Autumn

Davis wrote:

Rich, it would seem that when a government reacts to a long, highly disruptive protest at the gates of the democratic institutions, which in part was explicitly under the mission of “getting rid of a democratic government”…

That certainly was one of the oddities of the whole affair. It wasn’t clear what, exactly they wanted fro…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:

You guys are missing the point. What was the protest about? It was about a draconian program to require vaccination.

In its infancy, it was about border policy. At the time, Canada and the US had similar policies regarding vaccination and quarantine requirements. For truckers crossing the border, this would make their job…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:

@autumn You missed the part about blacklisting companies?

I didn’t miss it. It’s largely unintelligible. The federal government, at the time, wanted to cut off funds to the illegal blockade. This meant businesses and individuals who were funnelling money into the convoy had their assets temporarily frozen. The feds pressured banks,…[Read more]

The Canadian government didn’t seize bank accounts: it temporarily froze them (seizing, in this context, would mean that the government or government agencies took possession of the funds). This is after streets in front of Parliament had been blockaded for a full month. Money was being promised to the protestors so they could remain indefinitely.…[Read more]

That’s probably too big of a conversation. I don’t know when that audio clip was recorded, but it’s likely been in the neighbourhood of a couple of decades since. A lot has happened since then—enough to let us know that language does matter for quite a few reasons (though that doesn’t contradict Carlin here). While ‘PC’ changes aren’t always i…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:

Anyone “woke” should take notice:

I like Carlin, but in this case, no, not really. I won’t say he’s 100% wrong. It can slow conversation for people who become paralyzed looking for the right term so as to avoid criticism. But he’s missing or deliberately cutting out so much of the conversation that it comes off as misguided and naï…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:

November 2017 – Lindsay Shepherd – Wilfrid Laurier University While serving as a teaching assistant in a first-year Communications Studies class, Shepherd showed a video to students featuring a debate between Jordan Peterson and Nicholas Matte on the subject of gender-neutral pronouns.

10/5/2016 – Jordan Peterson – Univ…

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Noel wrote:

What’s happening in states like Florida right now, with their crusade against LGBTQ, and Drag Shows, and book banning, and a woman’s right to choose for herself what to do with her body. Guess Florida has won that “WOKE” battle their Governor is fond of talking about because no one is holding that bullshit accountable. The folks i…

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Simon Paynton wrote:

Autumn wrote:

pretend to get cancelled?

It is funny. But it’s also the classic line taken by victimisers and abusers everywhere: “look, I did X bad thing. But the victim isn’t really suffering.”

Pretending to be a victim when one has their abuse called out is also a tactic taken by abusers and enablers of abusers.

What weighs less:  kilogram of woke-ism or a kilogram of spirituality?

If woke falls in the woods and no one is around to hear it, does someone still pretend to get cancelled?