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I’m going to start with a bit of advice my first Philosophy prof gave us in our intro class. He said, “If you can’t paraphrase somebody else’s position in a way that they would agree with, you don’t understand it, and if you don’t understand it, you can’t debate it.”
I would bet good money that’s the problem you’re having: you don’t really know what one (or either) of these terms means.
If you stop just taking on-board how right wing outlets and pundits represent those words and look at what they actually mean, the answer is pretty obvious.
In short, “woke” means someone is aware of biases and systems in our society that create biases and inequality.
What you call “liberals” (and isn’t actually what that term means) is almost certainly what most people would call “leftists” or “progressives” - a group for whom one of the main shared values is equality/justice.
So now, let’s rephrase your question based on these definitions: “Why would people who care about equality be aware of, and want to fix, systems that create inequality?” …..sounds pretty obvious, right?
