“Peak Woke”

Year Zero – The roots of the woke revolution

On the day in March that eight people were murdered in a massage parlor in Atlanta, six of them Asian-American, a Cherokee County, Georgia, police captain gave a media briefing after the alleged murderer was caught. He described the suspect’s motivation as follows: “He was pretty much fed up, and at the end of his rope, and yesterday was a really bad day for him and this is what he did.”

Indignation erupted. How, people cried, could the police captain attribute the murders to someone merely having a bad day? Having determined that the crime was motivated by anti-Asian hatred, the Internet furies concluded that the captain had spoken callously because of his own anti-Asian bias.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Peak Woke"

Pickup trucks are a plague on Canadian streets

Many things have changed in pandemic times. One that has not is North America’s love affair with the pickup truck. Even in the midst of economic uncertainty, consumers lined up to buy these hulking, belching kings of the road. Once the vehicle of the cowboy, the contractor and the good old boy, pickups have become the continent’s mainstream ride. Even city parking lots are simply full of them. In Canada, Ford’s F-150 has been the best-selling auto for years.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"Cancel Culture", "Peak Virtue Signalling", "Peak Woke", Canada, Whining leftists

Wokeness Means Forcing Everyone To Live Inside The Prison Of Mental Illness

What is at the core of insanity? It is quite simply the refusal to acknowledge or attempt to befit oneself to reality. It is imprisoning yourself inside your own mind’s fantasies about what the world ought to be, what you want it to be, instead of what it truly is.

This is easily apparent in any sustained encounter with America’s homeless, most of whom are quite obviously mentally ill. It is also often apparent in any sustained encounter with someone for whom leftist politics functions as a religion.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"Peak Woke", Batshit crazy lefties, Leftist scumbags, Leftists - intolerance of political right

Beware the Ideology Pimps

The politicians, corporation executives, media personalities and activists who are trying to move the United States toward Globalism and Democratic Socialism are heartless careerists and power hungry con artists. they are selling collectivism. Call it what you like, social justice, anti-fascism or woke, all forms of collectivism are just suave modern cousins to murderous Communism (Maoism, Stalinism, Khmer Rouge, North Korea’s Kim family), brutal Socialism (Nazism, Mussolini) and blood- thirsty Islamofascism.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Elites vs. Populists", "Identity Politics", "Peak Woke"

Speech Is Not Violence

Have you noticed how our language is changing?

At a congressional hearing on “Birthing While Black,” nearly every politician used the words “birthing people” instead of “women” or “mothers.” Asked why, Shalanda Young, President Joe Biden’s budget director, said, “Our language needs to be more inclusive.”

Activists have also changed “equality” to “equity” and “affirmative action” to “diversity.”

The Associated Press no longer uses “mistress.” It tells reporters to use “companion, friend, or lover.”

Worse, certain speech is now labeled “violence.”

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"Peak Woke", "racial justice", "Social Justice", Censorship, Freedom of speech

Now Cake Is Racist

Parkin probed by council for links between the cake and colonialism

It has been enjoyed as a Yorkshire delicacy since the 18th century.

But parkin – a cake made with ginger and treacle – will now have its international origins examined in a review of local cuisine launched to investigate links to the slave trade.

Connections between the cake and colonialism will be probed in research by Leeds City Council prompted by the Black Lives Matter protests, according to a report seen by The Telegraph.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Peak Woke", WTF?

How Black Rifle Coffee Used Every Trick In The Book to Fool Conservatives

Black Rifle Coffee Company was supposed to be a company that countered the effete stereotypes of other coffee sellers. When Starbucks promised to hire refugees, BRCC pledged to hire veterans. The company ran a promotion donating free bags of coffee to police officers. Its products are adorned in pro-military, pro-police kitsch. Black Rifle was supposed to be the rare company willing to openly market to the majority of America that doesn’t enjoy riots, protesting the flag, 13-year-olds getting castrations or double mastectomies, and every other piece of the ideological package that has become America’s de facto ruling ideology.

Sike!

Black Rifle actually hates populists and conservatives. In fact, it’s willing to pay you to never be their customer again. That’s the takeaway from the company’s 7,000-word profile in The New York Times last week.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"Corporate Social Justice Warriors", "Peak Woke", "Virtue Signaling"

Liberals are Pressuring Facebook & Twitter to Silence Conservative Alternative Media

Despite the federal Liberals not actually getting Bill C-10 and C-36 passed through the House of Commons and Senate this past parliamentary session, the message is clear to Big Tech platforms; start throttling alternative media or face increasingly heavy regulations.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"Cancel Culture", "Peak Woke", Canada, Censorship in Canada, Censorship on Social Media, Freedom of speech - at risk in Canada, Leftist scumbags, Leftists - intolerance of political right

Trudeau says he would support a criminal investigation into residential schools

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said that he would support a criminal investigation into the recent discovery of hundreds of unmarked burial sites at residential schools across Canada amid growing pressure on the government from the Indigenous communities.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"Peak Woke", Aboriginal Issues, Canada, history, History - distortion of, Indigenous, Justin Trudeau - Pissant