The Right's Dark 'Woke' Fantasy

[Brenda]

ROBERT REICH

“The Museums throughout Washington, but all over the Country are, essentially, the last remaining segment of ‘WOKE,’” President Donald Trump wrote recently on his Truth Social. “The Smithsonian is OUT OF CONTROL, where everything discussed is how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was, and how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been — Nothing about Success, nothing about Brightness, nothing about the Future.”

JD Vance calls American universities “fundamentally corrupt” and has referred to them as “the enemy.” In his 2021 speech at the National Conservatism Conference, Vance stated that universities “control the knowledge in our society” and promote “deceit and lies” rather than truth, and he pledged to “aggressively attack” these institutions to reform what he sees as their left-wing ideological domination.

But we shouldn’t trust any administration to decide what museums, universities or the media tell us. It’s not a matter of right or left or “woke.” It’s about the political independence of truth-tellers.

A free people needs to know things that an administration may not want them to know and must be able to trust that the agents of truth — museums, universities, the media — are not compromised.

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-rights-dark-woke-fantasy/

[spanone]

1. He's the one who talks about how horrific our nation is. ALL THE TIME.

SHUT THE FUCK UP TRMP

[Brenda]

2. Right.

But why does DU have so many threads on so many obviously fake stories and images.

Trump did not change his white hat for a gray hat.

No one threw shit out the window of the White House.

Etc.

He's an unhealthy old fuck who is clearly on many medications. But why are people spending more time speculating how and why he is dying instead of spending time broadcasting all the damage his administration is doing?

[Hey Joe]

3. If JV dance wants to see fundamentally corrupt

He need only consult a mirror.
Or literally anyone in the present administration.

[oasis]

4. Robert Reich. Telling it like it is.