Even though it remains unclear exactly what caused the “catastrophic implosion” of the Titan submersible that led to the deaths of five people, conservatives, right-wingers, and other extremist nutjobs have already come up with a reason: Wokeness.
No, it wasn’t being 13,000 feet under the ocean that caused the Titan to sink and never resurface. It was being “woke.”
HuffPost notes:
But conservatives had another theory. Could the sub have disappeared because OceanGate’s CEO went “woke”?
Wokeness has become a new boogeyman for the right, and no one is safe — even in a case like this, with five people believed to have lost their lives in the deep sea.
Fox host Jesse Watters had this to say about wokeness and the Titan sub and OceanGate Expeditions CEO Stockton Rush, who led the mission:
“There’s been lawsuits, there’s been accusations about slashing regulations. He’s (Rush) quoted as saying he didn’t hire a bunch of 50-year-old white guys with military experience because he didn’t want his vessels to be not inspirational for a younger generation.”
“I don’t care who is in these vessels, I just want them to be experienced and safe. And if you’re gonna be woke, you might have to —”
What Jesse? Go broke? Isn’t that the saying? Or in this case were you suggesting that to go woke is to die?
Right-wing agitator and social media shitposter Charlie Kirk concurred with Watters, “If it is true, this person tragically passes away, the CEO of OceanGate and he says that he was choosing and selecting his personnel based on not wanting to have 50-year-old white guys, then you could make the argument, albeit rather cruel and blunt, he killed himself and his customers with wokeness.”
As if that’s not bad enough, there’s also the “blame Biden” contingency of the far right that’s suggesting President Joe Biden tried to hide that the Titan sub had failed sooner than announced because he was trying to distract the public from the recently guilty plea entered by his son, Hunter, for failing to pay taxes and illegal possession of a handgun, Newsweek notes.
Wokegate or Bidengate? Does it really matter? The right-wing echo chamber will have a new “theory” pretty soon and it’ll be even more delusional than the ones they’re already pushing.
