The seeds of Witlessmoron's gullibility
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Here's an abridged version of an essay by Clay Cane on the topic of "wokeness".
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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.
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This is a recap of the deeply ingrained bigotry that informs today's fuckuplican "base".
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