DjangoFett@lemmy.zip 21 hours ago
I’ll start with the TL;DR, they’re probably bootlickers. To be decidedly less brief:
“Woke” is so stupid in how it is used and meant.
The original colloquialism was about being genuinely aware of what is happening and “awake to reality” with an almost Matrix-like connotation to it. Enlightened, in a sense.
Now it means a tumblrista who has more hair dye than actual sense and is overly concerned with how they feel versus reality. That is, if you are to ask the person in question. And that character assassination doesn’t come from nowhere if we’re being perfectly honest with ourselves.
Anti-woke at this point is associated with fascism in a distinctly similar misrepresentation of the original term, though perhaps still a bit more appropriate. Gotta be brain-dead or asleep to be okay with fascism after all, so it isn’t perhaps as far off the mark.
The person OP describes exists in several instances of the fediverse as well, just wearing a different uniform and flying a few very specific flags. Ultimately they are all secret bootlickers. They secretly worship the strongmen because it allows them to outsource the difficult task of thinking to somebody else who views the world in as simplistic a manner as they do. “That’s not a real thing because I don’t experience it” type energy, so belittling/dehumanizing/othering/criminalizing/persecuting groups becomes okay in either active ways or “doesn’t affect me, why should I care” ways in equal measure.
Again, it is important to note who ultimately comes to the defense of these voices and the commonalities they have with straight up fascists. The person you describe may very well vocally support anti-fascist ideologies at first blush, and yet there’s still some authoritarianism in their slant. Like I said, more than happy to relegate their thinking to some form of “greater power” that still views them as the useful idiot. “Well its working just fine for me!”
Yep, keep licking the boot.