Or do those who say it have no idea what "woke" is?
I saw this today:
What this bridge is, is a memorial for pets who have crossed the Rainbow Bridge. The sides have tags and collars of loved ones.
The damage was someone took some white paint and poured it on the bridge, then decided to spread it with their shoes.
Someone in the comments said:
It's just paint. Pubic places should be vandalized. People are tired of woke.
Are people truly this tired of woke to do something this petty and small while misunderstanding what the rainbow is about here?
Someone said:
Conservatives think about gay people more than gay people do
Do they do this to every rainbow they see? Try to destroy it? Without even understanding what it may be there for?
Do they also forget that the rainbow is a religious symbol, so they are destroying a effigy?
I have think, anyone this concerned about a rainbow in their community is either mentally unwell and needs help, or needs to stop listening to whatever they are listening to and get above that droning because it is hurting them and their community.
No one should be this unhinged over a rainbow.
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The main problem facing society today (and throughout history) is wealth inequality. At a time of crises, when the economic situation is bleak, people begin to focus on wealth inequality. That makes elites anxious, and so, using social media and the efforts of their media tycoon lapdogs (who are also part of that wealthy elite) they use the old tactic of distraction. Let's agitate against gay and trans people. Lets stoke up the race divide with some well-timed dog whistles. And so, instead of banding together to fight the real enemy, here we are again, arguing over the tiny fraction of trans people, or proposing that gay people are an abomination against God. Don't look at the rich billionaires, look at the poor black guy stealing your job. The term "woke" is simply one of those dog whistles, designed to stoke up division in society. People fall for it every time. Meanwhile, the rich elites continue fleecing the country because everyone is arguing about immigrants. Or gay people. Or women......
@Richard65 Maybe so but that does not excuse the subject of the OP: that of some mindless vandal defacing a bridge for no reason, not even personal advantage.
The term "woke" originally meant being "awake to" racial prejudice and first appeared in the 1930s after a group of black American teenagers were falsely accused of attacking a white woman. The charge was dropped, by her, and the word "woke" (first publicised in a song from the time) seemed to have disappeared until its recent revival as a term of mere abuse to avoid or suppress constructive political and social debate.
Nothing to do with with wealth or "elites" (whatever they are) or "media tycoons".
@ArishMell it's got everything to do with it, but you fail to see the connection. That's exactly what they rely on, ironically enough. You're kinda proving my point.
