Whenever I see some moronic term like “Stop Woke” it just translates in my mind to “Stop Education”.
I know these guys are trying to morph “woke” into some negative term, usually with some racially charged undertones, but it will always be synonymous with “englightened” to me.
Are they genuinely trying to stifle education, or is it all just racist bullshit?
Whenever I see some moronic term like “Stop Woke” it just translates in my mind to “Stop Education”.
Not so fun fact:
It is popularly known in Nigerian and Western media as “Boko Haram,” which means “Western education is forbidden” (the word boko is a holdover from the colonial English word for book).
Too many similarities between these guys and republicans these days.
Man I tried to get more cultured by reading 1001 Nights and boy lemme tell you I couldn’t even make it that far because it was literally a whole buncha (muslim-coded, not the main concern here) incel manosphere bullshit but written in the middle east however long ago. Legit there was one story about how a lady was cheating on a djinn who kidnapped her while he slept and the message was "man, if bitches cheat on BIG, STRONG men like him, bitches will cheat on anybody" This comes after one of the characters (a king) finds out that his wife was having orgys with all his “large-membered, intellectually-inferior, dark-skinned servants” (paraphrasing). There was another story about how it’s a man’s moral obligation to beat his wife. Apparently every incel talking points including “BBC” is at least as old as that damn book.
Are they genuinely trying to stifle education, or is it all just racist bullshit?
That’s the fun part: stifling education is the racist bullshit.
They’ve been anti-education since desegregation. Back in the ‘60s the Religious Right, particularly Oral Roberts, Jerry Falwell, and the people in that orbit, tried really hard to go through the courts and use their freedom of religion under the First Amendment to keep black people out of their church-based schools. Obviously they lost, but they have never forgotten how the mean ol’ federal government defiled their perfect little angels by forcing them sit next to some filthy negro while they learn their multiplication tables or whatever. Ever since then they’ve made it their mission to destroy public education.
By the 1980s that Evangelical movement had become fully ingrained into the Republican party, and that drive to destroy public education came with it. It’s what’s behind the push for charter schools. It’s what’s behind the push for private school vouchers. It’s what’s behind Evangelicals astroturfing school board meetings, and sometimes taking over the school board itself. It’s a big part of why public schools (inner city public schools in particular) have been chronically underfunded for longer than I’ve been alive. It was racism the whole time.
But yeah, whenever I hear a conservative use the word “woke,” I’ve found you can pretty much always mentally transpose “woke” with “ni–er stuff” (or “fa–ot stuff,” depending on the context) and whatever they’re trying to say suddenly makes a lot more sense.
Here in Florida that’s exactly what’s happening. Mother’s of liberty bully the school boards and administrators and teachers and take over at the ground level like PTA’s. The charter schools get to be selective on who can attend and suddenly a town that’s 10% non-white has a charter schools that are 99% white and is better funded than the public school. Charter schools are a work around for segregation. Also no teachers union in Charter schools, so toe the line or be fired. Now, with better funding and support from the good 'ol boy local politicians the Charter school is the only A rated in school in the district so everyone thinks charter schools are better and wants to get their kids in there. They’re setting the stage for a 2nd civil rights movement but they do not intend on losing again. Fuck! I hate racists.
It definitely, directly benefits them to choke out education for American citizens. They do not want critical thought. That is bad for bottom lines.
Attacks on “woke” are attacks on civil rights. It’s a way to undermine anyone who might stand up for “others.”
I used to hear this joke “the first thing we do is kill all the lawyers.” Like, haha, lawyers suck. But it’s really a playbook for fascism: get rid of the people who might defend the othrrs. Not funny at all.
They’ve been giving funding intended to go to public schools to charter schools for a while now. The intent is to make public schools so bad that parents will be forced to either pay for expensive (religious) private schools, or to send their kids to charter schools which aren’t openly religious, but allow for “some religion” when it’s reflective of the population of the school community itself.
It religiously indoctrinates, and segregates communities at the same time. It’s by design. They don’t want a class war if they can perpetuate culture wars. Religious people are less likely to question authority. Dumb people are less likely to question authority. Uninformed people that have never met a person from “X” background are more likely to perpetuate culture war nonsense.
Yes, they know that educated people don’t respect them. Their power depends on ignorance, which includes discrimination.
Some of them probably also believe many of the horrible or obviously false things they say. If you’re narcissistic enough, it’s not exactly lying. Everything you say is wishful thinking, and you can’t tell the difference between that and reality.
