Comment by gitfan86
6 days ago
You are dismissing the issue by implying it is a right wing thing.
Obama is using the term and criticising people who do it in this clip. I in no way consider him to be right wing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaHLd8de6nM
At this point is probably not meant as 5 years ago. But even 5 years ago the meaning of the word had shifted away from the original meaning.
Not too mention Bill Maher who is also firmly on the left.
He isn't though.
He represents his own distorted view of reality that's increasingly disconnected at a classiest level
He is absolutely not. He’s a science denier and routinely has anti vaxxers on without pushing back on their ideas
You’re never gonna believe this but the hippie granola left were the original antivaxxers. The first places where you started hearing about measles outbreaks in the US were all affluent left leaning communities with a strong granola contingent, like Santa Monica, California.
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Firmly? Come on
Yeah. If the left (and the democratic party more generally) throws out all the "anti-woke" people, there won't be many people left.
You'd lose Obama, Bill Maher, Joe Rogan (yes really.), Stephen Fry, Bernie Sanders, and on and on it goes.
I hate puritanical finger wagging. I think most people feel the same way. That has nothing to do with my political opinions on other topics, like abortion, gun control and so on.
I think the left in the US makes a massive strategic error by claiming that everyone who doesn't like "woke" is right wing. The right wing is delighted to have all of those voters.