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As a POC, I appreciate these woke people, even though some of their actions may be heavy handed. I wish there were more of them when I was growing up and being
by throwaway55439 5y ago
As a POC, I appreciate these woke people, even though some of their actions may be heavy handed. I wish there were more of them when I was growing up and being bullied by real bigots.
- Wanker_News 5y agoExactly. Anyone who believes the biggest problem in 2021 is that some college students are being too "woke" somewhere is a fucking dolt. This website is filled to the brim with clowns like this.
- wernercd 5y agoThe problem isn't "woke college kids"... it's intolerance way PAST the point of intolerance. Racism in the name of fighting racism. Hate in the name of love. It's the religious fervor by the Woke Crusaders who are willing to burn, pillage, destroy, kill in the name of "Diversity, Equity, Inclusion" - and destroying justice, REAL equality and our collective future.
- Der_Einzige 5y agoThey're downvoting you because you're correct. Ignore it and know that you are right about this point.
- yakshaving_jgt 5y agoI am genuinely sorry to hear you went through that, and I’m glad to hear — if I’ve interpreted you correctly — that some woke people provided you their support. However, I don’t believe disciples of the woke ideology have a monopoly on opposition to bullying, and I think they are often bullies themselves. Furthermore, it appears that woke ideologues are not internally consistent with their opposition to racism. Case in point: the recent demotion of Google diversity head for anti-semitism.
- bjourne 5y ago> Case in point: the recent demotion of Google diversity head for anti-semitism. Who is the "woke" party in this case?
- yakshaving_jgt 5y agoI am arguing that Bobb is the woke party in this case, but that doesn't preclude Google from also being under the influence of woke ideologues. The woke are not beyond eating their own. It's somewhat tautological — the company would need some woke sympathy for Bobb to be installed in that particular position of power in the first place. Bobb forced Google into an untenable position which is why they had to make the move. It is perhaps also telling that he was not fired. Would a white, non-woke person have enjoyed the same leniency? Difficult to say without seeing more data, but I remain sceptic for now.
- lelanthran 5y ago> As a POC, I appreciate these woke people, even though some of their actions may be heavy handed. I wish there were more of them when I was growing up and being bullied by real bigots. Counterpoint: As a non-white, oppressed person who grew up in Apartheid South Africa, these 'Woke' people resemble the Apartheid rulers way too much for my liking[1]. As bad as the situation is, as presented by BLM for blacks in America now and in the recent past, it's nowhere near as bad as having laws on the books, that courts had to enforce, that made you less of a human than white people. [1] The animals looked from Pig to Man, and Man to Pig, and they could not tell the difference, roughly paraphrased from Orwell.
- balthigor 5y agoI live in South Africa. DeGroot and his ilk were nothing like "woke". They were monsters that dehumanized citizens and murdered with impunity. You should know that, which makes your comment suspect.
- lelanthran 5y agoI don't think you are arguing in good faith. > I live in South Africa. DeGroot and his ilk were nothing like "woke". They were monsters that dehumanized citizens and murdered with impunity. You should know that, which makes your comment suspect. But I do know that they dehumanised citizens, because I specifically said: > it's nowhere near as bad as having laws on the books, that courts had to enforce, that made you less of a human than white people. Why did you ignore that? Is there something about that comment that makes it hard to read, or hard to understand? I never claimed that the Woke followers were murdering others with impunity, I said that I see a resemblance between them and the apartheid rulers. I never specified what the resemblance was, but since you appear to assume that "murder" was the resemblance, let me clarify that I did not intend to claim that the Woke followers were murdering people. The resemblance I see is the dehumanisation of non-Woke followers (not dehumanisation of just the Woke-opposed, but of anyone who may even be neutral).
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- golergka 5y agoI was bullied and beaten for being "the jewish kid" when I was growing up. I'm completely sure that those "woke people" would have joined the bullies then. They're exactly the kind of people who enjoy ganging up on someone and feel their superiority.