Be Woke, It's Much Easier Than Thinking!

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It's "get woke, go broke". See also whatever is going on in the US comic book industry.

Go Woke, Go Broke https://theescapeartist.me/2020/01/31/go-woke-go-broke/

Go woke, go broke, they say.
https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6133318534001

Except, "get woke, go broke" is a fallacy, since businesses usually use it to actually get more business and it works.

People were saying this about the recent She-Ra reboot, where people could see it as more "woke" for its desexualised character designs, and inside the show it had a more racially diverse cast, lesbians, gays, women of different body shapes and a non-binary character that was referred to by the right pronouns. And She-Ra has been perfectly popular.

It is ridiculous when apparently getting woke just includes having a diverse cast of different races, sexualities, genders and other feminist markers. Sure things cam be poorly implemented by doing things like thoughtless tokens that might be nothing but their token as a character trait, but the "woke" people dislike that too.

No one has said it explicitly yet, but this relentless pressure to reduce emissions appears to have been a significant factor in the disastrous safety failures of the Boeing 737 MAX aircraft, which resulted in two fatal crashes in the past year, claiming 346 lives. https://nypost.com/2019/10/23/devine-ec ... ty-issues/

The rule ‘Get Woke, Go Broke’ holds true, but why?

The advert, “We Believe: The Best Men Can Be” focussed on the idea that ‘toxic-masculinity’ would need to be dealt with. It showed men catcalling women, bullying and asked the question, “Is this the best a man can get? Is it?”.

Following the release of the advert Gillette and parent company, P & G received some support but also a significant amount of backlash. But, the rule proved true once again and P & G took a US $8 billion loss in the value of its 118-year-old shaving company. Although, the company blamed this loss on a strengthened US dollar and smaller market, but the backlash was obvious to anyone on social media or other similar platforms.

Another, similar, example is that of Handsome Her Café in Melbourne. The owners came up with a brilliant strategy that involved charging men an extra 18 cents to account for the so-called ‘gender pay gap’, as well as making sure women were the first to be seated. Unsurprisingly, the blatant sexism at the core of the Cafés policies didn’t actually help to increase revenue and the business closed down after just two years of operations. https://www.theunshackled.net/recourse/ ... e-but-why/

Your example reminds me of this:

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Also, didn't the Christian Crusades happen? Where they invaded Islamic controlled lands to rape and pillage them? The Christian religion has done plenty of awful things, most effectively been the extermination of people on lands to not fight back, and then convert them.

Byzantium had lost considerable territory to the invading Seljuk Turks. After years of chaos and civil war, the general Alexius Comnenus seized the Byzantine throne in 1081 and consolidated control over the remaining empire as Emperor Alexius I.

In 1095, Alexius sent envoys to Pope Urban II asking for mercenary troops from the West to help confront the Turkish threat. Though relations between Christians in the East and West had long been fractious, Alexius’s request came at a time when the situation was improving.

In November 1095, at the Council of Clermont in southern France, the Pope called on Western Christians to take up arms to aid the Byzantines and recapture the Holy Land from Muslim control. This marked the beginning of the Crusades.

A new, even more serious threat arose in the form of Islam, founded by the prophet Muhammad in Mecca in 622. In 634, Muslim armies began their assault on the Byzantine Empire by storming into Syria.

By the end of the century, Byzantium would lose Syria, the Holy Land, Egypt and North Africa (among other territories) to Islamic forces.

It's amazing how little they teach children these days:

I check those links, and they really do a number in just saying that Islam is evil and Crusades were nothing wrong. Its article on why Muslims see the crusades differently from Christianity feel a bit weird, is History.com reliable? The Wikipedia article for the channel/site says in the first part of criticism that it has a history of things like having a bias towards US history.

Crusades, military expeditions, beginning in the late 11th century, that were organized by western European Christians in response to centuries of Muslim wars of expansion. Their objectives were to check the spread of Islam, to retake control of the Holy Land in the eastern Mediterranean, to conquer pagan areas, and to recapture formerly Christian territories;

The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Latin Church in the medieval period. The term refers especially to the Eastern Mediterranean campaigns in the period between 1096 and 1271 that had the objective of recovering the Holy Land from Islamic rule.

After the foundation of the Islamic religion by Muhammad in the 7th century, Muslim Arabs conquered territory from the Indus in the east, across North Africa and Southern France to the Iberian Peninsula in the West, before political and religious fragmentation halted this expansion. Syria, Egypt, and North Africa were taken from the Byzantine Empire

The KKK is Christian.

I think there's a bit of talking past eachother here. The crusades were bad in the sense that wars in general are bad, and particularly so in a time well before established rules of war. But they were defensive wars or wars of reclamation, a response to 400-odd years of ceding ground to muslim aggression.

If you can overlook the 300-esque narration, here's a seemingly decent overview of the first crusade:







tl:dw: everyone was in-fighting, then some new dudes converted to islam and joined the fighting. The Byzantine Emperor got nervous and asked the Pope for help. The pope went to France and rolled a Natural 20 on his performance check and the idea of Holy War™ went viral. THEN s**t got real.

Are you saying we should judge the entirety of a group\country\religion based on the beliefs\actions of a small subset of the members? Or on past actions, basing your judgment on current knowledge\expectations\beliefs, rather than on what was known\expected\believed at that time in history?

That is the exact opposite of what I am saying. I don't know why you are saying this to me.

Isn't Islam like the second largest religion in India? And I am pretty sure that there are several Asian countries that it is also very popular. Maybe I am wrong, but I am pretty sure they are not just of middle eastern decent. I can also find this whole article on African American Muslims.

Also, didn't the Christian Crusades happen? Where they invaded Islamic controlled lands to rape and pillage them? The Christian religion has done plenty of awful things, most effectively been the extermination of people on lands to not fight back, and then convert them.

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the basic or inherent features, character, or qualities of something.

"the brain-twist required to deny the regressive nature of the religion Islam is amazing. If Christianity was guilty of even half as much, the "woke" people would have burned everything and everyone Christian to the ground, long ago."

"But Christianity did X,Y,Z in the past..."

(note: no mention of history, or the past, with this being contained within the present time.)
Response given by yourself:

(indicating judgement of Christianity on past actions, using current standards as basis for this judgement.)

I hope this clears up why I made that statement.

Also, the reason why Islam is the second largest religion in India is due to the hundreds of years of Mughal invasions. The relatively recent comment from Modi (who's insane in his own right, don't get me wrong) about muslims not being real Indians isn't because they aren't Hindu (Plenty of Buddhists and Sikhs and other faiths in India), but because muslims specifically are the descendants of invaders and conquerors.

Also, I'm always amazed at the brain-twist required to deny the regressive nature of the religion Islam, especially as if Islam was a race of brown skinned people, and not a racially and ethnically diverse religion. If the religion Christianity was guilty of even half as much, the "woke" people would have burned everything and everyone Christian to the ground, long ago.

Lastly, I feel sad for the minorities/etc being "protected" - actually silenced and assimilated - by the "woke" movement. Anyone can and will claim to be anything - and then take over that identity and threaten any who speak back. E.g., black friends report that if they have any different opinion that "woke", she is told (by other "woke" black people even) that she is "mentally ill". Lesbian friends of mine say it's harder to be able to just go hang out with other lesbians any more, because so many lesbian groups/events have kept the name but changed to actually being trans groups. Both groups have also told me they have been physically threatened for their "thought crimes" and nonconformity to "woke" culture. So very scary for them, as well. One older gay friend told me it's a lot like when he had to be in the closet back in the 1960s for being gay - but now he has to be in the closet for not being "woke".