The Woke Generation - Fighting Back

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Sooooo, because not ALL gays & black people in America are being murdered for being gay and/or black, it's A-Okay to keep hating on them in the name of Freeeeeeedommmmmmz! ?

At the risk of sound ageist: Thank the lawd bebe jebuz these are the thoughts of old people who are nearer to the end of their lives & will be gone soon along with them.

Sooooo, because not ALL gays & black people in America are being murdered for being gay and/or black, it's A-Okay to keep hating on them in the name of Freeeeeeedommmmmmz! ?

At the risk of sound ageist: Thank the lawd bebe jebuz these are the thoughts of old people who are nearer to the end of their lives & will be gone soon along with them.

I read an interesting article by Bari Weiss about 10 steps a person can take to defend against the Woke Generation. He wrote:

I realize the faddish thing to say these days is that we live in the worst, most broken and backward country in the world and maybe in the history of civilization. It’s utter nonsense.

I have a few basic litmus tests in my own life: Can I wear a tank top in public? Can I walk down the street holding the hand of my partner, a (beautiful) woman, in many places in America without getting a second glance? Can I wear a Jewish star without fear?

I do not take those things for granted. I know very well that in many other places, the answers would be different, and my life wouldn’t be possible at all.

America is imperfect. (Does it even need to be said?) There is bigotry toward Blacks and gays and Jews and immigrants; there is intense polarization; political violence is becoming more regular; elected representatives believe conspiracy theories. All true here as in many other countries being torn apart by the dislocations of the 21st century.

But there is no gulag in America. There are no laws permitting honor killings. There is no formal social credit system of the kind that exists right now in China.

By any measure, we have achieved incredible progress and enjoy extraordinary freedoms. And yet people aren’t acting that way. They are acting, increasingly, like subjects in a totalitarian country.

These people write to me daily. They admit to regularly censoring themselves at work and with friends; succumbing to social pressure to tweet the right hashtag; to parroting slogans they do not believe to protect their livelihoods, like the greengrocer in Václav Havel’s famous essay "The Power of the Powerless."

These people aren’t crazy. They are scared for good reason.

How much does it cost me to log on to Twitter and accuse you, right now, of an -ism? America is fast developing its own informal social credit system, as the writer Rod Dreher has noted, in which people with the wrong politics or online persona are banned from social media sites and online financial networks.

When everything is recorded for eternity, when making mistakes and taking risks are transformed into capital offenses, when things that were common sense until two seconds ago become unsayable, people make the understandable decision to simply shut up.

Do not nod along when you hear the following: That Abraham Lincoln’s name on a public school or his likeness on a statue is white supremacy. (It is not; he is a hero.) That separating people into racial affinity groups is progressive. (It is a form of segregation.) That looting has no victims (untrue) and that small-business owners can cope anyway because they have insurance (nonsense). That any disparity of outcome is evidence of systemic oppression (false). That America is evil. (It is the last hope on Earth.)

This list could go on for a thousand pages. These may have become conventional wisdom in certain circles, but they are lies.

Yet too many good people are sacrificing the common good, and therefore their long-term security, for the sake of short-term comfort.

It’s time to stand up and fight back. That means you. Social conservatives. Never-Trump Republicans, and anti-anti-Trump Republicans, too. Lukewarm liberals and libertarians. Progressives who have a little curiosity still left. Exhausted parents who want nothing to do with politics. Joe Rogan stans. Reddit revolutionaries and the hedgies getting crushed. Facebookers and email chainers and Etsy-shop owners and Boomers who still use AOL accounts.

Bari Weiss then goes on to list 10 steps people can take:

Woke culture is dominating our lives -- here are 10 ways to fight back

Many preach being anti woke to excuse their bigotry, or just out of the sadism of owning the libs. You are pouring gasoline on the fire that may consume you one day. More importantly you are giving validation to a cause that does not deserve it. You are making fighting wokeness much more difficult if not impossible.

For some of us that want to err on the side of free expression it is not a matter of hate being ok it is a matter of the lesser of two evils and slippery slope. For many of those that want more censorship and consequence for hate expression it is also a matter of the lesser of two evils and slippery slope. The disagreement is in what is the lesser of two evils and has a better chance of slippery slope occurring. Both sides have plenty of historical and current examples they can point to.

As far as ageism goes the title of this thread is a partial misnomer. While the younger generations are generally more woke the alt right is a heavily younger person phenomenon in that what often separates the alt right from the more traditional right is the use of social media(think Candice Owens, gun girl Kaitlin Bennett)