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Why wokeness has pitched the left into crisis
El Pais ^ | 3/11/24 | Sergio C. Fanjul

Posted on 07/02/2024 10:41:10 AM PDT by DallasBiff

Woke is not what it used to be. For some years, the term was used to describe those who are sensitive and involved in the struggle against social injustice, especially in U.S. politics, but also in the politics of other countries following suit perhaps to a lesser degree. Woke was a label proudly worn by activists in pursuit of social and climate justice: from Black Lives Matter to the #MeToo movement and the fight against global warming. Woke seemed to advocate a new era of equality and justice.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Society
KEYWORDS: democrat; left; woke

I know I shouldn't paraphrase but what the heck, "Ding Dong the woke are dead".

1 posted on 07/02/2024 10:41:10 AM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

Because they said the quiet part out loud?


2 posted on 07/02/2024 10:44:35 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Roses are red, Violets are blue, I love being on the government watch list, along with all of you.)
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To: DallasBiff

Woke is a religion, minus the forgiveness, grace, mercy, love, wisdom, patience or hope.


3 posted on 07/02/2024 10:48:53 AM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: DallasBiff

Living a personal woke lifestyle is one thing. Forcing the agenda on others, with the stance that anyone not 100% woke is racist, homophobic, transphobic, climate change denier, and a right-wing extremist, is a whole different matter. A lot of Americans have tired of the latter.


4 posted on 07/02/2024 10:50:22 AM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: lurk

Woke is the rally call to Soros Summer Camp. But parents aren’t loving the overgrown basement dwellers anymore Sept-June. Too Bad so sad get a job.


5 posted on 07/02/2024 10:53:17 AM PDT by cnsmom
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To: DallasBiff
 
 
Woke seemed to advocate a new era of equality and justice.
 
More like an affliction of chaos and failure.
 
 

6 posted on 07/02/2024 10:54:46 AM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: DallasBiff

As Augustus (Brian Blessed) said in I Claudius, “You murderers of your own posterity”.


7 posted on 07/02/2024 11:07:26 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: lurk

If you click on my name you will see one of my predictions from way back—twenty years ago...

“At least one new cult will rise to become a major world religion. I have no clue what they will believe, but I am confident it will be totally crazy.”


8 posted on 07/02/2024 11:09:50 AM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: lapsus calami

When someone says words like equality, equity, justice and social justice you know they want to steal your stuff and then kill you.


9 posted on 07/02/2024 11:10:59 AM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: DallasBiff

woke replace politically correct cuz pc was getting beat up

that is what the LEFT does it just changes labels and keeps pushing with the same collectivist ideology

progressive/liberal/progressive

the words change the push for tyranny remains the same

woke is as pc was

tyranny wrapped in a cloak of common decency


10 posted on 07/02/2024 11:19:35 AM PDT by joshua c
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To: DallasBiff

“Woke” should be adopted to mean pig-headed about things that just ain’t so.


11 posted on 07/02/2024 11:21:41 AM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: cgbg
 
 
Yes, you understand that perfectly. It's cover words & policies for just another angle of organized crime.
 
 

12 posted on 07/02/2024 11:26:15 AM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: DallasBiff

They forgot all about political correctness censorship, which has been with us since the late eighties, the true worst thing the baby boomers wrought. They were between 25 and 43 when they enacted that madness. Woke didn’t originate by itself. It’s the second generation.


13 posted on 07/02/2024 11:26:33 AM PDT by Luke21
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To: DallasBiff

Re photo in post 1:
Repeal XIX
(probably already too late)


14 posted on 07/02/2024 12:26:02 PM PDT by A strike (no tyranny that cannot be justified by 'climate change')
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To: DallasBiff

The Hillsdale College video course on the American Left is well worth a view:

https://online.hillsdale.edu/courses/american-left


15 posted on 07/02/2024 12:28:11 PM PDT by PfromHoGro (Orwell was optimistic.)
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To: lurk

“Woke” is the religion of perversion, hatred, mutilation, theft, and death.

“Woke” is the worship of the Seven Deadly Sins as virtues.


16 posted on 07/02/2024 12:47:36 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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