southsamurai , 4 hours ago

Tbh, being woke and being in a mob are not going to go together well.

You’d either have just a big group of people protesting peacefully, or you’d have a revolution which is far from a mob in any typical sense of the word.

Remember, “woke” started as a term for awareness of systemic inequality. It doesn’t directly equate to mob action in that sense, though it could involve large scale direct action which could involve the kind of action you’d think of as anything from “unrest” up to rioting, depending on the situation.

Woke in the sense that it has come to also mean is basically taking the awareness of social inequities and working to change them. This is typically not a position held by the kind of extremists that would form a mob in the usual sense. You get into people that want to overturn the system entirely, and they tend to be following some specific set of beliefs that are the goal, with any inequities being a side goal or just a part of those beliefs.

But the way the conservative, fascist, and far right twits use the term, they’re just moving words around the way they used to whine about being politically correct, and before that whined because they couldn’t be openly racist or otherwise bigoted. Now, this is opposed to the above mentioned categories that aren’t twits, who use the word woke as a dog whistle intentionally as a way to manipulate the twits.

Don’t forget, being a bigot and fascist doesn’t actually mean a lack of brain power. Trying to pretend otherwise underestimates a very dangerous group of enemies that literally want to return us to a state where only white men hold power at all. Underestimating an enemy that dangerous gives them freedom to succeed.