"the woke right"
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There needs to be more resistance to their constant warping of language. It's easy to not care about labels like this personally, but the average person doesn't follow these rapid definition changes anywhere near as closely. Allowing "woke" and other words to be quickly rebranded is very dangerous, because the typical person only has a vague understanding that "woke" means "bad/thing I don't like." Once terms like "woke right" enter common use, that same person will simply conclude that some of the right is the same kind of bad as the left.
This has already happened to other derogatory terms, like snowflake. All original meaning has been lost, and now it's something you'll see spammed as a reply on Reddit or news comment sections when you suggest reducing immigration.
Problem is, that's just like saying "fight the memes!" Like Hillary Clinton paying people to attack Pepe the fucking frog.
These language changes happen through memetic means, just like all evolutions in language, and the only way to really combat them is to have equal power and reach to shit on and discredit them as they try it. Otherwise they will just keep saying it over and over until it slowly bleeds into random places elsewhere and gets exposed to people slowly that way.
Otherwise all we can really do is defensively talk to individual people about it preemptively and shield them from falling for it when they hear it by presenting our own version to them. Which isn't very ideal.
Yeah it is far easier to induce an idea into someone, even unwillingly, than it is to willingly forget about one. E.G. "Whatever you do, don't think of elephants"
Rather than focusing on a perfect defense and never letting language get misused, it'd be more effective to go on the offense and just continually introduce the idea that people who do twist words like that deserve the gift of a few surprise free tooth extractions. If that spreads far enough as a meme we'll have fewer repeat offenders