Embrace Woke Act of 2022

## Act of the Chawopolis Palace

Imperial Coat of Arms of the Empire of Chawosauria

## Piece of Legislation

### Long Title

*An Act to address institutional discrimination and preferential treatment of socio-economic classes of society in curriculum*

## Codification

### Acts Amended

* Civil Rights Act of 2020
* Civil Rights Act of 2021
* Always Say Gay Act of 2022

## Legislative History

* **Passed with unanimous consent by the** 2020-2024 Chawosaurian Government **on** December 11, 2022**.**
* **Narrowly approved by** Independent Checkers (501-499) **on** December 11, 2022**.**
* **Signed into law by representative signature by** General Secretary Linghu Xiaoliang **on behalf of** Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker **on** December 11, 2022**.**

The **Embrace Woke Act of 2022** is a controversial Chawosaurian law that embraces the teaching of systemic racism and institutional discrimination and preferential treatment of socio-economic groups of society by establishments of power and authority in Chawosaurian curriculum. Though it easily passed with unanimous consent by the 2020-2024 Chawosaurian Government and signed into law by General Secretary Linghu Xiaoliang on Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker's behalf, the Embrace Woke Act garners mixed reactions from the Chawosaurian public.

The choice of title of this law is odd but no accident, it was in response to the U.S. State of Florida's Stop Woke Act signed into law by its governor, Ron DeSantis, in 2022. Naming it after an idea called *Woke*, or a term that means alerting to racial discrimination. The recent movement for racial justice spurred by the bitterly controversial police killing of George Floyd in 2020 and the cultural and societal fallout it has caused enabled Republicans to associate that to *Woke*, and successfully attached that to left-wing extremism, and it paid off in the 2021 U.S. offyear elections, prominently of all, a governor's race in Virginia, but that turned out to be a fluke and the Republican strategy collapsed in the 2022 U.S. midterm elections due to a surge in right-wing extremism in the Republican Party and it made it hard for Republicans to tie Democrats to extremism without looking like hypocrites in the process, resulting in a history-making embarrassing performance by the Republicans under the unpopular Democratic President Joe Biden who was presiding over a U.S. economy that has been aching with inflation and vulnerable to another recession. The '22 midterm results showed Democrats gaining ground in the U.S. Senate and state governments under a Democrat president for the first time since 1934 and just only barely losing control of the U.S. House of Representatives mainly due to redistricting and polarization.

The Chawosaurian politics of the Embrace Woke Act is contentious, which was surprising given how left-wing Chawosauria is. There had been a growing fatigue of the Black Lives Matter movement among Chawosaurians since the movement escalated in 2020, which back in 2020, Chawosaurians were sympathetic to the Black American community, but that empathy has worn off by 2022 because Chawosauria started having their own domestic issues: the Chawo-Uralic War, the looming 2024 Chawosaurian midterm elections, growing weariness among Chawosaurians of space exploration launched by the Artemis Program, and Chawosaurian concern for the Russian invasion of Ukraine.