Posted on 11/15/2023 12:34:39 PM PST by nickcarraway
See Post #19.
Just one other thought—”woke” has predictive power when faced with new data.
A recent example of the Israeli Palestinian/Hamas discussion.
While it does not strictly fit into any of the definitions I gave it is easy to predict that the “woke” would oppose the Israelis even without fully understanding exactly why...
Semafor was supposed to revolutionize journalism.
They ran an expose claiming that Sam Bankman-Fried helped finance Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter.
Musk pointed out that it wasn’t true, and that SBF was in fact a major funder of Semafor.
Woke evil is redundant. Just sayin’
I guess he is a David Brooks wannabe? And David Brooks was a George Will wannabe?
and all three of ‘em aren’t really conservative.
Exactly. Now go back and look at what you posted in #16. Way too complicated to explain to anyone who doesn’t even know what the hell “woke” means.
We’re better off just taking the approach employed Canadian opposition leader Pierre Poilievre. He insists he’s not “right-wing” or “left-wing” (though he comes from the most conservative wing of Canada’s conservative coalition), but just a guy who stands for common sense in all walks of life. Forget about “woke.” Just paint your liberal opposition as sexual deviants whose policies don’t work.
Ha.
Like the Firesign Theater comedy albums’
Department of Redundancy Department.
Part of the problem is not our fault.
The “woke” have a fairly complex ideology that is difficult to explain—and most of them don’t even know exactly what it is since it is so emotional.
It’s that simple. That’s what I go with.
That is good—you are definitely on the right track.
They want instant emotional gratification—no matter what the cost to their fellow humans.
Some examples, pre-woke people believed that cutting genitals off of children was wrong. Woke people believe it's important and good now, because their television told them so.
Pre-woke people believed that pharma companies were profit centers who should have no say in what people are forced to inject into their healthy bodies. Woke people believe the pharma companies, with the armed backing of the government should decide what concoction you must inject into your bloodstream in order to participate in society.
Woke people are intellectually limp and their minds are silly putty manipulated by the current absurd media zeitgeist.
“Woke” got pushed off the front pages by the Israel-Hamas war.
Now that pro-Hamas students realize that what they say and do now can damage their futures, the wokesters have been playing defense, rather than offense.
Learn the “new” terms...
Intersectional feminism
Postmodernism
Neomarxism
Anti-traditionalist activism
We can have buzz words too.
I see your point but attention spans are short and a short hand is needed to brand the woke disease. If l said company X has gone woke you know what the possibilities and probabilities are.
What happened is that Trump took up the cause and has declared ear on marxism. The reckoning is coming.
Just say marxism.
I think it can be defined more easily.
‘woke’ is when some Politicaly Correct concept is taken to an extreme.
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