The term “Woke Right” doesn’t make any sense! - Rod Martin DMW#226
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Same kind of criticism of woke right. I understand why it's being used.
I'm not entirely sure that some of the people using it understand why they're using it. It's entirely pejorative from my point of view.
It doesn't really criticize an ideology. So the woke part is wrong to the degree that its users are claiming that Christian nationalists are monarchists and so forth.
Well, some of them are. Historically, in the European context, that monarchism is on the right.
In the American context, it absolutely is not. So the right part of it isn't terribly useful.
The woke part of it isn't right. Woke designates very specific beliefs derived from critical theory on the left.
So what's really being criticized is methodology. Well, okay, so you don't like your opponents and you think they're not being fair to you on Twitter.
Calling them woke isn't helpful. So I think both of these terms are muddying the water and we're not really getting where we ought to.