This is a silly charge. What created run-away-woke was an activist culture that was fueled with a lot of bad ideas coming out of the Sociology and Anthropology departments, a great deal of post modernist criticism of Western Culture.
The woke that rioted in Kenosha or burning and breaking things at Berkeley because Charles Murray would be there weren’t carrying copies of the God Delusion in their brains. They were carrying the likes of Ibram X Kendrick, Robin DiAngelo, and Ta-Nehisi Coates. I’m quite over this blaming of the new atheists for the woke virtue signaling brigades that we dealt with for ages.
What people seem to have missed is that the Republican Party aka MAGA and Trump, did a masterful job of hijacking the term “woke” for their own gains. They bastardized the term and instead of the left picking up on it and calling that out for what it actually was, which is “Overtly Woke” just like every fringe radical arm of any movement, they caved and now everyone who was considered woke is now wondering just what that means. Ffs if you want clean drinking water and air your woke! Just as there is a far right there is a far left, just as there is a woke there is an Overtly Woke. Being able to understand both what that means and how the propaganda team for the maga mob have twisted it to suit their political playbook is how we start realizing how they have not only divided the left and right so deeply but how they’ve also divided the left itself.
Yeah. But when people stretch the term like in your example re: clean drinking water they aren’t taken seriously. Being for clean air and water isn’t remotely woke.
Might that opinion be from someone currently who likely has clean air and drinking water to claim as a given right?
To which there are some entire countries that don’t have that luxury, and even states within the US that still fight for them. While some politicians even claim it is in fact not a right to have those things.
Then there are some now who are dismantling certain agencies at this very moment that ensure clean air, drinking water and safe food supply.
How long before it’s too woke to demand a steady supply of safety in such situations? Some may call it a “privileged” position to have while some now simply call it too woke to want such bare necessities.
Do you kinda get the picture now of how I was taking it back to its core foundations and some seeming lack of awareness today on the term woke?
Not to even mention the absolute abuse of such terms by some in order to deepen divides on one side while the other over-inflates the terms in order to also abuse them.
The woke ideology has similar philosophical roots as post modernism. This nonsense entered the social sciences back in the 70s, long before “new atheism”.
This is a silly charge. What created run-away-woke was an activist culture that was fueled with a lot of bad ideas coming out of the Sociology and Anthropology departments, a great deal of post modernist criticism of Western Culture.
The woke that rioted in Kenosha or burning and breaking things at Berkeley because Charles Murray would be there weren’t carrying copies of the God Delusion in their brains. They were carrying the likes of Ibram X Kendrick, Robin DiAngelo, and Ta-Nehisi Coates. I’m quite over this blaming of the new atheists for the woke virtue signaling brigades that we dealt with for ages.
What people seem to have missed is that the Republican Party aka MAGA and Trump, did a masterful job of hijacking the term “woke” for their own gains. They bastardized the term and instead of the left picking up on it and calling that out for what it actually was, which is “Overtly Woke” just like every fringe radical arm of any movement, they caved and now everyone who was considered woke is now wondering just what that means. Ffs if you want clean drinking water and air your woke! Just as there is a far right there is a far left, just as there is a woke there is an Overtly Woke. Being able to understand both what that means and how the propaganda team for the maga mob have twisted it to suit their political playbook is how we start realizing how they have not only divided the left and right so deeply but how they’ve also divided the left itself.
Yeah. But when people stretch the term like in your example re: clean drinking water they aren’t taken seriously. Being for clean air and water isn’t remotely woke.
Might that opinion be from someone currently who likely has clean air and drinking water to claim as a given right?
To which there are some entire countries that don’t have that luxury, and even states within the US that still fight for them. While some politicians even claim it is in fact not a right to have those things.
Then there are some now who are dismantling certain agencies at this very moment that ensure clean air, drinking water and safe food supply.
How long before it’s too woke to demand a steady supply of safety in such situations? Some may call it a “privileged” position to have while some now simply call it too woke to want such bare necessities.
Do you kinda get the picture now of how I was taking it back to its core foundations and some seeming lack of awareness today on the term woke?
Not to even mention the absolute abuse of such terms by some in order to deepen divides on one side while the other over-inflates the terms in order to also abuse them.
I don’t feel like we’ve missed that.
Marx was the original wokester.
No, Marx did. There are also lots of.Christian woke types around too.
Interesting title.
The woke ideology has similar philosophical roots as post modernism. This nonsense entered the social sciences back in the 70s, long before “new atheism”.
Dawkins is the prototypical atheist. The practice of atheism consists in thinking atheism is a sign of intelligence.
Eh, it’s not interesting to read you talking about yourself so much.
I really think that Christ and his WOKE 8 BEATITUDES is a bit before Marx wokeism..
Remind me, what is the definition of woke?
Woke? When something has evolved so much that it is no longer recognisable it’s probably best to call it something else.
How about ‘fair minded’ or maybe even simply ’kind’?
That’s what I’m talking about! Life’s golden rules include ‘don’t be a dick’. It’s so easy not to be a dick.
Critical Social Justice, as opposed to Liberal Social Justice.
Staying “woke” is like pulling yourself up by your bootstraps: physically impossible.
Esp if you don’t have any boots
Happy Friday, Richard