“Donald Trump’s ‘war on woke’ is fast becoming a war on science. That’s incredibly dangerous | Christina Pagel”
#AntiWoke #AntiScience #ScienceDenial #DEI
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/26/donald-trump-war-on-woke-science-diversity
Totally agree with this. Trump supporters are the true defenders of political correctness, only that this correctness has a very peculiar meaning this time - namely witch-hunting and NeoMcCartysm.
"What we call “wokeness” is a very real phenomenon, and as this magazine has pointed out repeatedly, it is both annoying and genuinely damaging. For the past decade, neoliberal Democrats have been particularly insufferable in wielding it as a weapon to advance pro-corporate politics, whether it’s Hillary Clinton saying that breaking up the big banks wouldn’t end racism and sexism, or MSNBC anchors and politicians like Barack Obama endlessly complaining about Bernie Sanders being a white man who didn’t talk enough about race and gender.
But what we’re seeing take shape in Trump’s second term is not the antidote to that; it’s that exact same cynical strategy, only flipped on its head. While Democrats turned to woke rhetoric to defend corporations and push neoliberal policies that benefit their bottom lines, Trump and his people resort to equally lazy “anti-woke” rhetoric to do the same thing.
In each case, the basic assumption is the same: you are a gullible rube who will fall for this obvious play and promptly forget that they’re working against your interests. Prove them wrong."
'I don’t think an opinion adhering to institutional conventions can be considered an “unpopular take.” Positioning it as unpopular masks a common opinion as marginalised. This type of perception skewing is reminiscent of Christian conservatives claiming God-fearing values are under attack despite Christianity dominating every echelon of American society.'
Inigo Laguda on language and grammar: https://www.yoursinigo.com/p/better-than-you-know-yourselves?open=false#%C2%A7grammar-the-conservative-undercurrent
#Trump announcing that the #UnitedStates will “own” #Gaza and commit massive and illegal #EthnicCleansing there, has United Sunni and Shia #Islamic countries against #America.
The unprovoked #TradeWar launched by #Trump against #Canada and #Mexico has started #BoycottUSA campaigns in those countries, our largest trading partners.
#ElonMusk and his #AntiWoke #AntiScience #DOGE #incels are creating a #BrainDrain from vaunted #American institutions.
here: No matter what substantive issue I’m engaging on, whether it’s Hungary’s continued dependence upon Vladimir Putin for its energy supply despite intensive efforts to encourage them to diversify or the independence of the judiciary in Hungary, the way that the Hungarian government tries to respond and publicly contextualize our critique is by making it somehow about woke, liberal, Democratic activists. I remember my very first meeting with a senior Hungarian official, a really nice guy, but he began the meeting by saying, Ambassador, I know that you want to speak to us about L.G.B.T.Q. issues and gender ideology. And I actually had to interrupt the guy and say, No, actually, I want to speak to you about your relationship with Vladimir Putin. So I think that the language that they used was to encode the critique in a frame of, “This is L.G.B.T.Q.” — in their words — “ideology infecting our society,” even if what was generating the legitimate political concern didn’t have much to do with L.G.B.T.Q. issues at all.
The tech billionaire war on "woke" is really a war on workers
https://www.salon.com/2025/01/17/the-tech-billionaire-on-woke-is-really-targeting-workers/
pretending it's about masculinity is a good way to distract from the mundane fact that, like a stereotypical capitalist parasite, Zuckerberg has adopted a hostile posture towards his own workers. Perhaps, like so many of the hyper-rich before him, he doesn't like being reminded that, without his staff, he would be nothing…
Here Come The Anti-Woke Venture Capitalists
A group called New Founding that says its “birthright is to lead Western civilization” is among firms (like 1789 Capital) building a new VC blueprint — and billionaire Marc Andreessen is in.
New Founding led by Nate Fischer has only raised $3mil (so far)
#NewFounding #NateFischer #AntiWoke #Anti-Woke
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2024/12/23/anti-woke-venture-capital-new-founding/
To all the Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, Andrew Tate, and Steven Crowder fans out there: You need to watch this video ASAP. It'll change your life.
@suqdiq I'd go a step further and say it's #code for #marginalizing an entire #group
or #subset
of the #HumanClass
#progressives, or say, #free #thinkers
that #think for #themselves having #awoke aka #woke from their #slumber much like #Nada did in #TheyLive after having put on the #sunglasses instead of #following the #crowd #asleep
#mindlessly #consuming #conforming
They are free, #FreeThinkers
#marching to a #new #beat ( #ideals )
Typically, those #antiWoke are #white
But there's plenty of #religous #factions that fall into the anti-woke #crowd for the #shared #sentiment of being #different
Plus, it's just easier saying woke than it is #supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Could you #imagine if people broke into #song like that in #mke ???
You'd hear, This ain't #nyc and you're not in #TimesSquare #FancyPants
Chim Chim Cher-ee
#Song from #MaryPoppins #Disney #film
"chim chim cher-oo!"
Don Jr and Omeed Malik were key in facilitating the president-elect’s ties with RFK Jr, and both invested in PublicSquare which went public last year at a valuation of $200 million (compared to $475,000 the prior year) and the share price has dropped more than 90% since
#DonaldTrumpJr #DonJr #Trump #OmeedMalik #1789Capital #PublicSquare #AntiWoke
https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/donald-trump-jr-goes-all-in-on-the-anti-woke-economy-e25beb11
Donald Trump Jr. Goes All-In on the Anti-Woke Economy
The MAGA surrogate and Trump adviser is joining venture-capital firm 1789 (w/Omeed Malik, Rebekah Mercer, Chris Buskirk) to invest in companies espousing conservative values, bringing attention to a financial movement that hasn’t taken off (yet)
#DonaldTrumpJr #DonJr #Trump #OmeedMalik #1789Capital #PublicSquare #AntiWoke
https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/donald-trump-jr-goes-all-in-on-the-anti-woke-economy-e25beb11
Maga Inc: how Trump’s allies may gain from ‘anti-woke’ resurgence.
Some of the companies in this far right parallel economy include:
- PublicSquare backed by Omeed Malik, Don Jr, Kelly Loeffler
- Rumble backed by Peter Thiel, JD Vance, Howard Lutnick
- Vivek Ramaswamy's Strive Asset Management
- Ben Carson's Old Glory Bank
#AntiWoke #ParallelEconomy #Trump #PublicSquare #Rumble
https://www.ft.com/content/daae53d0-3825-4d83-b8fd-a4478ccf3050
"More often than not, the ultimate “victim” of the offenses denounced in the German press is no actual Jewish person, but only the German state."
"The story [of guilt and fragility] is not about Germany, but a certain segment of society, about the reactionary radicalization within a bubble of political and cultural elites: disproportionately white, disproportionately identified with existing institutions, and disproportionately—let’s face it—neither Jewish nor Palestinian. It is among such people that we can see a defiant reprovincialization of the German spirit: a pride in not understanding or participating in analogous debates that rage elsewhere, a perverse pride in imposing one’s own categories, as though historical guilt confers true expertise."
by Adrian Daub: https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/psychozionism/ @germany
Ok folks, We need a name for whatever title Florida & Texas are competing to claim.
#AntiWoke seems a bit too on the nose though, #Sleepiest ?
Anyone old enough to remember how important Medical Privacy was to a wing of politics?
"They want to insert bureaucrats between you and your doctors health decsions..."
Never mind all that.
https://www.salon.com/2024/06/03/texas-professors-to-fail-students-seek-abortions/
"The responsible man...you're the first one up...you do what no one else wants."
LOL. You got that right!
#ResponsibleMan #AntiWoke #Vitamins #BenShapiro
@jalcine
which station was that??
#Woke = #AntiFascist
#AntiWoke = #Fascist
The #MAGAts needed some way to spin #Antifascism to make it sound horrible
Luckily, they have all the money in the world to hire the same #Marketing geniuses who taught us that saying #BlackLivesMatter was problematic, & possibility helpful to terrorists
There's a very simple & well-documented truth that I've never seen an anti-woke crusaders acknowledge: Diverse teams & groups produce better outcomes. Not just more-equitable ones - but qualitatively, *quantitatively* better.
I hate to reduce issues of justice to pragmatic terms like that, but some folks will only hear the value proposition.
#DEI #antiWoke #wokeness
Ohio House blocks controversial anti-woke higher education overhaul bill.
It would have banned public universities in Ohio from having "bias" in the classroom, limited what "controversial" topics could be taught and elimination of the tenure system, making it easier for political termination of professors. It was anti-labor and would have stifled free speech.
"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." - Lyndon B. Jonson
Stay sleep, #antiwoke crowd. Before you know it you won't even realize you've been left without a mattress to dream on. #LBJ #blackmastodon
