City Jan 19, 2023 at 11:00 am

And to Kruse, Anything That Is Not Conservative Is Plain Woke

This is an excellent view of the foundations of my civilization. Getty Images/ Alexandros Maragos

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1

Has anyone who uses the word "woke" non-ironically actually been asked to define what that word means?

2

Uh oh. Poor Katie Herzog has been displaced as the rightwing racist shit bag's New Northwest Darling!

3

The thing is these "conservatives" are not actually conservative at all.

They're free spending anti-government radicals that h8 America with a passion, and worship their Fuhrer Putin and his Fascist propaganda teachings.

4

Lefties love to hang their excuse on the hook that woke is an undefined or nebulous term, when there are plenty of examples of wokeness that illustrate it perfectly and abundantly. For cringing examples, follow #LibsOfTicToc on Twitter, if you dare.

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Big Oil doesn't throw soup on paintings, Charles.

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@5, nope, big oil coats wildlife in crude.

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You know, conservatives could use the word "liberal" or "leftist" or "left" or "Democrat" instead of the word "woke," they're almost always interchangeable, but there's SOME REASON they choose to use the word "woke." What could that reason be? Hmmm ... Hmmmmmmmm I'm really trying to put my finger on just WHAT it is about the word "woke" that tickles the fancy of conservative politicians and commentators. Hmmmmmm it is so hard to really just nail down, isn't it? Hmmmmmmm... it's like it's on the tip of my tongue .... hmmmmmmmmmm. What could it be .... hmmmmmm????? Gosh hmmmmmmm?????

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I mean, the “anti-woke” army is catching the zeitgeist for something people are too ashamed to talk about. Unless we really talk about it, this beast will rattle around until we find ourselves in another January 6 moment, and worse. Dismiss at your own peril.

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DeSantis officials finally had to define what they meant by it in court:

"Asked what “woke” means more generally, [Desantis’ General Counsel Ryan] Newman said “it would be the belief there are systemic injustices in American society and the need to address them.”"

Source: https://www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/2022/12/desantis-ron-woke-florida-officials/

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Tuned out in the first 15 seconds after he said “one of the tenets of wokeness, of course, is that your feelings matter more than the truth.”

In my observation, that statement is overwhelmingly true not as a “tenet of wokeness,” whatever the fuck that is, but for the great masses of threatened white men, like this guy, who irrationally lash out at any suggestion that they bear any responsibility to alleviate the effects of systemic injustice. They’re triggered and terrified by the idea that systemic injustice even exists. Any suggestion of the need for self-reflection of any kind, in fact, is met with a derision that can only be the result of excess fear and emotional imbalance.

Another example of a conservative accusing others of that which he himself is guilty.

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She would be irrelevant if The Stranger didn't spend needless ink calling her a "representative" of anything Seattle-related.

17

What's a Brandi Kruse? It sounds like one of those cocktails they used to serve at the Golden Lion at the Olympic Hotel.

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@11 unfortunately the suggested cure by progressive of massive restrictions on power and logistics would kill millions of people much sooner than the gas. The only way this gets solved is through creating solutions not becoming luddites.

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I watched the video. The guy made some good points, but none supported his thesis. C-minus. Lazy.

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@19: Translation: He made some good points but they're threating to my ideology so I'll discount them.

@15: Systematic is one of those words that gives progressives an excuse to blame and pout. Think deeper.

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Even lazier. F.

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"His "destruction of the woke worldview" at the Oxford Union Society might contain something I missed."
Yeah, no shit. The Oxford Union Society is right on my regular migration route. Would not miss it for the world.

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12 appears to be innumerate in addition to the usuall dishonesty.

The 12 year bi that was a timeline for action several years- based on modelling that showed exceptionally bad and irreversible consequences if nothing is done to reduce emissions.

Given the conditions in the Pacific Northwest over the past several years- record heatwaves, major spring floods and months of choking smoke, one woulth think that by now even Republicans might be thinking more seriously and childishly.

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OK, admittedly a latecomer to this article...but, it's barely about Brandi, and more of a shameless "me piece" regarding the author's worldview, and ability to overreact to a single observation.

I get it, I've read enough of the drool from The Stranger to realize that you'll describe anything short of Swant as some kind of vicious hater/racist/fascist/conservative/etc (because damn, the modern left has to get all the overblown rhetoric in there), but Brandi's a solid step closer to center than the late Mr. Monson was...

...not that you'd discern that from this article, because, as I noted, it's really not about her.


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