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Woke is dead — let’s make sure it never comes back
NY Post ^ | 12/30/24 | Lionel Shriver

Posted on 12/31/2024 4:03:46 AM PST by Libloather

**SNIP**

Whatever the more complex truth of the matter, it’s in our interest to promote the trope that woke is over. That woke has been vanquished. That woke is totally yesterday, hopelessly stale and played out. That the rest of us are moving on to genuinely thorny questions that aren’t stupid. That we’ll no longer waste our time pushing back against petty amateur linguists who insist we call the portly “people living with obesity.”

That, whatever our private reservations about the guy, Trump’s election marks a hard Before and After. That as Kamala would say, we’ve “turned the page” and “we’re not going back.”

Is that an echo?

Because when you say something enough times (this is a gambit the wokesters themselves have mastered) you can make it true. Wokesters are highly suggestible. Furthermore, most of these folks don’t really care about social justice. They care about appearing to care about social justice. They care about other people’s esteem. They care about fitting in.

They echo what everyone else around them says, because being a mindless copycat means other mindless copycats will like them and they’ll keep their friends and their jobs. And they care about social fashion.

So they won’t spout lingo like “cisgender” if that might risk an eye-roll at parties. They won’t want to seem behind the times. If we convince them that woke is over, that their BLM lawn signs are passé, that maundering about “white privilege” is boring and old hat, they’ll drop the whole patriarchy/neurodiversity/heteronormativity et al package in a New York minute.

We just have to persuade them that woke is unhip. Which it always has been, but some people are slow.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; History
KEYWORDS: dead; dei; pronouns; woke
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To: Libloather

I have a former colleague that went to work for a competitor at a Big 4 consulting firm. She became DEI grifter queen over there and DEI was written all over her Linked In page for years. A few weeks after the election not a single mention of DEI on her Linked in; been totally scrubbed.


21 posted on 12/31/2024 6:06:27 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: SaveFerris

It’s time to turn back to God not turn our backs on God.

We need to repent and pray for a spiritual awakening in America. It is our only hope.
..................................

AMEN. I couldn’t agree more.


22 posted on 12/31/2024 6:14:31 AM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: Libloather

Good riddance.


23 posted on 12/31/2024 6:19:26 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Only 21 days of the Bidenskyyyyyyyy "Scorched Earth Exit" left.)
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To: KC_Conspirator

“A few weeks after the election not a single mention of DEI on her Linked in; been totally scrubbed.”

Somebody needs to tell her there is something called the “Wayback Machine” that archived all her old Link in profiles”.

That web site is a “must have” for anyone hiring or interviewing applicants for any job.


24 posted on 12/31/2024 6:20:45 AM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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To: equaviator

The eternal question...

https://youtu.be/oAatPPEaZDA?si=4Ryi2e-i4m2sB5Pp


25 posted on 12/31/2024 6:23:50 AM PST by CTyank
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To: Libloather

Lesson learned: If people didn’t vote democrat Woke would have
never happened nor the transgender movement
and many other dangerous things.


26 posted on 12/31/2024 6:45:36 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: Libloather

Not dead yet

Just resting up

Its amazing our side thnks its dead because of one win

Why we incrementally keep losing

They are ever vigilant, we are never vigilant


27 posted on 12/31/2024 7:01:16 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Vaduz

Not true

Woke is just socialism

NGOs would push the agenda like they’ve done on so many others.


28 posted on 12/31/2024 7:03:24 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Libloather

XX and XY restrooms.


29 posted on 12/31/2024 7:04:52 AM PST by bgill
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To: Libloather

It is FAR from dead. Maybe 10% of it has been undone, but not much more.


30 posted on 12/31/2024 7:10:25 AM PST by montag813
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To: Libloather

“Woke is dead — let’s make sure it never comes back”

The Democratic Party is dead — let’s make sure it never comes back

There, fixed it


31 posted on 12/31/2024 7:10:36 AM PST by antidemoncrat ( )
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To: Secret Agent Man

They are ever vigilant, we are never vigilant

\/

this.

they mean us and our Republic harm and elimination

they are terminators

never give them the benefit of the doubt

never take your eyes off them

never cooperate with them
at all
with anything

quit being nice to the domestic enemies or their supporters

fight
fight
fight


32 posted on 12/31/2024 7:23:58 AM PST by cuz1961 (Isaiah 53:3)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Woke is just socialism

What the hell do you think the democrat party is about?.

Same as for NGOs mask.

Lobbyists smile $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$


33 posted on 12/31/2024 7:29:03 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: lurk

True. Costco’s board of directors sent out a letter to all stockholders URGING them to vote in support of DEI policies of the company. Their board and CEO refuse to let wokeness DIE.


34 posted on 12/31/2024 8:57:16 AM PST by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: Libloather

Woke is far from dead.

But its glory days have passed.

Just as atheism is not dead.

But its glory days have passed.


35 posted on 12/31/2024 9:35:37 AM PST by ckilmer
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To: Libloather

Just like domestic communism, it ain’t dead.


36 posted on 12/31/2024 10:06:45 AM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: Libloather
Fans Slam Dungeons & Dragons for Making New ‘Woke’ Rules at the Expense of ‘Authenticity’


Rumors of woke's death have been greatly exagerrated?

37 posted on 12/31/2024 1:30:17 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: Vaduz

Yes the dems are socialist

You aren’t telling me anything I don’t know


38 posted on 12/31/2024 3:17:27 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Vaduz

What I meant was even if they couldn’t get dem politicians in where they are, they’d still use NGO groups to work for their political goals

Because that is what they do


39 posted on 12/31/2024 3:19:30 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Libloather

bookmark


40 posted on 12/31/2024 7:41:30 PM PST by simpson96
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