The Sinclair Broadcast Group program The National Desk also covered the story with the headline “DC private school sent parents tips to explain to children how men can get pregnant.”Ī 2018 analysis from the Washington Post found that Sinclair, which is the second-largest television station operator in the U.S., shifts coverage significantly rightward when it acquires local news stations.
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Outlets such as the Washington Examiner and the Citizen Free Press, the latter of which is especially popular on Trump-founded social media platform Truth Social, have covered the non-incident. Having your eyes opened to the often-hidden power structures in America is a life-changing experience-one that can guide you toward compassion, righteous anger, and what John Lewis called “good trouble.” It’s profoundly disheartening that Republicans are determined to keep their followers asleep-and that those followers are all too happy to oblige.Although Kerpen has since deleted his tweet (Cruz’s quote-tweet remains up), the email has since spread throughout the right-wing media ecosystem. Consider Lauren Boebert’s reaction to Sheryl Lee Ralph singing “Lift Every Voice and Sing” at the Super Bowl: Boebert threw a public temper tantrum and denounced a completely uncontroversial performance of the Black National Anthem as “wokeness.” To Republicans, however, the term woke simply means “marginalized people making noise,” and as an explicitly white supremacist movement, they’ve made it clear that being woke is unacceptable. Suddenly, so much made sense! It was painful to realize how many racist and oppressive things I’d unwittingly said and done over the years, but overall, it was exhilarating to form a new understanding of the world-one that equipped me to start helping make things right. Here were all these hidden systems that had been right under my nose my whole life, yet I’d never noticed them before. I remember, when I first started reading feminist and anti-racist theory in my twenties, the feeling of becoming woke. Although its origins lie in the Black community, the term has spread to wider social justice movements in the past few years, where people use it to indicate awareness of how systems of oppression play out at all levels of American culture and society. The word “woke” has long been used by Black theorists like Marcus Garvey and performers like Huddie Ledbetter to refer to Black consciousness of racism. Republican abuse of the term “woke” is tragic In other words, they’ll buy it to inoculate themselves against accidentally waking up. They’ll buy it because they want to slurp up the same misinformation and hate speech that they already consume on Fox News every day. People who buy this book won’t be buying it so that they can expand their minds and learn something new.
It’s telling that, even though the book is available for preorder, the publisher hasn’t released any more details about its content, or what this “long overdue argument” will consist of. Unwoke? I mean, asleep at the job was right there… #CancunCruz- Ashlee Rice March 10, 2023Īccording to the publisher, Unwoke claims to be “a long overdue argument against the woke takeover of education, big business, the media, and Hollywood.”
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