Woke

[countryboy]

Woke used to mean awake to injustice but the same woke went so overboard with insanity it now means he same people that have made themselves a parody of woke.

It never meant that. At best it was always perceived injustice.

[Peter1469]

He did but I think he still advocated for equality. Equity is a Woke Biden thing. Obama is also ever the politician seeking popularity and runs from something so unpopular.

Obama made race baiting popular again. Played into Woke CRT stuff.

[countryboy]

Like the FLa weather it will soon change and give way to another buzzz word the low information right wing voters can sink their dentures into. Give it a few months and another stupid way to denigrate their enemies or some new fearful thing the libs are exposing their kids too.

True dat. Looks like I put some bones in the meat of the Woke joke, and some in dentures don't know how to chew on it. Their solution is to put heads deeper in the sand and hope the authorities send me to Gitmo...

Gotta love the "Cast thee out, Satan!" discussion gambit.

Textbook examples of libs pretending that libs don't do lib stuff. Merely highlighting what libs do, in their own words, usually on video, is somehow denigrating them.

[Chris]

It's amazing how the left lies. Here's an example: Conservative Author Totally Freezes Up When Pressed to Define ‘Woke’

But she does answer and define it:



If you bother to listen to her she's defining it throughout the interview:

0:38 yeah absolutely so the Crux of the
0:41 argument of the book is that there is
0:43 sort of awoke reimagining of our society
0:46 and it's happening in a lot of different
0:48 ways in a lot of different areas of our
0:51 of our lives and there's been a lot of
0:53 attention justifiably on corporations
0:57 um in uh in media but there hasn't been
1:00 a lot of focus if any
1:02 on sort of the the youngest generation
1:04 and so Carol and I wanted to talk a lot
1:06 about
1:07 um you know how this sort of interferes
1:10 with childhood as as it's happening in
1:13 America right now uh there there's a lot
1:16 of chatter about what's happening on
1:18 college campuses but not enough about
1:20 children

The so-called libertarian host in asking her a question helps define it:

1:21 so a lot of people right now are paying
1:24 special attention to this supposed
1:26 Mental Health crisis among young people
1:29 especially teenage girls self-report a
1:33 lot of misery frankly I'm seeing people
1:36 blame various things they say a lot of
1:38 people say social media or their cell
1:40 phones
1:41 um yeah I think obviously the mental
1:43 health uh was going to be impacted by
1:45 covid and everything being shut down and
1:47 kids having their social lives and their
1:49 school lives so disrupted for so long uh
1:52 does your book talk about the sadness
1:55 that young people are feeling and
1:57 identify uh culprit and hopefully a
1:59 solution

She responds:

it does so I mean I I there isn't an
2:03 easy answer and I think that the the
2:06 reason why especially young girls are
2:08 feeling as distraught as they are is
2:10 multifaceted and a lot of what you hit
2:12 is behind
2:13 they're sort of ever-growing misery but
2:16 there's
2:18 another sort of aspect that I think
2:20 hasn't been talked about enough and
2:22 something that we hit on a lot in our
2:23 book and it's sort of this uh this
2:26 martyrdom complex that a lot of young
2:29 people are are encouraged to adopt and
2:31 so you know you are you kind of gain
2:35 points among your peers when you talk
2:37 about your mental illness about your
2:40 your victimhood and so one of the
2:42 examples that I heard from from a very
2:44 wealthy mother in Silicon Valley of you
2:47 know very very upper class child
2:49 definitely in the the top five percent
2:52 of children in the world honestly as far
2:55 as luck goes and she said that she felt
2:57 like she had to be a victim in some way
3:00 in order to gain credibility among her
3:01 peers and so she sort of adopted
3:04 mental health condition that she she
3:06 didn't necessarily have and a lot of
3:07 that was a Dawn by Tick Tock uh there's
3:10 been a lot of these kinds of things that
3:12 have been written about as far as
3:14 Tourette's Syndrome goes but she sort of
3:16 just adopted this victimhood and then
3:19 sort of it spiraled and when when you
3:21 tell yourself something enough times
3:22 this is sort of cognitive behavioral
3:24 therapy when you tell yourself something
3:25 enough times it manifests in some truth
3:29 and so uh we talk about that we talk
3:31 about the loss of resiliency for this
3:34 generation but the depression that a lot
3:37 of young people are facing again it's
3:38 mostly young girls uh has a has a lot of
3:41 culprits

There's more of what the left calls her "failure" to define Woke.

A review of her Stolen Youth: How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence and Indoctrinating a Generation can be found in Leave Them Kids Alone:

...Rounding out Stolen Youth, Markowicz and Mandel lead the reader to the next frontier in the parental rights battle: transgender medicine. As recent revelations about the gender clinic at the St. Louis Children's Hospital indicate, the authors were right on target. Last month, Jamie Reed, a former staffer at the St. Louis gender clinic, blew the whistle on the untested and unsound treatments the transgender clinic provides for children—including puberty-blocking drugs and hormones. As Reed reported, and Markowicz echoes in the chapter, the experts entrusted to the care of children admit that, when it comes to pediatric transgender medicine, they "are building the plane while [they] are flying it." This is no way to treat children.

Markowicz and Mandel throughout the book provide concrete ways in which parents can protect their children, from "opting out" of certain lessons to requesting public records and finding alternative education options. While they're all excellent suggestions, even sending a simple letter to a child's school may seem daunting—readers may be left wanting more information on how to do so.

Stolen Youth aptly depicts where the parents' fight likely began for most readers, and where it is headed. Reading between the lines, that means that the fight is far from over. Through my time working in the education space, parents who've come to me and my colleagues for help ask for three things: someone with whom they can share their stories, advice on how to combat these issues, and the motivation to keep fighting. Markowicz and Mandel successfully provide all three in Stolen Youth, though I hope they're preparing for part two.

When media lies about her defining Woke they are condoning grooming.

[zelmo1234]

Like the FLa weather it will soon change and give way to another buzzz word the low information right wing voters can sink their dentures into. Give it a few months and another stupid way to denigrate their enemies or some new fearful thing the libs are exposing their kids too.

Remember the Religious Right, the TEA party was considered to be the anti Christ to the point that people did not know that it stood for Taxed Enough Already. The left is a master of framing the part with negative words, it is just coming back upon you and you don't like it.

in 2024 your party will have to defend teaching kids about gender, social hate and sexual perversions instead of History R3eading and Arithmetic we will see how far gone the country is.

[Chris]

Remember the Religious Right, the TEA party was considered to be the anti Christ to the point that people did not know that it stood for Taxed Enough Already. The left is a master of framing the part with negative words, it is just coming back upon you and you don't like it.

in 2024 your party will have to defend teaching kids about gender, social hate and sexual perversions instead of History R3eading and Arithmetic we will see how far gone the country is.

Yea but it's perfectly acceptable for the left to turn ideas into pejoratives. The right may not! :P

[The Sage of Main Street]

More ad hom. Seems to be your signature "argument.

Motto of the NYTwits Who Scribble the New York Times: "All the News Fit to Spit"

[The Sage of Main Street]

Woke used to mean awake to injustice but the same woke went so overboard with insanity it now means he same people that have made themselves a parody of woke.

We Obviously Know Everything


They've had this whining resentment about justice for decades, so WOKE is intentionally misleading, because it's not about waking up to anything. It's about extreme action in order to quickly and impatiently reach the Final Solution in crushing Straight White Male superiority. For example, on the heterophobe part of it, actually invading grade schools and seducing gullible children so they wind up losing the will to survive. The cartoon model is Pinocchio's friends being turned into donkeys.

[Chris]

Well that petered out, the Wokesters fell asleep at the wheel.


It's rewarding to argue beside those on the right, each with his own way to approach it but all pretty much agreeing.

[jes'fuchinwitcha]

it's rewarding to argue beside those on the right, each with his own way to approach it but all pretty much agreeing.

Rah! Rah! Go team!!