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Showing Original Post only (View all)Yo, brother Carville? Ain't no such thing as "too woke." [View all]
We need to talk. You need to listen.
Ain't no such thing as "too woke" in the service of democracy.
NO, Carville, "wokeness" is not a "problem." WOKE IS CONSCIOUSNESS. Of America's actual history of racism, sexism, pollution, voting rights politics.
"Woke" is only a problem for the stupid, as in "It's the economy, stupid."
You need to stop serving up RW talking points to Republicans.
Black people coined that term, and right wing whites think they can denigrate it -- starting with Bill Maher, a Democrat who barely tolerates Democrats.
This "woke" denigration is a re-hash of the old denigration of "political correctness" -- which was always really about moral correctness and how it aggravated the shit out of Americans who wanted to be judgmental of their fellows in the name of freeedom! Something Christians ought to recognize.
Woke has become a dog whistle for anti-Black sentiment. Black people coined the term WOKE back in the pre-BLM days. Now racist whites think they can denigrate it. Bill Maher ain't woke, and neither are you to try to "start somethin" in your party.
You, brother Carville, muddy public discourse and "start shit." You seldom think through how to shatter right wing sound bite bullshit.
Yours is the help that is no help. Fall back.
As Fran Liebowitz thoughtfully says: Think before you speak. Read before you think.