Posted on 07/02/2024 9:48:11 AM PDT by DallasBiff
From the Wrong Side of History,” Nellie Bowles, a former New York Times journalist grown disillusioned with both the mainstream media and the left, writes about the year 2020, when the combustible confluence of the pandemic, the murder of George Floyd and the prospect of Donald Trump’s reelection made politics and culture go “berserk.” She describes a liberal intelligentsia “wild with rage and optimism,” brimming with “fresh ideas from academia that began to reshape every part of society.” Her name for this phenomenon, often derided as “wokeness,” is the “New Progressivism,” and her book attempts, with varying degrees of success, to skewer it
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Then again, we might not.
As a matter of fact, we might be amazed and ashamed that we lived through such irrational times.
You are absolutely right. Whites are just wiggers now under Jim Crow 2.0.
It’s NOT “New Progressivism”, NOT “wokeism” — it’s ***RADICAL LEFTISM***.
She was correct, and the author is being highly disingenuous in attempting to find diamonds in the dung. Citing the "racism" of, of all things, the interstate highway system, is beyond silly, as is the notion that the stifling bigotry that is Wokeness has any positive aspects to it at all. It was, and remains, a club intended to enforce crude social and political power over an over-tolerant public.
Yep. America’s version of the Red Guard & the Culture Revolution. Lasting about the same length of time.
“It’s hardly revisionist history, for example, to point out that interstates were tools of racial segregation.”
This sentence gives you a hint of the author’s politics.
I don’t recall it being historical truth that roads were racist, say 20 years ago, or 40 years ago.
So her point is both stupid and revisionist.
> “wokeness,” is the “New Progressivism,”
More syllables means only “smart” people can appreciate it.
I hope it’s over... America’s ‘patience’ is seemingly at an end. Or is it?
I’ll miss it like a kidney stone.
Progressivism uses instability to gain power.
Instability then destroys progressivism.
If you need some paper to line your bird cage grab a copy of the Salt Lake Tribune.
PC by another name.
When you allow others to control, so-called, “narratives” you will endure stupidity!
The tv breast size indicator says that Woke is slowly dying. Breasts on tv are getting larger again.
I only see it increasing.
That has nothing to do with it. In fact they encourage stuff like that.
Fashions come and go.
The new fashion? MAGA
start wearing your hats folks. The red ones.
Can agree to disagree?
You're not wrong but I'm kinda traditional. I like "Godless communism."
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