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sighcordelia.bsky.social
@sighcordelia.bsky.social
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Fuck imperialism. If you are motivated by love for humanity and belief in a better future, if you have a spark of revolutionary spirit, we will probably get on.
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
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On offence.
As with the evils of the PC Brigade before it, the foundational idea of the anti-woke crusade is that of a tyranny of offence, one wielded by vulnerable communities, charities and human rights organisations. It is they — the easily offended, and not governments, corporations, or the world’s richest men — who hold the real power in public life, and their chilling effect on all our freedoms must be stopped. It gives such people too much credit to even parse their argument, but it should be said plainly: Wokeness, like political correctness, is little more than a pejorative term to describe standardised decency, and the small, sometimes clumsy, measures taken to achieve mutual respect and esteem in a heterogenous world. To be more aware of, and respectful toward other people’s experiences, and to agitate for a more just society in which everyone shares the same social, political, and rhetorical freedoms as anyone else. To traduce that impulse toward fairness and inclusion as little more than “being offended” demeans us all. It is also the most basic and obvious fact about this entire debate that those who rage against “offence” are the most offended people in human history. The are offended by everything: black actors in Star Wars, female characters in Ghostbusters, black or female Doctors in Doctor Who (and quite possibly black or female doctors, full stop), climate activists, historians who acknowledge that slavery happened, commentators who acknowledge that a genocide is happening, low emission zones, recycling initiatives, rude jokes on Have I Got News For You, mildly liberal pronouncements from Gary Lineker on social media, mixed-raced couples in Christmas ads and trans people literally anywhere.
February 9, 2025 at 11:08 AM
sighcordelia.bsky.social
Ah here.
January 20, 2025 at 9:09 PM