Posted on 04/21/2018 1:20:20 PM PDT by ethom
WTF is this “woke” crap people are talking about?
Proggies not only suffer from cognitive dissonance, now they’re creating and promoting it. Loonies creating more loonies. God help America.
Usually.
Did you read the comments?
There’s a Hillary thread, too. I’d have to find it.
Rap seems to flourish...
she’s fat and her vagina jokes are getting old
Hell is a place where you hear someone say, “woke”, for eternity.
Maxine waters uses it, so just ignore it She’s “woke” to all the evils of trump. It’s for people who can’t conjugate verbs.
Alternative titles: Shallow Gal, Whine and Dine, The poor man’s Leah Dunham.
SHALLOW HAL did this already...
2001
SJW’s really using the term “woke?”
With them; we can not even joke.
I’d rather be dead,
or slapped upside the head,
than with their bony finger be poked.
two really funny stand up comedians,
Sebastian Maniscalco and Dwayne Perkins.
I am still trying to figure out the word ‘Woke’ used in the article.
“WTF is this “woke” crap people are talking about?”
It just means agreeing with the left.
“I am still trying to figure out the word ‘Woke’ used in the article.”
It’s what “social justice warriors”, radical feminists, and other Left activists use to describe people who have converted to their causes.
Stems - I’m guessing - from the 1960s concept of “false consciousness”, which was invidiously promoted by the New Left to describe average-American middle class types who lived in their sheltered little world, unaware of the terrible crimes, injustices, oppression, and exploitation being perpetrated against the poor, on “indigenous peoples,” on African-Americans, on women, etc by First World imperialist nations - especially by the United States.
Radical Left feminists used it heavily to stir up housewives. The snide, condescending implication was that people who actually thought life was good and that the US was a force for goodness were dreaming. The New Left bent itself to the task of waking them up.
Pop culture has exploited the notion of an entire alternate reality, which the average person does not suspect the existence of: the Matrix films leaned heavily on the idea, and the Wachowski siblings used it in their more recent film Jupiter Ascending (they may have used it in Cloud Atlas too, but I’ve yet to make sense of that film).
“woke” in preference to “awakened” has connotations of ghetto slang, which meshes well with modern victimology.
Current targets of false-consciousness indoctrination are college students, who are browbeaten into believing they have to “wake up” and learn the “true nature” of the world around them, which they’ve been blissfully unaware of - asleep as they have been during their (unjustly privileged) upbringing.
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