Those teachers and nurses just need to get off their backsides and work harder if they want to get on in life. If they try their best, maybe their dad will become an emerald mine owner.
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[Politics] The Mail Woke List…..
- Thread starter Guinness Boy
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Those teachers and nurses just need to get off their backsides and work harder if they want to get on in life. If they try their best, maybe their dad will become an emerald mine owner.
Crawley Dingo
Political thread tourist.
- Mar 31, 2022
- 1,080
So we have gone from woke does not exist to woke does exist but its a good thing and any problems with it dont exist.
I suppose next will be yes the problems do exist but they a minor.
I suppose next will be yes the problems do exist but they a minor.
Can you answer my question, now you’re back.
Of course you can’t.
BadFish
Huge Member
- Oct 19, 2003
- 18,194
Woke is such a broad term it has become meaningless. People use it to describe anything and everything. Depending on your definition of it it can be positive of negative, exist or not exist, have problems and no problems and they can be both major and minor.
It is the Schroeder Cat of moronic culture wars sayings.
…ooh, go on, do tell…
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
It is a 'useful' term in the Blame game. It's 'their' fault, not ours.
Monkey Man
Your support is not that great
In most Mail-type rants about anything "woke", you can normally substitute the word with "kind". That's really all it boils down to. People trying to be nice, compassionate, and fair-minded. Traits that seem to boil the piss of that malevolent, cynical, hatemongering rag.
Crawley Dingo
Political thread tourist.
- Mar 31, 2022
- 1,080
Meritocracy refers to your skill set not what you earn, that is set by the supply of labour. You cant even grasp basic concepts.
- Oct 17, 2008
- 14,498
Hmmm. Not sure I agree there. Some of the behaviour of some people who consider themselves “woke” is very unkind and intolerant. Repeated targeted “cancellation” campaigns against anyone whose views don’t 100% with their own are commonplace.
Can you answer my question now? Please?
Nope?
Seeing as you don’t understand what a meritocracy is, I’m going to go right ahead and assume you just copied and pasted your post linking Kleptocracy to non-binary identification and you don’t actually know what it all means.
What a shambles you are turning out to be. Disappointing.
What a shambles you are turning out to be. Disappointing.
Meritocracy refers to a system whereby success can be achieved in accordance with one's skills, talents and efforts. Thus, the theory goes, the best and brightest rise to the top and are justly rewarded.
Appealing to some, granted, if only we could find that elusive level playing field.
For me, it would still be a flawed ideology. As I suggested before, it legitimises inequality, reassuring and flattering those with success whilst shrugging its shoulders at the less fortunate.
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Greg Bobkin
Silver Seagull
- May 22, 2012
- 16,027
It appears that people on both 'sides' need to be outraged about something or other that the other 'side' has said or done these days. It's all pretty tedious, really.
Woke is such a bullshit meaningless term. People who throw it around like to think they know EXACTLY what it means (just like they (a lot/most of them) knew EXACTLY what Brexit they were voting for (yes, I went there), but in reality, it's just an excuse to have a go at people who are trying to move life and society on. People don't like change – we get that – but why 'anti-woke' people get all up in arms about stuff that doesn't really have any effect on their lives absolutely baffles me.
Take Costa Coffee and the people who have most recently been frothing at the gash all over social media. Firstly, why get upset about a cartoon? Secondly, if you're going to boycott the company, great. You do you – the size of that business (and the demographic) means that it probably won't take much of a hit – and no-one else really cares anyway. If you were even a customer in the first place, that is. Thirdly, what difference does it make to your daily life? How, specifically, will a trans cartoon be detrimental to how you go about your day? Are your eyes offended by what you see?
Woke is such a bullshit meaningless term. People who throw it around like to think they know EXACTLY what it means (just like they (a lot/most of them) knew EXACTLY what Brexit they were voting for (yes, I went there), but in reality, it's just an excuse to have a go at people who are trying to move life and society on. People don't like change – we get that – but why 'anti-woke' people get all up in arms about stuff that doesn't really have any effect on their lives absolutely baffles me.
Take Costa Coffee and the people who have most recently been frothing at the gash all over social media. Firstly, why get upset about a cartoon? Secondly, if you're going to boycott the company, great. You do you – the size of that business (and the demographic) means that it probably won't take much of a hit – and no-one else really cares anyway. If you were even a customer in the first place, that is. Thirdly, what difference does it make to your daily life? How, specifically, will a trans cartoon be detrimental to how you go about your day? Are your eyes offended by what you see?
Monkey Man
Your support is not that great
Fair points. Can't disagree.
(Only one minor niggle, which is that very few people talk about themselves as being "woke". As others have said, it's a rather meaningless tabloid culture-war buzzword and more often used as a term of ridicule.)
You told me on another thread that you can't assign labels to people if they don't self identify as such. Therefore, seeing as few of any call themselves woke, presumably you think it doesn't exist.
Greg Bobkin
Silver Seagull
- May 22, 2012
- 16,027
Until there's a 'say no to racism', 'rainbow laces' or any kind of other 'woke' campaign that ruins the GAMEWEEK for fansAt least the footy season kicks off soon. It will make a change from the ‘Woke’ versus ‘The Rest’ kicking off all over NSC.
- Jul 10, 2003
- 27,751
Shirley, you're not suggesting that just because people got completely taken in by a few three word meaningless slogans, they would therefor be prime targets to be taken in by a four letter meaningless word ...... oh
As I understand it, Tufton Street are currently working on a meaningless symbol that can be blamed for all Britain's current problems
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