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

  • Rob Bos
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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.

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      11 months ago

      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.

      You people?

      Name some examples, and I’ll tell you why I enjoyed or didn’t enjoy the movie/show. I know there was a big controversy over the cast of “Aloha”, which I didn’t see, and I don’t disagree with the complaints.

      I think the all-female version of Ghostbusters was stupid, and yet I loved Miles Morales. I thought episode 5 of Monarch was tripe based on the fact they decided to devote a decent chunk of time to one of the characters lesbian backstory, and it had nothing to do with the plot or her character arc (so far).

      I vote Liberal, support gay rights, marriage, adoption, you name it, but I’m stuck in the middle Alberta so my vote doesn’t mean shit. I work in IT and the majority of my co-workers are Indian/Asian and I have zero issues nor have I ever had a reason to complain.

      And yet this is why I fucking hate “woke” people. If you don’t agree with 100% of what they say, suddenly you’re one of “those people”.

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        11 months ago

        I mean, you’re the one generalizing about “woke” people, and using the word “woke” seriously pretty much disqualifies you from having an opinion straight-up. That makes you “you people” right off the bat, the people who use “woke” non-ironically.

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          11 months ago

          People like you are why the conservatives continue to win.