President Donald Trump was sworn into office this January as part of a promise to make the United States “woke no longer”. Using the word “woke” synonymously with left-wing indoctrination, his administration has promised to purge all “woke” remnants from our country’s schools, companies, and even its institutions. Democrats have responded to these movements with […]
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Star Wars and Politicized Media: A New Hope or The Dark Side?
Star Wars is a simple story. Light Side vs Dark Side. Luke Skywalker vs the evil Empire. I mean, have you seen Darth Vader’s menacing look? However, while Star Wars seems superficially simple, there are complex political undercurrents. This politicization was not a major problem in 1977, but recent Star Wars projects face boycotts and […]
Humor in the Woke World: Harmful or Hilarious?
Within the first ten minutes of Dave Chapelle’s “The Closer,” he critiques Black people for “beating up his beloved Asian people,” laughs about black police brutality, and describes a plot to a movie he devised in which aliens who were banished from earth come back to reclaim it as their own and titles it “Space […]
Why Being ‘Woke’ Is Not Enough
As we inhabit the most polarized political environment our nation has faced since the Civil War, we must work towards unity by questioning everything — our institutions, values, one another, our systems of thought, and even our language. Looking inwards means evaluating all that is political in order to cleanse and remove that which does […]