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.
(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...
As the Zen Master has said:
“Woke is not Awake.”
And as Hitler would say: “Woke is Volk.”
Bkmk
Concur. I add “tard” or a derivative to everything dimocRAT, it’s my preferred pronouns for them.
To me, it’s a badge of honor, if EVERYTHING I DO, SAY AND HAVE, is racist and sexist. Heh.
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