Why the right is so terrified of "woke": There are truths it just can't face
Conservatives didn't want to hear about white privilege. So they abandoned reality and joined the orange man's cult.
https://www.salon.com/2023/06/25/why-the-right-is-so-terrified-of-woke-there-are-truths-it-just-cant-face/
{Let me be perfectly clear. I, personally, have benefited from white privilege my whole life. My father was a high-ranking Naval Officer and everywhere I've lived in America, from posting to posting, I have never had a problem "fitting in". I've been wined and dined by some very rich men. I have working relationships with several Arizona politicians, on a state and local level, due to my advocacy for the homeless. So I know what white privilege is, and how to use it. It's very real.]
[I'd like conservatives in this forum, who think they are living a 'virtuous' life with their political stance, to just read the article. Yes, it might be a bit uncomfortable reading some of these truths, but we do very much need to 'get over ourselves' if we are to actually 'make America great again'. -- Suzi]
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@suzianne saidsalon.com?
Why the right is so terrified of "woke": There are truths it just can't face
Conservatives didn't want to hear about white privilege. So they abandoned reality and joined the orange man's cult.
https://www.salon.com/2023/06/25/why-the-right-is-so-terrified-of-woke-there-are-truths-it-just-cant-face/
{Let me be perfectly clear. I, personally, have be ...[text shortened]... much need to 'get over ourselves' if we are to actually 'make America great again'. -- Suzi]
https://www.politico.com/media/story/2016/05/the-fall-of-saloncom-004551/
@mott-the-hoople saidNon sequitur.
salon.com?
https://www.politico.com/media/story/2016/05/the-fall-of-saloncom-004551/
Go read the article.
@suzianne saidThe right's not afraid of woke. They use it for fundraising. It's a critical part of the broader culture war in which they use politics and government regulation to tell people what to do.
Why the right is so terrified of "woke": There are truths it just can't face
Conservatives didn't want to hear about white privilege. So they abandoned reality and joined the orange man's cult.
https://www.salon.com/2023/06/25/why-the-right-is-so-terrified-of-woke-there-are-truths-it-just-cant-face/
{Let me be perfectly clear. I, personally, have be ...[text shortened]... much need to 'get over ourselves' if we are to actually 'make America great again'. -- Suzi]
Regulating culture has got to be among the dumbest ideas that humans ever came up with.
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Why does the article only point out white men like Trump and Desantis? No Democrat or liberal white men are mentioned? It seems to me that this opinion piece is only anti-white republicans. As an Independent I would say that any man/woman in power use money as their privilege to keep power. The color of their skin does not matter, neither does their gender, just the color of money.
@boonon
I think he mentioned T&D because they represent the biggest threat to diversity and culture in America.
If we are "Woke" that must mean the MAGITES are asleep.
I can just imagine the scenario mentioned in the article, President DeSantis's wife as the Czar of literature and culture, deciding what is 'Good" for America......
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@boonon
I think he mentioned T&D because they represent the biggest threat to diversity and culture in America.
If we are "Woke" that must mean the MAGITES are asleep.
I can just imagine the scenario mentioned in the article, President DeSantis's wife as the Czar of literature and culture, deciding what is 'Good" for America......
@suzianne said.
Why the right is so terrified of "woke": There are truths it just can't face
Conservatives didn't want to hear about white privilege. So they abandoned reality and joined the orange man's cult.
https://www.salon.com/2023/06/25/why-the-right-is-so-terrified-of-woke-there-are-truths-it-just-cant-face/
{Let me be perfectly clear. I, personally, have be ...[text shortened]... much need to 'get over ourselves' if we are to actually 'make America great again'. -- Suzi]
What a major pile of crapola.
But glad to see you still like to hate.
@suzianne saidSorry to shoot this post down, Suzy, to shoot the article down,,,,,but, it suggests that white people are privileged, when I know a WHOLE lot of white losers. So this mysterious privilege you speak of does not exist, or, the losers of today would be flying high. I just could not read it all the way through, hogwash, but does it mention in there that some people who are not white are successful? Just curious.
Why the right is so terrified of "woke": There are truths it just can't face
Conservatives didn't want to hear about white privilege. So they abandoned reality and joined the orange man's cult.
https://www.salon.com/2023/06/25/why-the-right-is-so-terrified-of-woke-there-are-truths-it-just-cant-face/
{Let me be perfectly clear. I, personally, have be ...[text shortened]... much need to 'get over ourselves' if we are to actually 'make America great again'. -- Suzi]
@AverageJoe1
PS: If you say that the white losers did not catch the white supremacy train, did not want to be a success, I would simply repeat what I have told you for years.......they want to be poor. Like, girls who are pregnant want to be pregnant. You simply cannot grasp this concept.
@boonon saidThe point is "woke" versus "anti-woke".
@Suzianne
Why does the article only point out white men like Trump and Desantis? No Democrat or liberal white men are mentioned? It seems to me that this opinion piece is only anti-white republicans. As an Independent I would say that any man/woman in power use money as their privilege to keep power. The color of their skin does not matter, neither does their gender, just the color of money.
You KNOW who is who. And why.
@earl-of-trumps saidIt's so easy to jump on the hate bandwagon, isn't it?
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What a major pile of crapola.
But glad to see you still like to hate.
Especially since the right hates everyone.
@averagejoe1 saidEven the white losers (usually out in the country) have it better than the urban non-white. They've managed to find their niche. And they've been allowed to set up camp there.
Sorry to shoot this post down, Suzy, to shoot the article down,,,,,but, it suggests that white people are privileged, when I know a WHOLE lot of white losers. So this mysterious privilege you speak of does not exist, or, the losers of today would be flying high. I just could not read it all the way through, hogwash, but does it mention in there that some people who are not white are successful? Just curious.
@earl-of-trumps saidSuzy is having a 'me' time.
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What a major pile of crapola.
But glad to see you still like to hate.
I am champing at the bit to put 'me' out there, but something seems to be holding me back.