Woke Detox

What exactly is James Carville referring to when he talks about Woke Detox for the Democrat Party?

So the long and short of it, is that the core of “wokeness”, is about recognizing history, recognition of how society is, and about recognizing that you shouldn’t be dicks to each other. All pretty reasonable.

What’s happening though, is republicans - as republicans do - use fringe anecdotes to try and establish a narrative of the mainstream. IE: use one extreme example to try and argue that, say, the principle of wanting to stamp out actual racism, is a bad thing. 

They’re using this misrepresentation to gin up support for trying and fire educators and enact laws that restrict and control topics that may be discussed in schools to those that have been ideologically approved - which is something they’ve been trying to do for decades (trying to rewrite history and science books in texas for example).

The central lie being peddled is the idea that we should be scared of those educators telling our kids to be aware of how their words and actions may affect others - and not scared of the governmental elites creating blacklists of politically unapproved words that may not be taught.

The issue is that the republicans political tactics revolve around pissing on your head and telling you it’s raining for decades now: and they’ve gotten pretty good at it.

CRT is just one of a long line of silly over the top variations of “democratsgungetcha”; but “stupid” wokeness - the handful over over the top examples - give them ammunition.

I don’t actually agree; primarily because no matter how reasonable something is, Republicans will find a way to misrepresent it. This is just the latest theme of many they’ve focuses on - it’ll disappear almost overnight after Election Day.

Case in point - the premise that planting trees in communities were there are fewer trees is apparently outrageous; and a black teacher is apparently foaming at the mouth sjw for suggesting that a tree is not the most appropriate mascot for a school named after a famous anti-lynching activist.

I think it’s a variation of “Get woke, go broke.” And it almost goes without saying it means Carville is a racist.