The hijacking of words for usage other than the traditional dictionary meanings confuses everyone. We cannot even form sentences anymore without it being rendered as political.

Maybe governent should stop linguistic destruction.

Every name they choose re-defines terms, seemingly.

Nobody thinks the opposite of "woke" is staying asleep and ignorant, even though it is.

Nobody thinks the opposite of "welfare" is misery and illness, even though it is.

I have a pinned post for exactly this:

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The entire #MAGA / #GOP / #Republican world view is constructed on a patchwork of co-opted, stolen and distorted leftist political history

But that's the way of it: when you have no coherent response for a leftist political concept, steal it, invert it, and make it into something it never was

"woke"?

To be 'woke' itself was a Black Power concept: to be self-aware and understand how the Negro had been, and was still to this day, oppressed by the white race, even after slavery was supposedly abolished

CNN has it better:

“Woke” is tied to the idea of specific awareness of mechanisms of anti-Blackness. It’s more about the directive to be awake. In the philosophy and opinions of Marcus Garvey published in 1923, we see the phrase, “Wake up Ethiopia! Wake up Africa! And let us work towards the one glorious end of a free, redeemed and mighty nation.”