Where do you think I found MrsL?
Where do you think I found MrsL?
Take it she doesn't requent this board?Originally Posted by Letters
Where do you think I found MrsL?
May she never find this threadWhere do you think I found MrsL?
For the record, although we did meet online it was on a site for God-botherers, not hideous trolls.
A distinction without a differenceFor the record, although we did meet online it was on a site for God-botherers, not hideous trolls.
Getting onto Religion, the Christian social conservatives are blaming secularism for woke.
Problem is woke is a nebulous term and although does have a clear and distinct meaning, it often means whatever one wants it to mean
Plus a lot of the stated objectives of woke - dealing with injustice, being kind to your fellow man (or non binary individual) ar Christian tenets. The argument seems to be that without fire and brimstone, people have lost their moral bearings.
It also uses secularism as an interchangeable with Atheism. I would imagine most Christians want to live in a secular society where religion is not enforced by the state and that faith is a private matter.
Plus I think what we call Christian culture is still enduring, just not the faith mechanism that goes with it.
I don’t want to replace one crazed millenarian ideology with another. Let people believe or not believe what they want
I'm not sure I really understand what it means. I looked up a definition and that didn't make it much clearer to me.
If woke means consideration and empathy for others' feelings then I'm in.
But that can be conflict with other people's feelings. Trans women want to be allowed in women's bathrooms. Some actual women don't want that as it makes them feel unsafe. So then what do you do? Have a 3rd option? Or gender neutral ones (we have those at work, it's all individual cubicles which seems reasonable enough).
There's a line between representation and pandering/box-ticking. A lot of advertising and TV feels like the latter.
There's a cast of 5, say, and one of them has to be gay. Because of course 20% of people are.
It’s largely about shoehorning things that might apply in America to other countries in the Anglosphere
Historically it’s not been peachy for Afro-Carribean people in the uk. IBK has recounted his own personal experience of racial abuse and being made to feel inferior by dickhead bullies. It’s not really something we’ve ever encountered but it’s not the same as in America.
The problem is it denies that any progress has been made since emancipation. It treats black people in the most appallingly patronising way and it encourages white people to feel guilty for no reason. There seems to be something positive about being marginalised that people want to claim the mantle.
I don’t feel marginalised or privileged. I think we’ve become obsessed with identity when it’s superficial and not that interesting, and it’s economic background rather than race which is a far larger determinant of how far you get in life.
I don’t feel guilty for what I am or what I think. But neither do I feel resentful against another group of people.
People adopted woke attitudes because they didn’t do the cost/benefit thinking, they went ahead and assumed it was kind.
The trans debate as you say is the perfect example of how if you give rights to certain people you risk taking them away from others. That and it’s clearly open to abuse from the worst kind of people
It overlaps with Islam in that way, the more freedom we give for religious expression the more we end up ceding our own rights to something which is deeply illiberal. Despite my banter, I leave Christianity alone because I don’t feel Christians presently trample on my right to free expression, but some of them are clearly itching for that opportunity in the name of anti woke.
The weirdest aspect of the whole US centrism thing was the George Floyd murder kicking off protests in the UK. Like, if you want to protest racism in the British police that's perfectly legitimate, but why was an American getting killed the spark for it? We're rioting on the streets here to protest racism over there? Or using a figurehead over there to rally against racism that occurs here?
It just seemed odd to me.
You used to be everything to me
Now you're tired of fighting
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