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Monday, May 27, 2024

Bill Maher And The Real Shortcomings Of Wokeness


It's a fine line between being "awake" (which, in many translations from Sanskrt, was the Buddha's word for being enlightened) and genuflecting before an "all-encompassing, all-knowing" ideology.


Trump impresses me as "flailing."

His ability to outrage his followers has worn thin.

As Bill Maher observed in the clip I sent, "Trump's lickspittles support him, not because they actively support a guy whom they now know is pretty much a snake-oil showman - because he is their best hope for preventing "woke" from invading their homes and families."

The Fatal Tension at the Heart of Wokeism

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Time Magazine
https://time.com › Ideas › Equality
Jun 27, 2023 — Subversive Thoughts for an Infantile Age, Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil. The more often the word “woke” is invoked, the ...
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'Woke' Is Just Another Word for Liberal

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The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com › ideas › archive › 2023/03
Mar 21, 2023 — The conservative writer Bethany Mandel, a co-author of a new book attacking “wokeness” as “a new version of leftism that is aimed at your ...

Why I'm Not Woke | Opinion

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The Harvard Crimson
https://www.thecrimson.com › article › dolgin-why-im-n...
Apr 6, 2018 — Any woke person knows what that means. You don't need to look up the Merriam-Webster or even Urban Dictionary definitions to know I am not ...

Why Liberals Struggle to Defend Liberalism

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The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com › magazine › 2024/05/27
7 days ago — Adam Gopnik reviews “Liberalism as a Way of Life,” by Alexandre Lefebvre; “Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society,” by Daniel ...

Wokism, Marxism and the Failures of Academic "Liberalism"

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Mises Institute
https://mises.org › mises-wire › wokism-marxism-and-fai...
Apr 20, 2024 — For example, according to the New York Times, “liberal values” include “racial equality, women's rights, human rights and democracy.” The New ...

Why Liberals Aren't as Tolerant as They Think

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Politico
https://www.politico.com › story › 2017/05/09 › why-li...
May 9, 2017 — The political left might consider itself more open-minded than the right. But research shows that liberals are just as prejudiced against ...




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