Canceled
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wrote on 5 Aug 2020, 11:52 last edited by
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wrote on 5 Aug 2020, 12:26 last edited by
Amazing.
What's also amazing is that Reason now has a whole sub-page called "Cancel Culture."
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wrote on 5 Aug 2020, 12:53 last edited by
Kindergarten Cop feeds racist culture. Now I've heard it all.
You will find what you look for if you have already decided it is there.
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wrote on 5 Aug 2020, 13:00 last edited by
From the article: "This sort of skirmish is the predictable and regrettable outcome of the politicization of everything and a totalist approach to cultural production and consumption that assumes audience members are either slack-jawed dullards who are effectively programmed by what they watch or ultra-sensitive flowers shredded by every imaginable slight. Either way, madness lies."
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wrote on 5 Aug 2020, 13:06 last edited by
They are relics of how pop culture feeds racist assumptions.
So, pop culture doesn't feed racist assumptions anymore.
Let's kneel for a moment and think about this.
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Kindergarten Cop feeds racist culture. Now I've heard it all.
You will find what you look for if you have already decided it is there.
wrote on 5 Aug 2020, 13:13 last edited byYou will find what you look for if you have already decided it is there.
What is really starting to chap my butt is the insufferable self righteousness with which these people speak -- the fatuous, ueber-satisfied, doubt-free virtue signalling. Every time one of these fools speaks, the next speaker is that much more certain in his rectitude.
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wrote on 5 Aug 2020, 13:57 last edited by Loki 8 May 2020, 13:58
Burning books are next.
Oh ray bradbury you had no idea...
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wrote on 5 Aug 2020, 14:00 last edited by
They were burning Bibles and American flags the other night...Does that count?
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wrote on 5 Aug 2020, 15:51 last edited by
Kindergarten Cop?
https://reason.com/2020/08/04/kindergarten-cop-is-canceled-likened-to-birth-of-a-nation/
Goofy. I thought it was a funny movie.
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wrote on 5 Aug 2020, 17:10 last edited by Catseye3 8 May 2020, 17:13
I would love to know the true dimensions of all this. That is, how many woke are there really, versus how many others who either don't know from woke or if they do, don't care about it.
Are the MSM giving us a false picture? Saying to us, dance, puppet, dance? If so, to what degree?
I hate being led around by the nose.
Take a university, as a made-up example. Forty-five percent of the student body are woke, and are making the most noise. The rest are either meh or perturbed by the woke's presence and influence, but we never hear about those. How would we know? Are there social media threads that are specifically non-woke and talking about it?
Same with other entities.
I know woke is widespread. But how much, compared to the general population?
I can almost guarantee one thing. For any woke 22 and under, the thrill will fade, and they will wake up one morning and wonder what the hell that was all about.
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wrote on 5 Aug 2020, 17:32 last edited by
In my house we have a sample size of two teenagers. One is definitely woke, the other definitely isn't. As for the parents....
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wrote on 5 Aug 2020, 17:38 last edited by
I wonder if there's a minimization of the impact parents have on the worldviews of their kids, due to the internet and all the pop culture ideas it surrounds kids with. That and how schools are intentionally acculturating the young minds moreso than in the past.
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wrote on 5 Aug 2020, 18:58 last edited by xenon 8 May 2020, 18:58
I'm very curious what the woke delta will be between me and my kids.
I plan to remain pretty crass (sane?) in my own home.
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wrote on 5 Aug 2020, 19:00 last edited by Mik 8 May 2020, 19:02
Don't teach them what to believe. Teach them how to think critically about what to believe. Don't worry too much about what conclusions they come to while young. It is normal to be idealistic at that age. Their judgement will mature.
The best gift you can give them is the ability to reason.
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I wonder if there's a minimization of the impact parents have on the worldviews of their kids, due to the internet and all the pop culture ideas it surrounds kids with. That and how schools are intentionally acculturating the young minds moreso than in the past.
wrote on 5 Aug 2020, 19:02 last edited byI wonder if there's a minimization of the impact parents have on the worldviews of their kids, due to the internet and all the pop culture ideas it surrounds kids with. That and how schools are intentionally acculturating the young minds moreso than in the past.
There has always been a generation gap of views. That’s not news. Those from strong families will ultimately value the relationship they have with that tribe because there is no one else who truly cares.
The problem is that increasingly people don’t come from a strong family and it is no longer the majority. Where they will develop an identity from is their journey.
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I wonder if there's a minimization of the impact parents have on the worldviews of their kids, due to the internet and all the pop culture ideas it surrounds kids with. That and how schools are intentionally acculturating the young minds moreso than in the past.
There has always been a generation gap of views. That’s not news. Those from strong families will ultimately value the relationship they have with that tribe because there is no one else who truly cares.
The problem is that increasingly people don’t come from a strong family and it is no longer the majority. Where they will develop an identity from is their journey.
wrote on 5 Aug 2020, 19:14 last edited byI wonder if there's a minimization of the impact parents have on the worldviews of their kids, due to the internet and all the pop culture ideas it surrounds kids with. That and how schools are intentionally acculturating the young minds moreso than in the past.
There has always been a generation gap of views. That’s not news. Those from strong families will ultimately value the relationship they have with that tribe because there is no one else who truly cares.
The problem is that increasingly people don’t come from a strong family and it is no longer the majority. Where they will develop an identity from is their journey.I agree that best case scenario, we get two people who legit love us, our parents. I am not optimistic that a good society can be built without that basic unit being the norm.
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Don't teach them what to believe. Teach them how to think critically about what to believe. Don't worry too much about what conclusions they come to while young. It is normal to be idealistic at that age. Their judgement will mature.
The best gift you can give them is the ability to reason.
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wrote on 5 Aug 2020, 20:28 last edited by
Absent any examples of what local author and busy body Lois Leveen (never heard of her) sees as promoting a school to prison pipeline I am clueless as to what she's talking about. The villain is a white drug dealer, so is not exactly a racist stereotype.
"Kindergarten Cop has been replaced by a second showing of John Lewis: Good Trouble, a documentary about the recently deceased congressman and civil rights leader. Other films in the series include Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Xanadu, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, and The Shining."
So, apparently they will replace "too grim for children" with a super boring but very woke documentary of a world gone by.
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I would love to know the true dimensions of all this. That is, how many woke are there really, versus how many others who either don't know from woke or if they do, don't care about it.
Are the MSM giving us a false picture? Saying to us, dance, puppet, dance? If so, to what degree?
I hate being led around by the nose.
Take a university, as a made-up example. Forty-five percent of the student body are woke, and are making the most noise. The rest are either meh or perturbed by the woke's presence and influence, but we never hear about those. How would we know? Are there social media threads that are specifically non-woke and talking about it?
Same with other entities.
I know woke is widespread. But how much, compared to the general population?
I can almost guarantee one thing. For any woke 22 and under, the thrill will fade, and they will wake up one morning and wonder what the hell that was all about.
wrote on 5 Aug 2020, 20:30 last edited by Kincaid 8 May 2020, 20:30I can almost guarantee one thing. For any woke 22 and under, the thrill will fade, and they will wake up one morning and wonder what the hell that was all about.
My 22-year-old is woke-lite, and took a class in college nicknamed "Bullshit Detecting". Unfortunately it was mostly focused on sniffing out the bullshit from the right and not the left, and so it is more difficult for her to detect the latter.
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Kindergarten Cop feeds racist culture. Now I've heard it all.
You will find what you look for if you have already decided it is there.