Skillet's John Cooper says woke activists have 'big hearts' but are 'hurting themselves'
Skillet frontman John Cooper believes people labeled "woke" are often motivated by good intentions — but warned their approach can ultimately "hurt society.""I think it’s really worth mentioning that people that we would call woke, the things that we find really problematic, I think it's worth mentioning that most of those people really have big hearts," Cooper said during a recent appearance on the "Unashamed with the Robertson Family" podcast."They want justice.
They want the world to be better.""They’re just going about it in a way that they don’t know is wrong, and it’s actually hurting them," he continued."It’s hurting everybody.
It hurts society."SKILLET’S JOHN COOPER SAYS CHRISTIANS WHO CALL ROCK MUSIC ‘DEMONIC’ ARE ‘GETTING THE GOSPEL WRONG’Skillet frontman John Cooper spoke out about people he considers "woke." (Getty Images)He said that inner cities in particular are "getting so much worse," saying, "I look at the things that the politicians that say they want to help the poor, they want to help the marginalized, they want to help people of color, whatever it may be, and all they do is keep hurting them more and more and more."BRANTLEY GILBERT SLAMS ARTISTS WHO BACK OUT OF PATRIOTIC SHOWS UNDER HEATCooper said he believes that "the woke probably have good intentions," and pointed to people he knows personally as proof.John Cooper is seen performing with Skillet on Sept.6, 2026 in Dyersville, Iowa.
(Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images)"I know these people.Some of them work for me.
They’ve worked for me for 15 years.I love them," he said.
"And I say to them, ‘I know you’re trying to be a good person, but it’s going to hurt people.’"The musician ultimately attributed his disagreement with those views to his Christian faith."What they’re doing is not true, and it’s not based on the Bible," Cooper said."It goes against the way God tells us how to live.
They end up hurting themselves, and now we've got a culture so nihilistic t...