Interesting CNN article on anti woke crusade

[IAmTheWalrus]

The 'anti-woke' crusade has come to Europe. Its effects could be chilling

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/01/07/europe/war-on-w...


So I thought this was interesting, what do you guys think?

[pquinn]

Looks like a typical whining CNN article.

[Pothole]

Surely they mean "gone" to Europe

[B235r]

The sooner all this crap disappears the better

Woke, pc, white privilege, sjw etc

[tracer.smart]

It’s interesting to see the anti anti-woke messaging coming through stronger - if you don’t embrace said social movements, you are not progressive.

I find the demands of the collective wokerati, for mass adherence to niche obsessions, abhorrent. They justify the green agenda on science, but don’t justify their demands on gender in the same way. They want to ignore and judge historical contributions rather than recognise them in context. They demand you fall in to line with their beliefs and gestures (some imported from the US), and if you don’t you are wrong and need to be cancelled / sacked.

The collective are corporations, charities, individual activists, social media platforms, young generations, national media like CNN, and civil services - its mainstream.

This is a movement that is stoked by political interests, and will result in change whether we like it or not.

This ‘crap’ is not disappearing any time soon.

Edited by tracer.smart on Saturday 8th January 08:07

[bitchstewie]

I doubt most people using the word know what it means other than "someone who disagrees with me" or shorthand for what would have been "political correctness gone mad".

"wokerati"

[Castrol for a knave]

bhstewie said:

I doubt most people using the word know what it means other than "someone who disagrees with me" or shorthand for what would have been "political correctness gone mad".

How can anyone write "wokerati" with a straight face

I read it and now have this as an ear worm...

.....and now, adding colour, a group of anonymous Latin-American meat packing glitterati.

[valiant]

Hey, we’re a collective now…

Where’s all the booze ‘n’ birds?

[tracer.smart]

valiant said:

Hey, we’re a collective now…

Where’s all the booze ‘n’ birds?

Wrong collective for that kind of action.

[bitchstewie]

Castrol for a knave said:

I read it and now have this as an ear worm...

.....and now, adding colour, a group of anonymous Latin-American meat packing glitterati.

I'm on quite a few forums and on almost every single one there's angry (mostly) old (mostly) men banging on about wokes.

Anything they disagree with it's woke and anything that's wrong with their life it's because of the wokes.

I'm not even talking niche forums just think of a hobby or interest you have and if there's a forum to discuss it they're probably on there.

Honestly it's quite bizarre.

[B235r]

tracer.smart said:

It’s interesting to see the anti anti-woke messaging coming through stronger - if you don’t embrace said social movements, you are not progressive.

I find the demands of the collective wokerati, for mass adherence to niche obsessions, abhorrent. They justify the green agenda on science, but don’t justify their demands on gender in the same way. They want to ignore and judge historical contributions rather than recognise them in context. They demand you fall in to line with their beliefs and gestures (some imported from the US), and if you don’t you are wrong and need to be cancelled / sacked.

The collective are corporations, charities, individual activists, social media platforms, young generations, national media like CNN, and civil services - its mainstream.

This is a movement that is stoked by political interests, and will result in change whether we like it or not.

This ‘crap’ is not disappearing any time soon.

Edited by tracer.smart on Saturday 8th January 08:07

I was hoping it would have burned itself out by now, but instead worming its way into everything like skynet

[Randy Winkman]

bhstewie said:

I'm on quite a few forums and on almost every single one there's angry (mostly) old (mostly) men banging on about wokes.

Anything they disagree with it's woke and anything that's wrong with their life it's because of the wokes.

I'm not even talking niche forums just think of a hobby or interest you have and if there's a forum to discuss it they're probably on there.

Honestly it's quite bizarre.

I liked the quote in the article from Winston Churchill's grandson:

"Apparently anyone who modernizes anything or does anything to remotely bring it up to date is 'woke.'" he said. "It's absolute b****cks."

I find that some woke stuff can go a bit OTT but in general terms, if people think it's going to go away they will be disappointed.

[Castrol for a knave]

bhstewie said:

Castrol for a knave said:

I read it and now have this as an ear worm...

.....and now, adding colour, a group of anonymous Latin-American meat packing glitterati.

I'm on quite a few forums and on almost every single one there's angry (mostly) old (mostly) men banging on about wokes.

Anything they disagree with it's woke and anything that's wrong with their life it's because of the wokes.

I'm not even talking niche forums just think of a hobby or interest you have and if there's a forum to discuss it they're probably on there.

Honestly it's quite bizarre.

We've left the EU, so somebody has to be the new Eastasia.

Gotta keep the haters hating.

[JagLover]

Randy Winkman said:

I find that some woke stuff can go a bit OTT but in general terms, if people think it's going to go away they will be disappointed.

It will likely go once it has served its purpose just as the Chinese cultural revolution faded away in time and now the Chinese are emphasising Confucian ideals again.

[bitchstewie]

I like how B235r's picture is presumably meant to be insulting "the wokes" but actually shows the chap just how I think of most of the people who throw the word around.

Scared and unable to cope.

Nicholas Soames has had his bad moments but he's 100% correct on this.

[JuanCarlosFandango]

I don't really find the prospect of Nigel Farage misgendering an Islamo-leftist "chilling."

[Randy Winkman]

JagLover said:

Randy Winkman said:

I find that some woke stuff can go a bit OTT but in general terms, if people think it's going to go away they will be disappointed.

It will likely go once it has served its purpose just as the Chinese cultural revolution faded away in time and now the Chinese are emphasising Confucian ideals again.

I think it will go away but wont go backwards. Woke will just become the new norm and people will move on. That's how I see that the world normally works anyway.

[bitchstewie]

Randy Winkman said:

I think it will go away but wont go backwards. Woke will just become the new norm and people will move on. That's how I see that the world normally works anyway.

Said it before but imagine we had the Internet a century ago.

Giving women the vote? That's so woke.

Supporting black people not giving up their seat on the bus to white people? Those fking wokerati.

[Electro1980]

B235r said:

tracer.smart said:

It’s interesting to see the anti anti-woke messaging coming through stronger - if you don’t embrace said social movements, you are not progressive.

I find the demands of the collective wokerati, for mass adherence to niche obsessions, abhorrent. They justify the green agenda on science, but don’t justify their demands on gender in the same way. They want to ignore and judge historical contributions rather than recognise them in context. They demand you fall in to line with their beliefs and gestures (some imported from the US), and if you don’t you are wrong and need to be cancelled / sacked.

The collective are corporations, charities, individual activists, social media platforms, young generations, national media like CNN, and civil services - its mainstream.

This is a movement that is stoked by political interests, and will result in change whether we like it or not.

This ‘crap’ is not disappearing any time soon.

Edited by tracer.smart on Saturday 8th January 08:07

I was hoping it would have burned itself out by now, but instead worming its way into everything like skynet

It’s always laughable when people post rubbish like this. Shutting down criticism whilst claiming they are defending free speech.

[anonymous-user]

B235r said:

worming its way into everything like skynet

And you would like to be taken seriously, would you?