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  • Tim SimmonsTim Simmons Posts: 8,632




  • HughFreakingDillonHughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 38,346
    Woke war criminal hahahaha. Can't wait to see that bullshit get traction with the maga moron crowd
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  • BentleyspopBentleyspop Craft Beer Brewery, Colorado Posts: 11,066
    Tim Simmons said:




    Joe Wilson better be carefull with that rhetoric. People who speak out against putin tend to get disappeared. 
  • mace1229mace1229 Posts: 9,583
    edited March 13
    Tim Simmons said:
    His explanation is basically what Woke was defined as before it was co-opted by conservatives as a lazy cynical catch all for “stuff i don’t like”. 
    Using "woke" wasn't a good choice for them, because it wasn't used for everything, bust mostly targeting the over-the-top PC reaction to the current culture. 
    Like forcing so many diversity trainings in public schools. The reaction to the garage pull that was a noose in Nascar and calling in the FBI, and around that same time a ninja course in a public park was taken down because the rope handles looked too much like a noose. The harsh criticism for anyone who initially questioned Jussie Smollet when his story didn't make sense. That sort of thing. The textbook definition of "woke" has a positive appeal, so calling someone too woke wasn't a good strategy, they should have come up with another word. 
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  • OnWis97OnWis97 St. Paul, MN Posts: 5,393
    What a strange tweet. The GOP loves Putin in no small part because he and his country are so un-woke.

    I don't know, maybe there's an opporunity to label Hitler a woke war criminal and MAGA will start hating him again.
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  • Tim SimmonsTim Simmons Posts: 8,632
    mace1229 said:
    Tim Simmons said:
    His explanation is basically what Woke was defined as before it was co-opted by conservatives as a lazy cynical catch all for “stuff i don’t like”. 
    Using "woke" wasn't a good choice for them, because it wasn't used for everything, bust mostly targeting the over-the-top PC reaction to the current culture. 
    Like forcing so many diversity trainings in public schools. The reaction to the garage pull that was a noose in Nascar and calling in the FBI, and around that same time a ninja course in a public park was taken down because the rope handles looked too much like a noose. The harsh criticism for anyone who initially questioned Jussie Smollet when his story didn't make sense. That sort of thing. The textbook definition of "woke" has a positive appeal, so calling someone too woke wasn't a good strategy, they should have come up with another word. 
    It was a good choice if you wanted the minimize what was motivating the original movement behind “Be/Stay Woke” and to weaponize some sort of catch all amorphous bastardization for people who had no understanding of a colloquialism. 

    But to your broader point, I do think it’s worth reflecting on why people were feeling so alarmed, where diversity trainings, sensitivity levels and and a gross lie were happening. 
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  • Merkin BallerMerkin Baller Posts: 12,038
    Tim Simmons said:
    mace1229 said:
    Tim Simmons said:
    His explanation is basically what Woke was defined as before it was co-opted by conservatives as a lazy cynical catch all for “stuff i don’t like”. 
    Using "woke" wasn't a good choice for them, because it wasn't used for everything, bust mostly targeting the over-the-top PC reaction to the current culture. 
    Like forcing so many diversity trainings in public schools. The reaction to the garage pull that was a noose in Nascar and calling in the FBI, and around that same time a ninja course in a public park was taken down because the rope handles looked too much like a noose. The harsh criticism for anyone who initially questioned Jussie Smollet when his story didn't make sense. That sort of thing. The textbook definition of "woke" has a positive appeal, so calling someone too woke wasn't a good strategy, they should have come up with another word. 
    It was a good choice if you wanted the minimize what was motivating the original movement behind “Be/Stay Woke” and to weaponize some sort of catch all amorphous bastardization for people who had no understanding of a colloquialism. 

    But to your broader point, I do think it’s worth reflecting on why people were feeling so alarmed, where diversity trainings, sensitivity levels and and a gross lie were happening. 
    Well said. 
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