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I just reposted this to my son, who last night won another term on Silver City, NM's town council agains two other opponents.
The best part, imo:
"Woke lets you drive around town without the threat of a cop pulling you over to gun you down. Woke lets you be gender fluid without an emergency PTA meeting springing up outside your door. Woke lets you go to college without entering into a modern sharecropping agreement. It lets children read, lets every citizen be able to vote without a fuss, leaves the original recipe for Tylenol intact, and endeavors to keep our air and water clean. Woke, in other words, is good."
"You conservatives tried to kill woke, only for it to mount an impressive comeback," he added. "I hope that leaves you triggered, and I hope no one offers you sympathy for it."
"You conservatives tried to kill woke, only for it to mount an impressive comeback," he added. "I hope that leaves you triggered, and I hope no one offers you sympathy for it."
Russel Vought (christian nationalist) took the hundred year old term black folks had used to keep each other "awake" to what endangers their liberty, and he intentionally perverted its meaning as something bad.
Vought is losing his propaganda culture war and its lingo ("weaponize government" to "investigate the investigators" and end "woke."
Americans are woke enough to know better and voted accordingly.
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