Anonymous ID: 367f2a Aug. 8, 2023, 7:05 p.m. No.19325174   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>19325135

>https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-decline-and-fall-of-woke/

Nice write up of leftism and how we killed woke

 

>Walking into the children’s section of a public library, I spotted a copy of ‘Woke: A Young Poet’s Call to Justice’’. Published in 2020, it’s almost a cultural artifact because ‘woke’ has gone from a hip term for leftism to a battered conservative punching bag in the culture war.

 

>‘Woke’, the term, peaked in 2020. In 2017, it was added to the Oxford English Dictionary and appeared as a category on Jeopardy. Next year, Essence magazine announced its list of ‘Woke 100 Women’. In 2020, Disney’s Hulu aired ‘Woke’:, a tedious series about a college activist.

 

>By 2023, wokeness has come to mean leftist extremism. It’s most often used by Republicans and hardly ever by Democrats who act baffled at the idea that there was ever such a thing as wokeness. Much like ‘Defund the Police’, a set of sounds that once defined lefty culture, has been flushed down the memory hole and everyone is pretending they never heard of it.

 

>In Seattle, the home of wokeness, “race and equity experts” say it’s “time to get rid of woke.”

 

>“That word has been taken,” Erin Jones, a DEI consultant who charges $1,000 an hour for her workshops, admitted. “There’s no good way to use that term. I think it’s been so weaponized at this point that there was not a positive way to use the word ‘woke.’”

 

>What happened to ‘Woke’ is the same thing that once happened to ‘Liberal’. Conservatives seized on it and used it to sum up everything wrong with leftist extremism. Before long, no one wanted to identify as a liberal because it meant being seen as a lunatic fighting for sex ed for kids, free needles for addicts, political correctness in the office and surrendering to enemies.

 

>Leftist support for these policies never went away, but leftism underwent a rebrand.

 

>Unlike conservatives who have retained the same name over time, leftists are chameleons. Leftists were first characterized by that name during the French Revolution because they tended to cluster to the left during legislative debates. More specific ideological terms like socialists and communists came and went, and became tainted by association with leftist policies.

 

>There is no name for the Left that doesn’t have negative associations even for leftists.

Anonymous ID: 367f2a Aug. 8, 2023, 7:28 p.m. No.19325295   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>19324692

>Anheuser-Busch’s downfall has been a brutal lesson to corporations about how the people have had it with woke culture engagement.

no thanks to donjr

you would think more of his Dad would have rubbed off on him

Anonymous ID: 367f2a Aug. 8, 2023, 7:42 p.m. No.19325363   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5380

>>19325337

>is strengthened if it is free of apparent political favoritism, political connections, or the perception of political bias by the general population

Yes.

But that could have been 100% achieved by not saying anything.

Trying to intervene to stop it (which he stupidly did) was totally necessary to achieve that goal…