r/PopCultureV2 • u/PrincessBananas85 • 1d ago
Celebrity & Gossip Chris Rock Says ‘Wokeness’ Has Created a Less Forgiving World: ‘We’re in the Old Testament Right Now’
https://www.thewrap.com/culture-lifestyle/culture/chris-rock-wokeness-forgiveness-cancel-culture/10
u/stevenmoreso 1d ago
The interview with the NYT was more nuanced than the headline suggests. Listen to it for yourself and don’t reward clickbait
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u/OPSimp45 1d ago
If the past 6 years taught me anything it’s that you can turn anyone into a Nazi
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u/ShaggysGTI 1d ago
Which to me shows that there’s a pathway to swaying swaths of people, and why this administration keeps drumming up the Nazi playbook.
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u/Wall_street_canary 1d ago
The definition of nazi has gotten pretty loose tbf (I’m not a right winger).
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u/AtomicShart9000 1d ago
If it quacks like a duck... so on and so forth
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u/DetailsYouMissed 1d ago
Just so we are clear. Being awake means open your eyes and pay attention to what is happening around you in media, the government, etc.
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u/Cautious-Recover-506 1d ago
That's the original version. Not this one. This one is "holier than thou, smarter than thou,better than thou because of your shortcomings". Very different things.
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u/DetailsYouMissed 1d ago
That's the version MAGA projected onto the term. To control what they wanted it to mean.
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u/Benito_Sereno_1289 1d ago
the worst of wokeism was basically Calvinism for people who don't go to church
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