I am gambling today by getting a block of cheese and some half 'n half since RFK has decided that checking dairy products is "woke". Hopefully, I will get ones that won't make me sick. <Crosses fingers> But freedom! AmIrite?
Woke opposite is aslupt. Or ignoramusant. Or deadulus. We should just make up a bunch of nonsensical words and start using them just like the gibberish of their aslupt leader.
I tell you, Walter, all these changes are crazy. And I will say that the whole slashing of the Education Department when we as a country struggle to provide a quality education for all is despicable. As a former paraprofessional in the School District, these cuts make zero sense to me. In fact, a friend of mine whom I worked with in the District, who retired a few years after me, advised that she saw a report that we are 40th in the world with our schools. I am not surprised, as when I retired, I had a whole class of 2nd graders who I was trying to help get on grade level, and just about all of them couldn't read, write, or add. Several couldn't write their name. Now this friend of mine I am mentioning, I am pretty sure, voted for the carrot, but I don't bring it up. I try not to, it's just too much for my anxiety to be honest. At any rate, my point is, why would the carrot and his henchmen deplete the very department that works to ensure we provide quality education for all? Sorry to say this, he is a moran and a jacka** sorry to be mean. Just awful. Well-written piece. As always, thanks for keeping us informed, Mr. Walter. You rock, friend. :)
I have considered myself woke since the early 70s. Let’s face it, MAGA’s issue with the term “woke” is its origin/source. Check out Wikipedia - it has a great history of the word. We should all be proud to aspire to be woke.
"even though so many people living in rural areas became enraged by “woke,” nobody ever sat down to tell us what the word means...."
Therefore, they can make the word mean whatever they want it to mean to fit their agenda.
This was what happened with the word "violence" in the mid-20th century, re: television. Violence has more than one meaning, and each of the meanings can easily be distorted to mean whatever the speaker wants it to mean. (In my book "America 'Toons In", I explored how this caused "violent" action in animated cartoons of the period to be heavily censured, even to the point where even debatable and arguable definitions of it were used to determine censorship protocol.) So, if one objected to certain behaviors on television, it was fairly easy to get the press' attention to it by lumping it in with the "violence" problem.
There is simply a disconnect between the disparate parts of America regarding what the word actually means and what it does not mean. Those who know what it means are capable of using it correctly; those who do not parrot the definition they are given for it without questioning it.
The opposite of woke is “undead”, as in bad old ideas that just will not die. You know, racism, fascism, misogyny, etc, the animating principles of the current administration and the oligarchs who want to replace our common human feeling with fear
The "Lord of the Flies" is the story of how some boys "case away" alone on an island lost their "wokeness' and found something to worship. And to wage war for. Against each other.
Best words yet! Thanks for the negative spaces to determine woke! I prefer woke to antiwoke. And as for buying dairy, eggs, and other foods….eek! Guess we all have to gamble, take our chances and if it’s antiwoke’s will, I will depart this earth enjoying a cheese and cracker snack.
Pretty easy for us oldsters ...your one of two things everyday in your life .Your either Woke , awake and are seeing and judging that choice of action or your asleep ...not paying attention , have made a choice of non action and have your eyes closed to the situation .
You also have two choices of life ...either pay attention or be ignorant and don't . Either investigate and understand the repercussions of the situation or be stupid and uneducated about the reality of it . So this is where it goes ...or as my dad says ..either shit or get off the pot .....but don't blame anyone for your own disasterous outcomes of things you've chosen to change or not . No excuse for being stupid if you can't see the difference in a rose or a piece of poop
I am gambling today by getting a block of cheese and some half 'n half since RFK has decided that checking dairy products is "woke". Hopefully, I will get ones that won't make me sick. <Crosses fingers> But freedom! AmIrite?
These Republicans offer word salad after word salad. Brain worm is running the country. Sigh...
Woke opposite is aslupt. Or ignoramusant. Or deadulus. We should just make up a bunch of nonsensical words and start using them just like the gibberish of their aslupt leader.
Those are great words!
We now need to go from woke to awake!
I tell you, Walter, all these changes are crazy. And I will say that the whole slashing of the Education Department when we as a country struggle to provide a quality education for all is despicable. As a former paraprofessional in the School District, these cuts make zero sense to me. In fact, a friend of mine whom I worked with in the District, who retired a few years after me, advised that she saw a report that we are 40th in the world with our schools. I am not surprised, as when I retired, I had a whole class of 2nd graders who I was trying to help get on grade level, and just about all of them couldn't read, write, or add. Several couldn't write their name. Now this friend of mine I am mentioning, I am pretty sure, voted for the carrot, but I don't bring it up. I try not to, it's just too much for my anxiety to be honest. At any rate, my point is, why would the carrot and his henchmen deplete the very department that works to ensure we provide quality education for all? Sorry to say this, he is a moran and a jacka** sorry to be mean. Just awful. Well-written piece. As always, thanks for keeping us informed, Mr. Walter. You rock, friend. :)
I have considered myself woke since the early 70s. Let’s face it, MAGA’s issue with the term “woke” is its origin/source. Check out Wikipedia - it has a great history of the word. We should all be proud to aspire to be woke.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke?wprov=sfti1
"even though so many people living in rural areas became enraged by “woke,” nobody ever sat down to tell us what the word means...."
Therefore, they can make the word mean whatever they want it to mean to fit their agenda.
This was what happened with the word "violence" in the mid-20th century, re: television. Violence has more than one meaning, and each of the meanings can easily be distorted to mean whatever the speaker wants it to mean. (In my book "America 'Toons In", I explored how this caused "violent" action in animated cartoons of the period to be heavily censured, even to the point where even debatable and arguable definitions of it were used to determine censorship protocol.) So, if one objected to certain behaviors on television, it was fairly easy to get the press' attention to it by lumping it in with the "violence" problem.
There is simply a disconnect between the disparate parts of America regarding what the word actually means and what it does not mean. Those who know what it means are capable of using it correctly; those who do not parrot the definition they are given for it without questioning it.
The opposite of woke is “undead”, as in bad old ideas that just will not die. You know, racism, fascism, misogyny, etc, the animating principles of the current administration and the oligarchs who want to replace our common human feeling with fear
The "Lord of the Flies" is the story of how some boys "case away" alone on an island lost their "wokeness' and found something to worship. And to wage war for. Against each other.
Something similar to the current situation.
Maybe all that makeup helps keep the flies away.
Maybe the opposite of this Administration and its idiocy is “enlightened.” That’s sorta woke. Great writing, Walter!
Best words yet! Thanks for the negative spaces to determine woke! I prefer woke to antiwoke. And as for buying dairy, eggs, and other foods….eek! Guess we all have to gamble, take our chances and if it’s antiwoke’s will, I will depart this earth enjoying a cheese and cracker snack.
Pretty easy for us oldsters ...your one of two things everyday in your life .Your either Woke , awake and are seeing and judging that choice of action or your asleep ...not paying attention , have made a choice of non action and have your eyes closed to the situation .
You also have two choices of life ...either pay attention or be ignorant and don't . Either investigate and understand the repercussions of the situation or be stupid and uneducated about the reality of it . So this is where it goes ...or as my dad says ..either shit or get off the pot .....but don't blame anyone for your own disasterous outcomes of things you've chosen to change or not . No excuse for being stupid if you can't see the difference in a rose or a piece of poop