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

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

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Post by fizixer »

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.” ― Edmund Burke

Have the word 'service' banned and I'll take you a little more seriously [0]. Go ahead, do some evil-triumphing. Don't be shy.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23801493

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

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Post by happytoexplain »

djohnston wrote: post #15
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.

As dumb as that is, that's an extremely un-dramatic thing to point to as some kind of counterexample to the parent's point, which seems to stand in spite of the people at your workplace.

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

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Post by Nihilartikel »

paullth wrote: post #8
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

Unwoke candidate: "I just want to follow orders"

https://milgram.hr is gonna be my next bootstrap!

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

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Post by smoe »

djohnston wrote: post #15
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.

There is more nuance and ambivalence. A lot more.

But I don't think it has much to do with being woke or not. We always had and will always have people that challenge the status quo of society and those that oppose a change.

Change is neither inherently good or bad and not every single initiative, argument and action within an movement is well tough out or helpful.

Event tough better political discourse and less shouting would help, I think in the end it is pretty much unavoidable that at times "the baby gets thrown out with the bathwater"

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

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Post by mlthoughts2018 »

happytoexplain wrote: post #32
djohnston wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

As dumb as that is, that's an extremely un-dramatic thing to point to as some kind of counterexample to the parent's point, which seems to stand in spite of the people at your workplace.

People get into acrimonious fights over this nonsense and end up fired (usually the person defending sane reasonableness, not the person demanding crazy, meaningless concessions over everything).

It’s not undramatic at all, it’s exactly the kind of counter example to be most worried about.

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

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Post by pwinnski »

happytoexplain wrote: post #16

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.

My son works on a job where he says he almost-daily hears people talking negatively about Clinton and Obama (years later!) and praising whatever Trump has recently done, decrying "PC culture" and generally talking like stereotypes. He'd go to HR to ask for relief, but the HR person like making borderline racist jokes about Obama, so no help there.

It seems to me that company would love this site.

To balance things out, this company has treated him very well during the pandemic, taking the mask-wearing and distancing directives seriously and ensuring everybody kept their jobs. It's just a few very-vocal employees politicizing everything, not the company as a whole.

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

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Post by emerged »

jbwashington wrote: post #7

Is it ok for black people to use this service? Whole thing has a whites only vibe

If your post was not intended to be an example of the harm of "woke" it accidentally is serving as one. Blind accusations of racism is one of the main things people are done with.

and here are the downvotes, further nailing in the example. Downvote people out of the community for making rational statements and then argue that woke does no harm.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

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

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