The Woke Generation - Fighting Back

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No, those definitions work for me. Now explain why Gina Carano was canceled as she clearly expressed no hate or bigotry in her comment.

And clearly, by that definition, most, if not all woke folk are bigots.

Are you denying that you as well as most of the leftists on this board show an intolerant devotion to your own opinions and prejudices?

Are you denying that you as well as most of the leftists on this board show an intolerant devotion to your own opinions and prejudices?

Two hundred professors launched the nonpartisan Academic Freedom Alliance this week to advocate for free speech in academe and, in some cases, legally defend professors’ academic freedom. Members include Cornel West, Robert P. George, Jeannie Suk Gersen, Jay Parini and Claire Potter. Membership is currently by invitation only, but the group plans on opening up to all academics.

“The AFA will provide strength in numbers for its members,” physicist Shivaji Sondhi of Princeton University said in a statement. “As membership continues to expand, administrators will have to think twice before baselessly censuring or terminating an employee.”

Keith E. Whittington, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics at Princeton, and chair of the AFA’s Academic Committee, in an interview said that the group’s makeup -- which spans the ideological spectrum -- is key to promoting free speech and academic freedom.

“There are people on university campuses as well as off university campuses who are not very committed to those principles and would like to see them significantly modified or changed,” Whittington said. “I think it's important that we be able to talk across some of these divides in order to convey the real sense that there's a sense of shared threat here. I do think it's true that those on the right and those on the left can easily imagine that they're the only ones being threatened.”

It is that the "Cancel Culture" is insidious, and has infiltrated not only the media, but all facets of the political and religious landscapes, as well.

Being "woke" was originally about understanding the hassles endured by people of other races and cultures, and accepting those people's stated hardships as valid.  Than along came the "Cancel Culture", which twists everything it touches into an effort to actively silence anyone who disagrees.

Think about it ... if you step back and examine every identifiable movement, you will eventually see how that culture has mutated from a "Let us self-advocate" culture to a "Let us get everybody else to STFU" culture.

Republicans, Democrats, Catholicism, Judaism ... it seems that every identifiable culture has been infected with the "Cancel Culture" virus.[/color]

What about the Niedermayer mutiny in ‘Nam?

Woke is the opposite of nice, it is about cancelling people, confronting people, making people “uncomfortable” 24/7 for the purpose of exhausting people that disagree with them.

It is about being against the goal of colorblindness.

You are right in that me being autistic very much informs my opposition to woke but not for the reasons you think.

Woke emphasizes intersectionality. In and of itself the idea is not wrong. The more minority groups you belong to the more chances you will be at a disadvantage and discriminated against. But it is turning into your groups completely define you and instead of being a part of who you are.

This groupcentric world view is a key to understanding my opposition. While I identify as autistic there is that expression “if you have met one autistic you have met one autistic”. Allowing individuality is important. Many autistics such as me thrive better and are happier by ourselves.

As an autistic why would I want to err on the side of free expression for ableists, why would I want to allow their hate speech? Woke is for minorities, why would I be against that? It is precisely to because I am a member of this very small minority. For the most part the wokes have stayed away from autism concentrating on racial, sexuality, and gender issues. Eventually they will get around to us and I don’t think that will be a good thing. Wokes love diversity when it is diversity they like and if you don’t agree conform, conform and Autistics are often non conformists and as such may very well be viewed as a hate group that needs canceling. Advocate for not curing a disease that makes peoples lives miserable and kills them, that is hate speech. I can envision Autistics literalness and lack of understanding of euphemisms being misunderstood as hate. It has already happened a few times.

Niedermayer was the leader of the Omegas in Animal House. The mutiny part was from the end of the movie, where the captions showed the fate of the characters.

Uh no, autistic people are not going to refuse to conform when they are also for diversity and ending racism and implicit bias in the work force. Unless they are bigots of course and want to keep their white privilege. Don't use autism as an excuse for bigotry.