Current Events > Has woke culture restricted your freedoms?

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metralo posted...

what specifically do you think changed?

Places like twitter/facebook where "engagement" was the driving force for profit made conflict in discourse much more incentivized.

If you are spammed the worst takes by the most upsetting people you are going to lose your patience and start assuming that everybody is as dense as the dumbest people in your feed. So financial incentives pushed people in divisive directions and contributed to the election of further divisive individuals.

It's an engagement aka conflict feedback loop, and things like wokeness played a part in that. Small group of people get "outraged" for shallow contextless reasons, there's a backlash to it, there's a backlash to the backlash, social media acts like it's the most important thing in the world because it gets clicks and then some episode of a show is removed or somebody's career is ruined. And then the whole discourse continues to get worse and more divisive.

Changing a characters race isn't even a new thing. It is something that Hollywood has done for a long time.

This is Agent J in the original Men in Black comics.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/8/7/AAAZARAAE9sn.jpg

No one cared that the blond haired white guy was turned into a black man because no one knew there was an original source the movie was based on. People only whine about race swaps when they know they are happening.

JoeNumbers sure is selective in what they decide to reply to.

Got through two pages of this topic before I had to stop after laughing my ass off over joe numbers trying to convince people here that he has friends IRL

Heineken14 posted...

Hah, other dude in that sballen topic the other day tried doing literally the exact same shit. If they weren't so ridiculous with their obvious made up bullshit maybe they would be taken a bit more serious.

Lmao, that obvious trumper alt was spraying tears all over the chudreddits after that. "WAAAAHHHHHH MOD BIAS U GUSY!"

Lmao. Like they're actually being moderated for saying "I like Trump over Biden."

It has and you know the ones! - MAGAT Cultists

No, I see woke as identifying whitewashed or subtle persecution now and in history.

If at only point that disadvantages me? Then that was a privilege that shouldn't have been there.

Kradek posted...

I imagine you (your community) also generally look down on the acceptance of non-whites, non-Christians, women in prominent/leadership roles and non-heteronormative people, since that's what being anti-woke most accurately means when people complain about it.

To the right, built in advantages are expected and normal.