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Which phrase best describes "Woke Ideology," Might makes right! Or The meek shall inherit the earth. [1]

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Date: 2023-03-22  

Yes! One of those answers is correct! Wherever you draw your moral framework from, kicking down on the marginalized or disenfranchised, to put it politely, is extremely bad form. Therefore, the interpretation of "woke ideology" as something to hate or fear is one of the most exasperatingly stupid affectations of the culture war. Also, it is willfully ignorant and gratuitously cruel; this posters biggest pet peeve.

"Woke" or "awoken" originated, according to Urban Dictionary, in the 80's with the Spike Lee movie "School Daze," to be woke was not to be asleep to the problems of race relations. To The likes of Ron DeSantis, Don Jr., Elon Musk, Matt Gaetz, and that ilk it is a sneering reference demogogues use to stoke fear and hate to win elections.

Gay bashing, they are out to groom your kids! Pedophilia! Never mind the likelihood that children are more likely to be molested by relatives, clergy, coaches, sports doctors, Scout leaders, or politicians than drag queens. Don't get me wrong, any sexual assault on a child is a crime against humanity, due to the psychological damage it inflicts.

CRT is not taught in grade school, it is taught in graduate law school. History taught in grade school is not designed to make your kids hate themselves, it is kiddie level sociology. In a multicultural society of immigrants, unless you are Native American, it is the study of human society that every kid is a part of. If you are Native American it is a lesson of history, the high price of willful ignorance and gratuitous cruelty. We cannot do better unless we acknowledge actual fact, accept the judgement of history, and do better.

White Replacement theory. Seriously!? That again!? The eugenics movement of the 1920's in Britain and America inspired by two of the greatest celebrities of the Victorian era, Brits Francis Galton and Herbert Spencer-who by the way also informed the nascent American Libertarian party, and yesterday's Gilded Era Robber Baron's. It ended then with Nazis, the Holocaust, and WWII.

That is where this is going. The only thing missing from "Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire" is modern science and modern technology. The moral stories of the Rebel Jesus are fundamental human truth concerning the Beatitudes, and he was a rebel, Rome was the authority then.

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