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As the National Book Awards came to a close on Wednesday, finalists for the prestigious literary prizes took the stage in New York to speak about the Israel-Hamas war, with others at the ceremony also choosing to address banned books.
CNN —
As the National Book Awards came to a close on Wednesday, finalists for the prestigious literary prizes took the stage in New York to speak about the Israel-Hamas war, with others at the ceremony also choosing to address banned books.
Republicans have tried demonizing him as woke trying to indoctrinate our children. So unfortunately unlikely.
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The irony is, he is woke. Dude was literally Kunta Kinte.
Fred Rogers is the guy this particular thread of the post is referring to. He would have made an interesting casting choice for Kunta Kinte.
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that’s because “wokeism” has become a right wing dogwhistle for basically ‘anything that forces us to confront our shitty and outdated ideas’.
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Whether woke is good or bad depends entirely on how it’s defined. I generally see it as an antithesis to ignorance. So a combination of both educated and rational thinking.
Sometimes it describes things that are educated and irrational thinking, which is ironically what the right does a lot. Basically fear mongering.
Then you just use the two interchangeably to make it sound like rational observations are radical.
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Oh I know. But even then they’re intentionally inconsistent so the good and bad gets mixed in together.
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