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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FoxyGoddess did not use the word "woke" or even suggest any connection to whatever "woke" is alleged to be this week.
She condemned the vandalism and showed a post by some twerp who calls for public property to be damaged as an act against "woke" - whatever that unknown but irresponsible individual meant by the word at the time, and imagined such damage would achieve.
She pointed out the sheer mindlessness of such damage, but it is important to consider that we do not know the motive of the vandal(s), who may have no connection to the pathetic author of the "It's just paint" line.
You explain your opinion of what you think is "woke" by this month's meaning, but I still fail to see any sensible connection between being "woke" or "anti-woke", and throwing paint over children's art-work.
We cannot make such connection anyway, because we do not know the attacker's motive, don't even know if the vandal had "woke/antiwoke" in mind: assuming of course it has a mind, having demonstrated otherwise.
Although the OP is indeed asking about the "woke" line, I see that as a totally different question.
Yes, the so-called "culture wars" (a self-contradiction?) are nasty and totally wrong.
They sprang from sincere roots: from sincere attempts to rid society of very old-fashioned, poisonous dogmas like racism, mysogyny and homophobia; and from well-meant efforts to avoid gratuitously offending people.
Fine so far but I think it has gone beyond that sincerity to inculcate ideas of being somehow "special" simply by being in some proportion of the population, resulting sadly in some among the rest then attacking such people for that perceived "specialness".
NO: minority or majority, we are all just people, and that is the point missed.
So I see the "culture wars" as "war on culture". Just as the phrases "gun culture", "cancel culture" and "drug culture" make me think not of the culture that is the positive measure of civilisation, but of the hazardous bacteria culture on a pathology laboratory's agar plates.
Not true culture but rancid clashes between holders of opposing opinions, beliefs etc. with each side trying to suppress, or pretending to be superior to, more moral or more intelligent than, the other.
I agree it is easy to see them as more serious overall than incidents of anti-sociality like vandalism, littering, fly-tipping and so on; but neither should reduce the seriousness of the other. I see both as destructive because whatever their protests about moral high ground, ultimately the crusaders seem little less selfish than the destroyers, when they resort to on-line bullying, so-called "cancelling", apologising for criminality, etc.
I do not care if the warring factions are "elites" whoever they are, media mughals, politicians, self-importantly self-titled "communities", "ordinary people", or the little green men Mr. Musk will find on Mars.
Essentially, when they behave in that way, each thinking itself above the other, there is little to choose between them!
Indeed, I wonder if the metaphorical bridge is not some petty criminal-apologist's dislike of a slang word's associations, but the comparison between the physical anti-social behaviour and the worst aspects of the woke/antiwoke brigades' so-called "culture war".
@ArishMell what are you talking about? She didn't use the word "woke"? It's literally in the heading to the post! She wrote: Are people really tired of "woke"? Or do those who say it have no idea what "woke" is?
