How ‘Woke” Are You – And Why?

Member Group : Jerry Shenk

The word “woke” is a homonymic addition to left-liberal activists’ postmodern pop lexicon.

Dictionary.com defines “woke” as, “…of or relating to a liberal progressive orthodoxy, especially promoting inclusive policies or ideologies that welcome or embrace ethnic, racial, or sexual minorities.”

The Merriam Webster Dictionary, defines “woke” as an adjective applied to people [commonly called “wokesters”] who are, “aware of and actively attentive to important societal facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice).”

Although their “grievances” get lots of progressive media attention, there’s considerable confusion about what/who is “woke,” because the people involved are attempting to redefine politics and the general public’s understanding of culture, science, racial relations and gender identity.

Ultimately, however, only facts matter in a rational world, so let’s examine “woke” – factually.

Presumably, their “awareness,”  and “attentiveness” to “important societal facts and issues” will enable wokesters out there to address a few questions, and convince people that “wokeness” isn’t just trendy nonsense.

Tell us…

Is reality merely a social construct? Do objective natural and scientific truths still exist, or is “reality” whatever wokesters say it is?

Are burning cities and looting private businesses, a la antifa anarchists and Black Lives Matter rioters, legitimate forms of protest? Explain.

Do Department of Justice statistics support allegations that police officers shoot unarmed blacks at much higher rates than other Americans? Who pulled the trigger in most black shooting deaths?

Are all black/white wealth and educational disparities caused by racism? How, precisely, is mathematics racist? Ditto English grammar? Do you agree with the administration official who declared democracy to be “white supremacist?” Explain.

If women really do earn a fraction of the pay men receive for the same work, why do employers bother hiring men?

For that matter, what is a woman? Do you genuinely believe that, after living for decades as “Richard” and fathering children, Admiral Rachel Levine is now a biological woman?

Do human chromosomes matter? How, exactly, do imagination, medication and cosmetic surgery nullify biology? Please explain – clinically: Can men really menstruate? Bear children?

If you think whites wearing blackface are caricaturizing and insulting black people, why aren’t transgenders pretending to be female, often flamboyantly, demeaning and mocking biological women?

Why are gender activists so militant? Do pronouns define one’s existence? Should using made-up non-gender-specific pronouns – ze, zir, etc. – be imposed by force of law?

If transgendered people want everyone else to just “live and let live,” why don’t they reciprocate? If transgenders truly want to live quiet, innocuous lives, aren’t other people’s tolerance, acceptance or disinterest enough? Why do they demand unanimous, full-throated approval of their lifestyles?

Why are transgender activists so interested in other people’s children? Are 6-year olds emotionally-equipped to choose their “gender?” Why do drag queens perform bizarre, sexually provocative “story hours” for young children? Are they recruiting?

Should parents have no say about their children’s exposure to such displays?

Finally, can anyone make a persuasive case that wokesters aren’t just diffident, undereducated, needy, emotionally-stunted, otherwise-unaccomplished narcissists who exploit false claims of victimization or “marginalization” to excuse personal failures and/or as substitutes for genuine virtue, while seeking “fulfillment” through attention and sympathy from and social status among likeminded losers?

We’re listening…

Polls reveal that most Americans dislike “woke.” In fact, Democrat-supported “woke” perversions of fundamental lifestyle issues are driving working-class voters to the GOP, so the word “woke” has disappeared from liberal media.

The online Urban Dictionary observes that, “…the original meaning [of “woke”] is…fading and instead, is used…to term someone as hypocritical…, [who] thinks they are…’enlightened’ [even though] they are extremely close-minded and…unable to accept other people’s criticism or different perspectives. … [Social media]…helped them…find other like-minded individuals, thus, further solidifying their ‘progressive’ opinion.”

That’s a brave statement. Currently, scientific, cultural and/or social truthfulness is grounds for banishment by “woke” editors, social media, and search engines, because, in the (slightly edited) words of actor Jack Nicholson in “A Few Good Men,” “[WOKESTERS] CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH!”

Wokesters are cultural assassins who contribute nothing to society. Ignoring them won’t make them go away. To stop them, wokesters must pay a price for their noisy, exhausting, in-your-face foolishness.

Generally smug, non-self-aware, and thin-skinned, wokesters also can’t handle the vocally-aggressive disapproval they dish out.

Repay them in their own currency: Speak out, denounce – and, above all, laugh at them. Laughter is wokester Kryptonite.

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