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Far-Right Congressman Complains There Aren’t Enough White People Joining the Army (www.vice.com)

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Rep. Paul Gosar blamed the drop in white recruits on the army’s supposed “woke Marxist ideologies.”

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[-] Drivebyhaiku@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

I have begun to interpret the unironic use of "woke" as the implied sound of crying pitifully into your cornflakes about anybody other than people who look like you while accompanied by either a sad trombone or a descending slide whistle.

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