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Wokeism of the day *Revised Mod Note in OP and threadbanned users*
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MisterAnarchy wrote: »Strangely enough it seems The Muskehounds is getting a reboot this year.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1058560844562857
I just saw the trailer in Spanish. They have ruined the song.
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[Deleted User] wrote: »Just a quick reminder to you all of what real racial discrimination looks like.
Nearly everything else that has been discussed here, is in reality insignificant.
And today, under the guise of reversing that discrimination, we have new shiny virtual coloured entrances in schools, universities and companies.0 -
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Deleted User wrote: »Just a quick reminder to you all of what real racial discrimination looks like.
Nearly everything else that has been discussed here, is in reality insignificant.
so we all go in the same door now and there's no discrimination0 -
Deleted User wrote: »Just a quick reminder to you all of what real racial discrimination looks like.
Nearly everything else that has been discussed here, is in reality insignificant.
What's happening at the moment may seem insignificant, but brought to it's logical conclusion, it will end up the same as the above (or possibly worse) just in reverse.
Identity politics is the shiny new face of racism.0 -
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True enough. You rarely saw a Middle Eastern actor or even someone who looks Middle Eastern in such roles, though that has changed somewhat in latter years. In the fifties they were either White Americans or White English people with plummy accents. Same for Romans and that hasn't changed much. They're rarely portrayed by Italians and Latins. The cast of the Sopranos would be a far better bet in a Roman setting. Cleopatra is one that tends to divide. Black Americans and others seem to think she was Black or at least Brown, but she was the last of the Ptolemy dynasty, a Greek(with some Syrian in her line). Not some blonde Swede I grant you, but Liz Taylor in the role wasn't so much a stretch.
Except if I remember correctly she wasn't even all that beautiful, but had incredible charisma (Cleo, not Liz). I can't remember where I read that, though.There can be the hint of some daft "revenge" swinging of the pendulum the other way and too far. "Feminist" casting does similar. The things is; two wrongs don't make a right and two idiocies don't make a wisdom.
Such double-wrongs and idiocies are central tenets of woke-ism, surely.*John Wayne being Ghengis Khan? oh jayyysus.
Comedy gold, though. On the other hand, you had Alec Guinness and Anthony Quinn playing arabs in Lawrence of Arabia, and both did a great job (IMO) although such casting choices would be slammed these days. You can watch Prince Faisal without being reminded of Obi Wan or Major Nicholson.
To go off on a tangent, the Islam portrayed in LoA seems to be a much more gentle and understanding flavour than we tend to hear about today:
"Recite [The Koran] only as much as shall be easy to you..."
"They will be lucky for you! Allah favours the compassionate."
(Even more tangentially, the best quote in the movie goes to Faisal:
"With major Lawrence, mercy is a passion, for me it is simply good manners. I leave it to you to decide which motive is the more reliable.")0 -
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That might be a bit rich, coming from him, surely?
First they came for....... , they finally got to Pete
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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Little misunderstanding here, those 2 things are the black racists and the white racists.Deleted User wrote: »Ahh well, I see them as being the same thing. Black supremacists are racists. Just as white supremacists are racists.
Of course we're talking about the US of A, the best source of woke BSDeleted User wrote: »It's pretty accurate that they do need help from the Whites to be successful, considering the range of Black communities that are run down and essentially failures. If Black people were able to do it on their own, without support from others, then they would have done so before now, and it would have happened in far more locations (I assume we're talking about the US here?).
Any person of any race coming from a disadvantaged community needs the same amount of help. But sure, there are some problems that mostly affect the black communities, like absent fathers and gangs, but making these issues better seems to be a second priority now, that is, assuming they are still acknowledged.Deleted User wrote: »Although, I have to question this covert racism by whites... Most of what I've seen related to this has come from Black organisations/speakers saying that they don't need help from the "White man", but demanding more funding/resources from the State. Ignoring that the state is still predominately composed of white people, and the resources available are coming from areas which White people provide.
I wouldn't consider that to be racism.
Well, blacks looking after their own communities are not really racist (whites are when they do the same), but I was talking about this whole diversity is our strength BS which is mostly pushed by white people.0 -
Little misunderstanding here, those 2 things are the black racists and the white racists.
Misunderstanding? Yup. I'm still confused as to what you want to suggest, and how it relates to what I wrote.Of course we're talking about the US of A, the best source of woke BS
Any person of any race coming from a disadvantaged community needs the same amount of help. But sure, there are some problems that mostly affect the black communities, like absent fathers and gangs, but making these issues better seems to be a second priority now, that is, assuming they are still acknowledged.
Which is not, actually, true. Those same problems affect 'redneck' white poor areas throughout the US, with absent fathers, domestic abuse, gangs, and drug use being commonplace. Apart from the absent fathers (although it still happens) you can find the same problems in Hispanic communities in the US.
In any case, I don't actually see how that relates to your previously quoted piece, and my own response.
These problems are known, and acknowledged. Personally, I feel the big problem is how it's externalised. There is rarely any acknowledgment for Black people to resolve the problems within their own culture, instead passing responsibility for it existing, on to external influences. You see similar with other racial groups, although generally, there's less sympathy given.Well, blacks looking after their own communities are not really racist (whites are when they do the same), but I was talking about this whole diversity is our strength BS which is mostly pushed by white people.
Sure, I get that. Diversity isn't a strength, because they've never managed to create a stable foundation to support it. It's always about various agendas, leading to division, not unity. Elevating one group over another with too many strings attached showing virtue or some other nonsense.0 -
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