Politics, "Wokeness" and Absurdity

[Coyote]

No he doesn't. Nor does the gay community have the right to impose their lifestyle on him.

But a gay person has every right to be gay in peace, to be treated fairly and justly as any other person, to be left alone, to not be attacked, to not be threatened or harassed because he is gay. He doesn't have a right to be in anybody's face about it or demand that others accept his gayness as a good thing or grant him special privileges.

Likewise every person has the right to believe homosexuality is wrong, a sin, an abomination or whatever. Or not believe that. But nobody has the right to be in a gay person's face about it or unethically/illegally discriminate or otherwise violate a gay man's person or property or livelihood.

The problem comes when the gay man is allowed to say publicly that God loves gays and/or homosexuality is perfectly natural but the other guy is not allowed to publicly express his opinion that homosexuality is a sin.

It doesn't matter which is right or wrong in their opinion. But equal protection under the law does matter.

With the first two paragraphs, I agree Except for this:

1. I keep hearing this claim that they demand “special priveledges”, what “special priveledges” are gay people “demanding” that no one else has?

Paragraph 3 and 4, I agree.

 

[Curried Goats]

No he doesn't. Nor does the gay community have the right to impose their lifestyle on him.

But a gay person has every right to be gay in peace, to be treated fairly and justly as any other person, to be left alone, to not be attacked, to not be threatened or harassed because he is gay. He doesn't have a right to be in anybody's face about it or demand that others accept his gayness as a good thing or grant him special privileges.

Yeah, I'm going to call bullshit on your claim that you think gays should be allowed to live in peace because the caveat you use afterwards is "but only if we never have to hear or see from them because then we'll accuse them of pushing their lifestyle on others." Whatever the fuck that means......

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Target is advertising for mutilations, abnormal behaviors, and grooming now.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Yeah, I'm going to call bullshit on your claim that you think gays should be allowed to live in peace because the caveat you use afterwards is "but only if we never have to hear or see from them because then we'll accuse them of pushing their lifestyle on others." Whatever the fuck that means......

What they're pushing is criminal, targeting kids for mutilations, abominable behaviors, and immoral lifestyles. If I see any of this occurring around children, I will call the police and press criminal charges.

 

[Foxfyre]

The problem is the constant redefining....

Our history is full of ugly truths which cancel culture wants to forget ever happened......

~S~

True and true. They change the definitions to fit their agenda. And yes our history--EVERYBODY'S history--contains truths that are ugly in our 21st Century understanding and perspectives. But it is important to know them, understand them, learn from them so we are less likely to repeat them. It is also important to know that the fact those ugly truths existed does not erase that no period of history in all of human history has been all bad. It all, the good and the bad, has contributed to what the human race has become.

To pretend the good didn't exist in our history, in historical figures, in various events is just as destructive as pretending the bad didn't happen.

 

[Foxfyre]

Yeah, I'm going to call bullshit on your claim that you think gays should be allowed to live in peace because the caveat you use afterwards is "but only if we never have to hear or see from them because then we'll accuse them of pushing their lifestyle on others." Whatever the fuck that means......

And the pitiful reading dysfunction apparently is alive and well among the 'woke'.

 

[Curried Goats]

What they're pushing is criminal, targeting kids for mutilations, abominable behaviors, and immoral lifestyles. If I see any of this occurring around children, I will call the police and press criminal charges.

This is a lie. Your little hurt Simp feelings don't make it true. Doctors are prescribing treatments. Nothing about it is criminal.

 

[Curried Goats]

And the pitiful reading dysfunction apparently is alive and well among the 'woke'.

You don't know what woke means but you use it to call people names which is why I don't lose any sleep calling you a dumb bitch.

If there is nothing wrong with being gay then there should be nothing wrong with gay people talking and socializing with children.

 

[Dadoalex]

They demanded Phil Robertson be fired from Duck Dynasty for saying the Bible says marriage is between a man and a woman. (It does)

They demanded that liberal women accusing conservative men of sexual misconduct must be believed. (But not conservative women accusing liberal men.)

A rookie fireman bringing treats to his coworkers was fired because he brought cold watermelon and some of his coworkers were black.

A lovable Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben were removed respectively from pancake syrup bottles and boxes of rice and no more Indian maiden on Land o Lakes butter.

They have stricken the name of J.K. Rowling and anything Harry Potter from their websites, social media, and made her ‘she who must not be named’ because she said that ‘woman’ should remain a biological category.

A public school student was sent home because he wore a T-shirt to school that said there are two genders. And he was sent home the second time when he had modified the shirt to say there are censored genders. To the woke that constitutes hate speech.

But anybody who refuses to buy Bud Light these days is a transphobic, racist, hateful bigot who should not be allowed to be part of the human race.

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At what point does all this become absurd? How can rational people not see not only the dichotomy but how absolutely ridiculous it is when only one point of view is to be allowed as socially acceptable? Is to be allowed at all? How unreasonable is that? How discriminatory? How un-liberal?

At what point does it become dangerous to our liberties?

Why not ask the golfer who insisted Tiger Woods make Fried Chicken and watermelon the dinner selections after winning his first Masters?
Racism and ignorant bigotry exist
By defending them you show who you are.

 

[Foxfyre]

Why not ask the golfer who insisted Tiger Woods make Fried Chicken and watermelon the dinner selections after winning his first Masters?
Racism and ignorant bigotry exist
By defending them you show who you are.

I have never, do not now, will never defend racism. And all your whataboutisms won't change that fact.

 

[Dadoalex]

I have never, do not now, will never defend racism. And all your whataboutisms won't change that fact.

Sure you don't.
Apparently you forgot to read your oen OP.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 

[LordBrownTrout]

This is a lie. Your little hurt Simp feelings don't make it true. Doctors are prescribing treatments. Nothing about it is criminal.

Nope, those aren't are feelings bud. Those are facts and yes, it is criminal. Emotions are your realm. Just because a doctor is prescribing a drug means nothing. The federal govt experimented on black people which was ruled to be unethical and illegal.

 

[sparky]

You don't know what woke means but you use it to call people names which is why I don't lose any sleep calling you a dumb bitch.

Apparently you don't realize you're your own best example CG......~S~

 

[Curried Goats]

Nope, those aren't are feelings bud. Those are facts and yes, it is criminal. Emotions are your realm. Just because a doctor is prescribing a drug means nothing. The federal govt experimented on black people which was ruled to be unethical and illegal.

You know what feelings I have towards you? Amusement for your stupidity and pussy like nature. I almost forgot we were having a debate about science and then you punked out like a little bitch and tried to piggyback another argument I was having with someone else to avoid responding to it. If you forgot the debate we were having ill repost the last response I sent you. Maybe you can find your balls to answer now.....

It also can result in mix matched or underdeveloped sex organs. You also don't have to have extra chromosomes for this to happen. Olympic runner Caster Semenya has XY chromosomes, outward appearing female sex organs (breasts and vagina) and internal testes. She has always identified as a female. What would you identify her as? A male because of her chromosomes? Well then you're saying males can have vaginas. If you say she's female then you're saying females can have XY chromosomes. As I said, biology isn't so neat.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

You know what feelings I have towards you? Amusement for your stupidity and pussy like nature. I almost forgot we were having a debate about science and then you punked out like a little bitch and tried to piggyback another argument I was having with someone else to avoid responding to it. If you forgot the debate we were having ill repost the last response I sent you. Maybe you can find your balls to answer now.....

No, you just couldn't understand the debate so I bailed. I don't really like arguing with an emotional fruitcake.

 

[Curried Goats]

No, you just couldn't understand the debate so I bailed. I don't really like arguing with an emotional fruitcake.

I understand that when it comes to people like the intersexed, who don't fall neatly into binary biological categories, that your argument starts to fall apart. Guess the Bible and geology degree don't prepare you for addressing that does it?

 

[jbander]

Why not ask the golfer who insisted Tiger Woods make Fried Chicken and watermelon the dinner selections after winning his first Masters?
Racism and ignorant bigotry exist
By defending them you show who you are.

In broad general terms, this countries right is this countries hated bigoted, stupid, cruel, ugly Chauvinists . They just generally hate everyone. It is impossible to respond to them , I will respond to a comment that isn't a lie. That has generally shut down every response I've had in the last 10 days for any MAGA Maggot out there.

 

[themirrorthief]

I see psychology, sociology and politics as being inexorably intertwined.

IMO, the pathological need to control others as exhibited by so many leftists here is born by a deep sense of failure and the resultant need to externalize the source of such failure instead of internalizing it.

leftys have so little control over their drug and booze addled lives that they want big brother to come in an take over so their lives will finally have some government enforced meaning

 

[TheProgressivePatriot]

They demanded Phil Robertson be fired from Duck Dynasty for saying the Bible says marriage is between a man and a woman. (It does)

They demanded that liberal women accusing conservative men of sexual misconduct must be believed. (But not conservative women accusing liberal men.)

A rookie fireman bringing treats to his coworkers was fired because he brought cold watermelon and some of his coworkers were black.

A lovable Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben were removed respectively from pancake syrup bottles and boxes of rice and no more Indian maiden on Land o Lakes butter.

They have stricken the name of J.K. Rowling and anything Harry Potter from their websites, social media, and made her ‘she who must not be named’ because she said that ‘woman’ should remain a biological category.

A public school student was sent home because he wore a T-shirt to school that said there are two genders. And he was sent home the second time when he had modified the shirt to say there are censored genders. To the woke that constitutes hate speech.

But anybody who refuses to buy Bud Light these days is a transphobic, racist, hateful bigot who should not be allowed to be part of the human race.

------------so------------

At what point does all this become absurd? How can rational people not see not only the dichotomy but how absolutely ridiculous it is when only one point of view is to be allowed as socially acceptable? Is to be allowed at all? How unreasonable is that? How discriminatory? How un-liberal?

At what point does it become dangerous to our liberties?

You people are truly amazing. It is clear that you know nothing about the history and origin of the word “woke”. It means to be aware....aware of social issues and injustice. A woke person is one who does not have blinders on or has their head up their ass. Yet you have managed to turn it into a dirty word. Something nefarious and subversive.

A woke person is not afraid of truth and knowledge or to confront uncomfortable realities of the past or present. Not surprising that conservatives hate and fear it so much.

Conservatives' have consistently shown that they preferce to knowledge, lies and distortions to truth and honesty and denial of the reality of social in ignoranjustice to an honest dialogue . Most egregiously, you accuse those who embrace woke of seeking to shame whites and divide the races, while denying the collective responsibility for the shameful history of this nation which is the very essence of divisiveness and a barrier to healing. Woke is progress. Anti woke is being stuck in a fictitious past largely constructed on a foundation of lies, denial and fantasy .

What is the history of the word ‘woke’ and its modern uses? | The Independent

The phrase originated from African American Vernacular English but has been gradually co-opted by right wing players to be used as an insult

The phrase “woke” and to “stay woke” is not new — it began appearing in the 1940s and was first used by African Americans to “literally mean becoming woken up or sensitized to issues of justice”, says linguist and lexicographer Tony Thorne.

In 1971, the phrase was used in a play by American playwright Barry Beckham titled Garvey Lives!, in which he wrote: “I been sleeping all my life. And now that Mr Garvey done woke me up, I’m gon’ stay woke. And I’m gon’ help him wake up other black folk.”

It also entered popular culture thanks to singer Erykah Badu, who used the phrase “I stay woke” in her 2008 song Master Teacher. David Stovall, a professor of African-American studies at the University of Illinois, Chicago, told the New York Times that Ms. Badu’s use of the phrase meant “not being placated, not being anaesthetized”.

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So here we have the foundation of the term Woke as a jumping off point to try to understand it’s current usage and the partisan vitriol that it engenders

From the same link:

It started becoming a politicized word in 2014, after the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, sparked the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement.

“‘Woke’ was largely unknown in the UK until the BLM movement, but in the 2000s it was a popular word used by young people in America, especially in black communities,” said Mr Thorne.
It was only in 2017 that the word “woke” was added to the Oxford English Dictionary, and was defined as “being ‘aware’ or ‘well-informed’ in a political or cultural sense”.

It evolved into an all-encompassing term to describe leftist political ideology, used as a “shorthand for people on the left” to signal progressiveness, but weaponized by those on the right as a “sneering, jeering dismissive term” to denigrate those who did not agree with their beliefs, said Mr. Thorne.

So there you have it. But what is it exactly ? What is the operational definition and does it look like in terms of specific words, deeds, policies and even thoughts and why is it so controversial?

Lets look at what specific policy positions of Democrats, liberals and progressives-collectively referred to as “the left” while making little or no distinction between Communists, autocratic socialism and Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren.

The big hot button issue has become Critical Race Theory. While CRT as a philosophy is not actually taught below the college level, it has become a catch all term to mean an honest and complete understanding of our racial history beginning with 1619, through the Civil War, reconstruction, Jim Crow and the Civil Rights movement . It also includes the critical analysis of the lingering systemic and institutional racism that permeates society today.

It is not- as those on “the right” will have you believe- an educational approach that makes white kids feel guilty about being white and hate themselves, that tarnishes the history of the country and further divides the races. It has even been suggested that woke people have the temerity to believe that African Americans have the same intellectual potential as European Americans. Well, yes they do believe that and it's true. These Anti Woke people have the nerve to call the rest of us racists, while embracing scientific racism!

While Germany makes a point of honestly confronting their shameful history, there are those in this country who want to burry ours, In doing so, they are short changing our children, demeaning those who have suffered and stifling and chance of a true racial reckoning

It comes down to this:

The idea is that racism is not a matter of individual bigotry but is systemic in America. Recently critics have made C.R.T. a catchall target for opposition to equity efforts, affirmative action and “wokeness” in general.

What Is Critical Race Theory? - The New York Times

But the opposition to Wokeness has gone beyond racial issues and now has seeped into matter of gender and sexuality as well. There is this from the Heritage Foundation which is basically a denial of the reality of gender dysphoria in an attempt to marginalize and trivialize the real pain that transgender people experience, especially in the absence of support and medical care and blaming “Woke Culture” for the emergence of the phenomena.

Woke Gender | The Heritage Foundation

And, the anti woke fervor has infected a myriad of other social and political issues such as climate change, economic inequality, criminal justice and just about every contentious issue that is on the table. And in each case, conservatives align with the “anti woke” hysteria. “Woke is evil” “Woke is un-American” “Woke is just stupid” Yes, I have heard all of that and more. But let me remind everyone of the original meaning of “woke” ….to be awake. To be aware. So really it fits.

By touting their anti wokeness', conservatives are acknowledging and celebrating their denial of social and economic inequality . They are embracing the denial of women’s reproductive rights and agency over their own bodies. They are promoting climate change denial and ignoring the scourge of gun violence. They are pretending that these pressing issues are just manufactured by “the left” to divide us.

Ron Desantis, the Führer of Florida is the personification all that is wrong with those who oppose wokeness. He is laser focused on punishing Disney Land over their opposition to his draconian policies towards LGBT people, suppressing voting rights attacking the teaching of black history, censoring reading materiel, even at the college level, and wiping out Covid mandates of all kinds, all in the name of wiping out wokeness. Meanwhile, Florida has one of the worst health care systems in the country in terms of the percentage of uninsured and the disparity by race- largely due to the governors refusal to expand Medicaid, a higher that average poverty rate of 13.1 % , a higher than average crime rate, and a byzantine and inhumane criminal justice system that incarcerates too many people for far too long and disproportionately incarcerates and disenfranchise people of color and those with fewer resources. Yet Desantis’ priority is his war on Mickey Mouse, Education, and drag queens. He wants Florida to be known as the place where woke goes to die. Thanks to him Floriday is where truth goes to die. It is where dignity goes to die. It is where hope goes to die It is where people go to die I’ll take woke. Woke you Ronnie
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A final word on WOKENESS
As we know “woke” became a political football in 2014 following the death of Michael Brom at the hands of police. It was brought to prominence by black people. As I previously documented:
In 1971, the phrase was used in a play by American playwright Barry Beckham titled Garvey Lives!, in which he wrote: “I been sleeping all my life. And now that Mr Garvey done woke me up, I’m gon’ stay woke. And I’m gon’ help him wake up other black folk.”
It also entered popular culture thanks to singer Erykah Badu, who used the phrase “I stay woke” in her 2008 song Master Teacher. David Stovall, a professor of African-American studies at the University of Illinois, Chicago, told the New York Times that Ms. Badu’s use of the phrase meant “not being placated, not being anaesthetized”.
There are those who have charged that it has been coopted or culturally appropriated by while people who expanded it’s usage to other forms of social injustice and oppression. But those others issues- gender discrimination and transgender issues. sexuality, economic disparity effect people of all races.
The bottom line is that the woke vs anti woke divide is not along racial or ethnic lines but rather reflects the difference between those who seek truth and enlightenment and those who fear it. Of course those who fear it will not admit to fear, When it comes to a full and truthful account of the dark underbelly of American history, they justify the glaring omissions as being anti American. My OPINION about that is that it is anti American to turn a blind eye to history rather than take the opportunity to learn from it, no matter how uncomfortable that might make some people feel. My OPINION is that we must we must confront the past so that we can learn to do better going forward. Those who rail against woke OPINE that such teachings divide the races and instill guilt and self loathing in white people. But those are just OPINIONs.
Having said that the FACT is that to ignore, or worse deny history is to embrace the darkness of ignorance. The same can be said of many other issues that have come to be caught up in the debate about wokeness. Gender and sexuality are hot button issues today. Transsexuality especially sits upon a major cultural fault line. There is no dearth of OPINIONS on all sides about why people are trans and how to address the issue ; medically, legally, socially or psychologically . But the fact is that those who invoke the evils of woke in order to disparage trans people ignore the facts of science, once again embracing ignorance. They are quick to invoke the mantra of “there are only two genders” and call trans advocates “anti science while ignoring and denying the clear scientific evidence that not everyone is clearly male or female, and that many transgender people may have been misgendered at birth. Once again they embrace ignorance and darkness.
On issue after issue, the anti woke mob repeatedly use equivocations to blur the lines between opinion and fact in an attempt to paint their opponents' as the ones who are out of touch with reality. And it is no small matter that those who rail against “woke” are consistently on the side of reactionary politics, promoting inequality and oppression. They know that truth and awareness..that which wokeness promotes is their enemy. In the face of such truth, they have nothing to stand on
Woke is awareness
Woke is knowledge
Woke is compassion
Woke is empathy
Woke is open minded
To oppose wokeness is to proclaim a commitment bigotry, lies and to repeating past mistakes and crimes against humanity. That is a fact that cannot be denied. The anti-woke mob does not even try to deny it. They are proud of it

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[LordBrownTrout]

You people are truly amazing. It is clear that you know nothing about the history and origin of the word “woke”. It means to be aware....aware of social issues and injustice. A woke person is one who does not have blinders on or has their head up their ass. Yet you have managed to turn it into a dirty word. Something nefarious and subversive.

A woke person is not afraid of truth and knowledge or to confront uncomfortable realities of the past or present. Not surprising that conservatives hate and fear it so much.

Conservatives' have consistently shown that they preferce to knowledge, lies and distortions to truth and honesty and denial of the reality of social in ignoranjustice to an honest dialogue . Most egregiously, you accuse those who embrace woke of seeking to shame whites and divide the races, while denying the collective responsibility for the shameful history of this nation which is the very essence of divisiveness and a barrier to healing. Woke is progress. Anti woke is being stuck in a fictitious past largely constructed on a foundation of lies, denial and fantasy .

What is the history of the word ‘woke’ and its modern uses? | The Independent





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So here we have the foundation of the term Woke as a jumping off point to try to understand it’s current usage and the partisan vitriol that it engenders

From the same link:




So there you have it. But what is it exactly ? What is the operational definition and does it look like in terms of specific words, deeds, policies and even thoughts and why is it so controversial?

Lets look at what specific policy positions of Democrats, liberals and progressives-collectively referred to as “the left” while making little or no distinction between Communists, autocratic socialism and Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren.

The big hot button issue has become Critical Race Theory. While CRT as a philosophy is not actually taught below the college level, it has become a catch all term to mean an honest and complete understanding of our racial history beginning with 1619, through the Civil War, reconstruction, Jim Crow and the Civil Rights movement . It also includes the critical analysis of the lingering systemic and institutional racism that permeates society today.

It is not- as those on “the right” will have you believe- an educational approach that makes white kids feel guilty about being white and hate themselves, that tarnishes the history of the country and further divides the races. It has even been suggested that woke people have the temerity to believe that African Americans have the same intellectual potential as European Americans. Well, yes they do believe that and it's true. These Anti Woke people have the nerve to call the rest of us racists, while embracing scientific racism!

While Germany makes a point of honestly confronting their shameful history, there are those in this country who want to burry ours, In doing so, they are short changing our children, demeaning those who have suffered and stifling and chance of a true racial reckoning

It comes down to this:

The idea is that racism is not a matter of individual bigotry but is systemic in America. Recently critics have made C.R.T. a catchall target for opposition to equity efforts, affirmative action and “wokeness” in general.

What Is Critical Race Theory? - The New York Times

But the opposition to Wokeness has gone beyond racial issues and now has seeped into matter of gender and sexuality as well. There is this from the Heritage Foundation which is basically a denial of the reality of gender dysphoria in an attempt to marginalize and trivialize the real pain that transgender people experience, especially in the absence of support and medical care and blaming “Woke Culture” for the emergence of the phenomena.

Woke Gender | The Heritage Foundation

And, the anti woke fervor has infected a myriad of other social and political issues such as climate change, economic inequality, criminal justice and just about every contentious issue that is on the table. And in each case, conservatives align with the “anti woke” hysteria. “Woke is evil” “Woke is un-American” “Woke is just stupid” Yes, I have heard all of that and more. But let me remind everyone of the original meaning of “woke” ….to be awake. To be aware. So really it fits.

By touting their anti wokeness', conservatives are acknowledging and celebrating their denial of social and economic inequality . They are embracing the denial of women’s reproductive rights and agency over their own bodies. They are promoting climate change denial and ignoring the scourge of gun violence. They are pretending that these pressing issues are just manufactured by “the left” to divide us.

Ron Desantis, the Führer of Florida is the personification all that is wrong with those who oppose wokeness. He is laser focused on punishing Disney Land over their opposition to his draconian policies towards LGBT people, suppressing voting rights attacking the teaching of black history, censoring reading materiel, even at the college level, and wiping out Covid mandates of all kinds, all in the name of wiping out wokeness. Meanwhile, Florida has one of the worst health care systems in the country in terms of the percentage of uninsured and the disparity by race- largely due to the governors refusal to expand Medicaid, a higher that average poverty rate of 13.1 % , a higher than average crime rate, and a byzantine and inhumane criminal justice system that incarcerates too many people for far too long and disproportionately incarcerates and disenfranchise people of color and those with fewer resources. Yet Desantis’ priority is his war on Mickey Mouse, Education, and drag queens. He wants Florida to be known as the place where woke goes to die. Thanks to him Floriday is where truth goes to die. It is where dignity goes to die. It is where hope goes to die It is where people go to die I’ll take woke. Woke you Ronnie
__________________________________________________________________________
A final word on WOKENESS
As we know “woke” became a political football in 2014 following the death of Michael Brom at the hands of police. It was brought to prominence by black people. As I previously documented:
In 1971, the phrase was used in a play by American playwright Barry Beckham titled Garvey Lives!, in which he wrote: “I been sleeping all my life. And now that Mr Garvey done woke me up, I’m gon’ stay woke. And I’m gon’ help him wake up other black folk.”
It also entered popular culture thanks to singer Erykah Badu, who used the phrase “I stay woke” in her 2008 song Master Teacher. David Stovall, a professor of African-American studies at the University of Illinois, Chicago, told the New York Times that Ms. Badu’s use of the phrase meant “not being placated, not being anaesthetized”.
There are those who have charged that it has been coopted or culturally appropriated by while people who expanded it’s usage to other forms of social injustice and oppression. But those others issues- gender discrimination and transgender issues. sexuality, economic disparity effect people of all races.
The bottom line is that the woke vs anti woke divide is not along racial or ethnic lines but rather reflects the difference between those who seek truth and enlightenment and those who fear it. Of course those who fear it will not admit to fear, When it comes to a full and truthful account of the dark underbelly of American history, they justify the glaring omissions as being anti American. My OPINION about that is that it is anti American to turn a blind eye to history rather than take the opportunity to learn from it, no matter how uncomfortable that might make some people feel. My OPINION is that we must we must confront the past so that we can learn to do better going forward. Those who rail against woke OPINE that such teachings divide the races and instill guilt and self loathing in white people. But those are just OPINIONs.
Having said that the FACT is that to ignore, or worse deny history is to embrace the darkness of ignorance. The same can be said of many other issues that have come to be caught up in the debate about wokeness. Gender and sexuality are hot button issues today. Transsexuality especially sits upon a major cultural fault line. There is no dearth of OPINIONS on all sides about why people are trans and how to address the issue ; medically, legally, socially or psychologically . But the fact is that those who invoke the evils of woke in order to disparage trans people ignore the facts of science, once again embracing ignorance. They are quick to invoke the mantra of “there are only two genders” and call trans advocates “anti science while ignoring and denying the clear scientific evidence that not everyone is clearly male or female, and that many transgender people may have been misgendered at birth. Once again they embrace ignorance and darkness.
On issue after issue, the anti woke mob repeatedly use equivocations to blur the lines between opinion and fact in an attempt to paint their opponents' as the ones who are out of touch with reality. And it is no small matter that those who rail against “woke” are consistently on the side of reactionary politics, promoting inequality and oppression. They know that truth and awareness..that which wokeness promotes is their enemy. In the face of such truth, they have nothing to stand on
Woke is awareness
Woke is knowledge
Woke is compassion
Woke is empathy
Woke is open minded
To oppose wokeness is to proclaim a commitment bigotry, lies and to repeating past mistakes and crimes against humanity. That is a fact that cannot be denied. The anti-woke mob does not even try to deny it. They are proud of it

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Quit spreading misinformation. This is onion reading. Lol. Talk about a pile......................