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All this hatred of “wokeness”
What is with the hatred for manners? Like why is there such a strong revolt against being a nice guy?
You could say I’m asking: What happened to civility?
These chuds hate civility because it requires them to actually consider other people around them instead of being able to say or do whatever racist or ridiculous thing that pops into their little crank shacks without consequence to themselves. It's just liberalism coming to its inevitable conclusion.
They like to rally against wokeness because it's ill-defined and nebulous and yet every single chud seems to know what it refers to. It can be anything. I'm remembering the other week when asked what prompted Trump to return the DoD's name to the Department of War, he claimed the military "went woke" after WW2.
Chuds use the term woke how libs use the term authoritarian. It means bad thing.
Civility@hexbear.net vanished when we needed them the most
There was a pretty strong reaction against marriage equality/trans acceptance in the u.s. The whole Alpha Male shit started then and only grew more and more toxic as time went on. amerikan/western masculinity was never great but got much worse when marriage equality happened. Add in the fact that people never really recovered from 2008 and thats only getting worse, you got a recipe for classic fascism. The weirmar republic was tolerant , had a vibrant LGBTQ scene, the sexual Institute (that the nazis burned all the books) etc etc and then came the extreme reaction. Capital and the cishet nuclear family are inseparable it seems.
"Woke" doesn't mean "manners", and it's really depressing that an AAVE term that used to mean something to us has been bastardized to this extent. The original context was that "woke" meant being "aware" of your place in society as a Black person. It meant that you understood that this place was not meant for you, that you are a colonized person living in a settler colony. It was the opposite of "sleep", which commonly means unaware or not conscious, another word that was interchangeable with woke.
It was white liberals who took the term that was popular amongst us and made it into a joke by claiming to be woke while engaging in performative anti-racism. The chuds caught onto this, and eventually it became a pejorative for things that chuds don't like, and apparently "civility" now.
They used to just say "politically correct" in a condescending manner, but that has too many syllables.