CA-47: California Republican Scott Baugh: 'Wokism' More Threatening Than WWII, 9/11

[RandySF]

Scott Baugh, a Republican attorney hoping to flip a Democratic-held U.S. House seat in Orange County, California, said that “wokism” is more threatening to the country than the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, both world wars and the Civil War.

Baugh, a former GOP leader in the California State Assembly, made the remarks while speaking in June to the International Christian Ambassadors Association, an ecumenical Christian nonprofit.

“What’s the greatest threat to religious freedom? We were born in the Revolutionary War. We survived civil wars, World War II, World War I, a lot of wars, 9/11,” Baugh said. “None of those were that threatening to our country compared to the war that we’re fighting now. That war is about wokism and the lack of common sense.”

“That wokism ― it’s communism, wokism, whatever you want to call it ― it’s infected our churches. I like to tell some of our pastors that Jesus came to offend. That was his purpose,” he added. “How would you know you needed a savior unless your sins were pointed out? And our churches aren’t doing that.”

In contemporary culture, “wokeness” and “wokism” usually refers to a view on the left that racism, sexism and other forms of prejudice are ubiquitous and intersecting sources of oppression in American society and that combating those forces requires vigilance and identity-conscious policies. Conservatives often use the term, however, to disparage a broader range of liberal ideas that they believe unfairly discriminate against historically privileged groups or undermine meritocracy and religious freedom.





https://www.huffpost.com/entry/scott-baugh-wokism-threat-california-gop-congress-candidate_n_64f25ae2e4b04f9a01e8e2f1?d_id=6321114&ncid_tag=tweetlnkushpmg00000016&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=us_politics

[The Magistrate]

1. The Greatest Threat To Religious Freedom, Sir

Is religious bigots claiming that religious freedom demands they be allowed to force others to heel to their religious views.

[Johonny]

2. Sounds like another member of the Taliban

Perhaps he'd feel better in Afghanistan

[hermetic]

3. Scott Baugh

is way more threatening than any of those wars and I hope to never see or hear his name again after the election. And sooner would be better.

[Aristus]

4. "Common sense". The rallying cry of brainless nutbags everywhere.

All my life, I've had to listen to some of the stupidest, most idiotic and irredeemably useless wastes of human protoplasm boast that they had 'common sense'. Common sense would have dictated that they immediately provide proof of this. But the empty-headed, nonsensical boast was supposed to be its own proof. Meanwhile, eating library paste and not being able to spell their names without extensive coaching went unaddressed.

[sinkingfeeling]

5. Sounds like a man hell bent on twisting the christian faith into fascism.