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Post by jdredd on Sept 15, 2022 20:03:35 GMT -5
Ha-ha-ha!! Despite the right’s anti-woke hysteria, Wokeness is still winning. Locally, three places with the term “squaw” in the name have been changed to Native American names.
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Post by jdredd on Sept 17, 2022 2:16:50 GMT -5
I could of course be wrong but it feels like the right’s anti-woke offensive is losing steam, after peaking with the election of Youngkin in Virginia. That’s what happens to propaganda campaigns. You convince everyone you are able to convince, and then you lose momentum, just like what happened to BLM.
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Post by jdredd on Sept 24, 2022 12:16:30 GMT -5
Well, Dennis Prager is fighting the good fight against wokeism. Sounds like he’s trying to separate liberals from leftists. History has proven that is not too difficult.
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Post by jdredd on Oct 17, 2022 21:00:34 GMT -5
Ha-ha! Even the con man Barack has jumped on the antiwoke bandwagon, calling the woke “buzzkills”. Did they catch him after he did some coke?
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Post by jdredd on Nov 11, 2022 11:33:31 GMT -5
Just watched the love fest between Jordan Peterson and good old Newt Gingrich. I guess Jordan’s slide into MAGA land made that inevitable. Or maybe it’s also MACA. But they agree that “Graduate School Educated elites” are the enemies of the innocent and fragile working class. Good thing billionaires like Elon Musk is going to save them with the help of St. DeSantis, Trump getting fired by the Republican Establishment now that they used him. And Jordan/Newt closed with claiming the “insane” wing of the Democrats wants to literally kill them. To which I say, why make martyrs out of douchebags?
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Post by jdredd on Nov 14, 2022 14:36:00 GMT -5
Jordan is interviewing Yoram Hazony, a End Boomer Israeli Nationalist, and he is ranting against “Woke Neo-Marxism”. I wonder what old nutcase Marx would think about that? But Woke is now the one-size-fits-all description for everything the right hates. But the term will fade from overuse and the right will have to come up with another word for all they dislike.
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Post by jdredd on Nov 18, 2022 14:44:43 GMT -5
“Moms for Liberty”. Really? Only from Florida. I used to think Texas was the most obnoxious state. Abbott better pick up his game.
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Post by jdredd on Feb 28, 2023 18:52:43 GMT -5
Listened to Old Fart Jordan Peterson join with New Fart Christopher Rufo to lob shells at wokeism. They had to admit that creative people lean to the left. On the other hand, I think the whole Left-Right dichotomy is falling apart.
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Post by jdredd on Mar 26, 2023 15:12:31 GMT -5
I think this would be a good thread to put attacks on the LGBT+ community in. 2024 could be a big year for the Culture War, unless of course the economy collapses or there is WWIII. We are certainly pushing for that in the Ukraine and Taiwan, both places the Neocons want to “save”.
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Post by jdredd on Mar 27, 2023 23:08:28 GMT -5
It makes me laugh that some people believe Marxism and Wokeism is synonymous.
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Post by jdredd on Apr 10, 2023 19:55:36 GMT -5
The title of a YouTube video is “Lucasfilm gets ROASTED for Woke Message in Indiana Jones trailer “. One character says an anti-Capitalism joke. Is that “woke”? I’m thinking that when a term is used so broadly it probably is not going to have a really long lifespan.
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Post by jdredd on Jul 7, 2023 23:41:13 GMT -5
Maybe I’m seeing the fringe but the war on wokeism is reaching a peak of hysteria, especially in what I care about which is cinema. Frankly, I’m enjoying all the invective. Spices up a dull day.
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Post by jdredd on Jul 28, 2023 13:49:00 GMT -5
From the New Culture Forum: Woke will go extinct because traditional families are out-reproducing them. Maybe, eventually, but i claim woke people are made not born. That’s why it’s called “woke”.
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Post by jdredd on Aug 6, 2023 22:04:41 GMT -5
The Unwoke blowhards ranted and raged against Barbie but it made a zillion dollars. Makes me laugh.
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Post by jdredd on Jan 21, 2024 20:06:54 GMT -5
There is an update on the war against wokeism in today’s NYT:
“ Centered at the Claremont Institute, a California-based think tank with close ties to the Trump movement and to Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, the group coalesced roughly three years ago around a sweeping ambition: to strike a killing blow against “the leftist social justice revolution” by eliminating “social justice education” from American schools.”
Somehow I find this all very amusing. Is it just because it’s old farts fighting against the tide of change? Or maybe it’s me out of touch. Of course I am isolated on top of my hill and no longer walk the halls of academia or the sewers of business.
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