millenials become the primary demographic
The shift has happened. We replaced Romney and Bush with Trump and DeSantis.
They're louder, they're more vulgar, they're openly confrontational, they still have no idea how to govern but now they're more openly hostile to those that do. This is it. This is the Millennial GOP.
They've felt like a dying roar since Goldwater. But they still keep socially reproducing.
young conservative dipshits on reddit constantly use "woke" in the boomer way. these guys need to stop lying to themselves.
What makes you think they're young? Reddit has become fucking swamped with boomers, especially in the past 5 years.
Its just the corpse of John McCain being lugged around - Weekend at Bernie's Style - by two Wall Street junior partners.
lmao imagine being a young republican and actually thinking you could change a boomer GOP POS into listening to someone younger than them.
Young Conservatives thinking they have any right to point fingers about being cringe is pretty funny tbh
Legit saw adds from the Danish People Party (think Völkish Nationalism and pseudo-scientific racism) saying that they were against "woke". Not "wokeness", or "wokeism", just against "woke". Surprisingly, they got wallomped in the latest election, though they now appear to be in ascendancy as the other right wing parties are infighting to the point of impotence.
GO WOKE GO BROKE
btw, we need a special [redacted]cide for the young republicans. boomers are honestly far preferable because they're so fucking stupid.
Shoutout to that Young Republicans college group nerd who got owned so hard he went on Fox News to publicly say "I'm not owned! I'm not owned!" in front of millions of people and then showed his own picture that he got owned with. :cracker:
The second someone says woke like that I write them off as a dumbass
I mean, they gave a name and school, I can probably find that fucker and bully them myself from the comfort of my couch.
Probably just guy@ccri.edu
Honestly the thing that takes work is just finding the college email address
The tik tok gen zers not kkonservatives
Though I have seen that younger people tend to skew toward purity which is concerning to say the least
skew toward purity
what do you mean exactly? that gen zers are sex-negative? They're definitely less sexually active by a noticeable margin, but that may be an understandable consequence of the fact that a) many live at home at levels not seen since the 40s, b) growing up with easily accessible porn and the possibility of being a victim of revenge porn, c) drinking and smoking less than previous generations, which leads to less impulsive behaviour including sex.
NO WE WANT THEM TO BE BEATEN BY BIBLES TO FEAR SEX, THAT IS THE PURITY WE WANT!!! :frothingfash:
I have faith that some portion of zoomers will heavily dab on these nerds and _____ while ______ them ______ _______ in roblox
