From: fascistflea@gmail.com   
      
   Here's an abridged version of an essay by Clay Cane on the topic of "wokeness".   
      
   []   
   Nixon’s Silent Majority, Falwell’s Moral Majority,    
   Dumpster’s MAGA and Q-Anon, and all the other    
   iterations of intolerance that Republicans have    
   transmogrified into over the past five decades: They are    
   masterminds at coming up with messaging that scares the    
   Jim Crow hell out of their base. “Woke” is their latest stunt.   
      
   In the 1960s, it was “Black Power,” a term about    
   empowerment and self-reliance popularized by Kwame    
   Ture, also known as Stokely Carmichael. Fuckuplicans    
   rebranded the term, which became a catch-all phrase to    
   scare white voters that “Negroes” were taking over. Those    
   two words would then be twisted by “White Power”    
   adherents who, according to the ADL, deliberately    
   mimicked the term “Black Power.”   
      
   Some years later, former Ronald Reagan famously    
   deployed the “welfare queen” narrative, framing public    
   assistance as a Black issue, even though more White people    
   than Black have been helped over the years by those federal    
   aid programs.   
      
   After Reagan, Poppy Bush invoked the name of Willie    
   Horton, a convicted Black man on weekend release from    
   prison, to rile up his base during the 1988 presidential    
   campaign. The Bush team made Horton a symbol of    
   allegedly lenient prison furlough programs that were    
   supposedly sending murderers and rapists into the suburbs.   
   []   
      
   This is a recap of the deeply ingrained bigotry that informs today's   
   fuckuplican "base".   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)