Comments on: Greg Thornbury Talks About the Attacks on Wokeness https://wthrockmorton.com/2020/10/16/greg-thornbury-talks-about-the-attacks-on-wokeness/ A [retired] college psychology professor's observations about public policy, mental health, sexual identity, and religious issues Mon, 19 Oct 2020 16:08:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Headless Unicorn Guy https://wthrockmorton.com/2020/10/16/greg-thornbury-talks-about-the-attacks-on-wokeness/#comment-110205 Mon, 19 Oct 2020 16:08:37 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=36974#comment-110205 In reply to One Salient Oversight.

Origin of the term “grok”:

10% Mike
20% stars
15% concentrated power of Mars
5% water
50% cult
and 100% topics that are very adult

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jAkplrZci0

]]> By: One Salient Oversight https://wthrockmorton.com/2020/10/16/greg-thornbury-talks-about-the-attacks-on-wokeness/#comment-110190 Fri, 16 Oct 2020 22:23:00 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=36974#comment-110190 Imagine if this came about 45 or so years ago. Christian leaders would be concerned about “Grokness”.

]]> By: OrthoAnabaptist https://wthrockmorton.com/2020/10/16/greg-thornbury-talks-about-the-attacks-on-wokeness/#comment-110189 Fri, 16 Oct 2020 22:02:32 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=36974#comment-110189 Yeah, there’s definitely a disturbing reaction from the right around “wokeness”… I understand being discerning and maybe critiquing some possible extreme elements on the racial justice spectrum… but that’s not entirely what the right is doing; rather they childishly invent a new school yard like, simplistic, broad-brush name-calling pejorative “wokeness”, and then they throw everybody who dares to study the history or self-examine internal prejudices/bias or give a fair hearing to minority voices/stories or examine policing or outcomes that suggest systemic prejudice… they take everyone who dares look into or act on any of those things, and throws them all into the right’s newest “out”/enemy/other group… ie “wokeness” And then proceed to beat almost everyone over the head with that… How exhausting to always be looking for and inventing new “out” groups to hate and vilify… and in this case, it also looks like a backhanded way of maintaining white supremacy… (“Oh we’re not racists…we’re not white supremacists… We just don’t like anybody who wants to talk about or do anything about those matters.”)

]]> By: DoctorDJ https://wthrockmorton.com/2020/10/16/greg-thornbury-talks-about-the-attacks-on-wokeness/#comment-110188 Fri, 16 Oct 2020 18:25:30 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=36974#comment-110188 Thanks for making this available. Looking forward to it!

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