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And wokeism.
Lord…three comments. Three comments in before “don’t be a jerk to people different than you” is called a cult.
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You laugh but corporations and the woke are just as cultish as some niche "religions"
I agree, but also include groups which make heavy use of the phrase "the woke." Tribalism in general can easily spiral into cultism.
Hardcore racist groups certainly do though.
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Wow, you ran out of gas by point 3 and went with "other stuff". Talk about shameless.
- defund the police / acab - inventing pronouns and demand people use them - modern cancel culture - probably a few more
Pronouns: White people used to call black people terrible things too. Things change.
Cancel culture is a moral panic like the satanic panic and strangers with candy kidnapping. https://kottke.org/22/02/cancel-culture-is-a-moral-panic
Got more fictions to peddle? GOP introduced bills to make it legal to run over protestors in your car, illegal to teach about slavery, and consider the violent insurrection of Jan 6th “legitimate political discourse”.
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I agree, but also include groups which make heavy use of the phrase "the woke." Tribalism in general can easily spiral into cultism.
Most anti-woke groups don't instruct their members to not associate outside of the tribe. Hardcore racist groups certainly do though.
This isn't what I've observed. I'm sure there are such groups that don't though.
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- defund the police / acab - inventing pronouns and demand people use them - modern cancel culture - probably a few more
Defund the police: budget allocation. Spend more money on social services so police aren’t the only tool in the govt toolkit. Not controversial. Pronouns: White people used to call black people terrible things too. Things change. Cancel culture is a moral panic like the satanic panic and strangers with candy kidnapping. https://kottke.org/22/02/cancel-culture-is-a-moral-panic Got more fictions to peddle? GOP introduc…
Seems quite apparent to me over the last couple years that it is indeed controversial. Perhaps there wouldn't have been protests, riots, etc. if it weren't.
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Defund the police: budget allocation. Spend more money on social services so police aren’t the only tool in the govt toolkit. Not controversial. Pronouns: White people used to call black people terrible things too. Things change. Cancel culture is a moral panic like the satanic panic and strangers with candy kidnapping. https://kottke.org/22/02/cancel-culture-is-a-moral-panic Got more fictions to peddle? GOP introduc…
> Defund the police: budget allocation. Spend more money on social services so police aren’t the only tool in the govt toolkit. Not controversial. Seems quite apparent to me over the last couple years that it is indeed controversial. Perhaps there wouldn't have been protests, riots, etc. if it weren't.
That some folks consider it to be speaks more about them than anything else.
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> Defund the police: budget allocation. Spend more money on social services so police aren’t the only tool in the govt toolkit. Not controversial. Seems quite apparent to me over the last couple years that it is indeed controversial. Perhaps there wouldn't have been protests, riots, etc. if it weren't.
Maybe controversial is the wrong term. In the age of historical low crime, perhaps we allocate resources elsewhere shouldn’t be a radical take. That some folks consider it to be speaks more about them than anything else.
> Is your leader the ultimate authority of your group? Yes. Selected by, and sole connection to the mythical group "board". > Does your leader have impressive, made-up names or titles? Yes. "Chief Executive Officer". > As far as your group is concerned, would they say that there is no legitimate reason to leave them? Yes... if ever trying to leave, you are technically bribed with something that you cannot use in stor…
> /S Really? Cults are extreme, and socially undesirable, entities. Companies are less extreme, and arguably socially beneficial, entities. However, both entities are use essentially the same psychological tools of manipulation. I don't think this comment should be seen as facetious so much as an insight on how company structures control employees.
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You have no idea how strange your comment sounds in some countries outside of the USA.
Can you elaborate on what you mean? This was very vague.
Now imagine you are living in Russia. Over centuries you were a poor peasant, always at the mercy of someone. In the end you believe all your woes will end if you join others in yet another attempt to make things right, you kill the tzar, and soon you realized you just exchanged one tyrant for another. This is going on more or less until today. Nothing here has anything to do with race. It's similar in many other countries. But Americans have the tendency to perceive everything through their own context and project it onto the whole world. It makes no sense.