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Where woke went wrong
Financial Review ^ | 2/11/25 | Henry Mance

Posted on 03/12/2025 1:55:21 PM PDT by DallasBiff

All revolutions face a backlash. A few years ago, Elon Musk and other supporters of Donald Trump started denouncing the “woke mind virus”. In 2023, the US Supreme Court ruled that affirmative action in university admissions was illegal. Right-wing activists began preparing legal warfare against companies with high-profile diversity initiatives.

Since becoming president, Trump has ordered an end to federal government diversity efforts, including some dating back to Lyndon Johnson, and may expel trans people from the US military.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History
KEYWORDS: woke
Gee Henry isn't the concept of woke wrong? Like basing performance on a job due to color of skin and sexual organs.
1 posted on 03/12/2025 1:55:21 PM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

Its fundamentally flawed.


2 posted on 03/12/2025 2:08:21 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: DallasBiff

It’s where it came from that is wrong. Not where it went. Ot is just another Marxist commie strategy to destroy everything good and decent.


3 posted on 03/12/2025 2:19:10 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: DallasBiff

In a word “everything”. Don’t need to say anything else.


4 posted on 03/12/2025 2:47:36 PM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: DallasBiff

w


5 posted on 03/12/2025 3:26:28 PM PDT by sopo
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To: DallasBiff

WHY WOKE Got CANCELLED: A Societal POST-MORTEM
by Black Pigeon Speaks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oynVYPtPndE


6 posted on 03/12/2025 3:39:49 PM PDT by Tom Tetroxide (Psalm 146:3 "Do not trust in princes, in the Son of Man, who has no salvation.")
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To: Secret Agent Man

Fundamentally borderline evil.


7 posted on 03/12/2025 4:44:36 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: KC_Conspirator

It is evil. Its a form of totalitarianism.


8 posted on 03/12/2025 5:06:01 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: DallasBiff
Wow, late by six weeks. One of the worst "duplicate necro-postings" in recent memory.


Where ‘woke’ went wrong

02/02/2025 6:28:06 PM PST · by DoodleBob · 25 replies
Financial Times ^ | February 1, 2025 | Henry Mance

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4294487/posts

9 posted on 03/12/2025 5:17:58 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: Tom Tetroxide

I haven’t watched Black Pigeon in a while. I’ll have to take a look.


10 posted on 03/12/2025 6:25:14 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you i9s how they. control you. )
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