Jane Fonda has left this Sunday one of the most commented moments of the Sag Awards gala, where he has collected the prize for a whole trajectory. Fonda, always committed to the defense of human rights, has claimed the use of the word “woke”, that the right and ultra -right does not tire of instrumentalizing to ridicule and try to silence those committed to the social and environmental causes. Jane Fonda expresses it better: “Don’t be wrong. Empathy is neither fragile, nor is Woke. That, by the way, Woke simply means that you care about the rest of the people. ” Someone had to say it.
Social networks are responsible for that interview by Maya Angelou in black and white in which the author appeared talking about the fear of the word “Wake.” However, the word comes from behind, comes from African -American jargon and had appeared in Lead Belly songs during the 30s. In the 21st century they have popularized it, among others, Erykah Badu.
“Antiwokism” is a phenomenon that exists, which has a name and is characterized by “exaggerating the dangers that for freedom has a certain cancellation and disabled the lack of structural freedom for minorities that wokism wants to denounce,” describes the journalist Daniel Innerarity in the country in his article ‘Against Antiwokism’. In an twisted twist, antiwokism seeks to “not be canceled to those who have inventedly enjoy the power to cancel.” Cancel in real life, it is understood, which is where oppressions cause real consequences for people.
Fonda’s words, therefore, are very relevant, in addition to brave, and remember the importance of taking sides during the second Trump era in which the “antiwokism” will be the order of the day. Especially since not so many celebrities with public platforms are pronouncing, these days, about nothing at all. Nor are they obliged, but silence is deafening.
As soon as Madonna has criticized Trump’s new measures, literally framing them in “fascism” and, although his vision can sometimes sin of Naif, it must be applauded that at least he pronounced. Selena Gomez has been so far from recording crying for deported immigrants: she has also been ridiculed, but at least she said something. Hunter Schafer has denounced Trump’s antitrans policy because he just suffered his first -hand effects. Caroline Polachek has been seen attending a demonstration for Ukraine. In Spain, Inés Hernand does not get tired of promoting demonstrations, such as the one that has defended public education this Sunday.
And, yet, he knows little. Voices are missing, in the United States but, of course, also in Spain. Demons, if even Karla Sofía Gascón, being completely wrong in everything, speaks, and when the world seems willing to pass the page of its destructive tweets, because we all make mistakes and say nonsense, as well – and with great reason – has expressed C. Tangana, why don’t the rest speak? In the four years of Trump and Elon Musk that remain, and with the right already settled in Germany, only crickets can be heard. It would be appreciated that they also speak those who have to lose: not only Jane Fonda, again.
