Making the news today....

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

1 hour ago, sime42 said:

Here's some food for thought;-

" Like “politically correct” before it, the word “woke” has come to connote the opposite of what it means. Technically, going by the Merriam-Webster dictionary’s definition, woke means “aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice)”, but today we are more likely to see it being used as a stick with which to beat people who aspire to such values, often wielded by those who don’t recognise how un-woke they are, or are proud of the fact."

I was intrigued by this term WOKE that people keep using so I looked it up.

Been posted before....

 

Its bollocks. 
 

“Woke” is a term applied to virtue signalling wankers that think any perception of a “supposedly” hard done by minority deserves greater privilege and exception than the majority. 
 

Current examples - obviously - include positive discrimination in favour of certain ethnic groups, overt anti Semitism (which, oddly, coincides with false anti racism narratives), terms like ‘chest feeding’ rather than breast feeding, attempts to change school language from boys and girls to ‘learners’ and so the list continues. 
 

It’s been an insidious but relentless campaign of gradually eroding what most (sane) people consider the very foundations of a decent society. 
 

If the loony left head bangers and the white privileged, guilt ridden liberals keep going down the “woke” path they will either wither into social, political and economic insignificance (as appears to be playing out in front of our very eyes), or they will achieve their ultimate aim and reduce this country to a similar sort of 3rd world caliphate shite hole as so many others around the world. 

[eggsarascal]

7 minutes ago, trigger_andy said:

As already mentioned it’s a term initially used by those on the hard left who wish to impose their thinking on others and firmly believe in their radical POV. They seen themselves as “woke” from many mainstream POV’s, both left and right but generally and almost exclusively from the right. These wet lettuces have had their “enlightenment” thrown back in their face and what they thought was something to emulate has turned into a term of derision. 
 

 

No it wasn't, look up where the word woke was initially used. It's lazy journalism, like staycation means not going abroad on holiday, it's not fact. Woke wasn't first used in Harlem, New York either. It's all out there, you just need to dig a bit deeper to get to the bottom of it.

[trigger_andy]

17 minutes ago, eggsarascal said:

No it wasn't, look up where the word woke was initially used. It's lazy journalism, like staycation means not going abroad on holiday, it's not fact. Woke wasn't first used in Harlem, New York either. It's all out there, you just need to dig a bit deeper to get to the bottom of it.

That’s your opinion Eggy and one you seem to have gained from what the MSM tells you to believe. 
 

I know you occasionally venture over to Europe and perhaps you venture further afield, but your POV seems to be constantly what you read about in the news….

[Mull]

No it wasn't, look up where the word woke was initially used. It's lazy journalism, like staycation means not going abroad on holiday, it's not fact. Woke wasn't first used in Harlem, New York either. It's all out there, you just need to dig a bit deeper to get to the bottom of it.

I’m afraid I’m not woke enough to know where the term originated from, I assume it means sounding sympathetic without understanding or actually being genuinely sympathetic in anyway whatsoever.

Everything went wrong when we stopped smacking children.

[eggsarascal]

2 minutes ago, trigger_andy said:

That’s your opinion Eggy and one you seem to have gained from what the MSM tells you to believe. 
 

I know you occasionally venture over to Europe and perhaps you venture further afield, but your POV seems to be constantly what you read about in the news….

I do go into Europe and have been much further, I get my news from several different radio stations and what I read. Where else can I get information from?

 

I'd still like you to tell us where the word woke was originally used.

[trigger_andy]

Just now, Mull said:

 

 

I’m afraid I’m not woke enough to know where the term originated from, I assume it means sounding sympathetic without understanding or actually being genuinely sympathetic in anyway whatsoever.

Everything went wrong when we stopped smacking children.

 

 

And some adults as well….

 

😂

[Mull]

And some adults as well….
 
[emoji23]

Aye, at least that’s not frowned upon as much[emoji1]

[trigger_andy]

Just now, eggsarascal said:

 

 

I'd still like you to tell us where the word woke was originally used.

I thought I did so? 
 

But to be honest it’s roots are far deeper than airheads desperate for attention and validation.  They just jumped on the bandwagon sitting in a circle drinking soy lattes trying to find the next thing to be offended at. 
 

 

[eggsarascal]

5 minutes ago, trigger_andy said:

I thought I did so? 
 

But to be honest it’s roots are far deeper than airheads desperate for attention and validation.  They just jumped on the bandwagon sitting in a circle drinking soy lattes trying to find the next thing to be offended at. 
 

 

You tried, but you are wrong. Now Andrew, you should admit if you are wrong, I'll give you until tomorrow to find out where the word woke was initially used or you'll have to do 100 lines. Catch ya tomorrow, I've got to work in Stevenage tomorrow, for a mate in need... I need it like a hole in the head atm.

[trigger_andy]

Just now, eggsarascal said:

You tried, but you are wrong. Now Andrew, you should admit if you are wrong, I'll give you until tomorrow to find out where the word woke was initially used or you'll have to do 100 lines. Catch ya tomorrow, I've got to work in Stevenage tomorrow, for a mate in need... I need it like a hole in the head atm.

I don’t envy you having to work on a Sunday, yet it’s what I’ll be doing too. 😁 

 

9 x 12” post holes to dig out for some 6” posts as a base for my new workshop. The joys never end. 
 

Unless you have some irrefutable proof of your understanding we’re just gonna have to agree to disagree on this one. 
 

Andrew indeed! I’m only called that by my wife when she’s angry with me and that ends up with some passionate love making later that evening. So I’m somewhat Pavlov’d into being turned on by being called that. Xx