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Robin diAngelo and Ibram X. Kendi have done pretty well with their woke grift.
Society/Culture Has cancel culture gone too far?
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Well then the term is obviously used incorrectly isn't it. Complaining about minorities being favoured at the expense of the majority has zero to do with 'awake'. That my ghostly friend is the epitome of bullshit if I've ever read it.
I actually knew what it's 'supposed' to define, but it's absolute impractical bullshit.
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Heritier is awake. Eddie was asleep.
The majority lost out because Eddie was asleep. It wasn't because Heritier was woke.
Who said anything about the club destroyer and Heritier?
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He means that "woke" isn't a made up word, it was already in the dictionary. It was originally a verb, being the past tense of wake.
That it is now an adjective is the result of illiteracy having become de rigueur.
Interestingly, the recent interchangeability of words such as awake/woke or then/than, are the province of those who are not literate enough to know the difference between them. Or, if they are aware of the correct usage or definition, refuse to do so because they would prefer to be wrong and fit in with the crowd they identify with, rather than be right.
So, it is actually the "woke", to use your terminology, the aware, awake, i.e. those who know what is actually going on, who are more likely to know how to use the words correctly and do so, rather than just go along with the rest of the herd.
One of the little paradoxes in life, I suppose.
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Oh well, I guess we now know Gerard Whateley has a BF account.
My contrafibulations on the elucidation of 'Woke'. BTW, how many syllables are in 'interchangeability' Gerard..?
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Using a verb to define impractical progressive ideals or opposition / support for them is just as impractical as those ideals.
Whoever thought of using woke as the term to describe 'an epiphany against tyranny' is a f*n moron.
Anyway we're derailing the thread when Pessimistic confused woke as an 'industry'. Woke in the moronic form we've discovered it to be is the antitheses of 'industrious', if anything it is destructive and divisive - nothing else.
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My understanding is that "woke" was originally used by black folks to urge one another to be alert to racial prejudice and its dangers. It's now become a slightly pejorative label for a swathe of new progressive orthodoxies, by no means limited to race.
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In response, the embattled Chappelle has reserved an especially vicious mention for Gadsby, listing as one of his three conditions to meet with members of the trans community that they must “admit Hannah Gadsby is not funny”
https://www.news.com.au/entertainme...p/news-story/3b7d16ac6fad387a030f90ae3539cb3a
https://www.news.com.au/entertainme...p/news-story/3b7d16ac6fad387a030f90ae3539cb3a
so you are saying the word may have been mis appropriated?
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Is that what you're saying?
If that's what you think, you can just say so without posing a tedious strawman question.
I agree the meaning has shifted. At the very least, it is now used to encompass issues other than racial justice.
Frankly, I think the etymology matters less than the specific arguments being made.
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That's "especially vicious"?
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100 workers at Netflix and the usual social media mob, are doing their absolute best to put pressure on Netflix to cancel it. So far Netflix are holding firm but the Netflix boss is copping a lot of s**t atm. They will probably get their way and cancel Chappelle.
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Netflix won't be cancelling anything that rakes in millions of dollars.
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It only takes a few complaints on youtube these days for a video to be taken down. And 3 strikes is an account being banned.
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Cheers for the reminder, will go and report some more Sky News youtubes.
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Aparently it doesnt work against the big news agencies like Fox and CNN and Im guessing SKY as well.
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Why not just maintain and administer this website and not sell ad space?
You know you can do that, right?
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Have you graduated from "what is cancel culture?" to "it's inefficient"?
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