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I mean for one thing there aren't any laws anywhere protecting anyone else from micro-aggression. I work in a context where this stuff is taken very seriously a

I mean for one thing there aren't any laws anywhere protecting anyone else from micro-aggression. I work in a context where this stuff is taken very seriously and I've never seen anyone lose a job over it. I've never been asked to attest to something at all, to say nothing of some mandatory idea. Look, what you reactionaries call "woke" and are so afraid of is the mere pointing out of structural racist shit. There is literally no legal force behind any woke policies. Governments everywhere are more conservative than ever and the supreme court is absolutely locked tight against these policies. "going against the kinds of values we've collectively upheld for over 200 years." This is one of the most positively blinkered ass sentences. We had literal chattel slavery for nearly 100 years of that history and in that time displaced by force huge parts of the native population. Half the country didn't want to end slavery so badly that they went to war over it and after they lost they did almost everything they could get away with to continue to enforce racial segregation and hierarchy. Look, I'm find if you want to hold the absurd belief that there isn't ant structural racism contemporaneously, although this is obviously wrong, but to suggest that the US has "always held" anything remotely like contemporary racial egalitarian ideals is absolutely wrong.

moretrashplz 3y ago
"Governments everywhere are more conservative than ever" - do you have any sources / citations to back this up? "There is literally no legal force behind any woke policies" - Politicians in Michigan have been attempting to pass a law to make harassing someone by misgendering them a felony. There are plenty of laws and policies protecting groups of people that have nothing to do with "structural racist shit". If you're looking for racism everywhere and in everything, you're probably going to find it. I find that people who focus on race and class constantly, also end up exhibiting the most racist and classist views and behaviors.
- idiotsecant 3y ago
  Your only example is a law that is not currently a law? People propose crazy laws all the time. They get used by politicians to get attention and by media outlets to drive clicks from their outrage pornography addicted audience. In both cases it's all sound and fury, signifying nothing.
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    - nathan_compton 3y ago
      So you are saying that laws prohibiting discrimination against trans people are somehow woke tyranny? These lays basically just say that you can't deny someone a job or a house or similar services for being trans. They do not say that you have to "believe" in a persons gender identity. No one is marching you to re-education camps if you don't use the right pronouns. Conservative rhetoric on this subject is so detached from reality.
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moretrashplz 3y ago

"Governments everywhere are more conservative than ever" - do you have any sources / citations to back this up? "There is literally no legal force behind any woke policies" - Politicians in Michigan have been attempting to pass a law to make harassing someone by misgendering them a felony. There are plenty of laws and policies protecting groups of people that have nothing to do with "structural racist shit". If you're looking for racism everywhere and in everything, you're probably going to find it. I find that people who focus on race and class constantly, also end up exhibiting the most racist and classist views and behaviors.

idiotsecant 3y ago
Your only example is a law that is not currently a law? People propose crazy laws all the time. They get used by politicians to get attention and by media outlets to drive clicks from their outrage pornography addicted audience. In both cases it's all sound and fury, signifying nothing.
- moretrashplz 3y ago
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  - nathan_compton 3y ago
    So you are saying that laws prohibiting discrimination against trans people are somehow woke tyranny? These lays basically just say that you can't deny someone a job or a house or similar services for being trans. They do not say that you have to "believe" in a persons gender identity. No one is marching you to re-education camps if you don't use the right pronouns. Conservative rhetoric on this subject is so detached from reality.
    - moretrashplz 3y ago
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