How White Leftist Politicians and Hipsters Have Already Killed Wokeness

American Thinker.com ^ | May 11, 2021 | William Sullivan

[Kaslin]

White leftist politicians and hipsters have already killed wokeness in American culture. They just don’t know it yet.

There’s been this repeating cultural joke occurring throughout my lifetime that, for some reason, never seems to be recognized by those who are ridiculed by its many iterations. That is, when liberal white hipsters adopt any cultural fad, they manage to end the fad by making it spectacularly unpopular in no time flat.

A terrific modern example of this might be liberal white hipsters co-opting fashion and social trends that were prominent in gay culture in the early aughts. Shows like “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” and “Sex and the City” created what was then known as the “metrosexual” fad that swept America. Up to that point, the cultural aesthetic of the urbane, somewhat androgynous fashion trends that were highlighted on the show had largely existed among men only in the gay subculture, making it a unique expression of that specific identity. But once it was adopted by white hipsters, it became part of the cultural status quo, and the trend died almost overnight.

Which brings us to being “woke,” and how it went from being somewhat culturally subversive to being a prerequisite of participating in today’s cultural status quo.

Before 2014, “stay woke” was in common use in the black community, writes Aja Romano at Vox, but it didn’t carry all the weight it’s dragging along today. It simply meant that one should remain “alert to the deceptions of other people” as a “basic survival tactic.”

[No_Mas_Obama]

Naw - although the Stupid Party can’t get smart fast enough, there will be plenty of wokeness to hang around the necks of Fascist Rats next November (besides the many who are already fleeing into early retirement).

[Gen.Blather]

Two middle-aged men are dressing in the locker room when one says, “George, why on Earth did you get a tattoo!”
“Because I didn’t want my kids to get one.”

[chajin]

Another example of this is the serial appropriation of African-American music from the mid-1800s until today. The minute a particular style—minstrel, rag, dixieland, blues, bebop, rock-and-roll, doowop, Motown, Philly, rap, hip-hop—begins to find popularity and performance in the non-African-American communities, it causes a search for the Next Black Thing. It is a continuous irony, because the appropriation is usually an effort in the majority community to promote cultural integration, while the original purpose of the musical style is to promote cultural segregation, to be something the minority community can say is its own and no one else’s.

[Elsie]

bingo

[pas]

Wrong. They continue in increments until it happens. They never abandon their beliefs.

[edwinland]

This is good but could have benefitted from a few examples of people using the word woke non-ironically in the expansive sense he’s criticizing. We know they are out there but it would have made his critique more clear to include them

[rxh4n1]

Hopefully, the kids will rebel against this evil.

[griswold3]

All the more reason for Comedians to step up.

[Uncle Miltie]

[ExTxMarine]

America was designed to be a melting pot of cultures and peoples...but some people want and need segregation (NOTE: these various peoples seldom have the same reasoning, but still want/need the same thing).