Deconstructing Wokeness: Five Incompatible Ways We're Thinking About the Same Thing

Before we can have constructive conversations around “wokeism”, we first have to understand what it means.

H - Ideas, H - PoliticsDiana RamosMarch 2, 2023Currents, Rio Veradonir, C - Groomer, C - Rainbow, C - Chads, C - Groomer Panic, C - Florida, C - Confessions, C - Backlash, C - Libertarian Case, C - Pendulum, C - Bill Maher, C - Common Ground, Featured TEMP, C - What Rights, C - Academia Assholes

Hearts, Minds, and the Power of Emotion

“Reason may help us win minds, but to win hearts, we must speak from the heart.”

H - Ideas, H - PoliticsDiana RamosJanuary 26, 2023Currents, Matt McManus, C - LGBT Rights Radical

The Silent Moderate Majority

The American electorate delivered a strong message: It’s the extremism, stupid!

H - PoliticsDiana RamosNovember 30, 2022Currents, C - Overton, C - Roe, C - Chads, C - Libertarian Case, C - Common Ground, C - Queer Conservative, C - LGBT Rights Radical, C - OG Postmodernists, C - Salty Boys, Featured OCT, C - US Becoming Russia

Father Sheehy and the Culture Wars’ Sore Winners

Bigoted trolls thrive on attention. Outrage campaigns only feed them.

H - PoliticsDiana RamosNovember 21, 2022Currents, C - Shrill, C - Ireland 1, C - Ireland 2, C - Victimhood, C - Battlefield, C - Sam Brinton, C - Safety, C - Brazil LGBT, C - Easter

Victimhood is One Helluva Drug

“Chase Strangio, you can have ‘fa**ot’ if you want it.”

Ben Appel, H - PoliticsGuest UserSeptember 2, 2022Currents, Ben Appel, C - Shrill, C - Sheehy, C - Sam Brinton, C - Safety, C - Beholden, C - Demon Gay, C - Reservation, C - Canada

Ireland is No Longer Deeply Catholic, But it’s Just as Religious

The High Priests of the Church of Wokeism are more than happy to replace the Catholic bishops of Ireland’s past.

H - PoliticsGuest UserAugust 17, 2022Evan Matthews, Currents, C - Shrill, C - Ireland 1, C - Victimhood, C - Sheehy, C - Sam Brinton, C - Safety, C - Brazil LGBT, C - Easter, C - Pope Francis

Let the Cops March At Pride

As the LGBT community becomes mainstream, why steal defeat from the jaws of victory?

H - Politicskatherine inoueJune 18, 2022Jamie Paul, Currents

"Rainbow Capitalism" Is Good

Without green, there is no rainbow.

H - Politicskatherine inoueJune 14, 2022Currents, Dylan O'Sullivan, C - Cops, C - Confessions, C - Liberal Socialism

Ireland Is Not Homophobic

A pair of gruesome hate crimes doesn’t undo Ireland’s tremendous track record on LGBT rights.

H - Politicskatherine inoueJune 7, 2022Currents, Dylan O'Sullivan, C - Ireland 2, C - Battlefield

Recentering the Overton Window

Make book banning fringe again.

H - Ideas, H - Politicskatherine inoueMay 3, 2022Currents, Dylan O'Sullivan, C - Roe, C - Silent, C - OG Postmodernists, C - Beholden, C - Communist Homophobia, C - Common Ground, C - Queer Conservative, C - Conspiracy

“OK Groomer” and the Dangers of Crying Wolf

The left says everyone’s racist. The right says everyone’s a groomer. And words continue to take a beating.

H - Politicskatherine inoueApril 13, 2022Jamie Paul, Currents, C - Groomer Panic, C - Florida, C - Backlash, C - Pendulum, C - OG Postmodernists, C - RW Groomers, C - Cissy, C - What Rights, C - Groomer Litmus

TDOR: Trans Death and Trans Life

Some media outlets and advocacy groups claim there’s an “epidemic” of trans murders. The data tells a different story.

H - Politicskatherine inoueNovember 16, 2020Currents, Verity Ritchie, C - Pseudoscience, C - Trans Activism

Mine Own Bi-ness

“My sexuality doesn’t make me a pawn in your identity games.”

H - Ideas, H - Politicskatherine inoueSeptember 8, 2020Currents, Rio Veradonir, C - Peter, C - Rainbow, C - Label Wars, C - Confessions, C - Helen Bi, C - The Queering

Excellence Ain’t Equal

We should all strive to be our very best. But our value as humans is intrinsic.

H - Ideas, H - Politicskatherine inoueJune 8, 2020Currents, Rk_Russell

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