It always has been, even when “it”woke” meant things like the Tougaloo Nine reading books in a segregated library.
It is, however, effective for rallying whiny white males — Erick Erickson below declares that threatening to destroy Iran is a fair trade for the Toddler’s attacks on trans people.
Consider, for example, whiny misogynist Matt Walsh. According to Walsh (spoiler, any statement that begins that way will be followed by bullshit) “Beginning in 1960s as part of the radical transformation of the civil rights era, Democrats decided to reject, you know, fundamental American principles.” According to Walsh the Democrats forced people to hire POC and women (not true) and unleashed destruction on American cities — “The civil rights era brought horrors beyond imagination to innocent men, women, and children throughout the United States.”
I’m pretty sure the real horror for Walsh is the steps America took towards equality for all. And that he’s much more troubled by that than, say, the horrors of Jim Crow such as brutal lynchings. Walsh’s complaints about hiring POC are understandable considering he also thinks the black middle class “is almost entirely a tax-funded function of the government” which provides them with bureaucratic jobs. There was a black middle class in this country long before the civil rights movement, though white America often burned it to the ground. And one may ponder with black-humored amusement that a guy whose entire career is spewing hate on the Internet complains about other people having worthless jobs. And that a man who’s triggered by pretty much everything thinks people shouldn’t be offended so much (by racist jokes).
Walsh isn’t the only fragile snowflake on the right, terrified of anything that vaguely suggests white male Christian supremacy is not a good thing: “In the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington quietly removed from its website educational resources about American racism and canceled a workshop about the “fragility of democracy.””
The religious right is constantly demanding that gay people lose the right to marry. While I would never bet on the Supreme Court doing the right thing, gay marriage is massively popular — and the Republican loyalists may not want to give the public another reason to vote Dem. Even a lot of elected Republicans don’t want to push the issue.
By contrast there’s a steady drumbeat of support for ending women’s right to vote. They talk a lot about how women’s suffrage ruined America but the real issue is simple: denying the right to vote denies that women are equal citizens. I will add that the NYT article linked to beyond the first link in this paragraph treats the anti-suffrage movement with way too much seriousness — it’s close to “Should Women Have Rights? Opinions Differ.”
Then there’s the attack on birthright citizenship. The Fourteenth Amendment says anyone born in the U.S. is an American citizen; Republican white supremacists like Stephen Miller hate that. The Necrotic Toddler lies that no other country allows this when many countries do.
Then there’s the raging fear that if whites become a minority, they might suffer as they’ve made others suffer. There is not the slightest sign that will happen. Nevertheless the fantasy crusade to protect white men goes on. Harmeet Dhillon, one of the Toddler’s attorneys weaponizing the Department of Justice, is investigating whether some medical schools are anti-white in admissions.
In discussing how we can keep boys from turning into creeps, one suggestion is to have them mix with girls as equals. It’s not guaranteed and not always safe, but I think the former Boy Scouts accepting girls is a good thing. I’m not surprised that misogynist male supremacist Pete Hegseth does not. Why it’s almost like saying girls are as good as boys, which is no better than castrating him! And “Whiskey Pete” continues his commitment to purging the military of anyone but straight, white, Christian men.
“The idea that white people are the biggest contemporary victims of systemic bias and unfair treatment is the central pillar of Trumpism.”
