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- mg330
My mom just got to town, she's 72, and she asked me what woke meant. At this point the absurdity of it is so insane I don't even know where to start.
- imbecile0
i think drgs' boyfriend broke up with him.
- you don't mind being homophobic for a guy who is all about 'fighting back against their oppressors'. lolzhotroddy
- what was homophobic? project much? there is no slander. i can't think that drgs might have broken up with his boyfriend? seems controlling of you.imbecile
- what am I projecting exactly? Are you shaming me for being secretly gay?hotroddy
- Me and hotroddy have an open relationshipdrgs
- well since you said it here, its not secret anymore. you're just gay now.pango
- *puts hand on pango's thighdrgs
- hr, homophobia. how are you such a troll with no comprehension skills? i may have just answered my own question. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯imbecile
- hey drgs. buy me a drink first!pango
- ah, your passive aggressive remarks about drgs sexual orientation makes me a homophobic.hotroddy
- I love your consistent use of the 'projection'. It's like a pseudo intellectual way of saying, "I know you are but what am I?"hotroddy
- *of the wordhotroddy
- Lol you're so worked up.pango
- These comments made me raise my eyebrows.
And my penis.Akagiyama - the length bigots go, the hoops they leap through, just to try to make good people seem as morally corrupt as them is hilariousmonospaced
- @mono - isn't this place getting worse by the hour?canoe
- yuekit1
These comments just show how "woke" has become totally meaningless. Because the origin of the term was very much referring to anti-black racism during the BLM protests, now you guys seem to think it means people pretending to be gay or something.
@drgs Unfortunately conservatives at least in the USA aren't nearly as reasonable as you seem to think...here's a typical conservative discussion on wokeness.
The comment calling for a mass shooting was deleted but you can see the general level of the discussion. Whatever the word originally meant it's devolved into hysteria about the gays and drag queens coming to get them.
- What you're doing there Yuekit is hypocrisy and its a symptom at the heart of all of this discussion. Attempting to broaden the meaning and demonise the word..Morning_star
- ...'conservative' as something inherently bad is exactly the same as the baggage that now comes with 'woke'. It's semantic bullshit.Morning_star
- A decade ago the phrase 'his politics are right wing' would be nothing to get anyones knickers in a twist, now it means something close to a Nazi. 'Woke' is...Morning_star
- ..similar in that it's been weaponised. In order to think and speak and communicate effectively language needs consensus.Morning_star
- The mutation of the meaning of woke has been a common effort. You can't just pin it on conservatives.palimpsest
- get my kid out of this school.ApeRobot
- And yet, conservatives are the ones who are having a hissy fit over it and broadening it this way.monospaced
- @mono, Is it only 'conservatives' who have concerns?Morning_star
- oh no u can´t blame it on convervatives ... it was only there number 1 topic at the last Conservative Political Action Conference ... from nikki halley to donneverscared
- jr up to de santis... they have nuffin to do with it clearly...neverscared
- ^this.
also, calling a joke Twitter account a "typical discussion" of anything is laughable. Citing anything on Twitter as other than histrionic is suss.MrAbominable - the old fashioned repblicans lose that culture war they same way as with THC....only they need 50 years to come around ... same old same old...neverscared
- Morning_star I didn’t say all conservatives, I said this is what the discussion is often like in the USA.yuekit
- In Europe, Asia etc there are sane conservative parties. American conservatives have gone off the deep end in recent years, I don’t see what the point is ofyuekit
- pretending otherwise. Remember these are the people who want to re-elect Trump after everything that’s happened.yuekit
- So it was conservatives that first co-opted woke.
The More You Know ★palimpsest - austria is a convervative far right wing hotsopt...even here they are trying to get into the whole woke idiocy... but it doesn´t stick really.. probably toneverscared
- o foreign of a term for their follower base who have a strong disgust for everything exotic anyhow.. conversvatives always so slow and anti-open minded.neverscared
- Ok but you used the term 'conservative' as a category description for all of the poisonous bullshit you won't tolerate. That's my issue. As you point out...Morning_star
- Hi, Your kid is now Trans! We figured "ze / Xem" loves to where woman clothing and is totally into barbies.milfhunter
- so boring that they can´t find anything else to go against... so they exploit a culture war it too idiocy levels ... and bring woke up all the time its so weakneverscared
- ...'woke' has been hijacked but you're doing the same thing to 'conservative'Morning_star
- not really. its called Conservative Political Action Conference ... what else should u call it.. .its written on all their foreheads when they enter that realm.neverscared
- No I’m really not...I don’t think you can compare the Tories, whatever their issues, with the Republicans for instance.yuekit
- I guess Liz Truss was pretty terrible but at least she was willing to resign after fucking things up so badly.yuekit
- Alright Morning, I'll bite. You do know that "woke" is a term used for almost a century to describe being aware of societal injustices, right?garbage
- It's from the 40s. The right is currently trying to mutate the meaning to a new pejorative to use when they have no real argument.garbage
- So yeah, conservative does imply racists that can fuck off. Game works both ways, the right just cries a bit more about it.garbage
- And there are actual neo-nazis in America, and you're full of shit if you say that there aren't.garbage
- And transfolk have existed.. forever. The only reason they right is making it a wedge issue is because, drum roll..garbage
- Conservatives claim to believe in personal freedom. Christian conservatives on the other hand are inherently evil to the core.imbecile
- ..they don't want to talk about health care, they don't want to talk about minimum wage, they don't want to talk about the war spending..garbage
- ..they don't want to talk about corporate lobbying, they don't want to talk about bought out lawmakers..garbage
- You might find a good one occasionally, but like cops, they know who they associate with. Therefore, all terrible by affiliation.imbecile
- ..sure as fuck don't want to talk about Trump and possible espionage and stolen documents, and they don't want to talk about how they just stacked SCOTUS.garbage
- They don't want to talk about the shootings that happen every day, nor the people paid to cover it up. They don't want to talk about accountability.garbage
- They want to talk about a rainbow painting on a kindergarten wall. So yeah, "conservative" is deservedly an insult at this point.garbage
- @Garbage, I appreciate your response. My mistake here is assuming my/european perspective on 'conservatism' was transferable to the US. It isn't.Morning_star
- I agree that to fear the Rainbow instead of Guns, Social Inequalities etc is stupid.Morning_star
- btw libs of tiktok is a rage bait account by the conservatives. literally.
y'all getting baitedpango - I don't think it's wrong to say they're obsessed with this stuff though. There been a boycott campaign against Target and other big retail stores to force themyuekit
- to stop celebrating gay pride month. It's weird because it seemed like society had reached a point of greater acceptance but now it's going backwards.yuekit
- And people who lose their shit over a picture like this never seem to bother asking whether it's representative of anything. Notice how there's no kids in theyuekit
- picture anyway, it just shows some adults celebrating gay pride month. I haven't seen any evidence that drag queens are going into schools across the country oryuekit
- whatever they're imagining. So people have created this hysteria targeting a marginalized minority group based on conspiracies, does that sound familiar?yuekit
- FFS you've all got the same opinion just the words change.robthelad
- those complaining the most are the ones asking to ban books, ban science, and incorporate religion into schools. That's what private schools are for ffs alreadywhatthefunk
- Get ur kids out of public school and put them into your lil echo chamber prisons of choice, why force public schools to bend to your whim, go private traitorswhatthefunk
- lost me at "you guys"canoe
- Taste the Rainbow.shapesalad
- protect your kids.. dont let them watch this https://www.vox.com/… republican douchesneverscared
- I think we need arm trans kids. Or have trans kids fight for the right of gun right.pango
- Hundreds of people showed up for a protest against declaring gay pride month that turned violent...you can't make up this level of stupidity.yuekit
- https://abc7.com/gle…yuekit
- drgs-1
^Wokeness is fundamentally conservative.
"Left is the new right" etc"What we have is a bizarre situation where the woke insist on rigidity in everything to do with race yet demand fluidity in everything to do with sex and gender. They see race as fixed and gender as changeable. This represents the worst of both worlds. Why? Because it discourages something that is actually very positive – cultural and social interaction between different races of people – and it encourages something which really doesn’t make much sense or hold much scientific water: the idea that you can change sex simply by declaring it. It frowns upon racial sharing and cheers sexual delusion.
The end result of both of these woke approaches is to promote a peculiarly conservative view of the world. ‘Whites and blacks shouldn’t mix too much, and if a boy acts in a feminine way then he is probably really a woman.’ In short, racial groups should know their place, and feminine traits in boys must be corrected with drugs that allow those boys to realise their true selves as women. Somehow, the youthful, supposedly progressive PC movement has ended up promoting a deadeningly old-fashioned view of both racial issues and gender roles. There is nothing more socially stifling and innately hostile to the idea of human mixing and human diversity right now than the PC outlook."
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- neverscared2
Trump Calls Military ‘Woke’ Hours After Saying Term Is Meaningless
The former president had previously admitted that Republicans have no idea what “woke” actually meansDONALD TRUMP SAT down in Iowa with Sean Hannity for a pre-recorded town hall event that aired Thursday night on Fox News. The former president cycled through his usual list of grievances and outlandish claims. He also alleged that the U.S. military wanted to “go woke,” despite admitting earlier on Thursday that he didn’t like the term and that Republicans have no idea what “woke” actually means.
“You know, our military is great. A lot of things going on with our military with the woke and all this nonsense,” Trump told Hannity on Thursday. “They’re not learning to fight and protect us from some very bad people. They want to go woke. They want to go woke. That’s all they talk about now. I see letters that are being sent. It’s horrible.”
- convervative far right wing clusterfuck... all of themneverscared
- shapesalad-8
Every year designers now have a schedule of woke designs they have to meddle with.
There's thinking of some way of incorporating a rainbow into corporate clients' boring branding. Every visual iteration that can possibly be done has been done over the previous years. I'm all out of ideas.
Then there's black history month, which was ok the first time, but we've run out of ties to black history that the boring corp has, all we could think of is rehashing last year's campaign and changing the font.
It was bad enough with just Christmas-themed designs, but now it's a whole calendar rammed full of movements these corporate brands have to somehow jam into their sterile corporate branding.
It's time for Designers Month... a month off from corporate design and woke motifs, can we just have a month to use nice typography, no stock photography, and some subtle non-corporate blue colours with no regards to accessibility and contrast levels.
- wow, you really have no conceptmonospaced
- <- Someone needs a better job... or line of workmaikel
- neverscared3
well at least the bleach drinki guy knows whats up
- _niko0
*Awake
- imbecile4
There's a place known as Bruce's Beach that was once a thriving African American beach resort during the early 20th century.
Willam and Charles Bruce, African American landowners, bought the property in 1912 and developed it into a successful beach resort that welcomed people of color, who were otherwise restricted to limited areas due to segregation. Bruce's Beach was a rare spot where black families could enjoy the sand and surf during a time when beaches were racially segregated.
However, in the 1920s, white residents and city officials pushed back against this establishment, often with hostility and racism. This led to a series of eminent domain proceedings that eventually stripped the Bruces and other black families of their properties, under the pretext of building a public park. The park, however, remained undeveloped for decades.
In recent years, there has been a movement towards making amends for this historical injustice. In April 2021, the State of California passed a law that would allow the property to be returned to the descendants of the Bruces. This was a significant move in addressing past racial injustices and is one of the first examples of such land reparations in the United States.
- maikel0
- He has a point. This should be </thread>dee-dubs
- he's not wrongwhatthefunk
- imbecile4
Seneca Village, was a predominantly African American community that existed from 1825 until 1857 in an area that now comprises part of Central Park in New York City.
This small community was one of the few areas in mid-19th century New York where African American people could own property. Some of New York's first African American property owners were residents of the village, which also contained a number of churches and a school.
Seneca Village extended from what is now 82nd to 89th Street along what is now the western edge of Central Park. The community was actually quite diverse, with a significant minority of Irish immigrants living alongside the African American majority.
In 1855, the City of New York enacted a law to take the land of Seneca Village through eminent domain, ostensibly to create Central Park. Residents were compensated for their property, but they were forced to relocate and the community was destroyed.
This history was largely forgotten until the late 20th and early 21st centuries, when historians and archeologists began to study Seneca Village and its importance to the cultural and social history of New York. In recent years, efforts have been made to commemorate Seneca Village with a plaque in Central Park, and ongoing archeological work seeks to uncover more about the lives of its inhabitants.
- sted5
