hypocrites

But you see one of them is about erasing ingenious peoples history (the Mexica/Aztec) - where the other is about forcing PoC to look at racial stereotypes - so one is cool and fun and the other is woke and bad 😤

It's so infuriating because those first 2 things technically are woke in the original sense of the phrase. It was never supposed to have a negative connotation, it just meant having your eyes open to the ways of the world and having a discussion about how to improve them for everyone. How did we let that get twisted into something we want to avoid at all costs?

How did we let that get twisted into something we want to avoid at all costs?

Not we, its the ruling class
- And they did it because people started to point out that Jesus was a social justice warrior and there really wasn't much they could say to counter that uncomfortable truth.
- Fair point. The next target is DEI, people already get defensive when things are called DEI as if its a new slur

For fascists, demonstrating blatant hypocrisy is a way to flex their power. They're not ashamed of it; on the contrary, they revel in rubbing it in our faces.

Freedom fries have entered the chat

If I remember correctly the freedom fries became a thing when the French criticized Bushes war in Iraq.
- Indeed. That was over 20 years ago. But Republicans were already master hypocrites back then.

I don't know the right label for it, but I don't think it's quite hypocrisy. They're mad when names are changed out of respect for another person. Any action like this out of consideration of others is "woke" to them. It's an unnecessary display of weakness to change something because it offended someone to them. What we're doing now is changing a name out of spite, a blatant disrespect, which is an action they value. Saying "fuck you Mexico, America deserves the name" is better than "people are offended at the name redskin so now we need to come up with something else" to them.

They're such gross people...

Im summary, it's a "Fuck you" rather than a "Sorry, I'll change it"

Rules for thee but not for me

The motto for every right wing authoritarian nut job is always the same, "I want to be king of the universe and say and do whatever I want and everyone should serve me"

Hypocrisy is a tool of the GQP

Syrup?

When Aunt Jemima became Pearl Milling Company
- When I first heard Pearl Milling Company was the new name I balked. It sounded like a fake “old timey” name.
  
  Turns out it was actually the original name of the company before they switched to Aunt Jemima! Oh and Aunt Jemima wasn’t even their original brand creation, they appropriated it from posters for a vaudeville show.

Don’t forget that mountain.