I found this post by Diane Ravitch last week and meant to re-blog it then, but … well, you all know how short my memory is! Anyway, like Diane, I am WOKE and wish more people were! Thank you, Diane, for this inspiring post!
I am tired of rightwing politicians distorting our language to suit their bigoted ideology.
They have the nerve, for example, to quote Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. when he spoke at the March on Washington in 1963 and said he hoped for the day when his children would be judged by the content of their character, not the color of their skin. Dr. King was projecting a vision of a world without racism, when people would see each other as friends, neighbors, and fellow human beings.
But rightwing politicians twist his words to insist that we should ignore racism right now, stop teaching about it, and pretend it does not exist. They use his words to justify prohibitions on teaching about or discussing the racism in the here and now. They use his appeal for an unrealized future to blind us to a cruel present.
I propose that we make…
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Excellent post from Diane…started to read the comments and there are tons…a few from the UNwoke. After watching the hearings last night, I am still in a state of shock and utter astonishment.
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I didn’t look at any of the comments … I usually don’t where there are many, like Brosephus’ and Diane’s posts. Nothing in last night’s hearings shocked me, but admittedly it left me shaky and a bit depressed to think that so many people are calling that a ‘tourist event’, referring to the perpetrators as “good people”, and claiming it was just ‘political discourse’. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
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Here the Murdoch press have continued to report as if the right wing had not recently lost power, it’s banal.
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Ah, so the Murdoch press has long arms and reach even to your shores, eh? On a personal note, I was very much chuffed by the recent election in your country! You guys rock! Let’s hope some of the rest of the world sit up and take notice. Ignore Rupert Murdoch and his gang of ‘merry men’ … they live in the world as they WANT it to be, not as it truly is.
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The Murdoch empire started in Australia in the 1950s before expanding to NZ in the 1960s and then the rest of the world. I think it has had several fingers in the Australian media ever since. Not so much in NZ where, to the best of my knowledge, his empire is now conspicuous by its absence.
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You guys are lucky to have resisted his “charms”. Fox has power that no single media outlet ought to have. For a time, it appeared that one of Rupert’s sons would take a different, more centrist path, but I don’t see any signs of it now.
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The sludge that is murdochcracy is vast and insidious, it relies on dumbness and gullibility, so easy pickings methinks (sadly). Don’t forget he came from here (the shame of it).
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Indeed, I didn’t realize until recently what a wide swath he sweeps on your side of the pond. Sigh. And his sons follow in his footsteps.
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Mud always dirties the water, sometimes for generations. Al Capone is looking angelic these days.
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Ain’t it the truth! Our own Richard Nixon, once considered to have been the most crooked president ever in this nation, now looks almost like just a mischievous child as compared to Trump! It’s all relative.
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Yes, I wonder if watergate would pass muster in court today, given the other things that have gone on. Fascinating viewing is your House Committee hearings, very sobering so far.
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Yesterday, I read an article where the writer speculated that if Watergate had happened today, it would be but a blip on the radar and Richard Nixon would have stayed in office. Probably so … politicians seem to be above the law these days. I was pleased, though, that one Representative, Madison Cawthorn, lost his primary. He has been in Congress only two years, but has broken the law in so many ways that I’ve lost count.
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Weird, here if you are convicted you cannot stand for office, and if in office cannot remain. Great news that one candidate has gone.
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That is how it should be everywhere. We don’t need to encourage criminals to become our leaders! Sigh.
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Yes, however, while we’ve limited criminals, we haven’t quite worked out how exclude idiots.
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Given that they seem to multiply exponentially, and have the ability to pop out of thin air, it may never be possible to eliminate the idiots!
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Ha, indeed.
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Left this on Diane’s blog. I think I have mentioned it to you in the past:
Any time anyone calls me “woke,” I thank them for recognizing my worth as a human being, and add that I am proud to be seen as woke. Most of them just look at me like I am too stupid to know when I have been insulted, so I smile and turn away. Some get angry and yell at me. I don’t let them rile me up (until I get away from them, lol). A few are just bewildered, wondering what they said to make me respond as I do. They really don’t get it. They must be expecting me to break down and cry, I don’t know. Are we supposed to be weaklings? I think not.
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You are so right … it IS a compliment. Rather like when somebody calls me a liberal ‘snowflake’, I thank them and tell them that it is quite a nice compliment, since snowflakes are unique and beautiful. I’m proud to be a snowflake and proud to be woke.
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Thank you, Ned!!!
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Thanks for sharing, Jill. xx Michael
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My pleasure, Michael! From one ‘woke’ person to another … xx
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