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Weird I got my bachelor's in a pretty famously left-leaning place and zero of my grades depended on attending any diversity trainings whatsoever That said, I a
by advael 3y ago
Weird I got my bachelor's in a pretty famously left-leaning place and zero of my grades depended on attending any diversity trainings whatsoever
That said, I also might be speaking from the privileged position of not having as many triggers about this topic as many others. I can't tell you how many people I've met for whom completely innocuous-seeming things - such as a person going out of their way to separate some recycling from their garbage - can set off quite the tirade about "wokeism" or whatever. I have to have sympathy for these poor souls. They've clearly been through a lot
- guappa 3y agoI have heard 1st hand a guy who loves to bicycle tell a disabled man (who can in no way bicycle) that he must never buy a car, because they are bad for the environment. A different time, a woman passing by felt the need to stop and scold a friend who had said a non politically correct joke, explaining that he could only laugh at them because he's a privileged white male. He's a privileged white male immigrant whose school time included training to run into bomb shelters because there was a war going on. And the woman was a white non-immigrant. People who scold you for saying words such as "ghetto" or "retard" will then say "lame". I've met so many of these people. They're so boring and entitled. In general I think anyone not minding their own business when nobody is getting harmed is boring and entitled. On both sides of the woke fence.
- subjectsigma 3y agoHa, I have so many of these. I think my favorite was getting scolded one time for saying the pandemic was “almost over” because that was a “dangerous idea”. I was in an elevator with the woman scolding me. Perfect stranger, no idea who she was. I was wearing a N95 mask and she had no face covering.