# Is it Time to Tone Down the Wokeness, Especially about the Past?

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**Created:** [November 15, 2024, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-time-to-tone-down-the-wokeness-especially-about-the-past/1010287 "2024-11-15T15:14:11Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 27, 2024, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-time-to-tone-down-the-wokeness-especially-about-the-past/1010287/506 "2024-11-27T19:32:06Z")

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> [@DavidNRockies](#):
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> Exactly how it was with same-sex marriage, amirite? When California legalized it, my wife and I were _forced_ to divorce, and to each take same-sex partners.
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> She married a lovely woman she knew from the gym, while I simply married a “rough trick named Jim.”
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> The four of us have been ecstatically happy together, despite our initial reservations.

Count yourself, or your siblings, lucky,

> [@What could the Harris campaign have done differently?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-could-the-harris-campaign-have-done-differently/1009798/325):
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> The Democrats have followed the strategy of championing oppressed minorities, focusing on ever tinier and more aberrant fringe groups, to the point of diminishing returns. First African-Americans, then women, then gays, and now various flavors of non-binaries. I’m not sure there’s anywhere left to go except for maybe incest practitioners.

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