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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Whenever any cretin begins a writing with the words “the murder of George Floyd,” what you see is a fool!
I called it 1.5 years ago that the winds had changed.
Very happy I was correct.
“You’re not wrong but I’m kinda traditional. I like “Godless communism.””
It’s THAT, also!
Most women need to shut up for awhile. This is one.
“Wokeness is dying. We might miss it.”
No. No we won’t.
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