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The right-wing has created a political weapon with the word woke. It gives them a permanent amorphous enemy to unify around. It allows them to pander to bigotry without having to admit what they're doing.
They don't have to say they are hating gay people, denying the existence of transgenderism to hate transgender people, supporting bigotry and discrimination and harm to non-white people and other religions, on and on. They lost those fights for decades, relegated to fringe hate groups like the KKK.
They sanitize all that with the word woke. It almost sounds respectable if you are ignorant.
And it's letting them get away with murder politically, promoting extremist, anti-American, immoral politics hiding in plain sight, attacking social progress in our country towards justice and equal rights.
The governor of Oklahoma just announced that every high school will get a chapter of Turning Point USA, an organization created for one purpose, to indoctrinate young people to support Republicans, saying the purpose will be to fight "woke" in young people.
That is essentially saying that the Republican government will install right-wing indoctrination systems to push Republican politics in every high school - and get away with it by using the word "woke".
There needs to be a word for people pushing that agenda of opposing justice and equal rights. A label for those bigots that serves the purpose of "woke" for the people against the bigotry.
In the past, the bigots only had their bigotry on their side. Now, they are powered by the oligarchs, who pay for their political machine because now the point of the bigotry isn't just the bigotry, it's to get votes for politicians who will support that oligarchy, who have transferred ovre $80 trillion to the wealthy and will continue to harm the American people and destroy our democracy. They own the Republican Party. A label is needed. Bigotry for now
They don't have to say they are hating gay people, denying the existence of transgenderism to hate transgender people, supporting bigotry and discrimination and harm to non-white people and other religions, on and on. They lost those fights for decades, relegated to fringe hate groups like the KKK.
They sanitize all that with the word woke. It almost sounds respectable if you are ignorant.
And it's letting them get away with murder politically, promoting extremist, anti-American, immoral politics hiding in plain sight, attacking social progress in our country towards justice and equal rights.
The governor of Oklahoma just announced that every high school will get a chapter of Turning Point USA, an organization created for one purpose, to indoctrinate young people to support Republicans, saying the purpose will be to fight "woke" in young people.
That is essentially saying that the Republican government will install right-wing indoctrination systems to push Republican politics in every high school - and get away with it by using the word "woke".
There needs to be a word for people pushing that agenda of opposing justice and equal rights. A label for those bigots that serves the purpose of "woke" for the people against the bigotry.
In the past, the bigots only had their bigotry on their side. Now, they are powered by the oligarchs, who pay for their political machine because now the point of the bigotry isn't just the bigotry, it's to get votes for politicians who will support that oligarchy, who have transferred ovre $80 trillion to the wealthy and will continue to harm the American people and destroy our democracy. They own the Republican Party. A label is needed. Bigotry for now