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Anti-Woke is also the proposition that history, even history recent enough to be within the memory of people still alive, has absolutely no impact, good or bad, on anyone anywhere today. Additionally, anti-Woke is the proposition that any statement that history has an impact on people's lives today is un-American and must be censored at a minimum, and ideally punished.

Ummm.... Bullshit. Look at average income by race. Look at home ownership by race. Look at lifespan by race (or a LOT of other measures of health & health care). Look at incarceration by race. I know a lot of 'old white guys' who claim, like you, that 'there's no such thing as white privilege', that 'they had to work for everything they have'. While I won't dispute that they worked, and worked hard, to earn what they have, they blatantly ignore the reality that people with different skin colors have to work a LOT harder to attain the same successes, and for some, no matter how hard they work, those successes are out of reach. That basic premise is the genesis of CRT. People saw the different levels of success for different races. They saw things like the Voting Rights Act, the Civil Rights Act, all of the anti-discrimination laws on the books and asked why discrimination is still so prevalent. So they looked. Long, hard and deep. And found that racism has basically been 'built in' to much of our society. It's not always easy to spot. It's not 'white only' signs on bathrooms, water fountains or anything else. But it's very real.

No, that’s not your observation, it’s something you’ve been spoonfed by the right wing media.

What utter gibberish.

The word is convent. In Catholicism, women religious live in convents. Different groups, or orders, of nuns have different callings. The order of Discalced Carmelites prefer to use the term monastery to emphasize their life of quiet contemplation. They are cloistered away from the outside world. On the other hand the Sisters of Mercy live a life of service through teaching and medical care. They prefer to use the term sisters as they minister to the needs of the people in society and nuns are cloistered. Both groups however live in convents. More info here.

In the early 80s there were a number of Tubesteak Boogies organized by Shoobi Knutson that were held in Brooksville, Florida and later at ZHills. The boogie was by invitation only and featured color coordinated sequential jumps that were a thing of beauty in the air. Shoobi was gracious enough to invite me to film them and has been after me for quite some time to get them out of Kodak slide carousels and into a format that can be seen by everyone. Of the 4000+ 35mm slides I have of various skydiving meets, many of them are of the Tubesteak Boogies. In order to avoid having to go to the Smithsonian to borrow a slide projector, I bought a slide scanner and am now in the process of scanning the best of them. Attached below is one of them.

Yeah Canadian Roger, it's been a while man! I didn't mean to put words in your mouth, I was referencing when you said: so yeah, you didn't quite say 'impossible to define'. I gotta say that like most others on here, I pretty strongly disagree with your points on wokeness and racism in America. It comes across as the same BS of 'my life hasn't been a nonstop cavalcade of blowjobs and free money, so white privilege doesn't exist'. As a straight, white male I've still got plenty of challenges, but there are some people who have more. I'd say the generally accepted definition of 'woke' is being able to admit that. I've lived in several different countries as well, having had residences in Canada, US, Venezuela and Mexico, as well as spending significant chunks of time in several others. To say the US is the least racist country almost had me choking on my Timbits! Not to say that there aren't problems elsewhere, but I've not seen some of the brazen BS that I see in Texas and southern Louisianna oilfield shops anywhere else. YMMV

It might, if you’re being incredibly charitable, be about equal rights in principle. But Woke is about equal rights in practice and anti-woke absolutely is not.

Soooo.. Let me get this straight. You're bragging that the Russians are committing war crimes? Really? And the idea that Ukrainians would use civilians as 'human shields' is probably the silliest thing you've posted (and that's saying something). The Ukrainians could easily have left Bakhmut at any time. They've had solid supply routes into the city for all that they need to slaughter the orcs, they could have left any time they chose. And the idea that the Russians wouldn't attack Ukrainian soldiers if they had 'human shields' is totally ridiculous. The Russians are DELIBERATELY targeting civilians. The orcs have tortured and murdered THOUSANDS of Ukrainian civilians. When they invaded, they has LISTS of civilians to target. Now, if you had said that it was the orcs who were holding civilians to use as human shields, that I might believe. Chickenshit behavior like that is expected from them.

Nah just restating the obvious.Wacked out right wing ideas are not new. Just the new fanboys who adopt them.

Anti-woke is simply an unwillingness to consider the possibility that one's choices, one's family's and friends' choices, are possibly colored by the society that they live in, along with an unwillingness to consider that the society might have inherent social biases. I'll bet that most of us, had we been white and living in the south of the US in the first half of the nineteenth century, would have thought of slavery as perfectly normal. Maybe a little unfair to some because they seemed almost to be like "us," but no more so than the fact that there were poor and starving white people, too. Just as many people who grew up in the first part of the 20th century honestly felt that it was unfair to expect them to treat black people as though they were equal, and even have them in the same institutions! Some of those people are still alive, and are the respected elders in their communities. Remember "look up to your elders?" Normal is what the people around you are doing. Anti-woke is simply not being willing to question that "normal." Wendy P.

That is incorrect, factually untrue. There IS still racist impact on people's lives. Every day, everywhere. I seem to need some redial reading comprehension, sorry, and thanks guys. I totally mis-read.

A good writeup on this comes from John Scalzi of "Old Man's War" fame: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/15/straight-white-male-the-lowest-difficulty-setting-there-is/

And the dish ran away with the spoon. Hey! Diddle diddle ... next verse, same as the first

Agreed. Enjoy your time off.

The Cooper hijacking is NOT why she went to the Nunnery. Good grief. There's more to her life than just a five hour stretch in November 1971. I really am curious about your thought process here. You think the FBI gathered up all the eyewitnesses immediately after the hijacking (mere moments after they got off the plane) and were like "look, we realize that there have been 150 hijackings in the past 4 years in American skies, but THIS one is special. It's so super special in fact that we need all of you to lie. You're all telling us that he had a square head and a wide flat bulbous nose, but we need you to tell the media who are waiting out those doors that he was a tall swarthy man with jet black hair and a narrow face. Then whenever we come back to you in the next few years to show you pics of suspects, we need you to maintain this lie for us. OK, you all have your story straight? Forgot about the blockheaded man with the huge nose....this guy was swarthy and narrow faced with a small to normal looking nose. Got it?" Wouldn't it be less of a headache to either 1) not have a suspect, or 2) have a suspect who actually matches the descriptions and who doesn't require you to believe that literally EVERYTHING about the case is incorrect and that all 75,000 FBI documents about the case are false because...reasons.

Bullshit.

Like any religion Woke is a disease of denial, mental malware that exploits a fundamental vulnerability. Poe's law applies nicely.

Right, a lovely individual is our Slim. And he clearly doesn’t understand that you don’t actually torture people for information. You torture them so they’ll supply disinformation. “Say what we want you to say or we’ll keep crushing your balls in a vice” is ultimately going to be an effective technique when you try it enough times. So when someone says “we tortured a guy and he says his side is going to do XYZ!” well, that’s how you know that claim XYZ is total bullshit. Again it’s just amazing how intent Slim is on demonstrating his total ignorance of the world.

Got a source for that? How is the bolded part "pure bullshit"? That is the core of CRT. The 'built in racism' is something that is both true and well hidden. It's not racist to recognize how pervasive and embedded the racism in our society is. It's 'woke'.

Is it time to end the free mouthpiece for Putin propaganda. Where an indicted war criminal has paid propagandists spreading misinformation.Lies. Is it time for SC to send Slim packing? To the DZ in the Crimea.

As others have pointed out: you come on here saying woke is impossible to define and fairly cultish. When people tell you that they are woke, not in a cult and spell out their definition you ignore it and regurgitate BS from organizations that make their money by scaring folks like you about the woke monsters coming to indoctrinate your children!!! It's a pretty odd thing to witness, really. I think we used to jump together at SDD back in the day. Are you Robert V?

You posted something that deliberately aims to insult anyone who considers themselves woke to any degree. You don’t get to say ‘gotcha’ if you think someone is upset by it because you’re not an elementary school child.

Russians have started to flee Crimea 500k to 800k Russians are living in occupied Crimea. They have now realized that squatting in Ukraine may not be safe. So back home they go. No buyers have been found for the Russian owned properties. Hey Slim. When its cold in St. Petersburg you could spend some time in Crimea instead. Cheap sea-side villas. Does the FSB- Internet Research Agency allow work from home?

So that's what the word means to you? What if I told you that I like millions of others have no problem identifying as "woke" and yet almost none of us belong to any such organization at all? You are creating boogeymen.

Woke doesn't have a structure or a leader. It is not even a little bit cult like. It does seem to have inspired a counter culture which seems to have a distaste for and a fear of it.

Good Lord. Everyone know that "woke" has no meaning anymore other than "something that upsets conservatives and makes them want to belittle others".

No, you didn’t. Why would you think that? Because I answered you? Because I’m female and we get our feelings hurt easier? Because I’m apparently liberal and therefore a snowflake? I’m not aware of anything in my response that indicates emotion, just disagreement with your premise Wendy P.

this honestly isn't worth the energy anymore. You're right. Cooper was a man with a square head, blue eyes, giant bulbous nose, who jumped 150 miles away from where the people actually on the plane said they were, and he originally intended to jump out of the side door despite the fact that we have transcripts and original audio in existence of everyone discussing Cooper's desire to jump from the rear of the plane.

I see I must have hurt your feelings. I get it you don't like the definition I submitted. "why not let different groups have different shades of meaning" Nothing I said stops anyone form having a different opinion. It's funny how people get upset when faced with a dissenting opinion.

Shall we call this the "Stallone" sketch ?

Once, several years ago, my wife asked me this question. I instinctually, instantly deleted that section of my memory and I think that was the best decision for everybody involved.