No, because you aren’t even able to articulate your own position.
Back you go to watching videos on YouTube, so that you can be told by others what to think.
Tribalists love to use absurd caricatures of the Other to paint them in the worst possible light, while painting the Good Guy (their guy) as reasonable and sane. Conservatives are especially adept at this because they can’t really hold a topical lengthy back and forth, as I’ve discovered over time. It’s just not in their wheelhouse.There you go creating some sort of fantasy larp in your mind and then responding to it.
Unfortunately for you and your cohort, I’m still convinced that a more prominent and dangerous form of “mental slavery” witnessed today invokes the idea that books about seahorses must be banned, because they dare to include mention of the fact that the male seahorse carts around the babies.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sea-hors ... ff4b6dc0e5Hugging Sea Horse Book Is Too Racy For Schools, Tennessee Moms Group Says
In a steamy passage in a book conservative moms want banned, sea horses "twist their tails together and twirl gently around."
Mary Papenfuss
Sep 25, 2021, 08:25 AM EDT
A children’s book with an illustration of hugging sea horses is too hot to handle for kids and should be banned from elementary schools in Williamson County, Tennessee, a chapter of the conservative group Moms for Liberty insists.
“Sea Horse: The Shyest Fish in the Sea” includes such steamy passages as: “They twist their tails together and twirl gently around, changing color until they match. ... The two of them dance until sunset and then she puts her eggs into his pouch.”
Moms for Liberty also wants public schools in the county, just outside of Nashville, to ditch a tale about Johnny Appleseed because it’s “dark,” and is opposed to a book about hurricanes because “first grade is too young to hear about possible devastating effects of hurricanes.” A book about Martin Luther King Jr. is too divisive, the moms complained in an 11-page letter earlier this year to the state’s Board of Education, Reuters reported. The head of the local chapter has no children in public schools.
“Some books should be removed entirely,” a representative of Moms for Liberty wrote in an email to the Daily Beast. “Some books are objectionable only because of how they are presented via the accompanying teacher’s manual. ... Some books would be better suited to a higher grade level due to their age inappropriate content.”
The sea horse book could be appropriate for eighth graders, she noted.
Neither of those videos came even close to accurately or honestly portraying what is really meant by "woke." Condemning or mocking others for being "woke" is very much like racist's use of the derogatory term "nigger lover" to mock others who don't share their hateful bigotry, but it sounds a bit less obviously bigoted.Lowrance wrote: ↑Sun Feb 26, 2023 12:01 pmI was really hoping that when I logged on this morning, at least one of the wokies here would be willing to leave the woke plantation for a few minutes to accept my challenge and watch both videos to see how easy it is to foresee the complete insanity of the woke movement. But I guess not. I see the majority of the wokies here are going to play the old game where every new poster who disagrees with the woke narrative is either this poster or that poster, or maybe that poster is that poster, or maybe this poster is the other poster, or maybe this or maybe that, or maybe that or maybe this! Perhaps Ajax is Shades, Shades is Mike, Binger is Shades, daveishere is Shades, or this or that! There is a problem with this board, but I have not yet determined what it is. I'm close, but simultaneously feel so far away. But I'm confident I'll figure it out one day, and I promise to share my findings with everyone here.
Now returning to the topic at hand. Many of our youth and uneducated citizens are currently infected with a completely irrational woke narrative, as evidenced by the two videos I have presented. It has many names, including wokeness, progressivism, and Marxism, but it is a form of mental slavery that completely infects the brain once accepted as a legitimate way to view the world in which we live. The foe of wokeness is liberty. In actuality, wokeism is a cancer that devours freedom; wherever it is found, freedom is eradicated due to wokeism's insatiable appetite.
So, is anyone willing to watch the videos I presented and explain why the wokies in the second video were hunting down the woman who invited an African-American man to speak at her college? Or,will all the wokies here act like Mormons when they're presented with negative information about the church?
What do you think woke means?Gunnar wrote: ↑Mon Feb 27, 2023 4:44 amNeither of those videos came even close to accurately or honestly portraying what is really meant by "woke." Condemning or mocking others for being "woke" is very much like racist's use of the derogatory term "nigger lover" to mock others who don't share their hateful bigotry, but it sounds a bit less obviously bigoted.Lowrance wrote: ↑Sun Feb 26, 2023 12:01 pmI was really hoping that when I logged on this morning, at least one of the wokies here would be willing to leave the woke plantation for a few minutes to accept my challenge and watch both videos to see how easy it is to foresee the complete insanity of the woke movement. But I guess not. I see the majority of the wokies here are going to play the old game where every new poster who disagrees with the woke narrative is either this poster or that poster, or maybe that poster is that poster, or maybe this poster is the other poster, or maybe this or maybe that, or maybe that or maybe this! Perhaps Ajax is Shades, Shades is Mike, Binger is Shades, daveishere is Shades, or this or that! There is a problem with this board, but I have not yet determined what it is. I'm close, but simultaneously feel so far away. But I'm confident I'll figure it out one day, and I promise to share my findings with everyone here.
Now returning to the topic at hand. Many of our youth and uneducated citizens are currently infected with a completely irrational woke narrative, as evidenced by the two videos I have presented. It has many names, including wokeness, progressivism, and Marxism, but it is a form of mental slavery that completely infects the brain once accepted as a legitimate way to view the world in which we live. The foe of wokeness is liberty. In actuality, wokeism is a cancer that devours freedom; wherever it is found, freedom is eradicated due to wokeism's insatiable appetite.
So, is anyone willing to watch the videos I presented and explain why the wokies in the second video were hunting down the woman who invited an African-American man to speak at her college? Or,will all the wokies here act like Mormons when they're presented with negative information about the church?
1. The past tense of "wake."
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, chief warrior in the crusade against “wokeness,” has hurled the word at so many targets as to render it meaningless. Fortunately, some members of DeSantis’ office have opened up about what they consider the definition of the word “woke” to be—and said a lot about their politics, while they were at it.
The question of the meaning of the word came up during a Florida trial over the potential reinstatement of Democratic State Attorney Andrew Warren, whom DeSantis suspended after Warren signed a pledge not to prosecute abortion seekers or providers. DeSantis argued that Warren’s pledge signaled a failure to perform his duties. A judge is currently deliberating the case.
During the trial, attorneys for Warren asked DeSantis aides to define “woke.” Per Florida Politics:
Asked what “woke” means more generally, [Desantis’ General Counsel Ryan] Newman said “it would be the belief there are systemic injustices in American society and the need to address them.”
Newman added that DeSantis doesn’t believe there are systemic injustices in the U.S. He also emphasized he believed Warren’s “wokeism” led him to sign the pledge not to prosecute abortion crimes, the primary factor that led to his suspension.
It’s important to remember that Ron DeSantis can’t hide behind the excuse of ignorance or incompetence, as former President Trump often did. Surely, during his undergraduate coursework at Yale or his law studies at Harvard, DeSantis encountered some discussion of redlining, environmental racism, discriminatory policing, or any of the other injustices that might be described as “systemic.” DeSantis knows that these exist, but in denying them, he divorces his actions from historical context and gives himself cover to perform stunts like arresting (mostly Black) Floridians for registering to vote when they didn’t know they had been barred from doing so. If DeSantis says “woke” often and loud enough, he just might be able to distract voters from the retrograde nature of the policies he’s enacted.
I agree but would like to add to the end of your statement: "for fear of inadvertently outing yourself as a hateful bigot."
That's as good of a definition as any.Canpakes wrote:Something that you personally don’t like, but are either unwilling or unable to discuss the details of. : )