What is WOKE ??? It turns out, "Woke" is Republican-speak.
John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz
It turns out, "Woke" is Republican-speak for anyone who gives a damn about other human beings or the planet; a dog-whistle slur against expressions of humanity that seek or to spread resources, opportunity, power, and a voice to more people.
To Republicans, Decency is “Woke”
The politics of fear is nothing new.
We’ve seen it throughout history.
It’s a well-worn playbook.
When you lack actual ideas, you need an enemy.
When you have nothing redemptive to offer, you have to create a monster to push back against.
When you are devoid of decency, you need to vilify it and somehow turn that decency into a threat.
That’s what we’re seeing right now in America.
Turn on any Fox News show monologue, read any Right-wing hack news outlet, visit any MAGA influencer’s TikTok page, or sample any Republican politician’s social media account and you’ll find their latest ubiquitous boogeyman: the “Woke Mob.”
They shoehorn the words into every televised conversation, every incendiary think piece, every pearl-clutching press conference—usually tethered to other recently-wielded phrases like “the Radical Left” and “cancel culture.”
These repetitive, nonsensical word salads are designed to terrify their constituents, leverage fear in the easy-manipulated, and to misdirect them from the reality that they have no actual platform, outside of the opposition to progress, the resistance to diversity, the aversion to equity, and the evasion of justice.
It’s woke to want fair elections.
It’s woke to be anti-racist.
It’s woke to be anti-fascist.
It’s woke to trust Science.
It’s woke to wear a mask in a pandemic.
It’s woke to be the parent of a bullied child.
It’s woke to want to be addressed with the gender you identify with.
It’s woke to want a less-polluted community.
Anything that brings equity gets this label from the Right because inequity is its only goal.
read more here....... very interesting ::::
https://johnpavlovitz.com/2021/05/05/when-rep...npavlovitz
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https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216879608
11. Woke is the lazy man's way for describing anything you don't like while avoiding
the need to explain your position because you can just smile with your compatriots as they nod knowingly.
Ask them what it means and they are unable to define it.
I won’t tolerate someone using that word without demanding they define it. It’s impossible for them and only shows their narrow minded selfishness and hypocrisy.
‘Woke’ belongs on the junk heap along with ‘elite’ and a bunch of other useless pissant charged words.
All righty!
John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz
It turns out, "Woke" is Republican-speak for anyone who gives a damn about other human beings or the planet; a dog-whistle slur against expressions of humanity that seek or to spread resources, opportunity, power, and a voice to more people.
To Republicans, Decency is “Woke”
The politics of fear is nothing new.
We’ve seen it throughout history.
It’s a well-worn playbook.
When you lack actual ideas, you need an enemy.
When you have nothing redemptive to offer, you have to create a monster to push back against.
When you are devoid of decency, you need to vilify it and somehow turn that decency into a threat.
That’s what we’re seeing right now in America.
Turn on any Fox News show monologue, read any Right-wing hack news outlet, visit any MAGA influencer’s TikTok page, or sample any Republican politician’s social media account and you’ll find their latest ubiquitous boogeyman: the “Woke Mob.”
They shoehorn the words into every televised conversation, every incendiary think piece, every pearl-clutching press conference—usually tethered to other recently-wielded phrases like “the Radical Left” and “cancel culture.”
These repetitive, nonsensical word salads are designed to terrify their constituents, leverage fear in the easy-manipulated, and to misdirect them from the reality that they have no actual platform, outside of the opposition to progress, the resistance to diversity, the aversion to equity, and the evasion of justice.
It’s woke to want fair elections.
It’s woke to be anti-racist.
It’s woke to be anti-fascist.
It’s woke to trust Science.
It’s woke to wear a mask in a pandemic.
It’s woke to be the parent of a bullied child.
It’s woke to want to be addressed with the gender you identify with.
It’s woke to want a less-polluted community.
Anything that brings equity gets this label from the Right because inequity is its only goal.
read more here....... very interesting ::::
https://johnpavlovitz.com/2021/05/05/when-rep...npavlovitz
31
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216879608
11. Woke is the lazy man's way for describing anything you don't like while avoiding
the need to explain your position because you can just smile with your compatriots as they nod knowingly.
Ask them what it means and they are unable to define it.
I won’t tolerate someone using that word without demanding they define it. It’s impossible for them and only shows their narrow minded selfishness and hypocrisy.
‘Woke’ belongs on the junk heap along with ‘elite’ and a bunch of other useless pissant charged words.
All righty!
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