https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JanMzCI1cI0 #SymbolHairColourPink
Context: #IRLWriterTreVentourGriffiths "The term 'Karen' comes from a name that was frequent among middle-aged women who were born between 1957 and 1966 with its peak in 1965 (Social Security Data). The name is also the Danish rendition of Katherine associated with the Greek for pure. Yet, the meaning of the word has undergone pejoration. In sociolinguistics, 'pejoration' is when a positive word becomes negative over time. 'Karen' as it has come to be known today has uses as early as September 2016 and as we know now, Karen has become synonymous with racist middle-aged White women, often associated with their harrassment of Black people just minding their business." https://thoughtsfromthecriminologyteam.blog/2021/09/08/white-women-race-matters-fantasies-of-a-white-nation/
#IRLWriterEvelynBeatriceHall versus #MemeFickiFiona
Supplementary:
"In The Friends of Voltaire, Hall wrote the phrase: 'I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it' as an illustration of Voltaire's beliefs. This quotation - which is sometimes misattributed to Voltaire himself - is often cited to describe the principle of freedom of speech". Hall, E. B. (1906). 'The Friends of Voltaire'. London, Smith Elder & Co. #IRLHistoricalFigureFrancoisMarieArouetAKAVoltaire #PlatformSMTwitterTWTR #MetaphorDeceitLugenpresseMainstreamMediaMSM
#BehaviourHarrierBBQBecky i.e. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-44167760
Context: #IRLJournalistMichelleDione
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh9D_PUe7QI #ToponymAmericaNorthUSCaliforniaNorthernSanFranciscoBayArea #TauntKaren ?
Supplementary: another example? #BehaviourHarrierPermitPatty https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/25/permit-patty-eight-year-old-selling-water-san-francisco-video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqARrnQdcQM #IRLPrivateCitizenJordanRodgers #BrandDisneyland #PhenomnWhitePrivilege #IRLPrivateCitizenAlisonEttel i.e. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/us/permit-patty-black-girl-water.html
Addendum: these cases could be characterised as a form of #PowerControlMicrofascismMicroaggression #PhenomnHarassmentDiscriminatory
#OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyPOTUSBillClinton #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyHillaryClinton #IRLBusinesspersonJeffreyEpstein #WebsiteTheDailyWireHankBerrien "According to The Daily Mail, in 2016, while Hillary Clinton was running for president, Jeffrey Epstein's attorney contacted the couple who managed Epstein's private island in the Caribbean between 1999 to 2007 and asked them to sign a sworn affidavit declaring they had never seen former President Bill Clinton on Little St. James" #NewspaperUKTabloidTheDailyMailStephenWright and #NewspaperUKTabloidTheDailyMailRichardPendlebury
#CaricaturistGaryVarvel #SloganLetsGoBrandon #LiteralVaccine #EventHalloween
Context: "When did 'Let's go, Brandon' originate?
During an Oct. 2 NASCAR race at Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama, driver Brandon Brown was being interviewed by NBC Sports after he won. The NASCAR crowd was chanting something in the background that the sports reporter assumed was 'Let's go, Brandon.' to cheer on the 28-year-old NASCAR driver. The crowd apparently was chanting 'F--- Joe Biden.'" https://eu.floridatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/11/01/lets-go-brandon-meaning-biden-ted-cruz-bill-posey/6232980001/ #IRLSportspersonBrandonBrown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg90GPCBocA&t=11s #AdvocacyUKCivitasEmmaWebb i.e. https://www.civitas.org.uk/about-us/ #TauntCultureCancel #IRLAuthorGeorgeOrwell #TauntLeftThe #OtheringElitesLiberalCulturalEducated #TauntGammon #TauntKaren #PhenomnStatueToppling #IRLHistoricalFigureFrederickDouglass e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/06/frederick-douglass-statue-torn-down-rochester-new-york-anniversary-july-4-speech #PowerControlChattelSlaveryAbolitionism #NarrativeTruthImmutableHistorical #SlurWhiteSupremacy #ToponymEuropeUKLondon55TuftonStreet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/55_Tufton_Street#New_Culture_Forum
Supplementary: https://readi-bay.com/how-to-identify-the-woke/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNMwW6gmJAU #BeliefChristianityDenomFreeChurchOfEnglandFCECalvinRobinson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOSTrb73vic&t=45s #TauntIndoctrination #MetaphorWarfareCultureLiberalEducation
#NewspaperESBrdshtElPaisFrancoisBonnet
https://elpais.com/ideas/2021-08-15/ha-sido-usted-cancelado-el-movimiento-woke-y-su-falta-de-relativismo-moral.html (15 August 2021).
Google Translate (Spanish to English):
*You have been canceled: the 'woke' movement and its lack of moral relativism*
In this new social conscience, ideas that do not fall into the category of acceptable are considered radically immoral.
At the beginning of the last decade, young progressives in the West, angered by the consequences of the Great Recession, mobilised to occupy the streets, read Thomas Piketty's theory of economic inequalities at 1,000 pages in length, and demonstrated against the 1% made up of the richest. All that has been forgotten. Young progressives are now woke, that is, they are more socially conscious and more outraged by racial and gender injustices. In colleges, professors have become cautious when tackling sensitive topics, especially if the class is broadcasting on Zoom. And the new social conscience is not just a thing for young people. The latest Hollywood movies have increasingly diverse castings, and men are overshadowed by the starring role of perfect women. The more traditional newspapers have begun to speak of "supreme white". "Nike and even the CIA run ads talking about patriarchy and intersectionality.
The word woke (awake, aware) began to be used in the African-American fight against racism, but it has also come to designate progressive politics on gender and trans rights in particular. The horrific videos of unarmed black men being murdered by police officers that began circulating on social media in the mid-2010s notably boosted critical race theory, an intellectual trend that emerged in university law departments. and sociology. In recent years, the right wing has also started to use the word, but with an ironic and pejorative connotation: if someone speaks of wokism (in a pejorative tone) there is no doubt that they are opposed to racial and gender politics. ist.
In many ways, this woke wave is reminiscent of the political correctness of the 1990s and its emphasis on controlling language. Today's activists tend to be outraged by any pressure that they find problematic and controversial, at words that, in today's environment, are not only seen as mildly controversial, but have consequences. Contrary to what happens in most currents of the intellectual left, the Woke movement is not relativistic at all; when a person receives the qualification of problematic they run the risk of ending up "canceled", disappeared. This new awareness is a stained phenomenon: ideas or behaviours that do not fall into the category of acceptable are considered radically immoral. But the woke movement has also become an obsession for the right wing, which enjoys being outraged because something or someone has been "canceled". Being against the woke allows conservative media and politicians today to unite for a new cause, but the revolt that each case of cultural cancellation provokes distracts the right and prevents it from making a fundamental political reflection.
Another striking aspect of the woke movement is how it prioritises different types of oppression. The new social consciousness includes feminism, but according to "intersectional" principles, feminists must give the first line to transgender rights, as the controversy around J. K. Rowling (the Harry Potter writer starred in a controversy last year by hinting that in order to be a woman she has menstruation). The "Karen" meme - which portrays the stereotype of a white, bourgeois and racist woman - indicates that feminism is also below anti-racism. Another example was the resistance of the German media to talk about the sexual assaults that occurred during the celebrations. New Year's Eve 2016 for fear of being accused of stigmatising the alleged culprits.
It is curious that European activists have adopted aspects of the Woke movement that are specific to the United States: for example, the denunciation of the actors against the blackface or the murder of George Floyd became international phenomena.
But the fundamental difference between Europe and the US is in the legislation. The laws against discrimination are much stricter in the United States than in Europe. In the US, corporate human resources departments have been offering employees training courses on inclusion and diversity since the 1970s. The future of the Woke movement on both sides of the Atlantic will depend on the ability of activists and their adversaries to take advantage of the current moral outrage to make significant legal changes.
François Bonnet is a sociologist at the French Center for Scientific Research. He is the author of The Upper Limit (University of California Press, 2019).
Translation by María Luisa Rodríguez Tapia.
#CauseBlackLivesMatterBLM #TauntCultureCancel #2007_GlobalFinancialCrisisGFC #IRLScholarThomasPiketty #PoliticsProgressivismSocialLiberalism #TechServiceZoom #SlurWhiteSupremacy #BrandNike #TauntLeftCultural #PoliticallyCorrectPC #PoliticsFascismNaziNeoFarRightAltRightRadicalRight #CauseFeminism #IRLAuthorJKRowling #FictionalCharacterHarryPotter #TauntKaren #OtheringCaricatureImperialismBlackfaceBlackingUp #IRLDeceasedGeorgeFloyd #OtheringDiscriminationRacism #PolicyDiversityEquityAndInclusionDEI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh4I51d0m-g&t=3493s #CauseStrikeBirth e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/mar/12/birthstrikers-meet-the-women-who-refuse-to-have-children-until-climate-change-ends #CauseActivismEnvironmentalExtinctionRebellion #CauseActivismEnvironmental #TheoryTeleology #CatchcryIdentityPolitics #CharacterisationWeaknessVictimismVictimMentality #OtheringDiscriminationRacism #PoliticsTechnocracy #TauntKaren #TauntCultureCancel
#OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump supporter characterising critic as a #TauntKaren
#CatchcryBeliefsArentFacts #NarrativeTruthImmutableUniversalIncontrovertibleAbsolute
Addendum: This feels like it's motivated by either of the following:
1). the uncertainty felt by social-conservatives when facts change because of new insight.
2). frustration that mistruths benefitting social-conservatives have been corrected.
#LiteralSubstanceMedicationHydroxychloroquineHCQ #TauntKaren #PhenomnVirusCOVID19Pandemic #IRLChiropractorEricBerg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBma_0oAiMI #OrgIntlUNWHO #LiteralSubstanceMedicationRemdesivir #ToponymAfricaWestAfricaSenegal i.e. https://www.afro.who.int/news/enhancing-diagnosis-beat-covid-19-senegal-0
