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BumRushDaShow

(165,802 posts)
Fri Feb 21, 2025, 12:35 PM Feb 2025

'Woke Words' Could Be Banned Under Republican Proposal

Source: Newsweek

Published Feb 21, 2025 at 9:38 AM EST | Updated Feb 21, 2025 at 10:30 AM EST


A bill seeking to eliminate "woke" words and phrases has been introduced in the West Virginia Legislature. Kathie Hess Crouse, one of the 11 Republican state delegates who sponsored the legislation, told Newsweek that she introduced it because "words matter" and "state government should reflect truth, clarity, and reality—not political agendas." Newsweek has contacted the other Republican state delegates who sponsored the legislation as well as Democratic delegates for comment via email.

Why It Matters

To be "woke," according to Merriam-Webster, means to be "aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice)." In recent years, critics of the concept have co-opted the word as a pejorative to describe anything or anyone who is or appears to be left-leaning.

Since President Donald Trump's return to the White House, he has launched a fight against "wokeness," ordering an end to the government's diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. Trump also told reporters in the Oval Office earlier this month, following his takeover of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, that he would ensure future programming would no longer be "woke."

What To Know

On Monday, West Virginia delegates introduced House Bill 2406, which seeks to eliminate "woke words and agendas from state government documents, websites, literature, and in person," the bill said. The bill also said that in official government documents, websites and literature as well as in person, certain "exclusionary and sexist terms" should be replaced with "accurate, female-affirming alternatives."

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/woke-words-banned-republican-proposal-2034270



When one loon state does something like this, other zombie loon states will copy it.

But you know that we were told the election was about "Price of eggs", "Kitchen table issues", "Working class".
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'Woke Words' Could Be Banned Under Republican Proposal (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Feb 2025 OP
1984 Timewas Feb 2025 #1
Newspeak forgotmylogin Feb 2025 #7
Linking "The Handmaid's Tale Too" AnnaLee Feb 2025 #30
Kathie Hess Crouse doubleplusungood (nt) muriel_volestrangler Feb 2025 #9
Yes, so very Orwellian. Have they banned that book in the state yet? Timeflyer Feb 2025 #15
And Fahrenheit 451 Marcuse Feb 2025 #37
So will people be censored and arrested for saying those words? kimbutgar Feb 2025 #2
To the re-education camps for all libruls! rubbersole Feb 2025 #24
DEI is more "female-affirming" than banning words Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2025 #3
It's interestng to note that DEI is churdch latin for God. patphil Feb 2025 #10
MAGA is evil attacking good meow2u3 Feb 2025 #16
Plain old Latin Retrograde Feb 2025 #36
They really hate the 1A! Owens Feb 2025 #4
Fascism is here. sinkingfeeling Feb 2025 #5
There goes the New Testament Kid Berwyn Feb 2025 #6
Ban the New Testament... Jesus spake the Word of Woke. Norrrm Feb 2025 #8
I asked a neutral intelligence about it and A.I. responded Kid Berwyn Feb 2025 #13
Once you tell people not to think about something, that's all they can think about. bucolic_frolic Feb 2025 #11
Woke Woke Woke Woke Woke Woke Woke Woke Woke Woke Woke Woke Woke Woke Woke Woke ! flashman13 Feb 2025 #12
NEXT: West Virginia governor urges all citizens to burn all books in a bonfire dalton99a Feb 2025 #14
All Dems in the state legislature should stand up en masse and start louis-t Feb 2025 #17
The party of freedom IronLionZion Feb 2025 #18
Storm the headquarters lonely bird Feb 2025 #19
GOP is just a bunch or Owellian Nazi's mdbl Feb 2025 #20
the rs whine about the deep state , dark state , whatever state and 1984. here it is folks . AllaN01Bear Feb 2025 #21
They whine about the deep state... 3catwoman3 Feb 2025 #29
can i use that please ?thanks AllaN01Bear Feb 2025 #32
Of course you may. 3catwoman3 Feb 2025 #33
So, when does the "approved words" dictionary come out? LoisB Feb 2025 #22
This message was self-deleted by its author AllaN01Bear Feb 2025 #23
Republicans YoshidaYui Feb 2025 #25
repukes are so EASILY TRIGGERED Skittles Feb 2025 #26
they really have to reach to find something stillcool Feb 2025 #27
Glad to know that all the other problems in West Virginia are fixed Botany Feb 2025 #28
The opposite of wokeness is dopeness. milestogo Feb 2025 #31
Woke words - you know, like freedom, equal rights, Constitution, fair elections FakeNoose Feb 2025 #34
Republicans: The party that bans words JoseBalow Feb 2025 #35
Listen to Trump's word salad about woke: LeftInTX Feb 2025 #38
That guy was going to run for office! BumRushDaShow Feb 2025 #39
"not political agendas" Martin Eden Feb 2025 #40

forgotmylogin

(7,942 posts)
7. Newspeak
Fri Feb 21, 2025, 12:46 PM
Feb 2025
In the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (also published as 1984), by George Orwell, Newspeak is the fictional language of Oceania, a totalitarian superstate. To meet the ideological requirements of Ingsoc (English Socialism) in Oceania, the Party created Newspeak, which is a controlled language of simplified grammar and limited vocabulary designed to limit a person's ability for critical thinking. The Newspeak language thus limits the person's ability to articulate and communicate abstract concepts, such as personal identity, self-expression, and free will, which are thoughtcrimes, acts of personal independence that contradict the ideological orthodoxy of Ingsoc collectivism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak

AnnaLee

(1,353 posts)
30. Linking "The Handmaid's Tale Too"
Fri Feb 21, 2025, 03:45 PM
Feb 2025

JDVance wet dream:
Wikipedia - The Handmid's Tale

....Offred is the central character and narrator and one of the "Handmaids": women who are forcibly assigned to produce children for the "Commanders", who are the ruling class in Gilead.

The novel explores themes of powerless women in a patriarchal society, loss of female agency and individuality, suppression of reproductive rights, and the various means by which women resist and try to gain individuality and independence....

kimbutgar

(26,809 posts)
2. So will people be censored and arrested for saying those words?
Fri Feb 21, 2025, 12:39 PM
Feb 2025

Just when you think they are idiotic the magaloon repukes get even more evil crazy and idiotic !

Bernardo de La Paz

(60,320 posts)
3. DEI is more "female-affirming" than banning words
Fri Feb 21, 2025, 12:39 PM
Feb 2025

... especially the words the tRump regime has already banned in certain places like NSA (?), words like "female", "woman".

patphil

(8,733 posts)
10. It's interestng to note that DEI is churdch latin for God.
Fri Feb 21, 2025, 12:48 PM
Feb 2025

For example, Opus Dei translate to "Work of God".
We see DEI as an acronym for Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion. Those concepts reflect the teachings of Jesus, so attacking DEI can be seen as an attack against the founder of the Catholic, and all Christian Religions, and, untimately, and attack on God.

It's evident that being against DEI is to be part of the forces of darkness...Hate attacking Love.

meow2u3

(25,240 posts)
16. MAGA is evil attacking good
Fri Feb 21, 2025, 01:12 PM
Feb 2025

Hate attacking love is right! They want to outlaw love and mandate hate, outlaw good and mandate evil. That sums it all up.

Retrograde

(11,375 posts)
36. Plain old Latin
Fri Feb 21, 2025, 05:44 PM
Feb 2025

genetive singular case of “deus”, meaning god, a god, or the god. The plural nominative case has the same form. Church Latin is as far as I remember grammatically very close to Classical Latin. The pronunciation is way different though. (see,12 years of Latin masses in Catholic schools is good for something)

The founders of Opus Dei knew what they were doing when they chose that name

Kid Berwyn

(22,981 posts)
13. I asked a neutral intelligence about it and A.I. responded
Fri Feb 21, 2025, 12:50 PM
Feb 2025

"Mr. Google, was Jesus woke?"

Yes, some say that Jesus was "woke" because he challenged injustice, embraced diversity, and cared for the marginalized.

Examples of Jesus' "woke" actions


Challenged injustice
Jesus spoke out against social injustice and religious hypocrisy. He criticized systems that didn't care for the vulnerable.

Embraced diversity
Jesus associated with people from marginalized groups, like prostitutes, tax collectors, and lepers. He also allowed women to have a place among his disciples.

Cared for the marginalized
Jesus healed the sick, stood up for the poor, and cared for widows.

Practiced inclusivity
Jesus taught the Golden Rule, "Do to others as you would have them do to you."

Protested religious elitism
Jesus taught against the false doctrines and practices of the religious elites of his day.

bucolic_frolic

(54,055 posts)
11. Once you tell people not to think about something, that's all they can think about.
Fri Feb 21, 2025, 12:48 PM
Feb 2025

So is this a psychology mind control trick?

Some book I read illustrated this point: don't think about flat basketballs.

flashman13

(2,028 posts)
12. Woke Woke Woke Woke Woke Woke Woke Woke Woke Woke Woke Woke Woke Woke Woke Woke !
Fri Feb 21, 2025, 12:49 PM
Feb 2025

Idiots one and all.

louis-t

(24,575 posts)
17. All Dems in the state legislature should stand up en masse and start
Fri Feb 21, 2025, 01:26 PM
Feb 2025

laughing at these idiots. Followed by chanting "Never in history have the ones who ban books been the good guys."

AllaN01Bear

(28,609 posts)
21. the rs whine about the deep state , dark state , whatever state and 1984. here it is folks .
Fri Feb 21, 2025, 02:59 PM
Feb 2025

i read the book and watched the movie in middle school and didnt care for it at all but it seems reveleant now .

3catwoman3

(28,590 posts)
29. They whine about the deep state...
Fri Feb 21, 2025, 03:36 PM
Feb 2025

...but are perfectly fine with being the stupid state.

Response to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

stillcool

(34,407 posts)
27. they really have to reach to find something
Fri Feb 21, 2025, 03:20 PM
Feb 2025

that needs fixing. Must be some problem-free utopian state to live in.

Botany

(76,406 posts)
28. Glad to know that all the other problems in West Virginia are fixed
Fri Feb 21, 2025, 03:27 PM
Feb 2025


Ms. Crouse has a degree in science for dog’s sake.

FakeNoose

(40,192 posts)
34. Woke words - you know, like freedom, equal rights, Constitution, fair elections
Fri Feb 21, 2025, 05:13 PM
Feb 2025

If Americans never hear those words, we'll probably forget all about them.

JoseBalow

(9,165 posts)
35. Republicans: The party that bans words
Fri Feb 21, 2025, 05:34 PM
Feb 2025

Remember when Florida Governor Ron DeSantis removed the words "Climate Change" from Florida statutes to make it go away?

LeftInTX

(34,015 posts)
38. Listen to Trump's word salad about woke:
Fri Feb 21, 2025, 06:09 PM
Feb 2025
President Donald Trump told reporters in the Oval Office earlier this month about the Kennedy Center: "It's not gonna be woke. There's no more woke in this country. This woke has cost us a fortune and cost us our reputation, but the reputation's coming back very, very rapidly."


How has it cost a fortune?
Just because you don't like new words doesn't mean it's ruined our reputation.
And the Kennedy Center is gonna have the Pillage People (J6) sing?

Will this guy be performing?
Keep it classy!

Martin Eden

(15,363 posts)
40. "not political agendas"
Fri Feb 21, 2025, 07:03 PM
Feb 2025

LOL when I read that. Their proposed legislation is the EPITOME of political agenda.

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