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I consider myself very ‘liberal’ per American standards (pro abortion, pro lgbt rights, pro racial diversity and acceptance), and this to me screams of woke cul
by white_dragon88 4y ago
I consider myself very ‘liberal’ per American standards (pro abortion, pro lgbt rights, pro racial diversity and acceptance), and this to me screams of woke culture gone wild. Looks like anything can be weaponised.
- rurp 4y agoSame here. I'm pretty liberal on a number of issues, but this kind of language is extremely off-putting to me. If it means that the layoffs were explicitly racist, that is disgusting.
- nemo44x 4y agoThey were explicitly "anti-racist" which is just racism done differently.
- NaturalPhallacy 4y agoNo it's just regular old racism.
- weatherlite 4y agoBut we are all fine with racist hiring...
- mod 4y agoI don't think that's a true statement.
- anonym29 4y agoI am fine with hiring that enforces equality of opportunity (where nobody is denied an opportunity because of their race). I am NOT fine with hiring that enforces equality of outcome (where some people, who would otherwise be considered unqualified, are granted an opportunity because of their race). Race should account for ZERO percent of a hiring decision.
- prottog 4y agoThe fundamental misconception of today's "anti-racist" movement is that every unequal outcome is the direct result of past or present racism, without stopping to examine the validity of that assumption. A great many eggs have been and will continue to be broken in service of equality of outcome, and we will all be worse off for it.
- etchalon 4y agoBelieving race should account for zero percent of a hiring decision is what any decent person should believe. Acknowledging it has, and does, and that it is more often than not to the detriment of minority groups is what any informed person should recognize.
- HideousKojima 4y agoWho the hell is the "we" you're talking about here? I've been opposed to considering race in hiring (and college admissions, etc.) since I was old enough to understand it (which was in elementary school).
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- geodel 4y agoAs others have already mentioned, you can keep considering yourself liberal in your living room. But if you go out on social media with these views, it could be construed as a rabid racist persona.
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- ClassyJacket 4y agoAgreed. I don't consider myself to have moved politically right at all, but progressives are moving drastically left. Stuff like this, and the modern gender politics that is resulting in the erasure of women and lesbians in particular, has resulted in me no longer referring to myself as a leftist.
- wil421 4y agoThe Republicans left me a while ago. This kinda stuff is way too left for me and I fear the Democrats are going to do the same. I’d say I’m a moderate who votes Democratic. Both sides are going too far left and right.
- pentae 4y agoI would argue the 'mainstream' right is being pulled left due to its gravity, and is quite moderate these days.
- Kye 4y agoNo one is erasing lesbians or women.
- prottog 4y agoThere's a whole ideological movement in vogue that has a really hard time defining what a woman even is.
- Kye 4y agoI always enjoyed that attempt at a definition that led to people pointing out it made women out of chairs and horses. Some of them do manage to be ideologically consistent and exclude vast swathes of cis women from womanhood just to get at trans women, but most just fall back on "but science!" even as actual scientists point out science doesn't support anti-trans ideology.
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- replygirl 4y agowhat conservative code words?
- taurath 4y ago“Woke culture gone wild”
- replygirl 4y agowoke came out of aave and was more widely popularized in 2014 via blm edit: parent edited from "woke" to "woke culture gone wild" after i posted this
- taurath 4y agoIt’s literally in the platform of the Republican Party to “fight woke culture”
- replygirl 4y agoit's also in the platform of many leftists. woke culture debases woke politics and gives cover to neoliberals' authoritarian, anti-worker policy
- taurath 4y agoAnd that’s the problem in this comment pool to call out, clearly.
- replygirl 4y agoi was adding some color to help you understand why "woke culture" isn't the dog whistle you think it is edit: friend, why do you keep editing your comments to make them have a different overall meaning after i reply?
- bufferoverflow 4y agoWild? Seems pretty standard leftist position these days.