For invoking the "woke police" in an interview defending a show contestant mobbed on social media, Chris Harrison is mobbed by the woke police and is out. Don't ever apologize to these thugs. They don't want apologies; they want to destroy lives. Push backhttps://ew.com/tv/chris-harrison-racism-apology-stepping-aside/?utm_campaign=entertainmentweekly_entertainmentweekly&utm_content=new&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_term=6028279649ab4100012d5373 …
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Replying to @michaelshermer
You do realize that “woke police” is a racist dog whistle, don’t you?https://www.theguardian.com/society/shortcuts/2020/jan/21/how-the-word-woke-was-weaponised-by-the-right …
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Replying to @gorskon @michaelshermer
And a bit more what I’m talking about. Basically, white people have co-opted a Black term and turned it into an epithet meaning, “Something I don’t like.” It’s the same thing right wingers did with “politically correct,” whose origin was from the left, not the right.
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Replying to @gorskon @michaelshermer
Surely you can think of a better, less of a dog whistle term to describe the behavior you’re criticizing?
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