It’s so infuriating because those first 2 things technically are woke in the original sense of the phrase. It was never supposed to have a negative connotation, it just meant having your eyes open to the ways of the world and having a discussion about how to improve them for everyone. How did we let that get twisted into something we want to avoid at all costs?
How did we let that get twisted into something we want to avoid at all costs?
Not we, its the ruling class
For fascists, demonstrating blatant hypocrisy is a way to flex their power. They’re not ashamed of it; on the contrary, they revel in rubbing it in our faces.
Freedom fries have entered the chat
If I remember correctly the freedom fries became a thing when the French criticized Bushes war in Iraq.
Indeed. That was over 20 years ago. But Republicans were already master hypocrites back then.
And don’t forget that the Dixie Chics got canceled hardcore for coming out against bush. I don’t think they ever recovered.
I remember all the radio stations in Texas refused to play their music. Bush was such huge asshole and he was my governor. He fucked Texas up so bad and yet they made him president also by a coup by the way. Al Gore won.
But you see one of them is about erasing ingenious peoples history (the Mexica/Aztec) - where the other is about forcing PoC to look at racial stereotypes - so one is cool and fun and the other is woke and bad 😤
I had a couple Republicans at my work a year or two ago who were adamant that renaming a local small body of water from [Racial slur against Native Americans] Lake to [Native American term for a type of body of water] Lake was “re-writing history”. They alleged a vast conspiracy including the Aunt Jemima’s syrup and other rebrands. They really do just believe whatever their programming says their in-group is believing at any given moment.