Today's Vocabulary Lesson: Woke; Liberal

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https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2022/07/todays-vocabulary-lesson-woke-liberal.html

Great quote in here from John Pavlovitz:
"The politics of fear is nothing new. We've seen it throughout history. It's a well-worn playbook. When you lack ideas, you need an enemy. When you have nothing redemptive to offer, you have to create a monster to push back against. When you are devoid of decency, you need to vilify it and somehow turn that decency into a threat. That's what we're seeing right now in America." --John Pavlovitz

The other issue embedded in all of this right wing distortion and rhetoric is racism. To be woke is to be actively working to make change, which means that there is still racial injustice, discrimination and bigotry in society and its institutions which cannot be ignored and must be addressed. Conservativism, by its very nature, resists change and denies there is a need for it, or insists that it can't really happen and so the status quo must be preserved. There's no denying that we have made a lot of progress, but progress is not the end result and there are new threats from some old ideologies that have infiltrated the political/religious right that threaten to reverse the progress that has been made.