You dropped these:
- women
- LGBTQ+
- persons of color
- the rest of the military
- Capitol police
- atheists
- the childless
- education
- people who like cats
- literally not being mean to people
- school lunches for poor children
- Gillette
- nonviolence
- democracy
- the rule of law
The fact that they even have double digit vote share is a sign that actual merit is low on the list of criteria in politics.
I know it’s weird that I’m hung up on that one, but:
Context/Source for “literally not being mean to people”
I know, I know “democracy” should be more than enough (and it is) but I still want to know
“Woke” is basically “not being a raging dick to people”. They can’t ever define it because basically any real definition of the term makes them look incredibly bad.
oh yeah, makes sense.
I’ve had my bad experiences in the past with people you’d typically call “woke”, namely I’ve had a person tell me that I couldn’t use the german word “Digga” because it sounded too close to “nigga”. (I am not making this up.)
But I am very well aware that this isn’t what the MAGA crowd means when they call someone “woke” and that there are militants in every group (looking at you, c/vegan). So yeah, your explanation makes sense. Thanks for explaining :)
Wait, what happened with Gillette? How the fuck do you pick a fight with a company that literally sells razor blades and not expect to get cut?
It was a while ago back in 2019, but…
It is fucking wild to me that, that’s all it took to create backlash. That is so incredibly tame.