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‘Woke’ Effectively Describes The Left’s Insanity, And That’s Why They Hate When You Say It
The Federalist ^ | MARCH 17, 2023 | SAMUEL MANGOLD-LENETT

Posted on 03/18/2023 11:55:53 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

When was the last time you were called racist? When was the last time you actually cared about being called racist? Odds are you get called it quite often and care (or should care) about being called it very little.

That’s because lobbing accusations of racial bigotry at anyone who gets in their way is second nature for the left. So when people stopped taking these accusations seriously — realizing it is simply impossible for everything to be racist — the left began decrying “white supremacy,” semantically invoking Nazism.

When accusations of racism failed to coerce enough action, the left moved on to a pejorative with far worse aesthetics while maintaining the same message. Accusing people and institutions of “racism” had lost its utility due to rhetorical inflation, and the era of “systemic white supremacy” had begun.

According to some, the conservative movement and the American right writ large are experiencing a similar ongoing dilemma with the word “woke.” Many suggest the word has come to mean nothing due to right-wing over-saturation, while others insist it has taken on a far more nefarious tone.


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1 posted on 03/18/2023 11:55:53 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I call them woketards just to be clear.


2 posted on 03/18/2023 11:59:31 AM PDT by broken_clock (Go Trump! Still praying.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
When was the last time you were called racist?

The last time I turned on the “news” or any mainstream media or “entertainment”.

3 posted on 03/18/2023 12:00:20 PM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell>)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Let’s Retire the Word “Woke” (Over target & barf alert)
4 posted on 03/18/2023 12:03:33 PM PDT by DoodleBob ( Gravity’s waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I was called “a clear and present danger” b y the president of the United States.


5 posted on 03/18/2023 12:05:53 PM PDT by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The old school woke was good. That was more about holding individuals or individual entities accountable for something specific. Your business refuses to serve black folks- you’ll then see fines, protests, boycotts etc. And in those days all the homos and trans trying to catch a ride on the civil rights train would be properly condemned for false comparison of their issues with those of black folks. Nowadays the enemy is entire society or entire white race, and increasingly absurd categories of people are included as those “wronged”. It can only lead to a destruction of society and no protections at all anymore for those who really deserve them.


6 posted on 03/18/2023 12:09:22 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan (Pot legalization licenses every degenerate pothead piece of trash to force drug neighbors.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Libtards are Broke and Bankrupt in every possible area you can name

The are BROKE intellectually, politically, morally, racially, spiritually, financially, mentally …..

They’re completely and utterly screwed up beyond belief.

They should be shunned and ostracized.


7 posted on 03/18/2023 12:10:53 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

It was always about attacking Capitalism, Western Civilization and ultimately Christianity.


8 posted on 03/18/2023 12:12:21 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I wear ‘racist’ like a badge of honor since Obama made it a political weapon.


9 posted on 03/18/2023 12:13:51 PM PDT by Borderline
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It was always about attacking Capitalism, Western Civilization and ultimately Christianity.

it was always about co-opted by elements attacking Capitalism.

Thus twisted into today's form.

10 posted on 03/18/2023 12:15:30 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan (Pot legalization licenses every degenerate pothead piece of trash to force drug neighbors.)
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To: NWFree

I call them woke zombies.

They destroy everything they touch.


11 posted on 03/18/2023 12:16:26 PM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: broken_clock
I call them woketards just to be clear.

Woketards gonna act wokerdly

12 posted on 03/18/2023 12:20:49 PM PDT by Ahithophel (Communication is an art form susceptible to sudden technical failure)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“woke” the way we are using it now, simply connotes what politically incorrect used to but then expands that to include not just policing language but the constant pushing of a leftist narrative in everything and the censoring of any opposing ideas as “hate”


13 posted on 03/18/2023 12:23:22 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I’ve noticed that if you say something true about homosexuals or trannies you are automatically labeled as a “RACIST!” no matter what the color of your or their skin is.


14 posted on 03/18/2023 12:33:11 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Saw a few minutes of MSNBC where they tried very hard to mock the term ‘woke’ and label it as a GOP obsession.


15 posted on 03/18/2023 12:58:36 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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16 posted on 03/18/2023 1:23:50 PM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=40%>)
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To: Ahithophel
Woketards gonna act wokerdly.

Or as Gov. Sarah Sanders said,“The dividing line in America is no longer between Right or Left. The choice is between normal and crazy.”

17 posted on 03/18/2023 1:40:27 PM PDT by broken_clock (Go Trump! Still praying.)
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To: NWFree
CAlifonia where homelessness is a lifesyle....


18 posted on 03/18/2023 1:57:36 PM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Woke is a Left created term BTW.


19 posted on 03/18/2023 1:58:41 PM PDT by Vision (Woke is communism and it has no place in America. Election Reform Now! Obama is an evildoer.)
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That’s right it was their term, now that it’s synonymous with deluded moron they don’t like it.


20 posted on 03/18/2023 2:41:36 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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