Posted on 01/09/2022 10:17:53 AM PST by yesthatjallen
If 2020 renewed calls for racial equality as Black Lives Matter protests exploded throughout Europe, 2021 brought in the backlash as parts of the political establishment waged a so-called "war against woke."
Stripped of its original meaning of a person being awake to progressive issues, "woke" has been appropriated from the Black vernacular and turned into a political lightning rod in the West's culture wars. It is now used pejoratively by lawmakers and pundits from both left and right, criticizing the perceived excesses of social and racial justice movements.
The politicization of the word, which has seen degrees of success in the United States, has bolstered political resistance to calls for more equality in Europe. The amorphous term has also been interpreted differently, depending on where it is deployed.
In the United Kingdom, woke is used to "describe anything that could previously [be] described as 'politically correct,'" Evan Smith, a visiting fellow at Australia's Flinders University and author of "No Platform: A History of Anti-Fascism and the Limits of Free Speech," told CNN. The term is "used to describe a broad range of ideas [and] movements concerned with social justice," including anti-racism, intersectional feminism, trans rights and critical histories of the British empire, he said.
Cultural institutions and academics have been targeted by members of the ruling Conservative Party for supporting those movements. In September, Prime Minister Boris Johnson's spokesperson accused a charity set up in the name of Winston Churchill of trying to "airbrush" the "giant achievements" of the former wartime leader.
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It's easy for us to look back and see slavery as wrong or burning witches as a shocking over-reaction to people who couldn't understand tainted wheat and mass hysteria. None of this is unique to the West. Read the history of China.
Cornell West once said, quoting Malcolm X, 'everyone has a thuggy side'. The Bible tells us, "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God". Condemning people who were born of their time doesn't and won't heal the past, present, and future because we can only learn from the past, not change it. Likewise condemning people today for the alleged 'sins of their fathers' can't, won't , and doesn't promote 'healing'. It only fosters resentment.
Wokeness will end when we stop letting people use historic guilt as a weapon.
No surpise that CNN sees society’s pushback agaisnt communistic claptrap peddled by a small coterie of disaffected freaks as “chilling”.
“It only fosters resentment.“
And shakes the money tree. These grifters use the “woke” agenda for monetary gain. Like blackmailers, you can never pay them enough. The costs keep rising
2022 maybe the year of the anti woke parallel economy
Avoid all that is woke such as large corporations
support non woke
Truth hurts, doesn't it Tara?
I hope the anti-woke Crusade kills and drives out the remainder of immigrant trash.
Whites left Africa, now Africa, Pakis, and Middle Easterners need to leave Europe.
Won’t that help with global warming?
“Woke” is PC with jackboots. If Tara doesn’t like that, she can stop wearing them.
It’s deeper than that. Political correctness acts against anything that offends it, and by the time everyone gets to carve out something they don’t like, there’s no meat left. Words, concepts, old movie scenes, books, online views, statues, flags and banners...every favored group gets to remove anything they dislike from society. And at the top of the pyramid are insane white liberal elites.
Isn’t ‘woke’ Greek for hypnotized? Or Hebrew for ‘determined ignorance’?
Their problem is that European university professors won’t buy into the ‘brand’ and if some student group develops lack of respect for the university or the professors....they will be given the ‘exit-card’.
It’s not that the ‘anti-woke’ crusade arrived...it’s that wokeism just hasn’t been successful in selling it’s product.
"If 2020 renewed calls for racial equality as Black Lives Matter protests exploded throughout Europe..."
Sorry, your conditional statement begins with a lie. BLM was a communist movement fueled by emotion, devoid of any coherent proposals for addressing "racial equality."
The band “Falling In Reverse” released this song recently. It deals with them being sick and tired of “Cancel Culture”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDDz1Er2IXA
Zombified!
[Verse 1]
The Monsters Aren’t Living Under Your Bed
‘Cause They Are The Voices In Your Head
Zombified By The Lies They’ve Said
We’ve Become The Walking Dead
[Pre-Chorus]
‘Cause Everybody’s Talking B**ch
Oh No, They’ll Never Let Go
Of Something You Said 10 Years Ago
They’re Cancelling, Cancelling You
And They Won’t Stop ‘till Everybody’s
[Chorus]
Zombified! (Zombified)
They’re Pumping Us With Lies
Like It’s Formaldehyde
They’re Dead Inside
It Goes On And On, Let This Go
When It Stops, We’ll Never Know
We’re Hypnotized
And They Won’t Stop ‘till You’re
Zombified!
[Verse 2]
You Better Shut Your Mouth And Bite Your Tongue
‘Cause You Don’t Wanna Piss Off Anyone
We’re Traumatized By The Damage Done
Welcome To America
[Pre-Chorus]
‘Cause Everybody’s Talking B**ch
Oh No, They’ll Never Let Go
Of Something You Said 10 Years Ago
They’re Cancelling, Cancelling You
And They Won’t Stop ‘till Everybody’s
[Chorus]
Zombified (Zombified)
They’re Pumping Us With Lies
Like It’s Formaldehyde
They’re Dead Inside
It Goes On And On, Let This Go
When It Stops, We’ll Never Know
We’re Hypnotized
And They Won’t Stop ‘till You’re
Zombified!
[Breakdown]
Go! (Hahahaha)
They’re Feeding Off Your Broken Mind
They Won’t Die, They Multiply
We’ve Become So F**king Blind
They Won’t Stop ‘till You’re Zombified!
Pick It Up!
Oh! Oh!
[Chorus]
Now Everybody’s Zombified (Zombified)
They’re Pumping Us With Lies
Like It’s Formaldehyde
They’re Dead Inside
It Goes On And On, Let This Go
When It Stops, We’ll Never Know
We’re Hypnotized
[Bridge]
And They Won’t Stop ‘till You’re
They Won’t Stop ‘till I’m
They Won’t Stop ‘till We Are
Zombified!
[Outro]
Zombified!
Read more at: https://www.lyricsdom.com/zombified-lyrics-falling-in-reverse.html
It also shows that while the anti-woke messaging works with their base, British society is getting more multi-ethnic, tolerant and woke, Bale said.
“The Conservatives are going to have to make a decision if they carry on railing against the way society is going,” Bale said. “There is a long-term risk for them as it alienates [younger] future voters who they need to keep on side,” Bale added. “There is a limited number of grumpy, older White men to get off on this kind of stuff.”
Even the 73-year-old grandson of Winston Churchill, Nicholas Soames, has heard enough, calling the furor over the Churchill Trust “so sad and so pathetic” in an interview with the Times. “Apparently anyone who modernizes anything or does anything to remotely bring it up to date is ‘woke.’” he said. “It’s absolute b****cks.”
Place your bets. Do we still have enough base for common sense?
The only solution in my view is REAL PROBLEMS, displacing the made up ones..................
‘historic guilt’ and ‘collective guilt’
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Fortunately for me, I only suffer from ‘personal guilt’, which is guilt for the sins I commit and the stupid, inconsiderate crap I do on a daily basis. That’s more than enough guilt to deal with. It’s virtually impossible to keep up with all the new perceived and fabricated stuff the politically correct and their friends in the media keep blaming me for.
The very idea that I am somehow responsible for anything wrong (immoral, unethical, criminal or otherwise offensive) committed other whites because I was born white is ludicrous and insane.
Suffice to say, none of it registers with me anymore and I tell anyone who preaches that BS to kiss my white butt.
As the saying goes, it’s mind over matter. I don’t mind and they’re opinions don’t matter.
You can tell the CNN writer is a progressive hypocrite in denial about their own hypocrisy.
In one breath they write:
“Stripped of its original meaning of a person being awake to progressive issues, . . . . . . . . . “.
And a short bit later say:
“The politicization of the word”, as if being “woke to progressive issues” is not a politicization of ideas, as if being a “progressive” is not “political”.
“There is a long-term risk for them as it alienates [younger] future voters”
Why would that be? Do younger voters really want to live in an Orwellian dystopia?
People are getting tired of virtue aggression.
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