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Zorro

(16,296 posts)
Thu Jan 6, 2022, 12:04 PM Jan 2022

Who put fliers on New Yorkers' cars telling them to leave Florida if 'woke'?

Palm Beach Police say someone placed fliers over the weekend on New York-licensed cars parked on the wealthy island.

PALM BEACH — Someone had a warning for New Yorkers visiting former President Donald Trump’s new hometown — leave if you are “woke.”

Palm Beach Police say someone placed fliers over the weekend on New York-licensed cars parked on the wealthy island reading, “If you are one of the those ‘woke’ people --- leave Florida. You will be happier elsewhere, as will we.”

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines “woke” in the political context as meaning, “aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice).” It was first used by Black Americans in the 1930s, but became popularized by the Black Lives Matters movement after a Ferguson, Missouri, police officer fatally shot Michael Brown in 2014.

Some conservatives, however, use the word as an insult against liberals, saying it means the person is overly sensitive and moralizing and sees racism where it does not exist.

Trump became one of Palm Beach’s 8,800 residents in 2019, moving from his native New York City. He said in a Fox News interview last year “that being woke means you are a loser.”

https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida/2022/01/04/who-put-fliers-on-new-yorkers-cars-telling-them-to-leave-florida-if-woke/

Looks like Trump declared himself "woke". Talk about self-owned...
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Who put fliers on New Yorkers' cars telling them to leave Florida if 'woke'? (Original Post) Zorro Jan 2022 OP
I would oblige. ColinC Jan 2022 #1
Exactly! Rebl2 Jan 2022 #2

ColinC

(10,705 posts)
1. I would oblige.
Thu Jan 6, 2022, 12:11 PM
Jan 2022

Only as long as the perpetrators promise to never leave Florida regardless of how underwater their house is. Or how many sinkholes surround them.

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