{"id":5047,"date":"2021-04-26T18:42:10","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T18:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5047"},"modified":"2021-04-26T18:42:10","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T18:42:10","slug":"why-attacking-cancel-culture-and-woke-people-is-becoming-the-gops-new-political-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5047","title":{"rendered":"Why Attacking \u2018Cancel Culture\u2019 And \u2018Woke\u2019 People Is Becoming The GOP\u2019s New Political Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“\u201cWoke\u201d was originally a term\u00a0used largely by Black people<\/a>\u00a0in activist circles, particularly after the rise of Black Lives Matter, to signify a consciousness around racial issues in America. The term is still sometimes used in that context.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n


attacking Democrats<\/a>, more centrist Democrats\u00a0attacking more liberal ones<\/a>\u00a0and supporters of the British monarchy\u00a0using the term<\/a>\u00a0to criticize people more sympathetic to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Those critical of so-called woke ideas and people often invoke the idea that they are\u00a0being \u201ccanceled\u201d or a victim of \u201ccancel culture.\u201d<\/a>“<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…
“Cancel culture is broadly the idea that people advocating more liberal ideas, particularly around identity and race, have too much power and can publicly shame those who don\u2019t agree with them, sometimes leading to those who don\u2019t share these ideas being removed from their jobs or having their speaking invitations withdrawn (so \u201ccanceled.\u201d)”
…
“there is no agreed-upon definition of \u201cwoke\u201d or a formal political organization or movement associated with it. Nor is there an exact definition of what constitutes\u00a0being \u201ccanceled\u201d or a victim of \u201ccancel culture<\/a>.\u201d However, despite their vagueness, you now see conservative activists and Republican politicians constantly using these terms. That\u2019s because that vagueness is a feature, not a bug. Casting a really wide range of ideas and policies as too woke and anyone who is critical of them as being canceled by out-of-control liberals is becoming an important strategy and tool on the right \u2014 in fact, this cancel culture\/woke discourse could become the organizing idea of the post-Trump-presidency Republican Party.”
…
“\u201cThe term woke has rapidly come to encompass everything and anything conservatives don\u2019t like \u2013 anything and anyone they want to discredit,\u201d”<\/p>\n\n\n\n


https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/why-attacking-cancel-culture-and-woke-people-is-becoming-the-gops-new-political-strategy\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“\u201cWoke\u201d was originally a term used largely by Black people in activist circles, particularly after the rise of Black Lives Matter, to signify a consciousness around racial issues in America. The term is still sometimes used in that context. <\/p>\n

attacking Democrats, more centrist Democrats attacking more liberal ones and supporters of the British monarchy using the term to criticize people more sympathetic to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Those critical of so-called woke ideas and people often invoke the idea that they are being \u201ccanceled\u201d or a victim of \u201ccancel culture.\u201d”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“Cancel culture is broadly the idea that people advocating more liberal ideas, particularly around identity and race, have too much power and can publicly shame those who don\u2019t agree with them, sometimes leading to those who don\u2019t share these ideas being removed from their jobs or having their speaking invitations withdrawn (so \u201ccanceled.\u201d)”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“there is no agreed-upon definition of \u201cwoke\u201d or a formal political organization or movement associated with it. Nor is there an exact definition of what constitutes being \u201ccanceled\u201d or a victim of \u201ccancel culture.\u201d However, despite their vagueness, you now see conservative activists and Republican politicians constantly using these terms. That\u2019s because that vagueness is a feature, not a bug. Casting a really wide range of ideas and policies as too woke and anyone who is critical of them as being canceled by out-of-control liberals is becoming an important strategy and tool on the right \u2014 in fact, this cancel culture\/woke discourse could become the organizing idea of the post-Trump-presidency Republican Party.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“\u201cThe term woke has rapidly come to encompass everything and anything conservatives don\u2019t like \u2013 anything and anyone they want to discredit\u201d”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[204,968],"class_list":["post-5047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-cancel-culture","tag-republican-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5048,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5047\/revisions\/5048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}