Posted on 07/06/2019 5:59:01 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
On social media, the country seems to divide into two neat camps: Call them the woke and the resentful. Team Resentment is mannedpun very much intendedby people who are predominantly old and almost exclusively white. Team Woke is young, likely to be female, and predominantly black, brown, or Asian (though white allies do their dutiful part). These teams are roughly equal in number, and they disagree most vehemently, as well as most routinely, about the catchall known as political correctness.
Reality is nothing like this. As scholars Stephen Hawkins, Daniel Yudkin, Miriam Juan-Torres, and Tim Dixon argue in a report published Wednesday, Hidden Tribes: A Study of Americas Polarized Landscape, most Americans dont fit into either of these camps. They also share more common ground than the daily fights on social media might suggestincluding a general aversion to PC culture.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
“Team Resentment is mannedpun very much intendedby people who are predominantly old and almost exclusively white.”
Blatant bias. The “Woke” gang burns with Resentment of what the old white men have achieved; they attribute their own failures to “unfairness” wherein the old white men rigged the system to reward ability and effort. The notion that “Progressives” are high income, highly “educated” (I guess the author conflates “educated” with university attendance), etc., conflicts with most examples I have ever seen. Occupy and Antifa are lowlife trash, not wealthy educated people.
These are pretexts for leftard leaders to steal and leftard masses to beg. Anyway to gain the unearned, undeserved, and something for nothing is the leftard con job.
PC, by definition means intellectually dishonest.
I keep seeing this word “woke”...WTH does that mean anyway???
Is it used instead of “awake, awakened, waking up”????
It doesn’t make any sense the way I’ve seen it used....
If you dont discuss politics at alland just listen to what those around you are sayingyou will find that almost no-one else pays any attention to it.
That is easy to forgetmost people are busy just living their lives and just dont care about public policy stuff unless it is in their face and affects them personally and directly.
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So true. I get along with my neighbors who I know are mostly libs. A bit more live and let live and a bit less social media or MSM propagandizing divisions makes for a better life.
I am not wasting my time reading an article that starts this way. The worst thing about PC culture is the 60% of the country that has been brainwashed and hypnotized to believe that 100% of the country are social justice warriors and make their decisions to appease them.
In other words PC is a profitable industry for an overeducated elite who somehow make a living telling everyone else what to think.
It's a union.
I don't discuss politics in public with anyone unless I know them very well because the risk/reward analysis always falls into too much risk and no reward.
We discuss politics in the voting booth.
They have silenced the right and mistake that for political/cultural victory. I “I don’t know anyone that voted for Trump” syndrome.
Well, I’m just an old Tennessee hillbilly and I do have a mountain accent...But I do know how to say “awake”....
Yet if a business or almost any public figure goes against a PC dictate they will be destroyed. Such is the power of the MSM/rat alliance.
Millennials today cant safely put anything on social media because in future decades it could sink them. I dont care how woke they are. In 30 years, it will all be different and even a dogs name might be twisted into an offense. Stick to liking and emojis or suffer the consequences.But no social media footprint is really best.
Ya, dats cause you be white... Beins a cracker n all...
LOL...Well, yeah.....
This is why "conservatism" is losing this fight despite having many more votes. As any Marxist-Leninist knows, it does not matter who votes, it matters who counts the votes.
When someone attacks you for being politically incorrect, they are asserting the right to rule you based on a class analysis. Modern M-L-ism having expanded the class system, there will be multiple claimants to rule over you based on penis status, skin pigment, preferred orifice, and many things besides workers and bosses, but the principle remains the same.
And this is the point: When someone asserts the right to rule over you and backs it up with masks, clubs, and chemical warfare, YOU ARE NO LONGER ENGAGED IN A POLITICAL ARGUMENT.
The rules in this situation have not changed. Their right to rule over you, unless successfully disputed in kind, will prevail.
When the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) was using street fighters to come to power in 1925-1933, it did not matter how many German voters disagreed with them. The communist street fighters were never popular.
But they had to be outfought in the streets, and eventually isolated from society, which the Weimar government never was able to do.
Calling Antifa "brownshirts" is therefore particularly ironic. Brownshirts are the only thing most people know about German politics in the period 1925-1933, and that, I presume, is because the descendants of the Red Fighting Front are the ones doing the teaching.
The Red Fighting Front ended at Dachau and Buchenwald. Pray it does not come to that. But do not be deceived that Antifa together with their political wing the Uniparty are competing for votes - they mean to limit opinions and programs to their options only, and judging by their success in limiting President Trump to words as opposed to action, they are winning.
If the findings discussed in this article are even remotely accurate, President Trump wins re-election in a landslide.
Why? Because the “woke” have taken over the Democrat primary process and will settle for nothing less than a full-blown socialist candidate.
Then, as CNN has already learned, they too will learn that the audience (and votes) for their “woke” message started small and is becoming even smaller as more and more people wake up to its implications.
PC started with Lenin's brilliant What is to Be Done and, as the blood-soaked history of the twentieth century showed, it was never benign.
The Tutsi got along well with their Hutu neighbors, and did the Serbs with the Bosniaks, until one day...
I hope you have an escape plan that can be executed at the drop of a hat.
Fat people pack heat, just like the twiggies.
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