Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi all,
Vanilla are planning an update to the site on April 24th (next Wednesday). It is a major PHP8 update which is expected to boost performance across the site. The site will be down from 7pm and it is expected to take about an hour to complete. We appreciate your patience during the update.
Thanks all.

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

1…2930323435…402

Comments

  • #932
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users Posts: 8,160 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    CBS pledges Survivor, Big Brother casts will now be 50 percent people of color

    Following criticism from past contestants, shows like Survivor, Big Brother, and Love Island will include at least 50 percent people of color in their casts moving forward.

    https://ew.com/tv/cbs-reality-series-casting-representation/


  • #933
    Gervais08
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,612 ✭✭✭Gervais08


    Quantum Erasure wrote: »
    CBS pledges Survivor, Big Brother casts will now be 50 percent people of color

    Following criticism from past contestants, shows like Survivor, Big Brother, and Love Island will include at least 50 percent people of color in their casts moving forward.

    https://ew.com/tv/cbs-reality-series-casting-representation/

    But 50% of the population aren’t people of colour so this will be an over representation plus hello tokenism!

    Ridiculous!


  • #934
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Gervais08 wrote: »
    But 50% of the population aren’t people of colour so this will be an over representation plus hello tokenism!

    Ridiculous!


    Yea, but if you're watching survivor or big brother you really deserve everything you get and more!


  • #935
    silverharp
    Registered Users Posts: 17,840 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    https://twitter.com/harvardmed_cme/status/1325483984604831744

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • #936
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    silverharp wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/harvardmed_cme/status/1325483984604831744

    lol


  • Advertisement
  • #937
    Necro
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,990 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    Mod:

    The appropriate forum to discuss mod actions is Dispute Resolution or Feedback, do not derail a thread in relation to this. Off topic post deleted.


  • #938
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,727 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Batrachotox wrote: »
    https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio-web/deirdre-o-kane-talks-funny-rté-has-another-uninteresting-and-unfunny-chat-with-itself-1.4403550?mode=amp

    According to IT Deirdre O’Kane’s new show is neither funny nor interesting but she’s female so it is good and she deserves another show for undisclosed reasons

    Of course it's the guest's fault that it's shıte.

    The real point is it's an uninspired show featuring the usual long term residents of the RTE canteen.


  • #939
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,071 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    silverharp wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/harvardmed_cme/status/1325483984604831744
    "The webinar panelists used the term "birthing person" to include those who identify as non-binary or transgender because not all who give birth identify as "women" or "girls.""

    And down the ridiculous rabbit hole we go.

    down_the_rabbit_hole4.jpg

    Morons. And more worryingly this is Harvard medical school pimping this unscientific mumbo jumbo.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



  • #940
    lmimmfn
    Registered Users Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭lmimmfn


    Speaking on the madness and how deep the rabbit hole goes, here's a list of pronouns( i'm quite sure more will be added in future :) )
    Pronoun-cards-2016-02-768x439.png
    with a note "Note: the top line is meant to indicate two separate – but similarly spelled – sets of pronouns. They are ae/aer/aers and fae/faer/faers."

    I understand 30% of that, the "he", "she" and "they" lines, the rest i just cant......

    "ze" is that the enemy in that classic Scientology move Battlefield Earth? I think "xe" is a Jaguar model.


  • #941
    46 Long
    Closed Accounts Posts: 355 ✭✭46 Long


    https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/anger-over-women-s-business-honour-for-cross-dressing-banker-h0gv3l7nw
    Anger over women’s business honour for cross-dressing banker

    A male Credit Suisse director who sometimes goes to work in a wig and dress has prompted outrage by accepting a place on a list of the Top 100 Women in Business.


  • Advertisement
  • #942
    Jim2007
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 9,987 Mod ✭✭✭✭Jim2007


    46 Long wrote: »
    https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/anger-over-women-s-business-honour-for-cross-dressing-banker-h0gv3l7nw

    So what, the Brits need to lighten up in any case. Always amusing to see them having to deal with the unisex toilets at other CS locations.


  • #943
    V8 Interceptor
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,332 ✭✭✭V8 Interceptor


    Don't know whether this is woke or perhaps there's a thread for Nimbyism?

    Saoirse McHugh tweet 1: Repeal the 27th. Who lives here (never mind born here) belongs here!

    Saoirse McHugh tweet 2: I just want to live in a tiny house and grow food with other people in a tiny house village where we share work and and be surrounded by acres of wilderness.


  • #944
    99nsr125
    Registered Users Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭99nsr125


    Gervais08 wrote: »
    But 50% of the population aren’t people of colour so this will be an over representation plus hello tokenism!

    Ridiculous!

    You mean discrimination


  • #945
    V8 Interceptor
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,332 ✭✭✭V8 Interceptor


    Greg Clarke should've said people of colour instead of coloured people.

    https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/12129402/greg-clarke-resigns-as-fa-chairman-after-apologising-for-saying-coloured-footballers


  • #946
    Jim2007
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 9,987 Mod ✭✭✭✭Jim2007


    V8 Interceptor wrote: »
    Greg Clarke should've said people of colour instead of coloured people.

    https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/12129402/greg-clarke-resigns-as-fa-chairman-after-apologising-for-saying-coloured-footballers

    The words are irrelevant, it’s the mind set behind the words that is the problem.


  • #947
    NIMAN
    Registered Users Posts: 32,972 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Jim2007 wrote: »
    The words are irrelevant, it’s the mind set behind the words that is the problem.

    Do you think he deserved to lose his job over it?

    He is a man from a certain era, it is very easy for man of his age to say the wrong thing accidentally.

    Did you see the clip? I don't think he meant any harm at all.

    Sad world we live in.


  • #948
    kowloonkev
    Registered Users Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭kowloonkev


    Jim2007 wrote: »
    The words are irrelevant, it’s the mind set behind the words that is the problem.

    No, the wording is seen as the problem and nothing to do with mindset or intent.

    Why a white man, in power and in their right mind would want to talk about these issues or help out is beyond me.


  • #949
    Gervais08
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,612 ✭✭✭Gervais08


    kowloonkev wrote: »
    No, the wording is seen as the problem and nothing to do with mindset or intent.

    Why a white man, in power and in their right mind would want to talk about these issues or help out is beyond me.

    Because if he didn’t the woke police would have his job for lack of diversity.

    Sky Sports is a nightmare now - Clinton Morrison can’t hold a sentence together and is parachuted in to analyse matches - innit bruv??? Gets on my t**s.


  • #950
    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Do other places have these woke idiots too or is it just US and Europe?
    Do China, Vietnam, Angola, Uruguay?


  • #951
    cgcsb
    Registered Users Posts: 9,271 ✭✭✭cgcsb


    biko wrote: »
    Do other places have these woke idiots too or is it just US and Europe?
    Do China, Vietnam, Angola, Uruguay?

    These places are very un PC. China is quite a racist place actually, as is Japan. You've also slightly jumped the gun with Europe there, hyper PC culture is mostly English speaking (plus Sweden). terminology in other European languages hasn't changed much at all in a generation. 'the blacks' is commonly heard in most latin languages for example. Certain jobs are still referred to as masculine


  • Advertisement
  • #952
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    cgcsb wrote: »
    These places are very un PC. China is quite a racist place actually, as is Japan.

    I'm sure some folk would consider that statement racist.

    It's all a bit mad.


  • #953
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,727 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    biko wrote: »
    Do other places have these woke idiots too or is it just US and Europe?
    Do China, Vietnam, Angola, Uruguay?

    Not Vietnam. Met a Vietnamese lad who thought black jokes were hilariously funny.

    Seems to be a affluent Western countries affliction.
    People living in poor countries have bigger things to worry about.


  • #954
    cgcsb
    Registered Users Posts: 9,271 ✭✭✭cgcsb


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I'm sure some folk would consider that statement racist.

    It's all a bit mad.

    Well I mean objectively the culture is quite a racist one, although they generally wouldn't wish harm on someone. A black person wouldn't be permitted to marry a local female for example. A white person may be taken under consideration if he is sufficiently wealthy and the family is open minded. They've no problem taking pictures, staring and even pointing (pointing in Chinese culture is about the rudest thing you can do) when they see a white person. I've had a teenager literally pluck a hair out of my head when on a train in China and examine it's blondeness. They've literally no PC filter at all, like I said they aren't in any way violent or aggressive about their racism, it comes more from a place of innocence than ignorance.


  • #955
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    cgcsb wrote: »
    Well I mean objectively the culture is quite a racist one, although they generally wouldn't wish harm on someone. A black person wouldn't be permitted to marry a local female for example. A white person may be taken under consideration if he is sufficiently wealthy and the family is open minded. They've no problem taking pictures, staring and even pointing (pointing in Chinese culture is about the rudest thing you can do) when they see a white person. I've had a teenager literally pluck a hair out of my head when on a train in China and examine it's blondeness. They've literally no PC filter at all, like I said they aren't in any way violent or aggressive about their racism, it comes more from a place of innocence than ignorance.

    It wasn't a slight on you. It was just an observation that people are finding racism or offence where there isn't any these days


  • #956
    DelaneyIn
    Registered Users Posts: 524 ✭✭✭DelaneyIn


    Dr. Ebun Joseph thinks that maybe black slavers thought they were doing something good for the blacks they sold into slavery.

    https://twitter.com/Mc188945/status/1326232116150071298


  • #957
    AllForIt
    Registered Users Posts: 8,268 ✭✭✭AllForIt


    biko wrote: »
    Do other places have these woke idiots too or is it just US and Europe?
    Do China, Vietnam, Angola, Uruguay?

    In China you can't say what you like either.


  • #958
    the purple tin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    DelaneyIn wrote: »
    Dr. Ebun Joseph thinks that maybe black slavers thought they were doing something good for the blacks they sold into slavery.
    Revisionist twit. :rolleyes:
    The slavers were interseted in one thing, money.
    These fools are looking back at history through modern eyes and trying to twist everything to fit their stupid agendas.


  • #959
    V8 Interceptor
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,332 ✭✭✭V8 Interceptor


    Jim2007 wrote: »
    The words are irrelevant, it’s the mind set behind the words that is the problem.

    But the words are the same. Coloured people/people of colour mean the same thing just put the other way round. They're the very same words.

    The irony is when he used that phrase it was in an argument he was making in defense of those folks!


  • #960
    Gervais08
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,612 ✭✭✭Gervais08


    DelaneyIn wrote: »
    Dr. Ebun Joseph thinks that maybe black slavers thought they were doing something good for the blacks they sold into slavery.

    https://twitter.com/Mc188945/status/1326232116150071298

    She is a ****ing nutter.


  • Advertisement
  • #961
    V8 Interceptor
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,332 ✭✭✭V8 Interceptor


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Not Vietnam. Met a Vietnamese lad who thought black jokes were hilariously funny.

    Seems to be a affluent Western countries affliction.
    People living in poor countries have bigger things to worry about.

    You'll also find the affluent types who peddle this guff live far away from diversity themselves. Remember John Snow's "I've never seen so many white people in one place"? John clearly forgot where he lived. A 100% white gated English community.


This discussion has been closed.
Advertisement