Woke outrage case just yesterday:
https://twitter.com/eevblog/status/1630361968099065857
Electroboom posted about how Canadian schools have apparently dropped geometry from the sylabus and he wasn't happy about it.
I sarcastically replied "Let me guess, they replaced it with a woke subject?" (because it actually has been huge news in Canada for many years now of this happening, that's the joke)
Electroboom then replied with a funny woke type quip.
Woke outrage case just yesterday:
https://twitter.com/eevblog/status/1630361968099065857
Electroboom posted about how Canadian schools have apparently dropped geometry from the sylabus and he wasn't happy about it.
I sarcastically replied "Let me guess, they replaced it with a woke subject?" (because it actually has been huge news in Canada for many years now of this happening, that's the joke)
Electroboom then replied with a funny woke type quip.
You're free to post a joke, that part is fine.
Electroboom saying "I just realized x" without posting any proof or citation whatsoever, is deceptive and disingenuous. Now people are left thinking its a fact, while simultaneously stirring up outrage/whatever. This is an actual problem.
Its a bullshit statement, geometry is right there: https://curriculum.gov.bc.ca/curriculum/mathematics/12/geometry
It's interesting to see how the use of the term "woke" is evolving. A few years ago when "woke" hit the mainstream, the SJW-types were embracing the term, applying it proudly and self-righteously to whatever they were trying to do. It was a badge of honor.
Now, whenever someone from the other side uses the "W" word, those same SJWs heap scorn and outrage, claiming that "woke" isn't a real thing, just something that the right-wing MAGA mob made up to be used as a slur.
[Yes, I know not everybody does this, but just over the past few days I've seen this in more than one editorial or commentary.]
And any time I think I'm just over-reacting, I merely have to read this from a few years ago (draft Seattle Schools K-12 Math Ethnic Studies Framework): https://www.k12.wa.us/sites/default/files/public/socialstudies/pubdocs/Math%20SDS%20ES%20Framework.pdf
And any time I think I'm just over-reacting, I merely have to read this from a few years ago (draft Seattle Schools K-12 Math Ethnic Studies Framework): https://www.k12.wa.us/sites/default/files/public/socialstudies/pubdocs/Math%20SDS%20ES%20Framework.pdf
And any time I think I'm just over-reacting, I merely have to read this from a few years ago (draft Seattle Schools K-12 Math Ethnic Studies Framework): https://www.k12.wa.us/sites/default/files/public/socialstudies/pubdocs/Math%20SDS%20ES%20Framework.pdf
Who gets to say if an answer is right?
That's not the point. The point is they got triggered because the word woke was mentioned.
I had noticed for years before all this hysteria arose, when nobody knew anything about Scott's political views, that Dilbert was losing popularity, & didn't appear as often as before.
It happens with cartoons---they are trendy for a while, then fade.
Maybe his more recent pronouncements were an attempt to lift his profile above "that bloke who used to do this cartoon with the pointy haired boss --can't remember the name".
That's not the point. The point is they got triggered because the word woke was mentioned.Yes I get that point. Attacking you based on the use of the word is dumb.
But it also doesn't look great to not take a few seconds to verify, is what I am replying to a fact, or just a made up/clickbait statement to generate views?
Not saying thats the case here, but, may have been in other scenarios.
so-called "conservatives" are not into the wry humour of his older cartoons, being more of the "true believer" type
And any time I think I'm just over-reacting, I merely have to read this from a few years ago (draft Seattle Schools K-12 Math Ethnic Studies Framework): https://www.k12.wa.us/sites/default/files/public/socialstudies/pubdocs/Math%20SDS%20ES%20Framework.pdf
Ah, memories. I do believe that was the post at the time that spawned my infamous FX-Problematic calculator joke reply. Another thing that still gets used today to prove that I'm a racist, homophobic, transphobic, misoginist, bigoted, Trump MAGA loving, alt-right privledged cis white male nazi.
If you think I'm being hyperbolic, I'm not, I've been called all those things and piled-on because of a joke tweets in reply to woke stuff like this. And anyone who dared associate with me got attacked too.
Go look at any article on any electronics wesbite like Hackaday that dares mention me and you'll enevitably find comments saying "why are supporting this xxxx-ist xxxx-phobe?"
They'll still be doing it 10 years time.
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I once posted a photo of a red cap with the message Make Electronics Great Again as a joke. And that was subsequently used (and continues to be used) by "the mob" in an attempt to cancel me and anyone associated with me as I mentioned previously.
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... social cues others perceive clearly are hard for me to discern. Things like ethnicity and even gender are not obvious to me, and I just do not pay attention to such details because I do not care about such details: they have no value to me in the interaction I have with the other person. And I do place high value in human-human interaction.
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... social cues others perceive clearly are hard for me to discern. Things like ethnicity and even gender are not obvious to me, and I just do not pay attention to such details because I do not care about such details: they have no value to me in the interaction I have with the other person. And I do place high value in human-human interaction.
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I have a similar view. It's all about what you bring to the table or in other words what you personally have to contribute. I could care less about anything else.
Nah,Dave, you're none of that shit---you are a bit of a "rightie", but who gives a damn!
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I once posted a photo of a red cap with the message Make Electronics Great Again as a joke. And that was subsequently used (and continues to be used) by "the mob" in an attempt to cancel me and anyone associated with me as I mentioned previously.
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Someone had posted a link at the top of this thread but the message was removed right away. I don't have a twit account but sounds like the you or admins did not pull it.
Conservative is actually 30% as I understand. But that's not what is on the opposite side for the radical left. The ultranationalists are really fringe in numbers, almost insignificant. I like to think of the political views as a circle, where the radical left and right are right next to each other. Bigger issue is that people seem to not even have a basic understanding of political views.
The horseshoe theory. I made this same observation quite a few years before I had a name for it. The far left and far right are diametrically opposed and yet nearly indistinguishable from each other in their behavior. A lot like the north and south poles of a magnet I suppose. You'd never know the difference without having an opposing pole to see how it reacts.
It's bollocks, I'm afraid.
Radical right wing wants: religious supremacy (often), radical policies on immigration ("build the wall" and so on), an entirely free market with no controls, as little government as possible.
Radical left wing wants: any religion or none (not usually specified), open borders (varies), a controlled market which is centrally planned, maximal governmental involvement.
I think it is hard to say that those two ends are equal in any significant manner.
Are they similarly rabid? Sure. Can they use similar techniques (violence, intimidation, protest, authoritianism) to get their way? Sure. But they definitely are quite distinct groups, even at the surface level, with a diametric opposition in many areas.
atheism, but it's a religion for all practical purposes.
Nah,Dave, you're none of that shit---you are a bit of a "rightie", but who gives a damn!
No actually, I consider myself left wing, as in old school left wing.
At one point in my life I would have been considered far or even extreme left.
But because the overton window shifted and the "left" has now gone batshit crazy, I'm still standing in the same place I always have politically, but now I'm constantly called "right" or "alt-right" for holding the exact same values.
These days I'd be closest to what you'd call a classical center liberal. And not Liberal in the Australian meaning of it, as in liberal party. For those outside Australia, the "Liberal party" here is the right wing christian conservative party, roughly equivalent to the US Rupublican party.
atheism, but it's a religion for all practical purposes.This is simply bollocks.
Radical right wing wants: religious supremacy (often), radical policies on immigration ("build the wall" and so on), an entirely free market with no controls, as little government as possible.
I think this one sums up your (and many others) situation: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/my-fellow-liberal
Radical right wing wants: religious supremacy (often), radical policies on immigration ("build the wall" and so on), an entirely free market with no controls, as little government as possible.
Every US president for the last 25 years starting from Bill Clinton has "built the wall", including Biden.
Every US president for the last 25 years starting from Bill Clinton has "built the wall", including Biden.Build-the-wall as in Trump's rhetoric on immigration rather than functional anti-immigration policy. Trump was definitely the most publicly anti-immigration, even if his policies did not have a great effect.