Remarkable. I would get in trouble writing a multiple choice question like that for a test. No wrong answers. Perhaps you left out the most correct: they desire to ignore reality. So one day, recently, in class, someone asked what I thought the definition of woke was. My hesitant reply was that the term was deliberately vague so that politicians could use it to attack those to their "left" on whatever subject they happened to be discussing at the time without actually saying anything that left them open to attack. So all topics that smack of regulatory action, improvement of child care, concern for refugees (illegal aliens), recognition of racism and response, gender equity and rights, environmental action, concern about wolves and beavers, climate change, expansion of medical coverage for all, or simply funding for public education, is woke. Therefore, I am woke. Deal with it.
As far as the Democrats go, their response should be to propose ways to fix things, correct systemic mistakes, act on climate, care for people, care for the planet. They need to push back on Republicans with positive legislation that demonstrates care. Woke is beautiful, deal with it.
“Woke” sure sounds like another effective label dreamt up by Frank Luntz. He’s the guy responsible for the phrase, “death tax” replacing inheritance tax, thereby making it sound like everybody would be subject to it when it’s really only for millionaire offspring.
Oddly enough, woke has been used as an effective means of downplaying the value of compassion and equality which used to be considered core Christian values. But the GOP conveniently squeezed them out in favor of their Swiss cheese Christianity with convenient holes where the Golden Rule and “Judge not, lest ye be judged” used to be.
I recall stories from colleagues who grew up in the South where the truth about slavery, about race, and about segregation had been driven from the pulpits, driven from the classrooms, and driven from the newsrooms. Today, nearly 60 years since passage of federal civil and voting rights legislation, a painfully similar strain, dare I say, of orthodoxy (“Anti-Woke”) increasingly has taken hold in the Republican Party.
I would note, in Orwell’s 1984, the character Syme, one of the writers of that totalitarian society’s dictionary, explains to the protagonist Winston, “The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”
I reference Orwell because I imagine, say, in DeSantis’s mind that an un-woke, unconscious people, an indoctrinated people fed only on partisan information and opinion that confirm their own bias, is less inclined to put up a fight, to ask questions and be skeptical. I dare say we all must be “woke” to how that kind of orthodoxy can kill a democracy—or worse.
Really, what does the opposite of 'woke' mean? Asleep! They want us to be unconscious! Ultimately exploitable and unresistant to their unrepentant greed, cruelty and power madness!
In the first place,these folks have been boohooing about they are being"replaced"when the counters of demographics speak of White folks becoming the minority and Black and Hispanic people having the larger population in the somewhat near future.I believe the guilty conscience is showing, because I honestly believe they think the Black and Hispanic people will treat White folks like they themselves have historically treated all minorities,like they are"less than"and deserving of the inferior status.
Then you have the misogyny that White men have towards females,that they all should be barefoot and pregnant and in the kitchen their entire lives,they don't need education or a career,etc.And giving women, especially minority women,equal status just absolutely kills these men.They believe and insist that women are inferior,weaker,less intelligent,etc,and are irate when women prove them dead wrong.
Finally,these racist, misogynistic nitwits are so threatened by being shoved off their God-given pedestals,that they attack anything that don't give them their Superior Status that they think only they deserve.Just look at all the attention they give to people they disagree with,and all the laws that they pass in the vain attempt to control everyone and make them do it ONLY their way.They have always hated gay people,and trans people even more so,and are enraged that these people have equal status and rights that these angry crybaby twits think should only be for them,the straight White men,and noone else should even get any consideration.They especially despise trans women,and this is evident in how overboard they have went to keep little boys from being turned into little sissy girls,in their eyes.They are just losing their collective minds over this.
It's so crazy that none of these states and politicians have any care or concern about what average people care about,all they care about are culture wars and cancelling out anyone that don't suit the proper image they demand to see.
Meself,I'm so sick of DeSatan and his "woke"garbage,the meaning is now so distorted that it has no meaning anymore.He just needs to STFU and do us all a favor and walk off a cliff into a den of snakes.
It drives me crazy that they have created a term ("WOKE") and that our press even gives it credence by using it in many articles and headlines (NY Times). Are we so stupid to be manipulated into a cultural war by such a simple guise?
I chose “other” because I think it’s a combo of their both having no policy ideas and they need a scapegoat. The blind hatred emboldened by their idol in Mar a Lago has penetrated such a vast amount of people in this country — including the politicians who idolize and emulate this fascist & creator of the Insurrection.
I don’t normally read these comments until after I have voiced my own thoughts but today for some reason I did, and so I must agree 100% with Wayne Teel’s (entire) comment and reiterate: “As far as the Democrats go, their response should be to propose ways to fix things, correct systemic mistakes, act on climate, care for people, care for the planet. They need to push back on Republicans with positive legislation that demonstrates care. Woke is beautiful, deal with it.”
Thank you for being the voice of reason, as usual, Professor Reich
anti-"woke"-ness is just a way for the GQP to use the word "hatred" without alarming anyone by not naming everyone whom they hate. which is, basically, everyone who is not a white man.
GOP' only policies are to obstruct and sabotage whatever the Government has done and tries to do, for the American people, turn the clock back to what they perceive as the good old days and remove the bad old days (including Jan6) from the history books..........and then save the country from chaos -they create themselves- through an one party authoritarian regime......
You can either be Woke or Asleep at the Wheel. I don't like the term Woke. I'd prefer enlightened, aware, tuned in, etc. I can't believe all the progress we've made since the 1970s is now threatened by these UNwoke politicians.
"Woke" for the Republicans is just becoming a word they use to activate the worst emotions, without any accompanying thought, in their base -- the verbal equivalent of ringing the bell to activate a Pavlovian salvation response in dogs that have been trained to make the association between the bell and food. It is what "communism" or "socialism" used to do for Republicans with the added frisson of being a racist dog-whistle to appeal to those feelings.
Remarkable. I would get in trouble writing a multiple choice question like that for a test. No wrong answers. Perhaps you left out the most correct: they desire to ignore reality. So one day, recently, in class, someone asked what I thought the definition of woke was. My hesitant reply was that the term was deliberately vague so that politicians could use it to attack those to their "left" on whatever subject they happened to be discussing at the time without actually saying anything that left them open to attack. So all topics that smack of regulatory action, improvement of child care, concern for refugees (illegal aliens), recognition of racism and response, gender equity and rights, environmental action, concern about wolves and beavers, climate change, expansion of medical coverage for all, or simply funding for public education, is woke. Therefore, I am woke. Deal with it.
As far as the Democrats go, their response should be to propose ways to fix things, correct systemic mistakes, act on climate, care for people, care for the planet. They need to push back on Republicans with positive legislation that demonstrates care. Woke is beautiful, deal with it.
“Woke” sure sounds like another effective label dreamt up by Frank Luntz. He’s the guy responsible for the phrase, “death tax” replacing inheritance tax, thereby making it sound like everybody would be subject to it when it’s really only for millionaire offspring.
Oddly enough, woke has been used as an effective means of downplaying the value of compassion and equality which used to be considered core Christian values. But the GOP conveniently squeezed them out in favor of their Swiss cheese Christianity with convenient holes where the Golden Rule and “Judge not, lest ye be judged” used to be.
I recall stories from colleagues who grew up in the South where the truth about slavery, about race, and about segregation had been driven from the pulpits, driven from the classrooms, and driven from the newsrooms. Today, nearly 60 years since passage of federal civil and voting rights legislation, a painfully similar strain, dare I say, of orthodoxy (“Anti-Woke”) increasingly has taken hold in the Republican Party.
I would note, in Orwell’s 1984, the character Syme, one of the writers of that totalitarian society’s dictionary, explains to the protagonist Winston, “The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”
I reference Orwell because I imagine, say, in DeSantis’s mind that an un-woke, unconscious people, an indoctrinated people fed only on partisan information and opinion that confirm their own bias, is less inclined to put up a fight, to ask questions and be skeptical. I dare say we all must be “woke” to how that kind of orthodoxy can kill a democracy—or worse.
Really, what does the opposite of 'woke' mean? Asleep! They want us to be unconscious! Ultimately exploitable and unresistant to their unrepentant greed, cruelty and power madness!
In the first place,these folks have been boohooing about they are being"replaced"when the counters of demographics speak of White folks becoming the minority and Black and Hispanic people having the larger population in the somewhat near future.I believe the guilty conscience is showing, because I honestly believe they think the Black and Hispanic people will treat White folks like they themselves have historically treated all minorities,like they are"less than"and deserving of the inferior status.
Then you have the misogyny that White men have towards females,that they all should be barefoot and pregnant and in the kitchen their entire lives,they don't need education or a career,etc.And giving women, especially minority women,equal status just absolutely kills these men.They believe and insist that women are inferior,weaker,less intelligent,etc,and are irate when women prove them dead wrong.
Finally,these racist, misogynistic nitwits are so threatened by being shoved off their God-given pedestals,that they attack anything that don't give them their Superior Status that they think only they deserve.Just look at all the attention they give to people they disagree with,and all the laws that they pass in the vain attempt to control everyone and make them do it ONLY their way.They have always hated gay people,and trans people even more so,and are enraged that these people have equal status and rights that these angry crybaby twits think should only be for them,the straight White men,and noone else should even get any consideration.They especially despise trans women,and this is evident in how overboard they have went to keep little boys from being turned into little sissy girls,in their eyes.They are just losing their collective minds over this.
It's so crazy that none of these states and politicians have any care or concern about what average people care about,all they care about are culture wars and cancelling out anyone that don't suit the proper image they demand to see.
Meself,I'm so sick of DeSatan and his "woke"garbage,the meaning is now so distorted that it has no meaning anymore.He just needs to STFU and do us all a favor and walk off a cliff into a den of snakes.
It drives me crazy that they have created a term ("WOKE") and that our press even gives it credence by using it in many articles and headlines (NY Times). Are we so stupid to be manipulated into a cultural war by such a simple guise?
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2023/03/02/the-anti-esg-industry-is-taking-investors-for-a-ride
"When you believe in nothing, you'll fall for anything-"
Great drawing, Professor!
I chose “other” because I think it’s a combo of their both having no policy ideas and they need a scapegoat. The blind hatred emboldened by their idol in Mar a Lago has penetrated such a vast amount of people in this country — including the politicians who idolize and emulate this fascist & creator of the Insurrection.
I don’t normally read these comments until after I have voiced my own thoughts but today for some reason I did, and so I must agree 100% with Wayne Teel’s (entire) comment and reiterate: “As far as the Democrats go, their response should be to propose ways to fix things, correct systemic mistakes, act on climate, care for people, care for the planet. They need to push back on Republicans with positive legislation that demonstrates care. Woke is beautiful, deal with it.”
Thank you for being the voice of reason, as usual, Professor Reich
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It's racist, sexist, classist, anti worker, anti equity, anti education and anti environmental. Did I say toxic?
I was just waiting to see how the Republicans would spin the story to blame minorities for the banking crisis. They are right on script.
anti-"woke"-ness is just a way for the GQP to use the word "hatred" without alarming anyone by not naming everyone whom they hate. which is, basically, everyone who is not a white man.
The use of the word "woke" it's just a throwaway, code for I can't offer any specifics but I'm right and they're wrong.
GOP' only policies are to obstruct and sabotage whatever the Government has done and tries to do, for the American people, turn the clock back to what they perceive as the good old days and remove the bad old days (including Jan6) from the history books..........and then save the country from chaos -they create themselves- through an one party authoritarian regime......
You can either be Woke or Asleep at the Wheel. I don't like the term Woke. I'd prefer enlightened, aware, tuned in, etc. I can't believe all the progress we've made since the 1970s is now threatened by these UNwoke politicians.
Anti woke seems to me to be coming from abused adult children, who never learned what love, kindness, acceptance and honesty were, as children.
"Woke" for the Republicans is just becoming a word they use to activate the worst emotions, without any accompanying thought, in their base -- the verbal equivalent of ringing the bell to activate a Pavlovian salvation response in dogs that have been trained to make the association between the bell and food. It is what "communism" or "socialism" used to do for Republicans with the added frisson of being a racist dog-whistle to appeal to those feelings.