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Fuck dude, why did you have to ruin your whole post with your last sentence? You can make a good argument without devolving into "us-vs-them" tribalism.

WC3w6pXxgGd 6y ago
Because it's an accurate sentence?
ActorNightly 6y ago
Its us-vs-them all the way when it comes to disinformation and shitting up the internet more. I don't care where your personal beliefs are, the issue is that this brand of online wokness is so widespread its taking over everything, with plenty of misinformation to go about. For example, Im big into mountain biking, and here is a recent example of this (read the comments) https://www.pinkbike.com/u/jamessmurthwaite/blog/slack-randoms-uci-takes-no-pleasure-in-hugging-ban-adult-strider-bikes-and-rachel-athertons-car-crash.html https://www.pinkbike.com/u/jamessmurthwaite/blog/slack-rando...
- deanCommie 6y ago
  1) If it's us-vs-them about truth vs disinformation, then I don't see how you can possibly make it a left vs right issue. The Right wing invented the Orwellian term for "fake news" to mean "truths that are inconvenient to me", and spent 4 years gaslighting the public about blatant lies and misdirection. 2) Turning "woke" into an insult for everything progressive completely removes all nuance from a bunch of political positions that while frequently shared between similar people are completely unrelated. "Woke" was a term that came about with regards to social and specifically RACIAL justice. The fact that the internet left is full of people so far extreme as to be actually Stalinist (and by that i mean would support guillotining the rich or sending them to gulags), does not negate the value of discussion of unions, or social inequalities between the races. I would urge any sensible-minded individual to dismiss using "woke" from their lexicon as an insult because it immediately devalues your opinion (see also: SJW, Feminist, etc) 3) "For example, Im big into mountain biking, and here is a recent example of this (read the comments)" I'm super not clear about your point here. Amazon ripped off an independent seller's design. Is that not a problem? Do people not have the right to be upset?

WC3w6pXxgGd 6y ago

Because it's an accurate sentence?

ActorNightly 6y ago

Its us-vs-them all the way when it comes to disinformation and shitting up the internet more. I don't care where your personal beliefs are, the issue is that this brand of online wokness is so widespread its taking over everything, with plenty of misinformation to go about. For example, Im big into mountain biking, and here is a recent example of this (read the comments) https://www.pinkbike.com/u/jamessmurthwaite/blog/slack-randoms-uci-takes-no-pleasure-in-hugging-ban-adult-strider-bikes-and-rachel-athertons-car-crash.html https://www.pinkbike.com/u/jamessmurthwaite/blog/slack-rando...

deanCommie 6y ago
1) If it's us-vs-them about truth vs disinformation, then I don't see how you can possibly make it a left vs right issue. The Right wing invented the Orwellian term for "fake news" to mean "truths that are inconvenient to me", and spent 4 years gaslighting the public about blatant lies and misdirection. 2) Turning "woke" into an insult for everything progressive completely removes all nuance from a bunch of political positions that while frequently shared between similar people are completely unrelated. "Woke" was a term that came about with regards to social and specifically RACIAL justice. The fact that the internet left is full of people so far extreme as to be actually Stalinist (and by that i mean would support guillotining the rich or sending them to gulags), does not negate the value of discussion of unions, or social inequalities between the races. I would urge any sensible-minded individual to dismiss using "woke" from their lexicon as an insult because it immediately devalues your opinion (see also: SJW, Feminist, etc) 3) "For example, Im big into mountain biking, and here is a recent example of this (read the comments)" I'm super not clear about your point here. Amazon ripped off an independent seller's design. Is that not a problem? Do people not have the right to be upset?