‘Woke 1 was loopy’ — but they still believe every – Latest News
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Abdul El-Sayed need you to overlook all of the lunatic stuff they and their buddies mentioned a few years in the past — as a result of, you see, “Woke 1 was crazy.”
That’s what the Bronx Bolshevik mentioned on Sunday when she was requested about fellow DSA member Francesca Hong, working for governor of Wisconsin.
Hong has a colourful (principally deleted) Twitter feed, starting from calls for to cancel Thanksgiving to hating white people to eliminating the police.
But AOC suggests we must always overlook all these radical statements, as a result of they emerged from the turmoil of 2020, when everyone (supposedly) drank deep from the loopy pond.
El-Sayed, Michigan’s Dem nominee for US Senate, doesn’t need to tackle any of the nutty issues his endorser and pal Hasan Piker has mentioned, equivalent to calling Oct. 7 sufferer studies of sexual violence “rape fantasies,” praising 9/11 as America’s simply deserts or calling for the streets to run crimson with landlord blood.
We need to maneuver past “gotcha politics,” frets Abdul: “We’re so stuck in cancel culture that all of us agreed was a bad idea back in 2020.”
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Hmm: If the lefties assume that the cancel tradition they imposed was a “bad idea,” or that “Woke 1” was loopy, does that imply they no longer maintain these opinions?
Well, no: The solely actual distinction between Woke 1 and Woke 2 is the additional antisemitism, added after El-Sayed’s Hamas buddies invaded Israel, slaughtered over a thousand innocents and began a warfare by kidnapping a number of hundred others.
Oh, Woke 2 can also be a tad more circumspect: Hong talks up shifting funds towards “community initiatives” and “noncarceral approaches to crime prevention” — still precisely what the #Defund crew demanded, but with the clearly idiotic half muted.
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El-Sayed has lied repeatedly about his previous “defund” feedback (principally wiped from his social media historical past), claiming they have been “clickbait.”
That’s true — people would doubtless click on on his radical statements if they have been still up, to get a sense of who he’s and what he thinks; heck, he doesn’t even actually disown the feelings.
Indeed, El-Sayed has not too long ago rationalized the tried bombing of a Michigan synagogue by mourning that “hurt people hurt people.”
And he’s still explicitly on the 2020 “abolish ICE” bandwagon, plus the unconventional call to outlaw non-public health insurance coverage and double taxes on the center class (as it might take) to fund Medicaid . . . err, Medicare . . . for All.
The exhausting left retains demanding that we ignore wacky stuff they mentioned simply 5 years in the past.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani bought away it with final yr; House candidate Darieliza Avila Chevalier did this yr.
AOC can chortle all she likes at how loopy “Woke 1” was — but the joke’s on anybody who buys it, as a result of when the chance strikes, Woke 2 shall be worse.
