What is funny is that the same people who can’t see what wokeness is, somehow see with absolute clarity that Kirk was racist. — Fire Ologist
Or Trump is a fascist dictator. — Fire Ologist
Not seeing what “woke” is, is very woke. — Fire Ologist
the US might be 'less woke' in some respects, but it is also woke ground zero in the only considerations that matter. I mean, the philosophical roots are international, Marx, Foucault, Marcuse, Friere, etc.
But CRT and the vast majority of modern 'wokeness' come from US universities — Jeremy Murray
I am puzzled, tbh, by you guys. You genuinely don't think wokeness is a problem? Do you endorse elements of the practice? — Jeremy Murray
Does your wife still teach? It's a tough gig, primarily because of appalling behaviour, regular violence, tolerance of disruption, etc. I was told thirty years back, during my b. ed, that we didn't need to 'worry' about discipline, because good lessons, culturally relevant material, etc would solve all the problems.
Wokeness has been the defining philosophical approach of public education for decades. Even the insistence on whole language over phonics is 'woke'. — Jeremy Murray
Well that was what I found odd about his reply to me, purpose not existing in the objective sense doesn't mean that we don't know anything or such. — Darkneos
Unless you want to say something more about how DEI leads to a diverse workforce and more profits. — Fire Ologist
How about deny a claim if the insured isn’t able to demonstrate compliance with the law? — Fire Ologist
Why are we making an issue of the term "woke"? Discussing the behavior might be more productive? But arguing about the meaning of the word, is like a dog chasing its own tail. It seems obvious the word can mean anything a person wants it to mean. But what is the social value we are talking about? — Athena
One thing they can do is name a DEI officer to be responsible for compliance, to figure out how to train, etc. Looks really good on paper. Saves money on premium. — Fire Ologist
No one has been “gagged”. Everyone is free to print whatever news is fit to print. — Fire Ologist
You are being a baby. Like the news media. And your average college professor. — Fire Ologist
I never said requirement or legal requirement to get insurance. You said that. I said we had to do it to get good insurance. — Fire Ologist
Let's get it straight: are you maintaining that it was a requirement of a particular insurer / package that you hire a DEI officer? — Mijin
So some gagging is terrible, but gagging Athena wasn’t. — Fire Ologist
So are corporate profits and capitalism good to you? Because that’s not woke - that’s exploitation and greed and builds oligarchies and permanent underclasses. — Fire Ologist
I don’t want to proceed unless you tell me what woke actually is to you - if you don’t think it’s a thing, a force, a set of policies, a philosophic worldview, then we will never build a conversation. — Fire Ologist
You might not know what you are talking about. Maybe there is no basis to accuse me of exaggerating. Google some more.. There are lots of ways to meet insurance underwriting requirements. There are lots of ways insurers can hike up your premium. There are lots of ways insurers can deny your claims? You really might want to talk to some business owners about what they actually do, what they have to do, what they do that is above and beyond the law and insurance requirements, and why they do it. — Fire Ologist
We have a DEI officer because we can’t get good employment insurance without it. — Fire Ologist
You don’t really think a company that wants profit isn’t trying to draw from the widest pool possible to gain more profit? — Fire Ologist
Wokeism is a type of totalitarian fascism. Can we acknowledge that first on a thread about the end of woke? — Fire Ologist
It’s punching. That is the point. You can claim your own spot on whatever ladder you are climbing up or down if you want, and see your poor victims punching up and your privileged assholes punching down. — Fire Ologist
So that means woke people who rail against the system, rage against the machine, are missing the mark, wasting our time, contradicting themselves, making incoherent arguments, and suggesting terrible policies and practices. — Fire Ologist
DEI is an academic, theoretical discussion - but implemented in HR departments of corporate America, it’s utter bullshit. It utterly divides and polarizes brown versus red versus yellow versus black versus white. It builds intolerance, inequity and exclusion, just in a new form, and of a different color. — Fire Ologist
I am trying to focus on woke qua woke. You want me to acknowledge maga qua facism. I see that as another discussion. — Fire Ologist
That means you completely agree with the facts. The facts are, when you are racist against white men, it is poking fun, but when you are racist against others, it true racism. — Fire Ologist
I’m saying when I’ve heard woke people tell whites they can’t be victims of racism because they are in power, — Fire Ologist
It is precisely the fact the poor black and brown people can be racist against rich white men, that makes racism immoral and illogical [...] Identifying white majority status is necessary; but saying there is no racism against the ones in power is misunderstanding racism, ignoring facts, a lie, an agenda that has nothing to do with race, bad reasoning, all of the above… — Fire Ologist
What do you think? [of my definition of woke] Where am I off on the wrong foot? What needs to be added? — Fire Ologist
You can’t clarify exactly how the anti-woke are living in fantasy grievance land a bit more? — Fire Ologist
What if he’s rich too? A capitalist white prep school nepo baby with some German/Italian/Irish in his veins. No reason not to pick on such a person, right? I can use them as a stand in for any theft, lie, rape, conspiracy, murder, war, and I am within bounds of respectable argumentation. All white men are the same on some level, because they are all white men. Right? — Fire Ologist
How about if I said this about some other race? Do you think I could make any point talking about some non-white person without inviting utter condemnation and disgust? — Fire Ologist
So you won’t say what is woke, but the anti-woke is a clear threat. — Fire Ologist
Institutional freedoms? Like the wonderful judicial system that, used to be hated for incarcerating too many victims of racism, but is now under threat from the president? — Fire Ologist
Institutional freedoms like the rule of law, which would include border immigration reform? — Fire Ologist
The reason woke thinkers won’t define “woke” is because it would reveal its incoherence and contradictions. — Fire Ologist
One man and one woman, married, as mother and father, typically provide the basis of a good family, and typically the best situation to raise a child.
Why should anyone cringe at hearing the above? Because it’s not woke. — Fire Ologist
So you didn’t even try to define it. You should ask yourself why you don’t think a definition of your position is necessary. — Fire Ologist
Is there anything illogical or incoherent or contradictory going on as this progress is being made, because if there is, don’t you think things may come crashing down as the inconsistencies rot any progress from within?
Is the only critique of woke to come from the unwoke? — Fire Ologist
Why not just:
1. Define woke. — Fire Ologist
2. Construct something new, propose good woke policy and practice — Fire Ologist
3. Self-reflect from the woke side of the equation and show where woke needs improvement - be critical of “critical theory” for just a bit. — Fire Ologist
1. It’s unwoke to define something clearly - definition itself is an oppression. A well articulated principle is like authoritarian law, and tyranny. — Fire Ologist
2. Woke debate tactics are to wait for the opponent to make an assertion, and attack and deconstruct that. — Fire Ologist
3. The woke, the masters of “critical theory” never self-reflect, because they have already decided their position is obviously superior, common sense, morally superior, rational, and most practical. — Fire Ologist
The transporter does not need to result in a you the way you are (relatively strictly) describing it. On a PC position, you can come out, and diverge immediately (becoming "someone else"). And this does not matter. — AmadeusD
In differentiation, yes. I have explained that quite clearly too. Those aberrations don't change your sex. — AmadeusD
Humans are (in some studies) next-to-100% accurate in telling sex from facial features alone. What we need to do is trust that people will not lie about their sex. If that's a concern, then perhaps we do need testing. But that's not my position. My position is that we separate almost all private spaces by sex (for almost all of history). That is right. We should continue to do so. We understood there were bad actors before 2010 and almost every male weasling their way into a female space was promptly dealt with.
More males in female spaces is a bad idea. That's the headline. This isn't controversial. — AmadeusD
You are clearly not reading anything I have presented. THe SRY gene determines whether you are male or female. That's the end of that part of hte discussion.
During sexual differentiation your phenotype can be aberrant — AmadeusD
I've not said anything at all about a DNA test. If you could ask a non-loaded question on the back of a fairly confused response to some biologically crucial information, I would be happy to treat hte "what we should do" type questions in good faith. — AmadeusD
Hmm, I don't think it changes anything. THe transporter need not 'work' for there to be an acceptable output. PC does that, avoiding hte problem of whether it 'works' entirely. That's why its the 'best' avenue for hte vast majority of people's intuitions. — AmadeusD
That doesn't seem entirely wrong to me, it just begs the question of how could that possibly matter, if all it obtains in is a single planck-length type moment — AmadeusD
But at the moment immediately after B comes into existence, they have diverged. That's crucial, and being missed. — AmadeusD
Not does your credulity prove it. — Patterner
How many nanoseconds are needed to bring about simple death? — Patterner
They can't, as best as my knowledge goes. — AmadeusD
First, I didn't say "that you are wrong." When quoting me, kindly don't misquote me. At least not intentionally. — Patterner
What if the process requires that the original remain alive for x seconds after the duplicate materializes elsewhere, then their particles disperse? — Patterner
The person's life is lost in that nanosecond. If you disperse a person's particles, the person is dead. That does not require explanation or elaboration. It's an obvious fact. — Patterner
But once you say that a biological man can't be with females (in this case, prisons), aren't you opening the door to banning men from other female-only areas? — RogueAI