Monday, April 26, 2021

Woke To The Joke

You've heard the story of "War of the Worlds," haven't you? Orson Wells used the world wide communication platform of the day, radio, to broadcast a story, an unbelievable story of our world under assault from aliens bent on destruction and conquest. Yet it was believed. Terrified people went running for their lives, running for shelter. 

It was a prank, a joke, a hoax. And so it is with woke.

The pranksters have been trying to expose themselves for some time but the world is substantially dumber than in Orson Well's day. They tried to out themselves with the OK Sign prank, a trivially obvious hoax poking fun at the larger woke-joke, which due to a Mass Delusional Media frenzy took on a life of its own. Swing and a miss.

Enter Chet Hanks. Son of the stars. Sometime actor, sometime musician. Target of criticism and controversy having been accused of "cultural appropriation" for speaking jamaican patois with his friends. But then...he published a video titled White Boy Summer. Now you'd think that a privileged white boy already guilty of a Jamaica-Mistaka would be instantly cancelled by WokeWorld for the title alone regardless of the content of the video. But that wouldn't align with the prankster's goal of exposing their joke. Then Chet stepped up to the plate when he started selling swag. Was it odious and offensive? Nope. Did it use taboo words a White Boy cannot say, even in a White Boy Summer? Nope. His sin against god and humanity: printing "White Boy Summer" in an offensive font as if there really is such a thing. If the OK joke couldn't get through to the numbskulls out there, surely they will be woke to the joke with the silliness of "it's the font, bro, it's the font holding me down and killin' my soul!"

Woke IS the joke. No matter the font.