I don't want to get high on copium, but I feel like things are (slowly) starting to heal
That Hollywood is rowing back on making woke movies, and 'Pride' seems to be cancelled this year, are signs of this
The insanity of summer 2020, and the fevered pitch of leftist moral outrage which ensued, feel like a bad dream
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And all it cost was national security, our economy, our standing in the world, a trade war we lost before it started yet we are still fucking hurt by it, our intelligence community, etc
…I- I just can’t anymore. These morons were genuinely willing to sacrifice the USA’s national security, economy, standing in the world, intelligence community, civil rights, democracy, etc. JUST to get back at their imaginary bogeyman, the “woke”.
I’ve said it before over and over, but even ignoring that the right-wing grifters have NO proper definition for “woke” (they just use the term interchangeably for everything they personally dislike), woke historically hasn’t hurt anyone. Fascism, sexism, and racism have done so, however.
EDIT: I’ll let you fellow FSTDT’ers in on something; I used to be a bit more right-leaning in my beliefs before the “anti-woke” craze began. But then, the more and more I learned what “woke” means (or rather, the lack of a meaning) and the more and more that right-wingers hated it with an pathological need to hate, the more I realized that “anti-wokers” are either effin’ insane or unbelievably stupid. Sometimes both. And it wasn’t worth staying even remotely associated with them anymore.
'Pride' seems to be cancelled this year
It does?
“Blade Runner” wasn’t ‘Woke’ in the slightest: decades before that was a thing. It was even panned by critics at the time. Now it’s not only an absolute classic but is the very visual foundation of Cyberpunk. Six years later, “Akira”: then Masamune Shirow giving us scenarios such as “Dominion: Tank Police”, “Appleseed” & “Ghost in the Shell”. Seventeen years later, “The Matrix”: and who it’s creators ultimately became. But that’s beside the point.
“Blade Runner” was a pulp detective story set in a dystopian future. Didn’t do well at first, but did in the future. Even the designs in such by Syd Mead - who was gay - is beside the point. Attitudes change: about that which is part of culture.
What you thought of as ‘Woke’ won’t be in the future.
So many ‘memes’ about “Blade Runner”’s sequel…!
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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