{"id":17008,"date":"2020-09-03T00:21:01","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T07:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=17008"},"modified":"2020-09-03T00:21:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T07:21:01","slug":"fictional-spartans-the-enemies-of-wokeness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2020\/09\/03\/fictional-spartans-the-enemies-of-wokeness\/","title":{"rendered":"Fictional Spartans: The Enemies Of Wokeness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;Shut up and enjoy your conquering enlightened overlords&#8221; is a take that does fairly encapsulate the Leftist ideology which is currently seeking to dominate. \u2018Twould be \u201cproblematic\u201d otherwise, as problematic as fictional Spartans trying not to be conquered.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"  align=\"center\">Comedy <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ml6MqHDTHG\">pic.twitter.com\/Ml6MqHDTHG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dataracer (@Dataracer117) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dataracer117\/status\/1293750587062968320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 13, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Putting aside the fact that this is a highly stylized and fictionalized portrait of history that practically screams \u201cartistic license\u201d\u2014the real Xerxes wasn\u2019t an over 6\u2019 tall Brazilian, for example\u2014the take is a bad one. Of course foreigners are to be feared and attacked when they are literally invading your country with the explicit goal of conquest and subjugation. Of course the Spartans were wight and able-bodied, and the movie doesn\u2019t whitewash the fact that physically disabled children were exposed to the elements. \u00a0 And yes, the Spartans were warriors by trade, but thy didn\u2019t engage in aggression and violence for s**ts n\u2019 giggles. \u00a0 Heck, in the movie, as in real life, they were the victims of aggression.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17009\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/300-King-Leonidas-Sparta.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"477\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/300-King-Leonidas-Sparta.jpg 477w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/300-King-Leonidas-Sparta-300x157.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 477px) 100vw, 477px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And while the franchise was limited, the Greek city states did enjoy literal democracy, and certainly not a political philosophy what wasn\u2019t invented until millennia after the historical events took place. Yet all this is \u201cproblematic\u201d because the movie has themes that don\u2019t fit in with the woke narrative.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Soon enough, all movies of the past will be considered insufficiently woke.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Hat Tip<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EveKeneinan\/status\/1294187969713188864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eve Keneinan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\"><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatblog\"><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalhat\"><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Fictional Spartans: The Enemies Of Wokeness\"><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"'Shut up and enjoy your conquering enlightened overlords' is a take that does fairly encapsulate the Leftist ideology which is currently seeking to dominate.  'Twould be 'problematic' otherwise, as problematic as fictional Spartans trying not to be conquered.\"><meta name=\"twitter:image:src\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/300-King-Leonidas-Sparta.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;Shut up and enjoy your conquering enlightened overlords&#8221; is a take that does fairly encapsulate the Leftist ideology which is currently seeking to dominate. \u2018Twould be \u201cproblematic\u201d otherwise, as problematic as fictional Spartans trying not to be conquered. Comedy pic.twitter.com\/Ml6MqHDTHG &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2020\/09\/03\/fictional-spartans-the-enemies-of-wokeness\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[77,22,64,48],"class_list":["post-17008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progressives","tag-derp","tag-fail","tag-lulz","tag-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17008"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17011,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17008\/revisions\/17011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}