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themaguffin

(3,826 posts) Thu Mar 16, 2023, 01:08 PM Mar 2023

This is what the right means by woke. This goes back decades. In the words of one of their own... [View all]

Lee Atwater, the infamous GOP strategist who helped create the Southern Strategy later (in the early 80s) openly stated how it worked.

The right's use of the word "woke" is classic Southern Strategery...

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This is what the right means by woke. This goes back decades. In the words of one of their own... [View all] themaguffin Mar 2023 OP

"Woke" is just "N-----" that they can say in public. Ocelot II Mar 2023 #1

Yep, all the way, and with DeSantis, all of his woke woke woke spreading hatred on his moronic RKP5637 Mar 2023 #3

Replace the word "woke" with "Jew" and it's 1930s Germany all over again. Initech Mar 2023 #14

You hit the nail on the head exactly. Walleye Mar 2023 #2

Yep, tried and true psyops. They have nothing to offer, so they employ the crap RKP5637 Mar 2023 #4

That's why they can't let go of Hunter Biden's laptop or dick. OMGWTF Mar 2023 #12

Yep, n/t RKP5637 Mar 2023 #17

It's a "choose your own bigotry" term SledDriver Mar 2023 #5

so they do realize cutting taxes CharleyDog Mar 2023 #6

"Race is coming in on the back burner" Baitball Blogger Mar 2023 #7

If there's a hell Lee Atwater's soul is there Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2023 #8

I don't believe that mea culpa on his deathbed will help his case EYESORE 9001 Mar 2023 #9

No one who really knew him believed in his deathbed conversion Warpy Mar 2023 #15

At least he had a mea culpa. Unlike Limbaugh. SleeplessinSoCal Mar 2023 #16

Basically, moondust Mar 2023 #10

The Master and his young apprentices forty years ago. Marcuse Mar 2023 #11

Roger Stone was wild eyed even back then. live love laugh Mar 2023 #19

Stone looks like something out of The Omen movies. themaguffin Mar 2023 #21

Stone shares DNA with: Marcuse Mar 2023 #22

ughhh, but also yeah themaguffin Mar 2023 #23

They will make up or use any word that can be co-opted for use with their base Scalded Nun Mar 2023 #13

Yep. License-plate language. live love laugh Mar 2023 #18

K & R Duppers Mar 2023 #20