The WOKE Generation!

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Modern society is characterized by being WOKE.

According to Wikipedia: Woke as a political term of African-American origin refers to a perceived awareness of issues concerning social justice and racial justice. It is derived from the African-American Vernacular English expression "stay woke", whose grammatical aspect refers to a continuing awareness of these issues.

It clouds or colors the entire world with what is acceptable or not acceptable in society. Every action can be view as evil or good. It is like being in the school playground again and being bullied by rules that make no sense to the victim [YOU].

So almost daily, I am bombarded with shimmers of Wokeness.

I ran across a new article today that typifies the changing culture. Of all things, it has even invaded "Looney Tunes" cartoons.

Elmer Fudd has made a big change for the newest series of "Looney Tunes" cartoons. The iconic character will no longer use a gun, according to the people behind the show. [The show apparently doesn't want to be associated with gun violence.]



So what are they going to substitute in place of the gun. Well would you consider a scythe!

Hey news flash! - scythes can be very dangerous also.


This is a Statue of Death, personified as a human skeleton dressed in a shroud and clutching a scythe, from the Cathedral of Trier in Trier, Germany.

Source: Elmer Fudd will not use a gun in new 'Looney Tunes' cartoons

So what are other instances of woke in modern society that drive you a little bit crazy?

Well i see this mostly in social media but, people who act like fictional characters are real people and think art in general should have a social message etc. People acting like liking a fictional villain means you are a psychopath who condone their behaviors.
People who act like your actions in certain video games as a player shows your REAL character. And so on.. The news you shared was also ridiculous.

Poor Elmer. How is he supposed to shoot that radically rabbit without a shotgun?

As a child in the Sixties it never occurred to me to view Elmer Fudd as a....role model!

If anything he made the use of fire arms seem rather UN cool.

And Wily Coyote went BEYOND firearms, and used weapons of mass destruction against the Road Runner. All those hours I watched Wily try to destroy the Road Runner with that plunger thing -that detonates the obligatory stacks of sticks of TNT (from the Acme Dynamite Company)- that would explode just a moment too late to get the Road Runner, but would leave Wily black and smoldering from head to toe- because sumpin always went wrong. Shoulda turned my childhood self into terrorist! But it didn't.

The idea that if you're against police abolition you're racist.

I think if someone didn't know who did a crime in certain American villages (you guys say small towns I know), there'd be a good chance of lynch mobs against black people coming back.

Not sure how it's racist to oppose the situation that would make that happen.

In my opinion, declaring oneself as "woke" is merely an act of virtue-signalling -- a vain attempt to give the impression that the "woke" person is somehow morally superior to anyone who isn't "woke".  It's like when some people affected the "grunge" look back in the 1990s and declared that anyone who didn't embrace "grunge" was somehow backward and inferior.

Remember Communism?  Remember why it failed?  One of its foundational principles was that human greed and the other "Deadly Sins" could be forcibly evolved out of the human spirit within a generation.  This was proven to not be true.

"Social Justice" is facing the same barrier -- Human Nature. It is human nature to separate "Us" from "Them", especially by exaggerating the flaws in "Them" while diminishing the same flaws in "Us".  You cannot remove this nature by marching, rioting, or passing legislation; it can only be suppressed one person at a time, and only if that one person is both willing and able to suppress it.

But it will always be there -- it's just human nature.

Blockbusters have always been filled with bs. Small budget indie films more often portray a realistic multicultural world with real people and real life and not just stereotypes. We all know that media influences the masses. So whatever the reasoning behind the changes in Hollywood it doesn't need to be noble, as long as it keeps happening.
It's not the far right or far left that need to be reached - many have an agenda or an illness as far as I am concerned. It's those on middle ground who can change the status quo by showing support and voting for positive change. I encourage nonviolent means towards meaningful change.
Apathy has created this mess - it's time to make a choice and stand by it. What kind of a person are you?