Public Service Announcement: When Someone Uses The Word "Woke" As A Pejorative..

they use the n-word behind closed doors to their friends and families.

you're welcome.

Keep showing empathy and compassion and allow the racist, bigots to keep amplify who they are for us decent people.

kingstonlake wrote:I don’t know what “woke” is. But I do know it seems draw the ire of people who fit a specific profile.

I'm not entirely sure what it is, either - but the people who use it are the same ones who have a character flaw that allows them to lack empathy, compassion, decency and a basic care for humanity. That's really all I need to know.

RQA wrote:

DWags wrote:

I refer you to the second poster.

Did the 2nd poster so triggered by the word that he started a thread about it? Was the 2nd poster so emotional about it that he brought the n-word into the discussion?

I think you were so triggered and emotional that you may have left a word out of your first sentence. Clean it up a bit.

TravelinMan wrote:

Robert J Sakimano wrote:they use the n-word behind closed doors to their friends and families.

you're welcome.

Keep showing empathy and compassion and allow the racist, bigots to keep amplify who they are for us decent people.

This is the quality content that keeps me coming back. God bless you Bob.

you're welcome.

also, while you're telling god to bless me, tell him to ask his followers to stop celebrating the murder of children, dude. Unless that's too 'woke'.

Thanks, dude.

Pervis Muldoon wrote:

Travis of the Cosmos wrote:The biggest thing holding republicans back is that they love to convince themselves that they are in fact immensely popular when all of the evidence out there is to the contrary. It’s like they go down to the moose lodge, find out the 7 guys there agree with them, so they assume the rest of the country does too and then they pursue wildly unpopular things instead of trying to appeal to more people than just the guys down at the moose

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/03/08/gop-war-woke-most-americans-see-term-positive-ipsos-poll/11417394002/

A MAGA friend of mine constantly uses the word "everyone" when telling me what he thinks. Everyone knows the election was stolen, everyone hates Kamala, everyone knows masks don't work, etc. Today's technology allows him to receive only the information that reinforces his views and only the opinions of like-minded people, so he thinks everyone shares those views.

He probably also considers "they say" as experts in their field.

Republican voters do not believe than things can be made better via mankind's efforts, and are voting to kill us all off as quickly as possible.

There is no reasoning with this insanity.

GRR Spartan wrote:The reason the GOP and DeSantis are using "woke" is because its easy to say and is a one size fits all buzz word by anyone who doesn't have or doesn't want facts to disagree.

Ask anyone including politicians what they mean by woke and they will talk in circles because they can't explain it.  

Its the 2023 Critical Race Theory which was used as lighter fluid to get folks to school board meetings but when asked to define CRT or explain why it was dangerous they din't know who got their desire to re-write history exposed.

Conservatives are changing the meaning of words like "Woke" & "CTR" and then pointing at places they were used with their former meaning as threats.

GRR Spartan wrote:Conservative author struggles  to define woke.

https://www.newsweek.com/bethany-mandel-conservative-author-define-woke-viral-clip-video-1787844

they struggle to define it because, as I outlined in this thread, it's not exactly socially acceptable (among decent people, anyway) to use the "n-word".

but you know they want to use it. Bad.

of course, the could substitute things like "lazy", "good for nothing", "leaches", "welfare queens", etc - but they also know that their brand of racism and bigotry is no longer widely accepted in civilized society.

and, to be clear, their cute little term "woke" isn't limited to race. It's in reference to anything or anyone who wants to treat others with the dignity and respect that we all deserve.

perhaps if we had more people asking these miscreants to define "woke", they'd crawl back to the the caves they belong in. This lady conducting the interview did a great job. We need more of that from the media.

(I won't hold my breath).

Their definition is anything that limits white privilege, but they will not say that out loud..

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Newsweek magazine gives the whiny woman who can't define "woke" (without using the n-word or other racist, bigoted demeaning language) an opportunity to whine even more in an op-ed.

Caution: Mainstream Media Link below

https://www.newsweek.com/define-woke-bethany-mandel-conservative-book-1788538

Motown Spartan wrote:Seems like she’s asking people to have a little bit of empathy for her in her time of need and vulnerability. Or rather, asking people to be woke for her.

I'd really like to feel empathy and compassion for you.. but that would make me "woke".

the cornerstone of the modern conservative movement is whiny, privileged victimhood. At every single turn, that is literally all they know how to do.

Is the GOP "War on Woke" to Keep Racial & Queer Minorities “In Their Place?”

Why are Republicans proudly waging a “War on Woke”? First, some background.

In 1938, Lead Belly sang a song about the “Scottsboro Boys,” a group of young Black men and boys who were falsely charged with rape and sentenced to the death penalty in Alabama in 1931. In the song, he talks about meeting the Scottsboro defendants, saying:

“I made this little song about down there. So I advise everybody, be a little careful when they go along through there — best stay woke, keep your eyes open.”

The phrase had a major revival in the Black community, as NBC News notes, in 2014 after Michael Brown was murdered by Ferguson, Missouri white police officer Darren Wilson. “Stay woke” meant “keep an eye out for white cops who want to kill you” and to stay alert to and aware of other aspects of structural racism in American society.

During the Trump administration, white supremacists began trashing the use of the word, eventually including within its scope the queer community as well as Black people. Today, when Republicans use the word as an epithet, they’re specifically referring to these minorities and people who defend their right to live safely and unmolested by bigots and racists.

Jake from State Farm wrote:Is the GOP "War on Woke" to Keep Racial & Queer Minorities “In Their Place?”

Why are Republicans proudly waging a “War on Woke”? First, some background.

In 1938, Lead Belly sang a song about the “Scottsboro Boys,” a group of young Black men and boys who were falsely charged with rape and sentenced to the death penalty in Alabama in 1931. In the song, he talks about meeting the Scottsboro defendants, saying:

“I made this little song about down there. So I advise everybody, be a little careful when they go along through there — best stay woke, keep your eyes open.”

The phrase had a major revival in the Black community, as NBC News notes, in 2014 after Michael Brown was murdered by Ferguson, Missouri white police officer Darren Wilson. “Stay woke” meant “keep an eye out for white cops who want to kill you” and to stay alert to and aware of other aspects of structural racism in American society.

During the Trump administration, white supremacists began trashing the use of the word, eventually including within its scope the queer community as well as Black people. Today, when Republicans use the word as an epithet, they’re specifically referring to these minorities and people who defend their right to live safely and unmolested by bigots and racists.

exactly, hence my initial post after the thread title" Public Service Announcement: When Someone Uses The Word "Woke" As A Pejorative:

"they use the n-word behind closed doors to their friends and families".

I'd like to remind y'all that you get my assessments here for free. I'm happy to do it. It certainly beats waiting around for the pointy-headed psuedo-intellectual elitists of the mainstream media to dispense their thoughts.