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In reply to the discussion: Lamborn (R-Colorado 5th) blasts Air Force Academy for "wokeism" [View all]LaMouffette
(2,023 posts)36. I think he was not only protesting racial diversity (which shows his racism), but also gender
diversity (which shows his LGBTQ phobia). People like him get all bent out of shape over whether someone wants to be called by the pronouns they prefer to be called by.
Plus, he probably doesn't know what a pronoun is, and he hates it when liberals use words he doesn't know.
Not too long ago in the distant past, people like this used to sneer at using non-offensive language because it was "PC" (politically correct). I guess that term lost its "oomph," so they latched onto "woke" and their made-up "wokeism."
In other words, true to form, Republicans resent having to treat others with consideration.
Wait a minute! Maybe he's afraid of Wookies and Wookie-ism! A Wookie was a pilot in the first Star Wars, am-I-right???
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Lamborn (R-Colorado 5th) blasts Air Force Academy for "wokeism" [View all]
William Seger
Sep 2022
OP
They make up a thing, make up an offensive word for it, and then start a war against the non thing
Walleye
Sep 2022
#16
OK, so it's a stand-in for "Antifa" or any other meaningless thing they go on about?
FakeNoose
Sep 2022
#18
wokeisem? will someone please explain that to me and use that in a scentance so
AllaN01Bear
Sep 2022
#2
Here's your scentance: "Wokeism is a made up, BS word and doesn't exist in dictionaries."
AZLD4Candidate
Sep 2022
#27
Democrats should own the word "WOKE", even though we never invented it.
LiberalLovinLug
Sep 2022
#40
The Putin/GOP is destroying everything else in the US, I guess the military is up next.
Irish_Dem
Sep 2022
#5
Yep, and Lamborn is transparent in using it as a proxy for diversity and inclusion
William Seger
Sep 2022
#10
Dumb-born is the one who threatened to fire staffers who wore masks AT THE DEPTHS of Covid crisis
peppertree
Sep 2022
#7
The AFA is an extremely conservative/evangelical influenced place. Far more than other
keopeli
Sep 2022
#24
Is he referring to the institution that's lousy with anti-Semitic Christian nationalists?
Hekate
Sep 2022
#25
Lamborn is drawing on an empty hand attacking the AF Academy over this using such obvious falsehoods
Ford_Prefect
Sep 2022
#26
I think he was not only protesting racial diversity (which shows his racism), but also gender
LaMouffette
Sep 2022
#36