When ppl say "the woke virus," it reminds me of "drapetomania," during enslavement which meant it was a contagious disease of the nervous system that caused the enslaved to want to run away. In other words, its a disease to say "Stop this injustice& inequity. You're hurting me."
It occurs to me that all the threats and violence against Pride in stores is exactly what evangelicals think is happening with their wholly imagined “War on Christmas.”
one thing i think about a lot with the right’s pivot to these kinds of violent intimidation tactics en masse is it’s done in such a way that there can’t be any kind of moderating factor. there’s no incentive to step back — they just push the envelope further and further