Unwoke – Jobboard for people that just want to work and not be activists • Hacker News Board

Re: Unwoke – Jobboard for people that just want to work and not be activists

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Post by mlthoughts2018 » Sat, Jul 18, 2020, 2:00 PM UTC

sicnus wrote: post #5

This is great, a repo of companies that are hiring folks that don't give a shit about what's going on around them! Saying you are "unwoke" is simply turning a blind eye to the treatment of people around you. “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” ― Edmund Burke

If you believe you must use your workplace itself as a sounding board for your ideology, you’re doing a lot more to help evil triumph than the people treating a job as a job.

For example, your coworkers are not obligated to share your moral beliefs, convictions, or political opinions of current events. Making a workplace inherently confrontational in regards to these subjective, private opinions is seriously harmful.

I am 100% for your participation in activism, protests, and social reform. Just don’t bring it to work.

If you think such an attitude is somehow tacitly entrenching the status quo, you need to step back and consider that you, not the other person keeping politics out of work, are being bigoted and narrow-minded towards them, not the other way around.

Re: Unwoke – Jobboard for people that just want to work and not be activists

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Post by rtpg » Sat, Jul 18, 2020, 2:00 PM UTC

Imagine being so mad about being disliked for your bad opinions that you make a website like this.

The ultimate irony of conservative thought is that even when they hold all levers of government ultimately they are just mad nobody likes them.

Re: Unwoke – Jobboard for people that just want to work and not be activists

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Post by smoe » Sat, Jul 18, 2020, 2:00 PM UTC

From the about page https://www.unwoke.hr/about

"The modern workplace has become a hotpot for unchallenged radical thinking and left wing ideology. Our mission is to advance society based on a culture of enlightenment, beauty, truth and freedom through free market initiatives. First up – unwoking work."

So ... it is for activists then?

Re: Unwoke – Jobboard for people that just want to work and not be activists

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Post by epx » Sat, Jul 18, 2020, 2:01 PM UTC

paullth wrote: post #6

I wasn't aware all the other job boards were for woke people

Linkedin timeline is worse than Facebook these days.

Re: Unwoke – Jobboard for people that just want to work and not be activists

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Post by djohnston » Sat, Jul 18, 2020, 2:01 PM UTC

sicnus wrote: post #5

This is great, a repo of companies that are hiring folks that don't give a shit about what's going on around them! Saying you are "unwoke" is simply turning a blind eye to the treatment of people around you. “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” ― Edmund Burke

There are people in my current workplace demanding that we stop using the term Healthcheck as they perceive it as an affront to disabled people. There is clearly more nuance and ambivalence about the woke crowd than you are admitting.

Re: Unwoke – Jobboard for people that just want to work and not be activists

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Post by happytoexplain » Sat, Jul 18, 2020, 2:02 PM UTC

This isn't for people who just aren't activists, it's for people who hate activists. I.e. it's just the politically opposite exclusiveness.

Re: Unwoke – Jobboard for people that just want to work and not be activists

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Post by VLM » Sat, Jul 18, 2020, 2:03 PM UTC

I like this idea, and wonder if something similar exists to oppose other fads like open offices. I would like to think COVID would be enough motivation to oppose open office floor plans, but religious beliefs generally cannot be rationalized away, similar to the woke thing. Really I just want separation of holy church and work.

Re: Unwoke – Jobboard for people that just want to work and not be activists

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Post by dragonwriter » Sat, Jul 18, 2020, 2:03 PM UTC

Huh.

“unwoke" — rejects a particular viewpoint associated with the left.

“Free-thinking and freedom loving” — while most people probably self-identity that way, currently these are actively used mostly by the right as distinguishing descriptions.

“Not...further a radical agenda” — again, negative on a description used mostly for the left (“reactionary” would be for the right)

Sounds like, despite claiming to be about avoiding ideologues, it is all about a particular side of the left/right ideological conflict.

Re: Unwoke – Jobboard for people that just want to work and not be activists

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Post by VLM » Sat, Jul 18, 2020, 2:06 PM UTC

sicnus wrote: post #5

This is great, a repo of companies that are hiring folks that don't give a shit about what's going on around them! Saying you are "unwoke" is simply turning a blind eye to the treatment of people around you. “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” ― Edmund Burke

The difference between caring and being woke is shameless self promotion and groupthink denigration of those who do not self promote. There simply are no humble "woke" people, all "woke" are bullies.

Re: Unwoke – Jobboard for people that just want to work and not be activists

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Post by laichzeit0 » Sat, Jul 18, 2020, 2:06 PM UTC

sicnus wrote: post #5

This is great, a repo of companies that are hiring folks that don't give a shit about what's going on around them! Saying you are "unwoke" is simply turning a blind eye to the treatment of people around you. “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” ― Edmund Burke

> The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing

The same quote could be used in reverse. Some of us think this whole woke crap is evil. So yeah, #ImOut.