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The four-letter word that has liberal celebrities ducking for cover
On Aug. 30, actor and liberal activist Mark Ruffalo was suddenly less “woke” than he’d been the day before.
His crime? He’d signed on to executive produce a film in which the openly gay actor Matt Bomer will play a trans woman. The trans community was outraged: Why had a trans actor not been cast?
“I auditioned for this,” trans actress Jen Richards tweeted. “I told them they shouldn’t have a cis man play a trans woman. They didn’t care.”
Ruffalo, by the way, is on the right side of just about every left-wing issue there is. His Twitter feed streams support for #BlackLivesMatter, the LGBT community, anti-fracking efforts and access to clean water.
Yet casting Bomer endangered Ruffalo’s wokeness — which is now the ne plus ultra of political correctness.
To be woke is to be beyond awake to every civil and humanitarian injustice, large or small. It is to be aware not just of “white privilege” — another legitimate concept that sounds smugly chic — but of whatever societal, economic, racial privilege you may enjoy, to feel just enough guilt about it and to engage with the world thusly.
“Woke” was added to Dictionary.com this year, along with cisgender (anyone not transgender), misgender (mistaking someone as male or female) and panromantic (someone attracted to all gender identities and orientations). Wokeness is the subject of countless essays and online forums. There are sites where you can buy “woke” merchandise, branded sweatpants and baseball caps. (Sartorially, the Black Panther movement this is not.)
Anyone who thinks they’re woke might want to think again. Are you aware of the Blaxican community? Are you dialed in to intersectionality? Are you fluent in disablist vocabulary?
One misstep may reveal you as the hypocrite you are — at least on social media, where no utterance goes unparsed, no armchair civil-rights advocate unmoved.
The four-letter word that has liberal celebrities ducking for cover | New York Post
Yeah, don't you love it when a person is on the politically correct side of every issue like Ruffalo? How brave. Liar and accepted at the parties wherever you go. Just so brave.
Watch out for anyone that is PC about everything.
Now, folks if it turns out that they have not ALWAYS been PC about everything and IF they have not been "woke" they are also in real trouble.
When will be able to punch fucking left wingers in the face? That is my question. Will it ever happen where we say enough is enough? When?
On Aug. 30, actor and liberal activist Mark Ruffalo was suddenly less “woke” than he’d been the day before.
His crime? He’d signed on to executive produce a film in which the openly gay actor Matt Bomer will play a trans woman. The trans community was outraged: Why had a trans actor not been cast?
“I auditioned for this,” trans actress Jen Richards tweeted. “I told them they shouldn’t have a cis man play a trans woman. They didn’t care.”
Ruffalo, by the way, is on the right side of just about every left-wing issue there is. His Twitter feed streams support for #BlackLivesMatter, the LGBT community, anti-fracking efforts and access to clean water.
Yet casting Bomer endangered Ruffalo’s wokeness — which is now the ne plus ultra of political correctness.
To be woke is to be beyond awake to every civil and humanitarian injustice, large or small. It is to be aware not just of “white privilege” — another legitimate concept that sounds smugly chic — but of whatever societal, economic, racial privilege you may enjoy, to feel just enough guilt about it and to engage with the world thusly.
“Woke” was added to Dictionary.com this year, along with cisgender (anyone not transgender), misgender (mistaking someone as male or female) and panromantic (someone attracted to all gender identities and orientations). Wokeness is the subject of countless essays and online forums. There are sites where you can buy “woke” merchandise, branded sweatpants and baseball caps. (Sartorially, the Black Panther movement this is not.)
Anyone who thinks they’re woke might want to think again. Are you aware of the Blaxican community? Are you dialed in to intersectionality? Are you fluent in disablist vocabulary?
One misstep may reveal you as the hypocrite you are — at least on social media, where no utterance goes unparsed, no armchair civil-rights advocate unmoved.
The four-letter word that has liberal celebrities ducking for cover | New York Post
Yeah, don't you love it when a person is on the politically correct side of every issue like Ruffalo? How brave. Liar and accepted at the parties wherever you go. Just so brave.
Watch out for anyone that is PC about everything.
Now, folks if it turns out that they have not ALWAYS been PC about everything and IF they have not been "woke" they are also in real trouble.
When will be able to punch fucking left wingers in the face? That is my question. Will it ever happen where we say enough is enough? When?
