Funny events in anti-woke world

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How? Even in the (imagined) more innocent time of the 70s, did someone look at that and NOT think "Hang on a sec, something's suss here"?
I mean, if this was meant to "humanize" cops, I want to go back to '70s perceptions of cops
 

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And how many cases of cops giving mouth to mouth even were there? Was there an epidemic of backyard pool drownings narrowly averted by cops showing up just in time?
 

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And how many cases of cops giving mouth to mouth even were there? Was there an epidemic of backyard pool drownings narrowly averted by cops showing up just in time?
Yeah, there were budget cuts in the 90s so pool fences became the standard

Remember, pool fence take police jobs. It's an unfortunate blight on today's society
 
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And how many cases of cops giving mouth to mouth even were there? Was there an epidemic of backyard pool drownings narrowly averted by cops showing up just in time?
All remotely well maintained police forces are trained in and equipped for basic first aid. Now that doesn't usually mean much more than a medical kit in the car and a two day course but its generally just meant to provide bare minimum support until paramedics can arrive.
 

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How is 'white people have no culture' related to 'white people have a monoculture'?

You realise we just stop replying because you have made some incredible claims that aren't related to the topic. We realise that chasing goal posts around a field is utterly pointless and you haven't bothered to engaged in the argument. We were on Whoopi Goldberg and in two short steps we are talking about monoculture. Through some vapid tenuous links that are more about you being angry and trying to press an 'I WIN' button

Also, where was you're comeback or whatever for my last comment. Failing your own criteria huh? Anyway, sometimes things don't need a reply. It's okay

Here's what I'll say about Whoopi. I understand that she didn't mean what she said. I think that she got confused in her statement. What she was saying wasn't mutually exclusive. But she did need to answer questions. Because her statement goes against everything we have been taught about WW2. And strays far to close to conspiracy theory. It's like when Peterson came out with his 'Forced Monogamy' concept. He needed to answer questions about what that means. At least Whoopi isnt a troll trying to score pollical points like JP is
Because it's a hyperbolic exaggerated position to say they have no culture the implication being no culture that matters or is worth while often spouted by people who claim White people just steal from every other culture and have never contributed anything worthwhile to the world.

The only person chasing goal posts is me trying to get an answer as to why what Whoopi Goldberg said is wrong fundamentally while also people are pushing that the opposite of her position that Jewish people aren't like as other white people and are uniquely 'different' also is evil.







So yes people do say this shit commonly enough for it to get noticed.

So how is it related to the Whoopi Goldberg thing? Well because White people monoculture


American actor's wiki page : 'He is of Irish, German and Swedish descent' Me: 'Ah, so he's white.'
Because I figured it wouldn't embed and I can't trust the normal gaggle people who will no doubt reply to click and link and read what was actually said, I learned my lesson last time and spent pages arguing having to quote directly from the article they claimed to have read to point out where they were wrong until they admitted to having not read it.

You've made two conflicting claims, that the woke view is that white people have no culture and that white people are a monoculture. And neither of them are actually the "woke view".

The "woke" view is that there is no such thing as white culture because predominantly "white" countries have their own distinct cultures. We're also still arguing over who is and isn't white for Christ's sake, how can there be a shared culture? The regressives are the ones who believe there is an overarching "white" culture. As a "white" guy who's grandfather, who has the same skin colour as me but was decidedly not considered white when he went to England to find work, I absolutely agree that there is no such thing as "white culture". Germans have a different culture to me. French have a different culture to me.
Except the conflict is in woke world.

Was Whoopi wrong or right?
Because therefore it makes the other side wrong or right in doing so.

It's hypocritical for people to be defending those who raved at Whoopi while also trying to condemn people who said basically the opposite of her.

Also no the woke view is all white culture is the same, sorry I don't make the rules for woke world. The actually progressive view is that all countries have their own cultures etc but that doesn't fit into the lovely woke world "progressive stack" model of balancing out inequalities because white people are the oppressors in said model.
 

Dwarvenhobble

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Literally never heard that from anyone "woke". Are you sure you're not dreaming it?
See previous post, no. I'm not dreaming unfortunately.
Well unless I've been in a perpetual nightmare for a many years (entirely possible I grant you that my mind may have snapped and all this is a horrible result of it, however given how long it's been it doesn't seem to be ending so I have to deal with it and the way I do is by yelling into this somewhat void by posting here hoping I'm not the only one seeing the madness)

Lol. Citation needed.
The Root and Co

This is a phrase that is literally meaningless. I'd ask if you were just using a poor something-to-english translator, but you're supposedly from the UK with english as your first language...
That's more another case of a personal incredulity fallacy on your part AKA you getting pissy cause you don't know something it seems. But hey why should I expect you to understand or know some of the core tenants or founding ideas of the kind of ideology you seem very eager to defend. Says a fair bit abut you really doesn't it? But I'll be nice to you, here's a video you probably won't watch and will instead choose to argue you have and force me to quote it almost line by line for multiple pages.

 

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I don't have a comment. Like...wha?
Means in essence "stop getting triggered by tweets and demanding people be banned and punished in the world for offending you and realise the true scope of problems such as the existential threat of annihilation being possible at any moment with you have almost no control over it happening and maybe worry more about that than people saying stuff you don't like on twitter".
 

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Means in essence "stop getting triggered by tweets and demanding people be banned and punished in the world for offending you and realise the true scope of problems such as the existential threat of annihilation being possible at any moment with you have almost no control over it happening and maybe worry more about that than people saying stuff you don't like on twitter".
Congrats, that's about as nonsensical as the tweet. "So what if that comedian dropped his pants and wanked in from of his employees, we could all face nuclear annihilation" is an objectively hilarious argument though. I mean, *most* things aren't the same as facing nuclear annihilation. Trans girls playing women's sports? Why not, the nukes could fall tomorrow. People mad at Harry Potter? Who cares, nukes are in the offing. Sexy Green M&M isn't sexy anymore? Fucking nuclear war man, who gives a shit?

Be constantly terrified of things you have no control over, that's how you should approach life!
 

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Was Whoopi wrong or right?
Because therefore it makes the other side wrong or right in doing so.

It's hypocritical for people to be defending those who raved at Whoopi while also trying to condemn people who said basically the opposite of her.

Also no the woke view is all white culture is the same, sorry I don't make the rules for woke world. The actually progressive view is that all countries have their own cultures etc but that doesn't fit into the lovely woke world "progressive stack" model of balancing out inequalities because white people are the oppressors in said model.
Whoopi was wrong.

Whiteness was bullshit made up by racists to exclude non-Whites. Whiteness doesn't exist as a category for who is in it, it's a category for who isn't. That's why many "white" people have been victims of racism.

It's not the "wokes" fault that racists also decided light skinned individuals aren't necessarily white. The only way to think the two positions are mutually exclusive is to believe that racists are consistent and logical.

Were the nazis motivated by racism? Yes. Are Jewish people white? Trick question, Whiteness isn't a thing.

How can the woke view both be that white culture doesn't exist and is also a monoculture?

Means in essence "stop getting triggered by tweets and demanding people be banned and punished in the world for offending you and realise the true scope of problems such as the existential threat of annihilation being possible at any moment with you have almost no control over it happening and maybe worry more about that than people saying stuff you don't like on twitter".
One of the tweets you posted is from someone who has 3 followers! How do you even find that without just trolling twitter for absolute horseshit. You act like the "wokes" go around online looking for things to get angry about but you're right here in the shit too. Conservatives have gotten angry at M&M's being less fuckable and act like leftists are too sensitive because they care about actually marginalised groups.
 

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Be constantly terrified of things you have no control over, that's how you should approach life!
That's exactly what the right wing wants, because it helps them win. Studies suggest that when subjected to fear or threat, numerous people become more inclined to vote conservative. My hypothesis would be that threat tends to drive people to stick with what seems "safest", and to try to pull together with people they trust: so higher affinity with in-groups, and known factors (i.e. status quo).

It also of course fits in with the fact that conservative parties usually position themselves as parties of both defence and law and order.
 

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Could you tell me what 'white culture' is?
Ask the people saying about it because I literally don't know as different nations and even people within those nations have their own cultures and traditions but apparently according to some "White people" are all one giant monoculture.
 

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Ask the people saying about it because I literally don't know as different nations and even people within those nations have their own cultures and traditions but apparently according to some "White people" are all one giant monoculture.
Do they believe white people have no culture or white people have one monoculture. You've claimed both and they mean different things.