@kevcvs57 saidYou are not specific, but we can discount your 'books verboten' comment, I assume you mean banned? No books have been banned.. Some parents do not want their children exposed to the porno-like books, and are trying to figure oout what in the hell to do....Some, like Shav, want kids exposed to everything. Which way do you lean? Also, they want their children to learn reading, writing and arithmetiic, not how the slaves were about 150 yrs ago. I want my child to learn economics so he can be successful and amass a fortune. Which way do you lean on that, Mr. Woke Kev?
Cite verified examples of libs doing what you claim and then explain how you can have low taxes and small government without government financed services not suffering underfunding. Did liberals draw up a list of books deemed verboten Did the libs introduce politicised history lessons that surgically removed reference to historical facts regarding slavery and Jim Crow etc?
...[text shortened]... S children. Apologies for introducing facts into your scattergun libs bad illiberal’s good BS thread
Yeah, you got me, I really want my children to be well-versed in Jim Crow. No, on second thought, I will put them in a school that teaches productivity and success, not how to scream in the streets with signs. They will be too busy!!
Oh, forgot....as to your first paragraph, the simple answer is budgeting. The city council, and the US Congress, live by a budget. That answers your question. Kev........the queston in itself brands you as WOKE!
@AverageJoe1
Of COURSE the Trump cult would claim he is the most intelligent human being on the planet, higher IQ than William Sidis, Einstein, Hawking COMBINED.
How can YOU be so stupid as to think Trump is smart? SLY is what he is, a known pathological liar is what he is. A decades long GRIFTER is what he is and you being front and center in his cult you think OF COURSE he is the smartest person to ever live.
And those 91 counts, just a massive dem witch hunt since my god king cult leader Trump can do no wrong because he is above the law.
BTW, us being 'WOKE' means FOR CERTAIN you all are ASLEEP, ESPECIALLY those Trump cultists in congress fukking up EVERYTHING in the US including threatening a complete government shutdown. That is what those assswipes think is governing, tear it all apart, ruin our national credit rating, who gives a shyte about that real world stuff, airline traffic controllers no longer getting checks nor millions of military folks, one repub TOTAL assswipe stopping most ALL military promotions BECAUSE he wants a change to military abortion policy. What the FUK is wrong with you people anyway? Do you really think that is GOVERNING?
@sonhouse said1. Biden is a known liar, plagiarizer, and grifting as we speak.
@AverageJoe1
Of COURSE the Trump cult would claim he is the most intelligent human being on the planet, higher IQ than William Sidis, Einstein, Hawking COMBINED.
How can YOU be so stupid as to think Trump is smart? SLY is what he is, a known pathological liar is what he is. A decades long GRIFTER is what he is and you being front and center in his cult you think OF COURSE ...[text shortened]... bortion policy. What the FUK is wrong with you people anyway? Do you really think that is GOVERNING?
2. We get your thoughts on Trump.
There are videos all the way back 40 years of the lying plagiarizing cheating theiving Biden. Even before his hair plugs. What a winner. Hair plugs, and you don't like the color of Trumps hair.
Hair plugs......hahahahah
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@techsouth saidExactly. You want to take a word and change the clear definition so it means something else, something vague, something that's more of a feeling than a real thing. It's just things you don't like, or? What? It's not a great debate topic.
"awareness of systemic issues of racial injustice". If that were the only phenomenon in play, that would be fair enough.
Unfortunately, we have people declaring things such as "math is racist", people writing papers on "relationship between gender and glaciers" and campuses having a "white out" day on campus where whites are bullied into not being there. One could easi ...[text shortened]... d understand words. The word "woke", when used in a mocking way describes an observable phenomenon.
@wildgrass saidI am socially aware enough to understand that a word that had a meaning has been change into a pejorative term used to mock. I'm sure we could find many other examples.
Exactly. You want to take a word and change the clear definition so it means something else, something vague, something that's more of a feeling than a real thing. It's just things you don't like, or? What? It's not a great debate topic.
Kind of like "Let's go Brandon", which in 2023 has nothing to do with anyone named Brandon.
You don't like how language works on society. Sorry. Not liking it shouldn't stop you from understanding it.
Someone asked for a definition, I gave it.
And the current pejorative meaning isn't vague. People can debate individual cases, but the meaning and the accusation is clear.
@techsouth saidWhat a Fantastic post! Forum needs more of this, to clarify the world for people who are NOT LIKE US!! (sorry, lost my open-mindedness!). A thumb-up would not do it justice, and anyway, livbs will simply (in uniskon, of course) change its meaning. What is the 'reeeeaaal meaning' of a thumb up.
I am socially aware enough to understand that a word that had a meaning has been change into a pejorative term used to mock. I'm sure we could find many other examples.
Kind of like "Let's go Brandon", which in 2023 has nothing to do with anyone named Brandon.
You don't like how language works on society. Sorry. Not liking it shouldn't stop you from understanding i ...[text shortened]... aning isn't vague. People can debate individual cases, but the meaning and the accusation is clear.
This is great, SNL last night, they have Joe going up a ladder. I am of the opinion that libs, who act in unison and take their orders from the top, have been told (by the top) to start parodying Joe to start getting rid of him.
https://deadline.com/2023/10/saturday-night-live-cold-open-joe-biden-1235586371/
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@averagejoe1 saidI can't find it. Of course, I don't slum the cesspools of right-wing degeneracy that you do, so if that's where you dredged up your dreck, then you really should provide a link. Otherwise I don't believe a word of it -- especially coming from you, since (as I've said) you are known to be a liar and professional distortion artist.
As what I wrote is factual, that means you can find it yoursel, I stand behind every word.
As to your first sentence above, I am offffeeennnnnnnnnnded. I bet you have used that word before. Creepy.
@techsouth said
I am socially aware enough to understand that a word that had a meaning has been change into a pejorative term used to mock. I'm sure we could find many other examples.
Kind of like "Let's go Brandon", which in 2023 has nothing to do with anyone named Brandon.
You don't like how language works on society. Sorry. Not liking it shouldn't stop you from understanding i ...[text shortened]... aning isn't vague. People can debate individual cases, but the meaning and the accusation is clear.
You don't like how language works on society.
No. I am fine with language. I like language. But you provide a vague definition of the word woke as "weaponized grievance" which is very different from how most people use the word. Then, you dis-qualify certain topics as being woke like guns and abortion. And now, you change the definition again, calling it a pejorative. As the term has evolved throughout the thread, you still think the definition is clear? You only seem convinced that you know what it is, but cannot explain it.
The originator of this thread has admitted that the term, as used by you folk, defies a clear definition, more a feeling than anything. Nothing is woke, it just feels woke. Like pornography.
Weaponized personal grievance, if we want to stick with that, is not even useful for purposes of this thread. In this individual case, we're talking about business hiring practices, not grievances.
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@averagejoe1 saidOrders? Presidents are always parodied on SNL. I think Joe's been played by at least 5 different cast members. Slow Joe has been a joke on the show since 2008.
This is great, SNL last night, they have Joe going up a ladder. I am of the opinion that libs, who act in unison and take their orders from the top, have been told (by the top) to start parodying Joe to start getting rid of him.
https://deadline.com/2023/10/saturday-night-live-cold-open-joe-biden-1235586371/
@wildgrass saidBut, today, now, I think our country leaders and the administration, have put the word out that we need to get rid of Biden (see news), so now, today, there is a plethora of such skits as SNL is putting on. Note that there are more than usual. I am just. a reporter, I know that you are a defender of this senile old man, who is responsible for 330M people. That, I just do not understand. Could you explain?
Orders? Presidents are always parodied on SNL. I think Joe's been played by at least 5 different cast members. Slow Joe has been a joke on the show since 2008.
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@averagejoe1 saidMaybe at some point we'll get around to discussing the topic of the thread
But, today, now, I think our country leaders and the administration, have put the word out that we need to get rid of Biden (see news), so now, today, there is a plethora of such skits as SNL is putting on. Note that there are more than usual. I am just. a reporter, I know that you are a defender of this senile old man, who is responsible for 330M people. That, I just do not understand. Could you explain?
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@averagejoe1 saidYou should have taken another year of remedial algebra.
This is a bit off the wall, but note that the black population makes up 12% of our populace, thus 6% men. Yet, there are waaaay more than 6% company male employees.