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[EnergizedLib]

I see over social media, I see it on tweets and on article headlines complaining about "woke" this and "woke" that.

The definition of woke, per Merriam-Webster:

"aware of and actively attentive to important societal facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice)"

Okay, and this is bad, because? The Super Bowl had "Lift Every Voice and Sing" in addition to the Star Spangled Banner, and I'm supposed to be offended because?

I covered a local Pride event last summer on the date the Dobbs decision was handed down. Many people I interviewed used different forms of pronouns. Guess how much bearing somebody I don't personally know referring themselves to what they call themselves has a personal effect on my life?

I *do not* support exposing little children to explicit sexual content, but I *do* support teaching kids that people are different than them and they deserve their respect and love just like everybody else does.

What favors are we teaching children if we don't teach them about the history of racism in America, which still exists today? How are we benefitting children if we only teach the good parts of America's history and not the bad parts?

As I've said before here on this forum, kids learn more in school than simply a curriculum.

This culture wars stuff really is a non-issue. It's treated as a threat when it really doesn't affect us what other people do with their lives. This is their new political correctness war, in which, proving Lee Atwater right, their way of being racist and homophobic without saying the N word or the F word.