The Unbearable Whiteness of Climate Anxiety

[ZiprHead]

To be fair, excluding people who have shitty values is a normal and acceptable action of society.

Usually, and when done correctly, this has the form of "until they stop being shitty."

The problem is that you've left one thing vague, but which needs to be specific, or your statement is one of two things.

1) To prevent dysfunctional people from having positions of power where they can harm minorities.

2) To prevent people form having unpopular but harmless opinions.

I somehow doubt you are ok with thinking you mean the latter? Woke tells themselves they're doing the former. But they are today mostly doing the latter. The problem with that is that it stifles all debate. It kills all meaningful discussion.

Today people can have perfectly fine values but still get fired from their jobs because they fail to utter the correct virtue signal at an important moment. People can say things in anger and is then ascribed to their entire person.

I'm arguing that today we're mostly doing woke "incorrectly" and we're not solving the problems. If anything only making it worse. I think woke today stinks of Maoism. While I am progressive I think conservatives today have a point in this.

There's always been the woke. Not just today. Black men were lynched for looking at a white person the wrong way. Beatles records were burned. Slaughterhouse five books were burned. The Dixie Chicks were cancelled. Spare me your sanctimony.

 

[thebeave]

The Dixie Chicks are still around, but they changed their name to "The Chicks", due to political correctness. Though, I hear the feminists are finding that name to be offensive and problematic, so its likely the band will now go by "The".

 

[DrZoidberg]

To be fair, excluding people who have shitty values is a normal and acceptable action of society.

Usually, and when done correctly, this has the form of "until they stop being shitty."

The problem is that you've left one thing vague, but which needs to be specific, or your statement is one of two things.

1) To prevent dysfunctional people from having positions of power where they can harm minorities.

2) To prevent people form having unpopular but harmless opinions.

I somehow doubt you are ok with thinking you mean the latter? Woke tells themselves they're doing the former. But they are today mostly doing the latter. The problem with that is that it stifles all debate. It kills all meaningful discussion.

Today people can have perfectly fine values but still get fired from their jobs because they fail to utter the correct virtue signal at an important moment. People can say things in anger and is then ascribed to their entire person.

I'm arguing that today we're mostly doing woke "incorrectly" and we're not solving the problems. If anything only making it worse. I think woke today stinks of Maoism. While I am progressive I think conservatives today have a point in this.

There's always been the woke. Not just today. Black men were lynched for looking at a white person the wrong way. Beatles records were burned. Slaughterhouse five books were burned. The Dixie Chicks were cancelled. Spare me your sanctimony.

But it's always been bad, right? I hope you agree with that.

 

[DrZoidberg]

The Dixie Chicks are still around, but they changed their name to "The Chicks", due to political correctness. Though, I hear the feminists are finding that name to be offensive and problematic, so its likely the band will now go by "The".

How dare you presume which type of article word identifies as? How insensitive.

 

[Trausti]

There's always been the woke. Not just today. Black men were lynched for looking at a white person the wrong way. Beatles records were burned. Slaughterhouse five books were burned. The Dixie Chicks were cancelled. Spare me your sanctimony.

But it's always been bad, right? I hope you agree with that.

When have the book banners and purity enforcers ever been on the side of good?

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

There's always been the woke. Not just today. Black men were lynched for looking at a white person the wrong way. Beatles records were burned. Slaughterhouse five books were burned. The Dixie Chicks were cancelled. Spare me your sanctimony.

But it's always been bad, right? I hope you agree with that.

When have the book banners and purity enforcers ever been on the side of good?

Just a few months ago conservatives tried to LITERALLY cancel Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi and before that Good Year. Conservatives are always on the side of good!

 

[Trausti]

When have the book banners and purity enforcers ever been on the side of good?

Just a few months ago conservatives tried to cancel Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi and before that Good Year. Conservatives are always on the side of good!

And that’s wrong. Can we agree it’s wrong no matter who does it?

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

When have the book banners and purity enforcers ever been on the side of good?

Just a few months ago conservatives tried to cancel Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi and before that Good Year. Conservatives are always on the side of good!

And that’s wrong. Can we agree it’s wrong no matter who does it?

Conservatives have ALWAYS been about cancelling. Thousands of years ago it was about stoning people and in some places conservatives are still doing it. It's a good thing the left pressures the government to be secular and liberal or we'd be stoning gay people for who they want to have sex with in the bedroom privately.

In this case, though, conservatives are trying to cancel environmental activists who are white because they have some limited, relative power, and trying to create a wedge between groups.

The ACTUAL, REAL issue is about climate change, not all these labels like "woke" and other bs. This is the priority for humanity to deal with.

 

[Trausti]

And that’s wrong. Can we agree it’s wrong no matter who does it?

Conservatives have ALWAYS been about cancelling. Thousands of years ago it was about stoning people and in some places conservatives are still doing it. It's a good thing the left pressures the government to be secular and liberal or we'd be stoning gay people for who they want to have sex with in the bedroom privately.

So, for you, the cultural revolution never happened?

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

And that’s wrong. Can we agree it’s wrong no matter who does it?

Conservatives have ALWAYS been about cancelling. Thousands of years ago it was about stoning people and in some places conservatives are still doing it. It's a good thing the left pressures the government to be secular and liberal or we'd be stoning gay people for who they want to have sex with in the bedroom privately.

So, for you, the cultural revolution never happened?

No, that's the opposite of what I wrote. I wrote that we as a society would still be stoning gay people, if it weren't for the pressures from liberals, like the cultural revolution you are invoking. I hope that clears up your shenanigans, but somehow I doubt it.

#1 the intersectionality between whiteness and climate anxiety.
#2 the legitimate need for major environmental regulation or alternatively catastrophic results will occur.

Guess which one conservatives are focused on.

 

[Trausti]

So, for you, the cultural revolution never happened?

No, that's the opposite of what I wrote. I wrote that we as a society would still be stoning gay people, if it weren't for the pressures from liberals, like the cultural revolution you are invoking. I hope that clears up your shenanigans, but somehow I doubt it.

#1 the intersectionality between whiteness and climate anxiety.
#2 the legitimate need for major environmental regulation or alternatively catastrophic results will occur.

Guess which one conservatives are focused on.

You’re so hung up on your hatred of conservatives that you can’t agree that book burning and purity enforcing is wrong no matter who does it.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

So, for you, the cultural revolution never happened?

No, that's the opposite of what I wrote. I wrote that we as a society would still be stoning gay people, if it weren't for the pressures from liberals, like the cultural revolution you are invoking. I hope that clears up your shenanigans, but somehow I doubt it.

#1 the intersectionality between whiteness and climate anxiety.
#2 the legitimate need for major environmental regulation or alternatively catastrophic results will occur.

Guess which one conservatives are focused on.

You’re so hung up on your hatred of conservatives that you can’t agree that book burning and purity enforcing is wrong no matter who does it.

You are so hung up on trying to be politically clever, you can't bring yourself to talk about the actual real issue which is climate change itself and how to deal with it through smart policy.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

OMFG!!! Aunt Jemima is gone and the owner to the rights of Dr. Seuss's books decided not to publish 6 of them anymore.

That is totally as bad as invading the US Capitol and chanting for the death of the Vice President.

Kind of makes Moore-Coulter seem understated.

 

[Trausti]

You’re so hung up on your hatred of conservatives that you can’t agree that book burning and purity enforcing is wrong no matter who does it.

You are so hung up on trying to be politically clever, you can't bring yourself to talk about the actual real issue which is climate change itself and how to deal with it through smart policy.

Oh, no. I’m in favor of nuclear power. And so are most conservatives.

 

[steve_bank]

What is unbearable is beating the word whiteness to dearth, it is overused to the point of being meaningless.

 

[Trausti]

If you’re saying ‘whiteness’ without reference to laundry, it’s anti-White racism.

 

[steve_bank]

It has become a mantra for blacks, 'whiteness; as something that can rub off on you. Much as was 'blackness' when used by whites during the peak of racism and ignorance.

The extreme racists looked at 'blackness' as being a communicable disease. From what I hear in the media it is now the other way around.

 

[Shadowy Man]

The Dixie Chicks are still around, but they changed their name to "The Chicks", due to political correctness. Though, I hear the feminists are finding that name to be offensive and problematic, so its likely the band will now go by "The".

There’s already a band called “The The”. ‘Dusk’ is my favorite album of theirs. Kind of hard to find them in a google search though, as you can imagine.

 

[DrZoidberg]

When have the book banners and purity enforcers ever been on the side of good?

Just a few months ago conservatives tried to LITERALLY cancel Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi and before that Good Year. Conservatives are always on the side of good!

I'm a liberal. I'm aware of this. Conservatives have always been worse. But the fact that some conservatives are corrupt scumbags who need to terrorise people into obedience, isn't a free pass for the liberals to do it. Cancelling is always bad. It's got to be ok to have an unpopular opinion and not risk losing ones job. That's what democracy is about IMHO.

 

[fromderinside]

Cancel is a baby throwing pasta off her highchair because she doesn't want to be there.