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Trump Is Wrong about ‘Woke’
The National Review ^ | 06/06/2023 | Rich Lowry

Posted on 06/06/2023 12:54:09 PM PDT by thegagline

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To: thegagline; All

Trump happens to be right....again...Woke has certain meaning in the right wing circles and an entirely different meaning in left win circles.

Black Liberal: The government thinks they can hand me a check and all is forgiven but I’m woke, that won’t fly.

Conservative; I was watching a Netflix show and there was a black character, an Asian and gay character. I’m tired of woke Hollyweird.

Some people see it positively and other negatively so when you attack “woke” you can’t be sure how anyone takes it...it’ll be based on their perspective, culture etc.

Desanctimonius defined it as Cultural Marxism. I’m am very confident that you won’t have a 90% number agreeing with that definition at all.


21 posted on 06/06/2023 1:22:28 PM PDT by wiseprince (Me,)
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To: thegagline

“Where have we seen this before?”

Well, any time an incumbent President is running... which essentially is the situation with Trump.


22 posted on 06/06/2023 1:23:00 PM PDT by Boogieman
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Trump repeatedly using the term “woke” in a speech. WARNING: Coarse language:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIF2rdXnpMo

23 posted on 06/06/2023 1:24:48 PM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater in 2024random)
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To: thegagline

He also used it here. He didn’t say he never uses it or didn’t use it he said he didn’t like the term because lots of people don’t really know what it means which is right. (See above post). People complain that Trump doesn’t learn but here he is trying to find a better way to communicate the point. Maybe he’s doing because he hears it differently coming from Desanctimonius...in this case, good.


24 posted on 06/06/2023 1:28:38 PM PDT by wiseprince (Me,)
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To: Alberta's Child

Woke is used to describe those people who believe they are superior to those who do not agree with them.


25 posted on 06/06/2023 1:31:53 PM PDT by Erik Latranyi (This is the end of the Republic....because we could not keep it.)
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To: Responsibility2nd; one guy in new jersey
Disney, abortion, wokeism, Bud Light,

Trump is allowed to be in favor of all those things, and his supporters should learn to support those things.

26 posted on 06/06/2023 1:33:54 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: skeeter

If we stop using the term “woke” most opposition will evaporate.


27 posted on 06/06/2023 1:35:21 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Erik Latranyi

I don’t think so. By that measure, Rich Lowry and most National Review writers are “woke.”


28 posted on 06/06/2023 1:36:06 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I've just pissed in my pants and nobody can do anything about it." -- Major Fambrough)
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To: skeeter
‘Woke’ has become the right’s ‘racist’.

Wait, so do you believe that Democrats are claiming things that are racist aren't racist, so you believe the right is claiming things that aren't woke, are woke?

29 posted on 06/06/2023 1:37:42 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway; one guy in new jersey
Oh yes. And let's not forget Trump's favorite governor and possible running mate.
Andrew Cuomo.

30 posted on 06/06/2023 1:41:40 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (So it begins...Pulled on 05/29/2023 4:49:53 PM PDT by Jim Robinson, reason: TDS article)
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To: thegagline

I don’t believe Lowry has it right. The word woke was not “taken over by conservatives,” it was becoming used by the left to describe themselves, and as such, being “woke” was considered a virtue. Still is.


31 posted on 06/06/2023 1:42:27 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: thegagline

Poor Bill must be spinning in his grave at the leftist muck-raking rag that NR has turned into over the past 20 years...


32 posted on 06/06/2023 1:42:56 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperately need him)
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To: Responsibility2nd
"Anytime DeSantis scores a major victory against Disney, abortion, wokeism, Bud Light, etc. Trump hast to come out in favor of such things just so he can be in opposition to DeSantis’s policies."

WOKE:


33 posted on 06/06/2023 1:43:03 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: hinckley buzzard

Its their term. Why would we use it, too.

We should call em what they are - communists & totalitarians.


34 posted on 06/06/2023 1:48:51 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: SuperLuminal

Poor Bill my smelly Obama. Buckley was always a liberaltarian and the current Nat Rev is just a natural result of his thought processes.


35 posted on 06/06/2023 1:52:11 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (So it begins...Pulled on 05/29/2023 4:49:53 PM PDT by Jim Robinson, reason: TDS article)
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To: TexasGator
WOKE:

 

Disney Princess

36 posted on 06/06/2023 1:55:26 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (So it begins...Pulled on 05/29/2023 4:49:53 PM PDT by Jim Robinson, reason: TDS article)
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To: thegagline

Woke literally means you “woke up” to the “fact” that you are an oppressor merely because you are either white, a male or are straight. And because you are an oppressor you have to be more than happy to do whatever the oppressed tell you to do because your ancestors oppressed their ancestors. That includes holding back your children in favor of their children which a good woke person would gladly do.

Yeah it’s complete bullschit, but that what it means


37 posted on 06/06/2023 2:00:28 PM PDT by Sir_Humphrey (The “only Trumpers” are just as damaging to the conservative cause as are the “never Trumpers”)
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To: thegagline

Trump supports woke, just doesn’t want the label.


38 posted on 06/06/2023 2:07:32 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Donald Tantrum? No Thank You. We Can Do Better! I am a Veteran Supporting Veteran DeSantis.)
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To: thegagline

I’m woke every single morning...by an alarm clock.


39 posted on 06/06/2023 2:09:01 PM PDT by Zack Attack
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To: thegagline

To bad I clicked on this before I realized it’s from The National Review!

As far as their crap goes I am gone.

BYE, BYE NOW!


40 posted on 06/06/2023 2:10:19 PM PDT by 5th MEB
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