A bizarre racist outburst at a Texas school board isn’t an isolated event — it’s part of a national pattern
Dungan’s behavior is a perfect illustration of the “anti-woke” tap dance. The person alleging nefarious wokeness never admits to their own bigotry, instead pretending that they’re reacting to “woke” people who are “pushing” an agenda, in this case through innocuous poster art.
That is a very good take.
Also: it’s always projection. Conservatives push an agenda, so they assume everyone else does too.
I really want people to start considering “woke” a slur. Its basically just a word the far right uses for people they don’t like, aka minorities.
I really want people to learn the actual meaning of the word - it really says it all. And normally I argue for lingual drift and accepting the changed meaning of words, but in this case most people don’t know the definition, but aside from a racial/identity implication, they’re using it mostly correctly
Woke means looking at the system critically, not believing the things politicians and public officials tell you at face value, seeing how it’s all designed to turn us against each other so we never attempt meaningful change.
In a phrase, it means “wake up to the lies and think for yourself”
Fuck these racist bigots
It is now woke to be in the same room as another race.
Add it to the list.
Hey, can we start calling things they like woke? Like Jesus Trump and church and flags n stuff? I bet we can destroy this word by just stealing it back.
Jesus was woke AF by their own loose definition of the word.
Radical compassionate homeless asexual socialist. He’s woke af. I’m not a 100% sure on what woke is yet but I’m 100% sure Jesus is woke.
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Mary Magdalene might’ve disagreed.
They could have been bible study buddies 😂
Trump voters would’ve been the Romans crucifying Jesus because he was “disrespecting Roman authority” at the time and being a nuisance.
I think the MAGAs would’ve been the Jewish establishment in your analogy, while the Romans would’ve merely been “enlightened centrist” liberals who didn’t really give a shit but wanted to keep order.
They are definitely turning on Jesus and have been for quite some time now. There is an interesting statement from the former head of SBC wherein he states churchgoers are finding Jesus’ supposed teachings as being too woke and part of a liberal agenda. Can’t make this up. It was only a matter of time.
But Jesus also didn’t like mixing. That is why he instructed the apostles and other adherents to never teach gentiles and Samaritans. That was retconned years later by the church because they said people had visions of a resurrected jesus commanding them to mix with gentiles. But for a while there it was very much a racial/ethno in-group only. That is why Jesus supposedly stated he taught in parables; so gentiles wouldnt understand what he was talking about and find salvation. That is what Matthew 13:11-17 is about.
People need to stop characterizing Jesus as some socialists woke advocate like I see in this thread. His character wasn’t. He didn’t preach universal love and compassion, and he taught contradictory messages about pacifism probably because dozens of people created this character over centuries.
I honestly think people want to think the religion can’t be that bad and that the adherents are just awful.
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Let’s not forget that these same people kept telling us to and I quote: “WAKE UP SHEEPLE” And now they get all pissed off that people woke up.
Also what is the opposite of woke? Sleep? Go to sleep? Sounds dystopian as fuck.
Not to mention the QAnon shit with “the great awakening” where “the deep state” finally gets exposed and locked up. These people are morons.
No offence, but Joe Rogaine was a moron from the start and his podcasts were always bottom of the barrel garbage
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this is how it is for some people when there are non-white characters in movies, they consider it “pushing an agenda” when there’s nothing like that happening. it’s like they think people of other races just… don’t exist? therefore they should not be in movies? i don’t really get it
Replace “do not exist” with “should not exist” and you are right on
There are only two races, white and political
Because there is nothing to get besides racism. The very very few edge cases out there where race mattered and was miscast never get mentioned because usually the person who did it wrong says sorry and there is no story. You are giving the enemy too much credit.
And yes I don’t think she was miscast in Annihilation. The second book came out after they started making the movie (which is when that one line about her facial features was put in) and the fact that she had partial Asian ancestry wasn’t plot important in any of the 3 books.
My problem is the race switching. It is so stupid and is done in stories already told. There are tons of stories that have not been told about the race you are race swapping with. Why can’t we tell their stories instead.
Or when they put random people of colour in historical dramas. I get that they need to somehow include actors of all origins, but I can’t help but feel like it’s also a kind of white washing? Like, sorry but a black person would not be a noble at the Louis XIV court, how about you actually talk about what history was like from that perspective rather than just shoehorning the actors and pretend like everything was fine and dandy for people of colour in those days.
Even disregarding all bigotry and racism that this screams of, it’s dumb af because kids can be friends with FUCKING rocks. It’s pretty much their superpower.
Rocks, butterflies, smear on the window or imaginary. But a different skin colour? Oh my gosh, never!
I had pill bug friends in 7th grade… 🤓
Banning rocks next.
It’s almost like conservatives are racist and want to indoctinate kids into their conservative ideology of hate.
Wow what a shocker. Just saying the quiet part out loud. At least they’re consistent in their racism.
thats not new at all, I remember there being traces of that still in everyday interactions as a kid. Theres nothing new about the hate they are spewing, thats what makes it extra vile to me.
My wife tells me she thinks that I am being over dramatic when I say we need to start thinking about exit strategies for fleeing the US, and then stuff like this pops up.
You’re not being overdramatic. I’ve been thinking about an exit since 2020. I plan to have it figured out in advance of the next election so that I can flip a switch and go. Don’t wait for disaster. Have an exit decided and hope you don’t need it.
We need to stop diminishing racism, sexism, homophobia and other forms of bigotry by calling them anti-woke.
Lol! I was born in Ukraine, my best friend was born in Venezuela.
What a bunch of crap.
I’m mixed and I get along pretty well with myself. Suck it Texas.
This is my favorite part about racists worrying about white people becoming a minority. It’s only because they don’t consider mixed kids as their progeny. Your “white” genes aren’t being murdered by “black” genes inside your grandaughter. They’re both just kinda in there and that’s fine.
You can’t explain this to these people.
Four indictments on Donald Trump and they still think it’s a conspiracy.
Bears deserve better than to be associated with these freaks.
Freaks deserve better than to be associated with these… entities.
We wouldn’t want kids’ eyes opened by spending time with people different from them. We must keep them ignorant and hateful.
That’s just straight up racism.
Thats not “anti woke” thats just racism dumb ass
