Author, D. Denise Dianaty
1 min readMay 17, 2023

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Clear rightwing talking points you've dumped there. "Woke" is not "totalitarian" anything. Being woke is seeing with discernment. "Woke" isn't a religion. It's not a movement. It's just a way of being awake to the ills of society and wanting to bring about change for a more just and equitable society.

Woke is not a codified movement, group, or agenda any more than is AntiFa. It's been warped into an umbrella term to demonize all social justice issues.

Folks James Finn and all the marginalized people who have no opition but to be awake to those ill will keep being woke – they haven't any other choice. Girls and women like me have to be awake to our dehumanization too as our rights and bodily autonomy are stripped away. People like me, who empathize instead of denigrating them for their suffering, will keep being woke. Folks like me don't want to watch those marginalized people die from their marginalization. We are awake to their humanity and recognize the institutionalized efforts to dehumanize them.

You don't have to be awake to those things. But, you don't get to tell us we're wrong for being woke to them.

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Author, D. Denise Dianaty
Author, D. Denise Dianaty

Written by Author, D. Denise Dianaty

Artist, Poet, author, wife & mom May my epitaph be "She reflected love into the world."

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