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

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    #5102
    [Deleted User]
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    Biafranlivemat wrote: »
    My grandfather had a very low opinion of his local parish priest back in the 40's.It didn't affect his business.
    Non of the villagers boycotted him and, yes everybody including the priest knew what those opinions were.

    There were boycotts of Protestant shops in Wexford at the request of the local priest, who wanted the shop keepers - a mixed marriage couple - to bring up their child as Catholic.

    On the whole though the self employed were and are freer to speak their mind than other groups. A teacher who voiced unfavourable opinions the priest or bishop would be reprimanded and possibly lose a job.


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    #5103
    Biafranlivemat
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 386 ✭✭Biafranlivemat


    Corben Dallas wrote: »
    Come on u cant really suggest this would be the case.... more like...If they had condemned him in their native Dallas, they would have been blown over up in a day or two.


    People at the time, went nuts, because they had condemned Bush outside the country and not at home.


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    #5104
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    I got called a facist in Insomnia, Naas the other day.

    Myself and gf had run dwn from Monread. My gold plated cross chain had popped out of my vest and was displaying.
    That cross means everything to me.

    *Mod Snip - no need for that*

    I really felt like breaking his jaw into smithereens but I didn't because I've learned how to control my emotions in the past months.


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    #5105
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    It was an argument over right of way in a queue.
    Christ I had too hold myself. I would taken a Sec 3 assault charge for the cnut in my younger days.


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    #5106
    Mellor
    Registered Users Posts: 39,098 ✭✭✭✭Mellor


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    It took every fibre in my being to halt from chinning him.

    Ugh, even thinking of the weedy little steamer gets me mad.

    Should have clocked the cnut.
    A little confusion over who's next in a queue is hardly worth getting worked up about. No really selling the idea you were in the right.


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    #5107
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users Posts: 8,241 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    Flat whites matter


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    #5108
    km991148
    Registered Users Posts: 4,275 ✭✭✭km991148


    Ash.J.Williams wrote: »
    Smashing his jaw would be perfectly acceptable

    'Course it would..


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    #5109
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    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    I got called a facist in Insomnia, Naas the other day.

    Myself and gf had run dwn from Monread. My gold plated cross chain had popped out of my vest and was displaying.
    That cross means everything to me.
    *Mod Snip - no need for that*

    I really felt like breaking his jaw into smithereens but I didn't because I've learned how to control my emotions in the past months.

    Why fascist? The cross?


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    #5110
    km991148
    Registered Users Posts: 4,275 ✭✭✭km991148


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Why fascist? The cross?

    Sounds like it's fuk all to do with the cross and more to do with feeling entitled enough to go around threatening to batter the sh!t out of people over a queue argument.

    Hard to tell what happened really except the OP is angry.


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    #5111
    Biker79
    Closed Accounts Posts: 794 ✭✭✭Biker79


    Reminds me of a cafe across the road from work

    One day last October, I strolled over to grab a latte. Had to order at the door due to restrictions in place. They were also accepting online orders for collection. The barista comes up to me and says latte? I said yes please, and she immediately launches into a rant most of which I couldn't decipher.

    However, the gist of her tirade was about Trump. F**kin hell I thought, how has this chick seen by boards.ie posts. I stood there listening to her giving out, trying to work out how she knew about my growing appreciation for The Donald, when it became apparent she mistook me for another guy in the queue. He had ordered a latte for collection online and entered his name as ' Donald Trump ', clearly hoping she would shout across the café floor ' Latte for Donald Trump " - giving everyone in the queue a bit of a laugh. Taking the edge off the grim reality of boarded up shops up and down the street. Fair dues.

    She was as woke as hell...short hair, recently dyed, sleeve tattoos, accent suggesting a recent Orts Degree from Trinners. He obviously thought he'd have a bit of craic with her. She got quite upset. And the weird thing was her manager, the cafe owner, another Woke person, nodded approvingly at her public indignation. Hang on I thought, aren't you supposed to treat paying customers a certain way? Apparently not. When the matter pertains to the tenets of Woke, good business sense takes a back seat.

    Anyway, your man took his latte and headed up the road. The barista was quite emotional but apologized. No worries I said to her, could happen to anyone, kind of glad she hadn't seen my boards posts.

    I still go over for a latte a few times a week but haven't seen 'Trump' since. In fairness, she's been very pleasant to me since.

    Gotta be careful with baristas - its the job of choice for young wokies.


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    #5112
    Necro
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 51,134 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    Mod:

    DEFTLEFTHAND don't post in this thread again


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    #5113
    Cordell
    Registered Users Posts: 5,837 ✭✭✭Cordell


    Biafranlivemat wrote: »
    The two graphs will explain everything.

    No no no we don't talk about these, really, they don't exist.


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    #5114
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    Biker79 wrote: »
    Reminds me of a cafe across the road from work



    ....


    Hang on I thought, aren't you supposed to treat paying customers a certain way? Apparently not. When the matter pertains to the tenets of Woke, good business sense takes a back seat.


    Someone who clearly believes that her opinions are more important than business etiquette when it comes to paying customers, but then again, many of the customers are quite likely woke as well. So there will not be any descenting voices.

    They seem to have lost one customer, but kept the remainder including yourself.

    That leaves the question, should people avoid going to businesses that offend them in this way?


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    #5115
    Sir Oxman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Someone who clearly believes that her opinions are more important than business etiquette when it comes to paying customers, but then again, many of the customers are quite likely woke as well. So there will not be any descenting voices.

    They seem to have lost one customer, but kept the remainder including yourself.

    That leaves the question, should people avoid going to businesses that offend them in this way?

    I certainly wouldn't be going back.
    But crucially -and here's the massive difference between moralising wokesters and ordinary people - I wouldn't be going online or otherwise and trying to get the kip shutdown.


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    #5116
    Biker79
    Closed Accounts Posts: 794 ✭✭✭Biker79


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Someone who clearly believes that her opinions are more important than business etiquette when it comes to paying customers, but then again, many of the customers are quite likely woke as well. So there will not be any descenting voices.

    They seem to have lost one customer, but kept the remainder including yourself.

    That leaves the question, should people avoid going to businesses that offend them in this way?

    Once the coffee is good and they keep their views to themselves, it doesn't really matter.

    The loss of that one customer may have resulted in the loss of several from his Office.

    Not worth the risk, IMO.
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    #5117
    Sir Oxman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    It is the year 2021.
    Let that sink in.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-56204865

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    #5118
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    Sir Oxman wrote: »
    It is the year 2021.
    Let that sink in.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-56204865

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    Without sounding too pedantic that should be "mothers to be", they're not mothers yet!


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    #5119
    AllForIt
    Registered Users Posts: 8,302 ✭✭✭AllForIt


    Sir Oxman wrote: »
    It is the year 2021.
    Let that sink in.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-56204865

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    Brexit! It seems to me it is the Brits that stand alone in the world of common sense.

    It seems to me they have given up an economic benefit from being an EU member to shield themselves from both US and EU post-modernist ideology.


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    #5120
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    AllForIt wrote: »
    Brexit! It seems to me it is the Brits that stand alone in the world of common sense.

    It seems to me they have given up an economic benefit from being an EU member to shield themselves from both US and EU post-modernist ideology.

    Rubbish. They've allowed heaps of woke nonsense to become established in their schools and universities, and the government itself has dipped it's fingers into that pit too.

    They've made a few gestures against some aspects of wokeness.. but it's far too early to tell if they're actually aiming to embrace common sense.


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    #5121
    AllForIt
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Rubbish. They've allowed heaps of woke nonsense to become established in their schools and universities, and the government itself has dipped it's fingers into that pit too.

    They've made a few gestures against some aspects of wokeness.. but it's far too early to tell if they're actually aiming to embrace common sense.



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    #5122
    Zebra3
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    Sir Oxman wrote: »
    It is the year 2021.
    Let that sink in.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-56204865

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    So abortion is murder now, right? :confused:


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    #5123
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    AllForIt wrote: »
    Vid

    It's still to early to see whether they've embraced common sense. Woke sentiments were wholeheartedly embraced for years in the UK at all levels.

    I'll wait and see. Boris and the rest of the British politicians aren't terribly reliable in what they say and do.


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    #5124
    AllForIt
    Registered Users Posts: 8,302 ✭✭✭AllForIt


    Deleted User wrote: »
    It's still to early to see whether they've embraced common sense. Woke sentiments were wholeheartedly embraced for years in the UK at all levels.

    I'll wait and see. Boris and the rest of the British politicians aren't terribly reliable in what they say and do.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohXxmD78ZCo

    edit: Tory party against cancel culture.


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    #5125
    AllForIt
    Registered Users Posts: 8,302 ✭✭✭AllForIt


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwH45WlpDoo


    edit: evidence of anti-wokism in the Tory party. HoC contribution by female black Tory rubbishing BLM movement.


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    #5126
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    Speak. Discuss. I'm not going to click on youtube links. If I wanted that, I'd just stay on youtube and read the comments.


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    #5127
    AllForIt
    Registered Users Posts: 8,302 ✭✭✭AllForIt


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Speak. Discuss. I'm not going to click on youtube links. If I wanted that, I'd just stay on youtube and read the comments.

    Fair enough. I've edited my posts to give some explanation to the links.


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    #5128
    randd1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,834 ✭✭✭randd1


    Biafranlivemat wrote: »
    Black Conservatives are called "Oreos" by Democrats, because they Black on the outside and White in the center.

    Obama, Oprah Winfrey and Tiger Woods were called the same.

    It seems either side in the US likes to throw out the Oreo insult to anyone who’s black and becomes rich/powerful.


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    #5129
    silverharp
    Registered Users Posts: 17,848 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    To keep the wokes happy advanced classes are being dropped so everyone gets a bad education.

    https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1365905488207089672

    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



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    #5130
    km991148
    Registered Users Posts: 4,275 ✭✭✭km991148


    silverharp wrote: »
    To keep the wokes happy advanced classes are being dropped so everyone gets a bad education.

    https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1365905488207089672

    It's strange how two people can read the sane article and come to draw different conclusions.

    I don't get the feeling this is some woke agenda being shoehorned into school policy.


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    #5131
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    km991148 wrote: »
    It's strange how two people can read the sane article and come to draw different conclusions.

    I don't get the feeling this is some woke agenda being shoehorned into school policy.

    Whereas I saw the same as the OP:

    "The program was open to all students in the Boston Public Schools who took a test known as Terra Nova in the third grade and received a high score. Those students were placed in a lottery conducted by the central administration office, and lottery winners received letters inviting them to apply to the program. Last fall, 453 students received invitations, 143 students applied and 116 enrolled this year, officials said."

    That Black or Hispanic students received a low score is likely due to factors other than racism.. at least the article doesn't manage to establish any kind of discrimination, simply going by the statistics of those admitted.


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