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IT TAKES ALL TYPES OF "PEOPLE"

Certain TYPES of PEOPLE (humans?) are a minority on this earth.. Why the h__ are they being portrayed as THE majority.  I do not get it, THEY are so pitiful and harmless that they are given voice in LIBRARIES. GOD knows they need assistance in having a voice, they are so persecuted.  The real persecution has begun and needs to be addressed. Michel Foucault can shed much light on this topic, as well as favs like Walt Whitman, as they have always considered so intelligent, even when they use long tangential sentences (oooops, like this one) to make a single point. PLEASE help everyone realize that there needs to be a voice for ALL. It, oppression, is soooo real that there SEEMS to be an uptick in the types of a person I can be.   I identify as a WRITER and a ScHoLaR, hardy har har, who wants to be a scholar in this politically driven CLIMATE anyways, oh no!   

Israel and Jewishness

 Is pro Israel pro Jewish? Is anti-Israel anti-Jewish? Is pro Israel anti-Jewish? Is anti-Israel pro Jewish? Only four questions and so many different answers.

"WOKE culture" the misnomer, and racist application of "woke"

One must be careful to make the observation and distinction between the both the narrow and the broad use of the term "woke"  In the narrow and appropriate sense it is used to designate the individual process that a person of color coming to realize the way society oppresses them and the extent to which that oppression can be addressed in their individuals life. The broad and inappropriate use of the term "woke" comes when those who know no better indicate that a whole society or institution, or organization is "woke"   Often times this is referred to as "woke culture" Such is the application of the word or concept to indicate what is systemically problematic. In fact "woke" is used with the negative connotation to address the DEI, The 1619 Project, or other specifically more broad ideas about the way culture is affected by racism, discrimination, and "colonization."  I cannot speak here, though, because anything I say is raci