For fascists, demonstrating blatant hypocrisy is a way to flex their power. They're not ashamed of it; on the contrary, they revel in rubbing it in our faces.
It's so infuriating because those first 2 things technically are woke in the original sense of the phrase. It was never supposed to have a negative connotation, it just meant having your eyes open to the ways of the world and having a discussion about how to improve them for everyone. How did we let that get twisted into something we want to avoid at all costs?
How did we let that get twisted into something we want to avoid at all costs?
Not we, its the ruling class
I had a couple Republicans at my work a year or two ago who were adamant that renaming a local small body of water from [Racial slur against Native Americans] Lake to [Native American term for a type of body of water] Lake was “re-writing history”. They alleged a vast conspiracy including the Aunt Jemima’s syrup and other rebrands. They really do just believe whatever their programming says their in-group is believing at any given moment.
Doesn't matter how many times the imperialists re-write history though....right? As though it was originally called what they call it. That's their gaslight.
I'm sure the natives had a different name for the lake. Perhaps we already "re- wrote" history, by stealing the lake and renaming it in the first place?
But you see one of them is about erasing ingenious peoples history (the Mexica/Aztec) - where the other is about forcing PoC to look at racial stereotypes - so one is cool and fun and the other is woke and bad 😤
They were pretty smart.
Rules for thee but not for me
The motto for every right wing authoritarian nut job is always the same, "I want to be king of the universe and say and do whatever I want and everyone should serve me"
I don't know the right label for it, but I don't think it's quite hypocrisy. They're mad when names are changed out of respect for another person. Any action like this out of consideration of others is "woke" to them. It's an unnecessary display of weakness to change something because it offended someone to them. What we're doing now is changing a name out of spite, a blatant disrespect, which is an action they value. Saying "fuck you Mexico, America deserves the name" is better than "people are offended at the name redskin so now we need to come up with something else" to them.
They're such gross people...
Im summary, it's a "Fuck you" rather than a "Sorry, I'll change it"
This is really the root of my issues with Trump and Trumpists.
Like, the whole policy sucks. But it's rooted in disrespect. Complete lack of respect and tact in all regards. Of each other and of the system itself. Incredibly selfish. Not just Trump but the people who support them. My 5yo is better behaved, and that's saying a lot.
Syrup?
When Aunt Jemima became Pearl Milling Company
When I first heard Pearl Milling Company was the new name I balked. It sounded like a fake “old timey” name.
Turns out it was actually the original name of the company before they switched to Aunt Jemima! Oh and Aunt Jemima wasn’t even their original brand creation, they appropriated it from posters for a vaudeville show.
I did not even know that. A better solution is to just say no to corn syrup products. Actual maple syrup tastes much better
Hypocrisy is a tool of the GQP
Don’t forget that mountain.
The Gulf of Mexico is too politically incorrect for all the snowflakes, apparently. It needs to sound whiter.
