Jillian HurleyDec 12, 2022
Blessed Are The Woke
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@JillianMHurley I don't get it...why is "woke" considered a bad thing? The term has been weaponized, yes? Doesn't woke also mean "aware"?

I understand that authoritarians (political, religious, etc..) don't like it when people they want to rule over become "aware".

Am I understanding this correctly?

Show threadVicki with an 👁🧐🇺🇸🇺🇦💙💛Dec 12, 2022
@ttussing @JillianMHurley Pretty much. It's a broad brush too, if you look at motivations behind those using the term as an insult. It's meant to put down anyone well educated, tolerant, empathetic, concerned for social justice for marginalized peoples, climate change and bodily autonomy. Absurd, yes, but that doesn't matter. The basis of gaslighting is projection and it's meant to distract, deflect and disorient.
Show thread(((JaneinNJ)))Dec 12, 2022
@CatMomDo @ttussing @JillianMHurley Similar to cosmopolitan being antisemitic dog whistle for Jewish.
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@JaneinNJ @CatMomDo @ttussing I never put that together, is that really the meaning?
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Show threadTed TDec 12, 2022
@JillianMHurley @JaneinNJ @CatMomDo
Show thread(((JaneinNJ)))Dec 12, 2022
@JillianMHurley @CatMomDo @ttussing Which? Woke or cosmopolitan?
Show threadJillian HurleyDec 12, 2022
@JaneinNJ @CatMomDo @ttussing cosmopolitan. I know all too well about Woke.
Show thread(((JaneinNJ)))Dec 13, 2022
@JillianMHurley @CatMomDo @ttussing What it really means is worldly. (Dictionary.com says “free from local, provincial, or national ideas, prejudices, or attachments; at home all over the world.” (1/2)
Show thread(((JaneinNJ)))Dec 13, 2022
@JillianMHurley @CatMomDo @ttussing Antisemites have turned it into a pejorative dog whistle when they pull out the tropes that Jews rule banking, the media, the world, etc. A good example is that the far right always refers to George Soros, an unbelievably rich banker who pours philanthropic funds into progressive causes, as “cosmopolitan.” (2/2)
Show threadJillian HurleyDec 13, 2022
@JaneinNJ @CatMomDo @ttussing I see, I use the word in the “dictionary way” but being from the South, I think it's important to know dog whistles when you hear them. Thank you.
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@JillianMHurley @CatMomDo @ttussing Thanks!
Show thread(((JaneinNJ)))Dec 13, 2022
@JillianMHurley @CatMomDo @ttussing It’s all in the context…
Show thread(((JaneinNJ)))Dec 13, 2022
@JillianMHurley @CatMomDo @ttussing One more thing: the slur isn’t new. The German nazis used it and contemporary nazis follow their lead.
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@JillianMHurley @CatMomDo @ttussing One more thing again…I should have written, George Soros, an unbelievably rich banker WHO IS A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR, …
Show threadVicki with an 👁🧐🇺🇸🇺🇦💙💛Dec 14, 2022
@JaneinNJ almost like calling Ukrainian President Zelenssky a Nazi 🙄