Current Affairs What is Woke ?

[ChesterBlue]

Why is 'cisgender' a thing though? Is there the need for a less offensive way of saying man/woman?

To determine if someone is identifying as the same biological sex they were born as or not, it’s not rocket science mate

 

[WA Toffee]

It's obviously about offence, it always is. What possible reason could there be otherwise to require another term for a female or male person? Cis = You are born one gender and you are still that gender. Hopefully nobody attempts to force people to use such terminology like they tried in Canada.

Is snowflake an offensive term, or would you rather be called something else?

 

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[Jebus_lives]

It's obviously about offence, it always is. What possible reason could there be otherwise to require another term for a female or male person? Cis = You are born one gender and you are still that gender. Hopefully nobody attempts to force people to use such terminology like they tried in Canada.

Is it obvious? Is that what 'they' intended, because you seem to be offended by it. So it's not done it's job.

 

[Jebus_lives]

Health and safety - woke
Stopping slavery - woke
Child labour laws - woke
National Health service - woke
Right to vote - woke
Modern plumbing - woke
Using soap to wash - woke
Water treatment - woke
Stopping corporal punishment - woke

The laziest shorthand for the perpetually confused and frustrated.

 

[slipstream86]

"Woke" is the perceived primacy of particular factors affecting inequality in society - namely: racism, sexism, anti-transism, anti-certain religions-ism, and how they are believed to dominate media coverage, government policy and public opinion. Often at the expense of seemingly significant other inequalities that are not considered "woke", such as classism.

 

[JimmyJeffers]

"Woke" is the perceived primacy of particular factors affecting inequality in society - namely: racism, sexism, anti-transism, anti-certain religions-ism, and how they are believed to dominate media coverage, government policy and public opinion. Often at the expense of seemingly significant other inequalities that are not considered "woke", such as classism.

So people who denigrate ‘wokeness’ are usually Marxists?

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

So people who denigrate ‘wokeness’ are usually Marxists?

Marx himself hated the Wokes. Hated them.

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

Marx, if alive today, would definitely denounce the cultural marxists, woke as they are.

 

[datblygu]

It's obviously about offence, it always is. What possible reason could there be otherwise to require another term for a female or male person? Cis = You are born one gender and you are still that gender. Hopefully nobody attempts to force people to use such terminology like they tried in Canada.

Nobody's forcing you to use any terms, yet still here you are bringing it up.

 

[datblygu]

Marx, if alive today, would definitely denounce the cultural marxists, woke as they are.

He would have hated postmodernism too

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

He would have hated postmodernism too

Oh, right. Could you say more?

 

[Kever10]

Great song

 

[JimmyJeffers]

Marx himself hated the Wokes. Hated them.

Workers of the 2 true genders of the world unite

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

Workers of the 2 true genders of the world unite

A historian colleague of mine accessed his private diaries. He apparently wrote "Wokers of the world, gtf". In German.

They're not in the public domain first legal reasons. Shame.