I know it ruins the joke to ask, but is this a satire page?
Do people unironically still use the word “woke”?

  • remotelove
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    11 months ago

    It’s a satire community now, regardless if it was before or not. Based on the mods profile, I think he was serious. It’s hard to tell though.

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        11 months ago

        Hey, I’m always happy when right wingers lose something.

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          11 months ago

          You don’t need to be right wing to think sometimes the pendulum swings too far to the left.

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            11 months ago

            On a scale from “workers own everything” to “capitalists own everything” I think we’re not in much danger of moving very leftwards at any point in the near future.

            Frankly, there’s not much farther right you can go. We’ve already got multiple forms of slavery to extract worker value for the capitalist trough, and rampaging fascism threatening to take over the public sphere to enrich them further.

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              11 months ago

              Ah yes, the ‘woke’ economy I keep hearing about.

              I was referring to the recent trend of gender/race swapping characters in media solely for the sake of diversification and inclusion.

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                11 months ago

                God forbid our media accurately represents the diverse society we live in, eh?

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                  11 months ago

                  I don’t have an issue with that. I take issue when stuff is shoe-horned in that makes no sense for the plot or the character just to satisfy diversity. Having an incredibly diverse cast made perfect sense for a show like “The Expanse”, and it was better for it. Rebooting an old IP and changing the main character from a white male into a black lesbian just to check off some boxes makes zero sense at all.

                  Go on being the poster child for why subs like this get created though.

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                    11 months ago

                    Oh, don’t get your panties up in a bunch. You people get SUPER BIG MAD when a non-white person is cast in a “white” role, but somehow the other way around is just fine with you.

                    I’d wager there are more places where eg a lily-white Brit is cast in a place that should have had a different ethnicity, overall. It’s silly, but whatever. Use your imagination a little, or grant the author some leeway to play with the casting to see what happens. I don’t think you need to invoke some giant grand conspiracy when artistic license is enough.

                    I mean, lots of people would cast Yeshua ben Nazareth as a white blond dude instead of a very dark middle-eastern Palestinian Jew.