C_Clayton_Jones
Diamond Member
‘The word “woke” once meant something, kind of. But now it’s just an empty, all-purpose insult hurled by conservative propagandists, anti-vaccine fabulists, lazy journalists and people who don’t want to know our history. Give it a rest, folks.
Republicans accuse Democrats of being woke, trying to make the word into a synonym for un-American and implying some imaginary threat to Whites posed by African Americans and other people of color. Elite commentators pile on in laughable attempts to establish their purported anti-elite or populist credentials. Those who acknowledge this nation’s history of racism are accused of wokeness by others who seek to ignore uncomfortable, incontrovertible facts.
It’s all a scam whose fraudulent nature was made apparent by Green Bay Packers star quarterback Aaron Rodgers, of all people, who was revealed last week to have refused to get vaccinated against the coronavirus — and to have blatantly lied about it. Rather than take responsibility for his words and deeds, Rodgers claimed to be “in the crosshairs of the woke mob right now” and said he was speaking out — still not quite truthfully — before the “final nail gets put in my cancel-culture casket.”’
An imaginary ‘threat’ to whites contrived by racist conservatives.
Republicans accuse Democrats of being woke, trying to make the word into a synonym for un-American and implying some imaginary threat to Whites posed by African Americans and other people of color. Elite commentators pile on in laughable attempts to establish their purported anti-elite or populist credentials. Those who acknowledge this nation’s history of racism are accused of wokeness by others who seek to ignore uncomfortable, incontrovertible facts.
It’s all a scam whose fraudulent nature was made apparent by Green Bay Packers star quarterback Aaron Rodgers, of all people, who was revealed last week to have refused to get vaccinated against the coronavirus — and to have blatantly lied about it. Rather than take responsibility for his words and deeds, Rodgers claimed to be “in the crosshairs of the woke mob right now” and said he was speaking out — still not quite truthfully — before the “final nail gets put in my cancel-culture casket.”’
An imaginary ‘threat’ to whites contrived by racist conservatives.