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Has Hamas Hastened the Demise of 'Woke'?
Newsweek ^ | 11/6/23 | Paul Bond

Posted on 11/07/2023 10:12:41 AM PST by DallasBiff

Have the Hamas attacks on Israel put "wokeness" on the ropes? Conservatives certainly seem to think so—and for some it's a purposeful strategy.

But some progressives are acknowledging the phenomenon, as well, due to an increasing number of left-wing college students and other progressives who are siding with Hamas-ruled Gaza after attacks on Israel that began October 7 resulting in the death of 1,400 Israelis and the kidnapping of some 200 men, women and children

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: hamas; israel; woke
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Light bulb going on in a "woke" head?
1 posted on 11/07/2023 10:12:41 AM PST by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

Based on the number of large protests we’ve had in our country, I would say they’ve just amped up the woke.


2 posted on 11/07/2023 10:13:47 AM PST by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: DallasBiff

I think a lot of them are permanently disturbed and will continue unabated


3 posted on 11/07/2023 10:14:23 AM PST by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: DallasBiff

Woke and Hamas are pure evil, man can’t destroy true evil only hold it back for a bit.


4 posted on 11/07/2023 10:17:23 AM PST by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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To: DallasBiff

Maybe they’ll kill each other off. Wouldn’t that be nice.


5 posted on 11/07/2023 10:19:13 AM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: DallasBiff

Fights over intersectionality isn’t close to destroying wokeness.


6 posted on 11/07/2023 10:19:29 AM PST by Luke21
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To: DallasBiff

There is almost ZERO “agreement”between the
Liberalista agenda and the Hamas/Islam view
of the world, and what is right & wrong.

At SOME point, the “Progressives” will feel
this, finally, and will be an Awful Day for
them.

They’re backing the wrong horse, and they
are blind to it — for now.


7 posted on 11/07/2023 10:19:57 AM PST by William of Barsoom (In Omnia, Paratus)
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To: DallasBiff

The Woke Cult is running their followers away.


8 posted on 11/07/2023 10:21:55 AM PST by bray (You can tell who the Commies fear.)
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To: CatOwner

“I would say they’ve just amped up the woke.”

Agree, it may come as a surprise to some to find out just how many and how crazy these dangerous people there are.


9 posted on 11/07/2023 10:24:18 AM PST by gibsonguy
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To: DallasBiff

No. Woke has simply added Palestinians in Gaza to their victim lists to be supported.


10 posted on 11/07/2023 10:25:52 AM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: DallasBiff

It’s not the demise of woke. There needs to be something to replace woke ideologies. I haven’t seen a replacement. It certainly not MAGA. Massive numbers of woke people simply don’t turn into what they already hate. They might just take a brief sabbatical until a new moniker is applied to cultural Marxism.


11 posted on 11/07/2023 10:26:43 AM PST by ConservativeInPA (Rebuild the Temple.)
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To: DallasBiff
This stood out in the article:
On October 26, Gallup reported that President Joe Biden's job approval rating among Democrats tumbled 11 percentage points in one month to 75 percent, the worst of his entire presidency.
This says that prior to October, Biden held an 86% job approval rating among Democrats.

Geez. I knew that liberals were mentally ill, but that's a whole 'nother level of delusional.

12 posted on 11/07/2023 10:30:40 AM PST by dayglored (Strange Women Lying In Ponds Distributing Swords! Arthur Pendragon in 2024)
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To: DallasBiff

NBC News changes headline after omitting man killed at pro-Palestinian protest was Jewish!

The 69-year-old man’s death was determined to be a ‘homicide’ by Ventura County Medical Examiner’s Office

NBC News altered a headline after Paul Kessler, a Jewish man, was killed following an “altercation” with pro-Palestinian protesters at a rally in California.

Kessler “was in a physical altercation with counter-protestor(s)” during which he “fell backwards and struck his head on the ground,” the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department said in a statement.

The statement explained that the “Ventura County Medical Examiner’s Office determined the cause of death to be blunt force head injury and the manner of death homicide.”

By Jeffrey Clark Fox News, Published November 7, 2023 11:30am EST

Published November 7, 2023 11:30am EST

https://www.foxnews.com/media/nbc-news-changes-headline-omitting-man-killed-pro-palestinian-protest-jewish


13 posted on 11/07/2023 10:33:21 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Flu vaccines, might work, if you've never had that flu! Otherwise, they don't do any good/nor work!!)
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To: CatOwner
Based on the number of large protests we’ve had in our country, I would say they’ve just amped up the woke.

People will fight more violently to preserve self-image than life itself. (E.g., "Death before dishonor") This is one of the reasons that people are so reluctant to admit that they were wrong. For some Jewish people, voting Republican will make them feel like Nazis. It would essentially be a repudiation of the faith of their fathers, and more importantly, their grandmothers. What would Nana think?

For wokesters admitting that they might have been wrong about anything, anything at all, will undermine and destroy their smug, self-satisfied world view. For wokesters there are no shades, no continuum. Either one is woke or one is troglodyte. To accept the possibility that Hamas is a morally repulsive movement means that maybe nuclear power might be superior to windmills, that fentanyl, not the police killed George Floyd, that Bidenomics is snake oil and adding to an unstainable national debt.

It would be like admitting that your father was right about something.

14 posted on 11/07/2023 10:36:04 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)
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To: William of Barsoom

There is almost ZERO “agreement”between the Liberalista agenda and the Hamas/Islam view of the world, and what is right & wrong.


A few months ago someone was putting up signs reading, “Islam is right about women”. The signs were denounced by progressive-minded people.


15 posted on 11/07/2023 10:36:35 AM PST by hanamizu ( )
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To: NWFree

“I think a lot of them are permanently disturbed and will continue unabated”

I agree. They are indoctrinated, and woke is their religion.


16 posted on 11/07/2023 10:36:42 AM PST by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: DallasBiff

Not before a sweeping movement of anti-Semitism takes root and grows. Make no mistake, widespread anti-Semitism will become de rigeur and commonplace and hip and cool for some period of time.


17 posted on 11/07/2023 10:41:53 AM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (The Democrat breadlines will be gluten-free. )
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To: DallasBiff

Progressive Leftists, Antifa, BLM, LW Democrats and US Muslims have all joined together with their hatred of the Jews. Who are the fascists again????


18 posted on 11/07/2023 10:44:52 AM PST by realcleanguy (quickly things are falling apart, now that the )
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To: TornadoAlley3
No. Woke has simply added Palestinians in Gaza to their victim lists to be supported.

It's insanity, these woke protests in our country, excusing the brutality of Hamas. I've read and watched accounts of the savage attacks by Hamas on Oct 7th. They shot many civilians that weren't Jews, some of which were foreign tourists or workers, and some were Arabs. They double-tapped a bullet into each victim's head to make sure they were dead. However, when they discovered a shot civilian was Arab they didn't shoot them in the head. Arab paramedics in Israel shot so they can't help victims, and they died but not shot in the head. And protesters here support Muslim Hamas terrorists but harass Jews here? Woke is sick!

19 posted on 11/07/2023 10:45:39 AM PST by roadcat
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To: DallasBiff

The Left never stops. Even if they are crushed and defeated time and time again, they will never stop. The Right didn’t realize that and basked in victory not continuing the same level of fight after major victories as they had the day before victory...the Left just marched on like the defeat never occurred...and thus they changed the landscape to where the insane continues to become more normal.


20 posted on 11/07/2023 10:46:10 AM PST by Republican Wildcat
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