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Someone please explain why people are using "anti woke" instead just calling it what is... example: racism, bigotry

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[–] TootSweet 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right wingers need an adversary by which to define themselves. It's the moral outrage that keeps them going. Yes, there's an extent to which they call themselves "anti woke" because it's more socially acceptable than "bigot." But it also serves the purpose of propping up the straw bogeyman that sustains their whole movement.

[–] Idubz 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds like a bunch of grooming terms to me.

Can't call a racist/fascist a bigot?

You're so fucking anti woke. Just doesn't get to the point for my left hand.

[–] Idubz -1 points 1 year ago

Its grooming in the term of: we're not going to call you bad words (but the so called bad words is calling them what they are, racists & bigots)

We going to just stand by and sound like a bunch of idiots to them? No thanks, they're bigots.

[–] krayj 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A mix of "willfully ignorant", "narcissism", and "intolerance".

[–] FlyingSquid 9 points 1 year ago

Because dog whistles sound more acceptable than coming out and admitting they're racist motherfuckers.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just a reminder: the actual Nazis never said their goal was to steal from and murder a bunch of Jewish people while they were still seeking power.

They did say they were against the "International Jewry" that was pulling the strings behind all the world's governments and controlling all the media and manipulating the populace with their "lying press" (aka "fake news.") They also said gay people were groomers. Does any of this sound familiar?

The fascist must always position their self as the defender of the free world, of stability, of decency, of natural values, of a natural hierarchy...

and they must always invent an attacker who seeks to forcefully, tyrannically rob society of everything they know and love.

Without an attacker (who can be slandered), the fascist would need to defend the actual value of their own positions against level-headed, logical scrutiny.

The fascist ideology can survive a violent foe: all you need to do is vilify them, murder them, or throw them into death camps.

It cannot survive logic.

So they need to stop people from ever looking at the ideology through a logical lens.

[–] Idubz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hitler belived in the news, to the point where when he got the bad news. He killed himself.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Believed in it? Sure. But that didn't stop him from using the phrase "Lügenpresse" any time he got criticism.

Just like a certain someone...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anti-woke as umbrella term because having to remember what exactly they're "representing" is hard?

[–] Idubz 5 points 1 year ago

So in other words. Someone so stupid they struggle to explain their bias against someone else?

Latest news articles i seen, was one about "anti woke" alt right want to separate races in schools, to stop multicultural dating.

Aka: racist wants to do racist things lmfao

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

“general dumbassery” is the best explanation