Woke from Wikipedia.
The Republicans, as the title above says, are crusading against “woke” culture.
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And former President Donald Trump, in a recent interview with Fox News, said the Biden administration is "destroying" the country "with woke."
The word has appeared in dozens of Republican speeches, tweets and other statements of late. Republicans said it is less a coordinated messaging push and more of an instinctive sense that the label would work as shorthand to denigrate a progressive worldview — and it's a word they're hearing from their voters, too, as it buzzes around conservative media.
Yet lawmakers and operatives who spoke to NBC News varied in how they define the idea, while others said they didn't know much about "wokeness" at all.
They probably should be worried because if good people brainwashed enough to vote for them woke up they would see how evil they are and be appalled at what the GOP is trying to do.
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When I watched “The Undergound Railroad” a few weeks ago it hit me that there are people today who would identify with the slave owners, not that they’d be the kind to even watch this mini-series. I watched “Hotel Rwanda” just yesterday. It’s about how Western powers and the United Nations allowed the Rwandan Genocide where between 500,000 and 800,000 members of the Tutsi ethnic group and Hutu sympathizers were slaughtered in about 100 days.
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As a reader of Daily Kos I am sure you are aware how the GOP is aghast at what the 1619 Project is attempting to do.
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If you watch MSNBC you have seen the extensive coverage the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Massacre is getting. Count as utter hypocrisy those who like to portray America as a pristine pure country of morality and ethics. Consider examples in our history like the treatment of Native Americans, slavery, the horrible treatment of minority groups through our history, how women were and in one political party are still being treated as inferior, how the less fortunate were and are disenfranchised, or the murders of Black people by the police, or any number of other “lesser” stains on the nation.
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I “woke” to the news of a mass shooting in Miami-Dade. Here we have a society where the right-wing either condones or secretly applauds the murder of black people by the police, refuses to support strict gun laws no matter how many mass shooting we have (or voting for the opposite as happened in Texas), and they get worked up over abortion.
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There are just too many of the most egregious examples of the evils that men have done and continue to do, and of how so-called good men didn’t or don’t do anything to stop them or prevent them from doing it again (the Senate voting down the Jan. 6th Commissioner example), to begin to list them.
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The unarguable fact is that anyone who is being honest with themselves has to recognize that since the dawn of recorded history up to the present there are people who given the chance will take their hate of those who they consider “the other” to the level of want them exterminated.
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We now live in a country where the likes of Matt Gaetz can actually come out in public and suggest this and not become a pariah ostracized by all of society. Instead he can hold rallies with a total lunatic and draw cheering crowds.
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To be really “woke” one has to own the unbearable darkness of living with an awareness of the evil in the world, and hopefully trying to do something about stopping it.
