I came across this is little story today, it's not breaking news. I suspect that a member of the housekeeping staff knows something about the bomb threat that required the sweep for weapons.
According to police in Secaucus, the bomb threat — which later was determined to be bogus — was called in to Hudson Regional Hospital on July 18. During a search, bomb detection dogs led investigators to an unlocked office closet containing dozens of firearms.
Among the weapons were 11 handguns and 27 rifles or shotguns, according to police. The closet also contained a .45 caliber semi-automatic rifle with a high-capacity magazine that was determined to be an assault rifle, and a 14-round high-capacity handgun magazine.
The arrested the guy the next day.
What the heck do you think this guy was doing? It sounds very ominous that he was keeping those weapons there.
"Empathy and awareness." I love this definition and can't imagine why some people are so opposed to or afraid of these qualities in others....especially nurses. They aren't words that I use as political cudgels but qualities that I appreciate in others. Jesus was woke and yet, if another person appeared on earth with the exact qualities as Jesus, Tucker Carlson and Fox would be all over him as an undesirable character just fomenting trouble for those without empathy or awareness.
Jesus is empathy and awareness. Also forgiving and accepting. It is true many do not follow his lead or even reject him outright. I can be all of those things without having to say I'm "woke". Again a made up term, highly subjective with no definitive definition.
Empathy and awarness have always been here, well before a silly made up word was applied to it. I don't need a word to call it, I just live it.
"Woke" originated in the Black community back in the sixties as a reference to having a measure of alertness to issues of racial injustice. Leave it to white racists to deem that a bad thing.
White folks sure do love them some code words.
Well apparently it means "empathy and awareness" now. Leave it to white liberals to high jack a black term and appropriate it and redefine it for their political gains. At the cost to black people of course.
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Roitrn said:
I think "empathy and awareness" is already a known value without need for a slang word to define it like "woke". I teach my children empathy and awareness so I guess I'm "woke". I think it is more complicated than that.
You really do not have to keep providing long explanations that you don't watch CNN. Just posted one video 1 time, got it!
I will make my own determination if FOX in its entirety is dishonest when the defimation trial is concluded.
Sure, sure... you must be woke.
It's actually a simple matter of the right wing weaponizing a term from the black community (woke) and weaponizing it as a pejorative. Quite simple
Every time you imply that I use CNN as a content source I'm going to counter that with the truth. You could just stop, it's clear that the efforts are nothing more than argumentative in nature... no other point on your part. How embarrassing for you, to behave in such a childish and trollish fashion
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Roitrn said:
Well apparently it means "empathy and awareness" now. Leave it to white liberals to high jack a black term and appropriate it and redefine it for their political gains. At the cost to black people of course.
Do you have some evidence that liberals have redefined the word or is it the angry conservatives who have turned the term into a pejorative... which would be a redefinition? Is there some logic to your statement or is it just knee jerk partisan pushback based in feelings rather than facts?
Do you have some evidence that liberals have redefined the word or is it the angry conservatives who have turned the term into a pejorative... which would be a redefinition? Is there some logic to your statement or is it just knee jerk partisan pushback based in feelings rather than facts?
It's actually a simple matter of the right wing weaponizing a term from the black community (woke) and weaponizing it as a pejorative. Quite simple
Every time you imply that I use CNN as a content source I'm going to counter that with the truth. You could just stop, it's clear that the efforts are nothing more than argumentative in nature... no other point on your part. How embarrassing for you, to behave in such a childish and trollish fashion
It is. I really don't care if you watch CNN or not. I did stop then nursej22 decided to ask me about it.
It's actually a word high jacked by the left to steel a historically used word for awareness of racial injustices and turn it into some buzz word to exploit racial conflicts and inflate them. A way to "other" people and divide. The right has countered that effort to make it a pejorative. So it seems my initial description that it is a silly word used by both the right and left for political points you agree with. At least some what?
What's truly discusting, while the right and left exploit this historically used word by the people who suffered racism the worst, stand by and watch it be used a racial agitator and not what it truly represents.
So historically your definition of "woke" "acceptance and empathy" is incorrect. Nice way to appropriate a historical word from POC and use it in your virtue quest. Old white men steeling ideas from POC again right?
Do you have some evidence that liberals have redefined the word or is it the angry conservatives who have turned the term into a pejorative... which would be a redefinition? Is there some logic to your statement or is it just knee jerk partisan pushback based in feelings rather than facts?
Yes I do. You redefined it as "acceptance and empathy". That's not the historical meaning. As per POC. Pretty sure you had no idea of its actual historical definition when you brought it up thinking I said something about "woke" when I did not. Instead of admitting your mistake, ypu doubled down and invented a new definition.
Yes Herron, leave it to unaware racist to high jack a word from POC and redefine it for their own. Looks like we agree on one thing.
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Roitrn said:
It is. I really don't care if you watch CNN or not. I did stop then nursej22 decided to ask me about it.
It's actually a word high jacked by the left to steel a historically used word for awareness of racial injustices and turn it into some buzz word to exploit racial conflicts and inflate them. A way to "other" people and divide. The right has countered that effort to make it a pejorative. So it seems my initial description that it is a silly word used by both the right and left for political points you agree with. At least some what?
What's truly discusting, while the right and left exploit this historically used word by the people who suffered racism the worst, stand by and watch it be used a racial agitator and not what it truly represents.
So historically your definition of "woke" "acceptance and empathy" is incorrect. Nice way to appropriate a historical word from POC and use it in your virtue quest. Old white men steeling ideas from POC again right?
The only people trying to exploit the word WOKE are the republican and conservative voices who have turned it into a pejorative, insult or slur in order to agitate their voting base.
No the definition is not incorrect, it's matured and evolved and consistent with original use.
Using it as a pejorative is incorrect. You know, the way most conservative voices use the term.
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Roitrn said:
I didn't define "woke" because its not my word to define. It belongs to the POC who made the term.it is theirs.
Not conservatives, not democrats. And both parties need to stop exploiting this word for their political benefit.
No. No one working to improve equity in our society is exploiting that word. Republicans using it as a pejorative are exploiting the word to agitate their base... is that attempt racist at it's foundation because the term rose from the black community?
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Jesus is empathy and awareness. Also forgiving and accepting. It is true many do not follow his lead or even reject him outright. I can be all of those things without having to say I'm "woke". Again a made up term, highly subjective with no definitive definition.
Empathy and awarness have always been here, well before a silly made up word was applied to it. I don't need a word to call it, I just live it.