Wokeism of the day *Revised Mod Note in OP and threadbanned users*

Cordell

MisterAnarchy wrote: »

He will be next to be cancelled.
The Woke SJW mob will demand their pound of flesh.

If he gets trending on twitter he's going to be seriously fked. The university will drop him like a hot potato.

Invidious

Cordell wrote: »

If he gets trending on twitter he's going to be seriously fked. The university will drop him like a hot potato.

Thankfully, tenure still exists in the US, meaning that the university can't easily fire him for his views. But he can still be targeted in other ways.

griffin100

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56251452

Competing levels of wokeness.

griffin100

griffin100 wrote: »

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56251452

Competing levels of wokeness.

Too woke to be woke! When such people are so hypersensitive to the use of labels, only the "correct" labels will do and nothing else.

But they'll argue over the precise form the labels take.

Such people will never be satisfied, ever.

TomTomTim

Dr. Seuss is cancelled

Six Dr. Seuss books will be discontinued because of racist and insensitive imagery

TomTomTim

TomTomTim wrote: »

Dr. Seuss is cancelled

Six Dr. Seuss books will be discontinued because of racist and insensitive imagery

"Dr. Seuss Enterprises listened and took feedback from our audiences including teachers, academics and specialists in the field as part of our review process. We then worked with a panel of experts, including educators, to review our catalogue of titles,” it said.

I wonder if any weight was given to the general readers & their parents opinions, or did only the woken academics opinions matter?

Cordell

In the 2007 book, “Should We Burn Babar?,” the author and educator Herbert R. Kohl contended that the “Babar the Elephant” books were celebrations of colonialism because of how the title character leaves the jungle and later returns to “civilize” his fellow animals.

A lot of ex colonies were populated by savages and for all the bad things colonization did it also civilized them, so why do the wokies have this desire to minimize or even hide the fact that this actually happened?

Sir Oxman

griffin100 wrote: »

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56251452

Competing levels of wokeness.

TRA = trans rights activists (don't be fooled by the 'rights' bit)


https://twitter.com/xx_chromosomes_/status/1366745844528132098

kildare lad

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Too woke to be woke! When such people are so hypersensitive to the use of labels, only the "correct" labels will do and nothing else.

But they'll argue over the precise form the labels take.

Such people will never be satisfied, ever.

How does someone look at the word " women " and find that offensive . If anything it actually makes them look like they've a mental illness

jam_mac_jam

Why would you want a gender neutral word for a gender term. That makes no sense.
Tying themselves up in knots now as they make less and less sense.

silverharp

this is an interesting observation, basically progressives have made sure they never see a black face on their food packaging, I guess its in line with where they live too lol

https://twitter.com/RubinReport/status/1366814303626518528

ExMachina1000

They have cancelled ( parts) Dr Seuss

https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-40236188.html

1800_Ladladlad

Deleted User wrote: »

I wonder if any weight was given to the general readers & their parents opinions, or did only the woken academics opinions matter?

The same people who want children’s books like this banned are the very type of people promoting Drag Queen story hour.


njb

Danzy

MisterAnarchy wrote: »

He will be next to be cancelled.
The Woke SJW mob will demand their pound of flesh.

He is Jewish as well, not a group that the modern left are too fond of.

Cordell

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/mar/01/amanda-gorman-white-translator-quits-marieke-lucas-rijneveld
Little by little this kind of madness will create resentments against black people.
And maybe that was the plan all along.

Salvation Tambourine

Cordell wrote: »

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/mar/01/amanda-gorman-white-translator-quits-marieke-lucas-rijneveld
Little by little this kind of madness will create resentments against black people.
And maybe that was the plan all along.

I've really got to stop reading this thread...

MisterAnarchy

Danzy wrote: »

He is Jewish as well, not a group that the modern left are too fond of.

They'd be foolhardy to go after him as he can play the anti semitic card.

MisterAnarchy

Deleted User wrote: »

I wonder if any weight was given to the general readers & their parents opinions, or did only the woken academics opinions matter?

Biden has put himself in a strait jack with his identity politics and pandering to the wokists.
Its becoming a cult.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9318259/White-House-DECLINES-defend-Dr-Seuss-Joe-Biden-leaves-Read-America-Day.html#comments

The White House on Tuesday declined to defend Dr. Seuss after President Joe Biden left the children's author out of a proclamation celebrating Read Across America Day, which is held annually on the children's author's birthday on March 2.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said the day is 'a chance to celebrate diverse authors whose work and lived experience reflect the diversity of our country.'

It was fine for Michelle Obama to read Dr Seuss to kids in the White House.

In Obama's 2014 proclamation, he said: '[Dr Seuss'] tales challenge dictators and discrimination. They call us to open our minds, to take responsibility for ourselves and our planet.'

In 2015, Obama stated: 'The works of Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known to us as Dr. Seuss, have sparked a love for reading in generations of students. His whimsical wordplay and curious characters inspire children to dream big and remind readers of all ages that 'a person's a person no matter how small.'

The following year, Obama said in 2016 that Seuss was 'one of America's revered wordsmiths' who 'used his incredible talent to instill in his most impressionable readers universal values we all hold dear.'

Trump, in his 2018 proclamation, urged Americans to 'always remember the still-vibrant words of Dr. Seuss: 'You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.'

Biden decides that the books need to be banned. :rolleyes:

Mules

Here's one; The European Space Agency is looking to recruit disabled astronauts to increase diversity.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/science-environment-56072219

Fair enough if the person is up to the job but they wouldn't want to be compromising on safety just to look woke.

Cordell

At the Agency we value diversity and we welcome people with disabilities. Whenever possible, we seek to accommodate individuals with disabilities by providing the necessary support at the workplace

So no, they won't be hiring blind pilots or mentally challenged physicists anytime soon.

Achebe

Cordell wrote: »

A lot of ex colonies were populated by savages and for all the bad things colonization did it also civilized them, so why do the wokies have this desire to minimize or even hide the fact that this actually happened?

It's really amazing to see this sort of stuff on an Irish forum.

sligojoek

Barna77

Cordell wrote: »

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/mar/01/amanda-gorman-white-translator-quits-marieke-lucas-rijneveld
Little by little this kind of madness will create resentments against black people.
And maybe that was the plan all along.

It took me a while to realise that the use of "their" wasn't a mistake....

Wibbs

kildare lad wrote: »

How does someone look at the word " women " and find that offensive . If anything it actually makes them look like they've a mental illness

Some may have, but it's more a societal illness. At least a loud section of modern western society. A section that is anti science, anti fact, anti pretty much everything because they're that type of person - and we all know one or two - who will never be satisfied and need a regular whinge for the attention and dopamine hit and the feeling that they're somehow special in an increasingly depersonalised world.

The interwebs, social media and some areas of academia have given them a platform and the feeling of community with others like them. And those same social media platforms encourage them and rev them up.

Why? Always follow the money. Why does Arsebook have dozens of "genders" and the like? Inclusivity? "Wokeness"? Don't make me laugh. It's to sell targetted marketing info for particular segments to advertisers. EG they find "non binary, two spirit, zers" spend more on I dunno cookery books than "CIS He/Him, Q+", so they can target cookery book advertising to the former. The other handy aspect for advertisers is those who have the time and freedom to come up with this nonsense are almost all middle class, degree holders with time on their hands, disposable income and a large chunk of insecurity. That's paydirt for commerce right there.

jam_mac_jam wrote: »

Why would you want a gender neutral word for a gender term. That makes no sense.
Tying themselves up in knots now as they make less and less sense.

Their non English speaking counterparts must have a fit if they speak a language where chairs and tables and whatever are "gendered". That said a lot of this (non) progressive insanity is very much of the Anglosphere and "European". You'll find precious little of it outside those confines. The Middle East isn't "woke", neither is the Far East, or Africa, or even South America for that matter.

Barna77

Wibbs wrote: »

Why? Always follow the money. Why does Arsebook have dozens of "genders" and the like? Inclusivity? "Wokeness"? Don't make me laugh. It's to sell targetted marketing info for particular segments to advertisers. EG they find "non binary, two spirit, zers" spend more on I dunno cookery books than "CIS He/Him, Q+", so they can target cookery book advertising to the former. The other handy aspect for advertisers is those who have the time and freedom to come up with this nonsense are almost all middle class, degree holders with time on their hands, disposable income and a large chunk of insecurity. That's paydirt for commerce right there.

Exactly. That is what happening with pride parade, which has gone corporate. It's ridiculous. And don't get me started with all the business showing up rainbow flags. Leprechauns and their pots of gold must be doing lots of overtime every June

I know people who'd go to the parade on their work floats / buses and a couple of years ago there were so many corporate groups that they left because of the float traffic jam :pac:

1800_Ladladlad

Hitler lives on in the minds of these people. He must be everywhere to them.

https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1366754350480171012

WrenBoy

1800_Ladladlad wrote: »

Hitler lives on in the minds of these people. He must be everywhere to them.

https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1366754350480171012

What a relief.

Achebe

Achebe wrote: »

It's really amazing to see this sort of stuff on an Irish forum.

We should be talking about potatoes, whiskey, Guinness and peig.

Kivaro

1800_Ladladlad wrote: »

Hitler lives on in the minds of these people. He must be everywhere to them.

https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1366754350480171012

I hid under the bed after I saw the first icon.

kildare lad

kildare lad wrote: »

How does someone look at the word " women " and find that offensive . If anything it actually makes them look like they've a mental illness

Excuse you!!!!

It's a mxntal illness.