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

Hego Damask · 09-09-2020 5:53pm

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

I just find all this so divisive. It's achieving the opposite of what it hopes to achieve. It's reducing everyone to their ethnicity, their colour, as if that's all we are.

Exactly, true equality means that the race of actors/people to hire is as meaningful as hair colour.

Padre_Pio · 09-09-2020 6:10pm

Here the criteria.
You need to two to get nominated:

1. On-screen acting and storylines, "including at least one of the lead actors or significant supporting actors is from an underrepresented racial or ethnic group"
2. Creative leadership positions, departmental heads and crew composition
3. Paid apprenticeships, internships and training
4. Audience development, from publicity and marketing to distribution

My issue is these are so vague as to be meaningless. Underrepresented racial or ethnic group? Considering most Hollywood actors are American, then would an Irishman tick the box here?
So then it's a pointless exercise and Twitter will use it as a stick to beat the Academy with.

Oh now you need at least two black actors, and Naomi Harris black, not Beyonce black.

Sir Oxman · 09-09-2020 8:14pm

cdeb wrote: »

2+2 is always 4. The cartoon thinks it's being smart, but isn't. 10 in base 4 is this many - .... - not this many - .......... - so the fundamental mathematical law remains; two plus two is four. Just because you've changed to base 4 doesn't alter the basic maths.

It is true that two apples plus two oranges don't equal four apples - but again, maths is always clear that you have to add like to like. 20 + 2 doesn't equal 4 because you want to add the two 2s together. One is two tens and one is two units so they can't be added together. Two apples plus two oranges does give four pieces of fruit, however.

I know it's only a handful of nuts on the internet, but if the cartoon is wrong, there's no point you saying it's right.

So yes, two plus two equals four is always true. You could in fact define four as being two plus two. If you want to give "four" a different name - such as 10 in base 4 - then fine, but that's just changing names, not the underlying facts. You may as well say that 2+2 = Ceathar, and so therefore isn't always equal to 4.

For sure, that's the whole basis of the mad theory released into the wild - change definitions of facts to fit the political, ideological imperative hence magically a male is a female, a female is a male, we're all clownfish blah blah

So come on AH, even though this batsh1t, controlling insanity has escaped unis into some parts of the real world with real consequences and is a present danger, some of it is so mentally deluded it's worth recording for the lol's at least.

Quantum Erasure · 09-09-2020 8:38pm

No no no, it's the Nazis that'll be black....

TheFactMan · 09-09-2020 8:42pm

Well that got dark quick..

kowloon · 09-09-2020 8:43pm

BattleCorp wrote: »

People will make movies and ignore these requirments and some of the best films may not be eligible for the Oscars. That will have the effect of devaluing the Oscars making it more the race awards than the movie awards.

It was already the who knows who in the business awards anyway. The dresses are as important as the films, a load of ****e. I'll continue to ignore them when choosing something to watch.

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

No no no, it's the Nazis that'll be black....

The correct term is 'Fascists of Colour' you racist!

Quantum Erasure · 09-09-2020 8:44pm

TheFactMan wrote: »

Well that got dark quick..

Diversity in action

the purple tin · 09-09-2020 8:58pm

Hollywood has gone to crap this last decade or so, now it looks like it going to get even worse.

Screw em. TV is where it's at. While US films have been getting worse and worse, on demand TV has been getting better and better.

Too Tough To Die · 09-09-2020 11:20pm

Ugh.

https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1303657990873067521

Dr. Bre · 09-09-2020 11:23pm

Supposedly borat 2 film being made . Wonder how woke it will be

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 09-09-2020 11:34pm

Too Tough To Die wrote: »

Ugh.

https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1303657990873067521

I had a friend who has gone off the woke deep end say something similar lately. She said “I don’t agree with gender reveal parties because that might not be how the child identifies”.

My response was “But even if the baby identities differently, what does it matter? They’re not aware of the party at the time it’s happening. They’re not going to get offended about something they had no awareness of.” That stumped her.

I was pretty blunt but the conversation happened at the end of a very long hospital visit she had accompanied me on and I was in no humour for listening to hand-wringing about such a non-issue.

Errashareesh · 09-09-2020 11:51pm

I thought Trevor Noah was sensible.

"The damage it can do"...

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 10-09-2020 12:01am

Errashareesh wrote: »

I thought Trevor Noah was sensible.

"The damage it can do"...

I rarely listen to him because his way of enunciating annoys me.

Errashareesh · 10-09-2020 12:02am

The South African accent isn't the easiest on the ear.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 10-09-2020 12:10am

Errashareesh wrote: »

The South African accent isn't the easiest on the ear.

Yeah, like, sorry to any South Africans who may be reading but the accent is a brainfuck. I hate it. It doesn’t know what it wants to be. English? Dutch? Australian?

Quantum Erasure · 10-09-2020 12:12am

Afrikaans? More like Afri can't

Errashareesh · 10-09-2020 12:16am

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

Yeah, like, sorry to any South Africans who may be reading but the accent is a brainfuck. I hate it. It doesn’t know what it wants to be. English? Dutch? Australian?

Think it's a hybrid of English, Dutch and that of the indigenous people.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 10-09-2020 12:24am

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

Afrikaans? More like Afri can't

I am HERE for this Dad-tastic joke.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 10-09-2020 12:24am

Errashareesh wrote: »

Think it's a hybrid of English, Dutch and that of the indigenous people.

That’s why it sounds so confused.

gozunda · 10-09-2020 1:08am

As seen frequently on social media...

#My outrage trumps reality - you sexist / bigot / racist / hater (or wtte) ...

the purple tin · 10-09-2020 1:07pm

Errashareesh wrote: »

Think it's a hybrid of English, Dutch and that of the indigenous people.

There is a certain Aussie accent that sounds exactly like the SA accent as well.

Errashareesh · 10-09-2020 1:27pm

the purple tin wrote: »

There is a certain Aussie accent that sounds exactly like the SA accent as well.

Even moreso NZ imo.

Hangdogroad · 10-09-2020 1:31pm

Dr. Bre wrote: »

Supposedly borat 2 film being made . Wonder how woke it will be

It will require actor of chocolate face like Edward Murphy.

SlowMotion321 · 10-09-2020 4:01pm

Errashareesh wrote: »

Even moreso NZ imo.

Your a little hard to read, but why is Ennio Moriconi cancelled?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxvD3CpB3l4

Errashareesh · 10-09-2020 7:10pm

You've lost me but I love that you've linked to one of my favourite toons!

Hego Damask · 10-09-2020 10:20pm

Padre_Pio wrote: »

Here the criteria.
You need to two to get nominated:

1. On-screen acting and storylines, "including at least one of the lead actors or significant supporting actors is from an underrepresented racial or ethnic group"
2. Creative leadership positions, departmental heads and crew composition
3. Paid apprenticeships, internships and training
4. Audience development, from publicity and marketing to distribution

My issue is these are so vague as to be meaningless. Underrepresented racial or ethnic group? Considering most Hollywood actors are American, then would an Irishman tick the box here?
So then it's a pointless exercise and Twitter will use it as a stick to beat the Academy with.

Oh now you need at least two black actors, and Naomi Harris black, not Beyonce black.

I won't be happy until we have representation from the trans gay disabled Australian aborigine community. :rolleyes:

This is essentially the problem , I remember saying this sarcastically to someone about the gender "pay gap" that you can't keep it as simple as M/F if you use ID politics, eventually lots more identities will be added ..
The left are allready eating each other over this, introducing black females to the pay graph too...

Crazy, will companies eventually have to have something like .....

2.5% Straight white males
2.5% Straight white females
2.5% Straight black males
2.5% Straight black females
2.5% Gay white males
2.5% Gay white females
2.5% Gay black males ...

..
.
.
.
.
.
2.5% Trans muslim disabled women of colour ....

Laugh but it looks like we are heading that way.

AllForIt · 11-09-2020 8:21am

It amazes if not shocks me the number of ppl who think the new Oscars rules are no big deal.

It doesn't matter what way you look at it the implication is that (to make an extreme case to show an obvious point) that the worst movie of the year could get the best movie award and the actual best movie not even a mention.

EmmetSpiceland · 11-09-2020 8:25am

AllForIt wrote: »

It amazes if not shocks me the number of ppl who think the new Oscars rules are no big deal.

It doesn't matter what way you look at it the implication is that (to make an extreme case to show an obvious point) that the worst movie of the year could get the best movie award and the actual best movie not even a mention.

That wouldn’t be something new.

Rodney Bathgate · 11-09-2020 7:25pm

I was looking at the profile of a user on a popular platform there recently, the person has ‘He/Him/His’.

Just in case there was any confusion.

AllForIt · 11-09-2020 7:32pm

Rodney Bathgate wrote: »

I was looking at the profile of a user on a popular platform there recently, the person has ‘He/Him/His’.

Just in case there was any confusion.

Oh there's plenty of confusion.

.anon. · 11-09-2020 7:38pm

Rodney Bathgate wrote: »

I was looking at the profile of a user on a popular platform there recently, the person has ‘He/Him/His’.

Just in case there was any confusion.

>99% of the time there isn't. Trans people receive a disproportionate amount of solidarity from some (which is all the 'he/him' thing is) because they receive a disproportionate amount of hatred from others.

ExMachina1000 · 11-09-2020 10:02pm

On the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in the United states, Rte posted a news story titled " 39 million refugees since the start of the Us war on terror"

They could have posted that story any other time of the year but decided to go with today.

.anon. · 11-09-2020 10:35pm

ExMachina1000 wrote: »

On the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in the United states, Rte posted a news story titled " 39 million refugees since the start of the Us war on terror"

They could have posted that story any other time of the year but decided to go with today.

The anniversary of the start of their 'war on terror'? Seems as appropriate as any other day.

11-09-2020 10:40pm

.anon. wrote: »

The anniversary of the start of their 'war on terror'? Seems as appropriate as any other day.

Indeed, far more impactful today. Might get people to actually stop and think.

Strumms · 11-09-2020 10:46pm

Hego Damask wrote: »

I won't be happy until we have representation from the trans gay disabled Australian aborigine community. :rolleyes:

This is essentially the problem , I remember saying this sarcastically to someone about the gender "pay gap" that you can't keep it as simple as M/F if you use ID politics, eventually lots more identities will be added ..
The left are allready eating each other over this, introducing black females to the pay graph too...

Crazy, will companies eventually have to have something like .....

2.5% Straight white males
2.5% Straight white females
2.5% Straight black males
2.5% Straight black females
2.5% Gay white males
2.5% Gay white females
2.5% Gay black males ...

..
.
.
.
.
.
2.5% Trans muslim disabled women of colour ....

Laugh but it looks like we are heading that way.

Could happen, there are people who want it to happen. If I'm running a business my thoughts and intention as I’ve said before to hire the best and most suitable candidate for the job for the benefit of the business, the existing staff and the customers, especially the customers.

I couldn’t give two flying rich tea biscuits if your accent is from Navan or Nairobi, Bayside or Beirut, I’m hiring a reliable performer, reliable personality with good solid verifiable references. I don’t care what you look like, sound like, what color your passport or face is, good enough, you’ll get hired, good enough but others better, it’s “ thanks for applying but sorry, can we contact you if a position becomes vacant in future?”

You owe every candidate and customers as well as every existing member of staff to hire the best candidate. Decided by what they say, prove, references etc... NOT the color of a passport.

ExMachina1000 · 11-09-2020 11:07pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Indeed, far more impactful today. Might get people to actually stop and think.

That's the American government you are thinking of

Hangdogroad · 11-09-2020 11:40pm

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

Hardly Eoghan McDermott?

Actually, it probably was

Remembered who it was now. Sam Boland was the guys name.

Poor Uncle Tom · 11-09-2020 11:40pm

Politicians are liars by nature,

is it that younger people can't see that?

Is that why they get so angry? We took it for granted years ago, so I think a class on lying as a profession = politics might be an option.

Errashareesh · 12-09-2020 12:41am

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Remembered who it was now. Sam Boland was the guys name.

Knew him a tiny bit years ago as I worked in the same place as him. Seemed sound back then but I would probably have been impressed by that critical theory stuff back then too (although not to the extent of deeming Friends to deserve all those labels).

Saw him comment to a Waterford Whispers item one time that it was demonising the working class. How about extremely middle class people let working class people speak for themselves - they don't need a saviour.

auspicious · 12-09-2020 12:48am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR6UeVptzRg

Hego Damask · 12-09-2020 2:23pm

AllForIt wrote: »

It amazes if not shocks me the number of ppl who think the new Oscars rules are no big deal.

It doesn't matter what way you look at it the implication is that (to make an extreme case to show an obvious point) that the worst movie of the year could get the best movie award and the actual best movie not even a mention.

I never even bother checking Oscar awards anyway, 2 of the greatest films ever made - The Prestige and Interstellar didn't get any mention.

Slammed by "critics" too .... actually is a good sign at this stage, look at Joker and the difference between audience scores and critics.

It's the metric I use nowadays.

Hangdogroad · 13-09-2020 2:03pm

Errashareesh wrote: »

Knew him a tiny bit years ago as I worked in the same place as him. Seemed sound back then but I would probably have been impressed by that critical theory stuff back then too (although not to the extent of deeming Friends to deserve all those labels).

Saw him comment to a Waterford Whispers item one time that it was demonising the working class. How about extremely middle class people let working class people speak for themselves - they don't need a saviour.

Ironic as WW can be very "woke".

Errashareesh · 13-09-2020 3:02pm

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Ironic as WW can be very "woke".

Not the worst imo. Newsthump though. Unfollowed them when they put up a thing about a man complaining about the child sex abuse rings in England (in the immediate aftermath of yet another one being revealed) but not complaining about catholic priests who have abused.

Imagine taking that away rather than the actual abuse. And sleeping soundly at night. Truly disgusting.

biko · 13-09-2020 6:45pm

blinding · 13-09-2020 7:06pm

auspicious wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR6UeVptzRg

Remember that Tom Hanks and Jimmy Kimmel though this (below) was funny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPLWKBWkn3s&list=PLGvun80L0Vpwq52F2Yp_SpqQlRVSdT5zA&index=21

Is this some sort of Paedo Privilege ? ?

14-09-2020 1:47pm

https://twitter.com/punditarena/status/1304874784203960320

14-09-2020 2:03pm

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

https://twitter.com/punditarena/status/1304874784203960320

Hahahaha. Amazing.

They really are eating themselves.

Hector Savage · 14-09-2020 5:03pm

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-54138247

Is this being renamed after noble poet George Floyd ?

Hangdogroad · 14-09-2020 9:08pm

Hector Savage wrote: »

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-54138247

Is this being renamed after noble poet George Floyd ?

Man who lived in the 18th century had racist views? Say it ain't so.

Rodney Bathgate · 14-09-2020 9:10pm

Name the building after a drug addicted armed home invader. (Victim being a pregnant woman.)

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