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What is American Wokeness Really About?
Townhall.com ^ | July 29, 2021 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 07/29/2021 4:21:34 AM PDT by Kaslin

Most Americans were as indifferent to the U.S. women's soccer team's recent loss to Sweden in the Olympics as they were excited about the team's World Cup win in 2019. In between was the team's nonstop politicking, from whining about compensation to virtue-signaling their disrespect for the United States. The celebrity face of the team, perennial scold Megan Rapinoe, is going the way of teenage grouch Greta Thunberg, becoming more pinched the more she is tuned out.

Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Marie Khan-Cullors Brignac used her corporate grifting to buy four homes. The one she bought in California's Topanga Canyon is surrounded by a new $35,000 security fence.

Critical race theory guru Ibram X. Kendi offers virtual, one-hour workshops for $20,000 a pop. He is franchising woke re-education kits -- in between bouts of damning capitalism as a catalyst of racism.

The woke movement is a slicker, more sophisticated and far more grandiose version of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson's shakedowns of the 1990s. Those, at least, were far more honest in leveraging cash with charges of racism -- and came without the academic gobbledygook of critical race theory.

Our freeways are jammed. Airports are crammed. Labor is short. Huge pent-up consumer demand for essentials and entertainment outpaces supply. Yet Major League Baseball's recent All-Star Game saw record low television viewership -- about a quarter of the audience of 40 years ago, when there were 100 million fewer Americans.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: socialjustice; socjusticewarrior; woke

1 posted on 07/29/2021 4:21:34 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
Wokeness is many things. But increasingly it seems a cover for careerism, profiteering and utter incompetence.

It's a way to combat the counter-revolutionary forces.

2 posted on 07/29/2021 4:35:50 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: Kaslin

It seems like the monoliths of American society (the media, Hollywood, pro sports, big corporations, the federal government, academia, the military brass) are all arrayed against us, which they are. But Hanson makes a good point - they are not only hypocritical but incompetent with their hopes vested in a “leader” who is hopelessly senile. There are far too many of us for them to beat us down and we have individuality, resilience and creativity as well as core beliefs in God and country, characteristics of which the monoliths are devoid.


3 posted on 07/29/2021 4:36:53 AM PDT by laconic
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To: Kaslin

Don’t woke me……but please wake me when it’s all over.


4 posted on 07/29/2021 4:38:20 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: Kaslin
The woke movement is a slicker, more sophisticated and far more grandiose version of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson's shakedowns of the 1990s

Been posting just that here at FR for a looong time.

5 posted on 07/29/2021 4:40:34 AM PDT by Roccus (Prima di ogni altra cosa, siate armati!)
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To: Kaslin

Communism


6 posted on 07/29/2021 5:33:16 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: Kaslin

Marking.


7 posted on 07/29/2021 5:40:39 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
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TH puts the best topics behind their VIP wall. Not this article, but for example one they have behind the wall this morning called "It's Biden's Pandemic Now".

TH must be becoming broke, even if it's not woke... yet.

ff

8 posted on 07/29/2021 5:58:34 AM PDT by foreverfree
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To: Kaslin

Africanization and rationalizing away reasons some are unequal


9 posted on 07/29/2021 6:03:52 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Like BLM, Joe Biden is a Domestic Enemy )
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To: Kaslin

American Marxism


10 posted on 07/29/2021 6:04:58 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: Kaslin
Most Americans were as indifferent to the U.S. women's soccer team's recent loss

I wasn't indifferent at all.

I was thrilled that they lost. Same for the men's basketball loss to France.

11 posted on 07/29/2021 6:06:45 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (Rigged Elections have Consequences)
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To: Kaslin
The NBA's crashing TV ratings have followed the downward trajectory of the NFL's ratings.

I'd like to know how many copies of Sports Illustrated's latest swimsuit edition were sold - you know, the one with a tranny on the cover.

Did SI really think a tranny was every red-blooded male's ideal fantasy? The men in my family were disgusted.

12 posted on 07/29/2021 6:11:02 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (Rigged Elections have Consequences)
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To: 1Old Pro

Yep...Fabian socialists have been infiltrating and infecting the nation’s classrooms for over a hundred years.


13 posted on 07/29/2021 6:13:47 AM PDT by PerConPat (A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground - Mencken)
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To: Bon of Babble
I'd like to know how many copies of Sports Illustrated's latest swimsuit edition were sold

Compared to 10-20 years or more ago.

14 posted on 07/29/2021 6:16:39 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: HighSierra5

The many weak ganging up the few strong or “Communism”.


15 posted on 07/29/2021 6:17:18 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: PerConPat

They are trying to create a society where the low IQ crowd can “make it” despite being “held down” by the white male.


16 posted on 07/29/2021 6:18:40 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Kaslin

Woke works for the deep state, just another part of the civilian army


17 posted on 07/29/2021 7:37:19 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (“When the people fear the government you have tyranny, when the government fears the people you have)
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To: Kaslin

What is American Wokeness Really About?

Weak minded people uniting in search of utopia that doesn’t exist.


18 posted on 07/29/2021 8:52:50 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: central_va
Yep, the Rats/Rinos love the lowest common denominator...
19 posted on 07/29/2021 10:41:18 AM PDT by PerConPat (A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground - Mencken)
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