Woke Wars: Say the Magic Word!

American Thinker.com ^ | April 6, 2021 | Christopher Chantrill

[Kaslin]

Do you think that last week was Peak Woke? What with Delta’s genius CEO Ed Bastian falling into line to criticize Georgia’s new election laws, What with MLB pulling the all-star game from Democratic Atlanta, What with Amazon joining in the fun.

And then there is the ticklish question of The Dam Busters movie. I probably saw the movie, way back. Tell me: is the Woke Capital thing due to Big Business getting bullied around by lefty activist groups threatening to make trouble? Is it CEOs getting a quiet word from Our Nance and Chuck E. Schumer? Is it the wokey ladies in HR? Or is it just Big Business trying to stay out of trouble?

The world would really like to know.

Oh, I see. It’s “Pressure mounts on corporations” in AP’s headline, followed by:

Liberal activist groups are stepping up calls for corporate America to denounce Republican efforts to tighten up voting laws...

Hello AP! Do you mean “A veritable racist army of racist ruling-class liberal activist groups are beating up lily-livered corporate drones to get them to advance the Democratic racist agenda. Just like in the Jim Crow era?” Then why not say so!

And another thing: how come all those “liberal activist groups” get to operate under a blanket of anonymity? Don’t they have names? In the interest of reporter-ology, AP?

But what do we do about it? Mostly, this week, I see people making jokes about ID. These corporations all require us to use ID but hey, who needs ID for voting? The very idea!

Jolly good fun, but I am here to tell you that sophisticated jokes ain’t gonna do it. What is needed is a mostly peaceful blow to the corporate solar plexus -- metaphorically speaking, of course.

[HighSierra5]

What is needed is a real war not a metaphysical one.

[FamiliarFace]

I recently learned from a woke relative that when someone who is conservative is righteously indignant and says so out loud that it is considered hate-filled animosity by this self-proclaimed *Christian* who suddenly wants us to all just love one another.

In other words, it’s quite ok for leftists to be outraged, but if conservatives are outraged, we are the ones treating others hatefully.

They are tolerant only of their viewpoint.

[Jolla]

They are tolerant only of their viewpoint

Does that go both ways? Many people are going Woke on people that go Woke.

[Mr. Mojo]

<< What is needed is a mostly peaceful blow to the corporate solar plexus >>

https://www.investingadvicewatchdog.com/Liberal-Companies-Boycott.html

[Little Ray]

No it isn’t peak Woke.
These are Heinlein’s “Crazy Years” and we are nowhere near Peak Crazy.

[hanamizu]

“...And then there is the ticklish question of The Dam Busters movie.”

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For those who haven’t seen it, the problem arises because of the lead pilot’s dog’s name. It’s a black dog and his name begins with an ‘N’. Writing out the dog in the remake is difficult because not only was the dog kind of a mascot for the squadron, but is killed by a car, the very night of the raid.

And as if that weren’t enough, the dog’s name is used as the code word for when the dam is breached.

The R.A.F. has eliminated the name on the marker that shows where ‘N’ is buried.

[sauropod]

Tell your woke relative that he sins. Remimd him of Matthew 7:1-5.

Remind him that Christ was talking about him!

[FamiliarFace]

That’s quite appropriate! I assure you, this relative hasn’t cracked open a Bible in 50 years, and hasn’t been to church in 35 or more years. I was shocked when he referred to himself as a Christian recently. It’s not that he doesn’t believe in following the Golden Rule, or that Jesus is the Son of God, but he also doesn’t believe in organized religion. (I have asked if he believed in disorganized religion, at which point the conversation ended abruptly.)