What is "woke"?

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Since our public information may allow for a multiplicity of
groups, the same speech act may virtue signal when evaluated with respect to one
group’s preferred evaluative standards and vice signal when evaluated with respect
to another group’s. In the central cases of virtue-signaling-as-vice-signaling cases,
like the Son of Baldwin case given in the introduction, it is precisely because an act
is thought to vice signal with respect to the out-group’s standards that it functions
as virtue signaling in the in-group

https://www.jesp.org/paper/36346f73-...f-e692c97be25c

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The discussion of the pros and cons of vice signaling in this section will presume
this level of generality to the insights about moral grandstanding discussed so far.
I take it that vice signaling has many of the same potential benets and upshots
that virtue signaling or grandstanding have generally, as Levy’s article explains:
vice signaling can express genuinely held moral commitments and contribute to
public discussion.

But it is nevertheless worth mentioning two benefit that are
especially salient for the vice-signaling subset of virtue-signaling actions.


.. Vice Signaling Can Serve as a Basis for Solidarity

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Republican legislators dictating curriculum and political ideology to Texas universities won't end well for Texas universities

Texas Tech University faculty say restrictions on instruction about race, sex, gender iden y and sexual orientation prompted changes or requests for changes in 277 courses, according to a new survey.

The Faculty Senate survey found about half of respondents said they changed course content on their own because of concerns about the memos from system leaders, while roughly a quarter said administrators or other university personnel asked them to.

More than half of the 367 respondents noted they were looking for jobs elsewhere because of the restrictions that started trickling down in the fall semester.

https://www.texastribune.org/2026/05...essons-survey/

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"trying to remedy race/gender-based discrimination and deprivation of rights is the most racist/sexist policy of all"

In 1966, the newly-established Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued a rule to tackle entrenched discrimination on the job.

Every year, companies with a hundred or more workers would turn over to the government information about the race, ethnicity, sex and job categories of their employees.

This EEO-1 data, as it's known, has helped the federal agency figure out where people of color and women are not getting hired or promoted. Over decades, the EEOC's work has led to settlements worth billions.

Now, as part of a realignment of civil rights enforcement under President Trump, the EEOC is seeking to end its annual data collection while also getting rid of a 1979 regulation that allowed employers to take certain steps to address race and gender imbalances revealed by the data.

https://www.npr.org/2026/06/01/nx-s1...ation-dei-data

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"no data, no problem"

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vice-signaling subset of virtue-signaling actions.

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mentioning slavery, colonial immigrants and women's suffrage is "corrosive ideology" at Bunker Hill, according to the National Park Service

The National Park Service has ordered the removal of three quotes at the Bunker Hill Monument in Boston commemorating a Revolutionary War battle because they have run afoul of President Donald Trump’s policy seeking to scrub “corrosive ideology” from federal ins utions.

The site includes panels with quotes from historic figures or writings that reflect on the 200-year-old monument. A visitor at the site complained to park staff about a quote related to women’s suffrage as being “woke” feminist ideology, the people familiar said, and the visitor later sent an email complaint.

That prompted a wider review of material at the site that ultimately led the agency to order the removal of the three quotes in time for the 251st anniversary of the monument on June 17, two of the people said. The panel quotes have not yet been removed. Katie Martin, a spokeswoman for the Interior Department, which oversees the Park Service, responded to questions about the removal order by calling it “a routine exhibit refresh.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/clima...-hill-monument

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La Vernia ISD bans Lonesome Dove

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trans panic perverts picking on girls is par for the course

https://www.kuow.org/stories/transge...chool-students

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Basically at this point, anti-wokeness has tipped over catastrophically into anti-virtue

They want to kill ethics and morals, to snuff out freedom and public good.

To liberate bigotry and cruel domination

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Trump continues to get clobbered in federal district court

https://storage.courtlistener.com/re...96214.41.0.pdf

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Nuts :

Judge Angel Kell[e]y blocks Interior Sec. Doug Burgum's “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” Order as "a dangerous precedent of censorship and sanitization" and orders DOI to "restore and reinstall" removed materials "forthwith."

https://storage.courtlistener.com/re...96214.41.0.pdf

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notable black law school dean dies

When Gregory Williams was 10, the life he had known changed forever. It was not just because his father’s tavern, which had supported the family, had failed. Or because his mother had left with two of his younger siblings, Rita and Anthony, when she could no longer take the beatings from her alcoholic husband.


What most shifted his course was the thunderclap of a revelation that his father, James, delivered on a bus trip to Muncie, Ind., from their home near Alexandria, Va., in 1954. James Williams confessed to Gregory and his younger brother Lehman, known as Mike, that he was “colored” and had been able to pass for white because of his olive skin, letting others believe he was Italian American. And not only that: The Black woman named Sallie, whom his sons had known as a maid and cook, was, in fact, their grandmother.


At first, Gregory refused to believe that he and his brother, who had pale skin and straight hair, could be Black.


“Life is going to be different from now on,” his father told them, as Gregory Williams later recounted in his memoir, “Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black” (1995). “In Virginia, you were white boys. In Indiana, you’re going to be colored boys. I want you to remember that you’re the same today that you were yesterday. But people in Indiana will treat you differently.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/16/b...iams-dead.html

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the real US independence day

In the book Like Men of War: Black Troops in the Civil War 1862-1865, historian Noah Andre Trudeau wrote that by January 1866 there were 6,500 white soldiers and 19,768 black soldiers in Texas—a three to one ratio.

My family comes from a long line of Galvestonians and my grandmother’s childhood friend Fay Williams often shared with me a saying passed down from earlier generations who were there for the first Juneteenth: “It was not a piece of paper that freed the slaves, but the men with the guns.”

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/h...black-soldiers
https://indianapolisrecorder.com/hid...of-juneteenth/

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pacified Virginia and Texas

After Lee’s surrender, they shipped the 25th Army Corps out of Virginia to Fort Galveston, Texas on June 6, 1865.


They seized this area and chased their enemies into Mexico.


The Black soldiers of the 25th Army Corps also spread word about freedom, and historians estimate that thousands of enslaved people escaped because of these soldiers.


On June 19, 1865, some 2,000 Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay to announce that the more than 250,000 enslaved Black people in the state were free by General Order No. 3.

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Texas A&M told this philosophy prof he couldn't teach Plato's Symposium -- due to the presence of illegal gender ideology

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In an unpublished but extant do ent from about this time, Ōta states that Nobunaga made Yasuke a vassal, giving him a house, servants, a sword, and a stipend. During this period, the definition of samurai was ambiguous, but historians think that this would contemporaneously have been seen as the bestowing of warrior or “samurai” rank. This is where the claim that Yasuke was a samurai originates.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Yasuke

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yeah they do

do y'all hate elections now?

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newsflash: Peter Magyar is not a communist

he's not even leftish

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you know what was woke?

the Civil War and the Minnesota 1st

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The Confederate force was 5 times their size but they fixed bayonets and charged. In 5 minutes, 215 of the 262 were casualties, 82% of the force. But the attack blunted the Rebel assault and sowed confusion, buying time for reinforcements to arrive, and Han held the line on Cemetery Ridge.

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Postwar, both General Han and U.S. PresidentCalvin Coolidge praised the actions of the 1st Minnesota. Gen. Han , who witnessed the action firsthand, placed its heroism highest in the annals of war:^[30] "No soldiers on any field, in this or any other country ever displayed grander heroism." Gen. Han ascribed unsurpassed gallantry to the famed assault stating: "There is no more gallant deed recorded in history."^[31] Emphasizing the critical nature of the cir stances on July 2 at Gettysburg, President Coolidge considered: "Colonel Colvill and those eight companies of the First Minnesota are en led to rank as the saviors of their country."

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Virginia's greatest general, George Thomas

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forced confession

The basic facts of the case are undisputed: A group of students sat in the audience while FIU President Jeanette Nuñez held an on-campus event March 13 with former Major League Baseball star Alex Rodriguez. About a half hour into the program, students stood up and unveiled shirts that said “ICE OFF FIU,” and stood silently for a few minutes. They then left the event.

FIU maintains that the silent protest violated a campus policy against “expressive activities” taking place indoors.

https://www.wlrn.org/government-poli...st-immigration