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Redmond Campus Releases Microwoke Office
Microsoft Ignite was held Thursday, the company’s annual “digital event experience” featuring talks by tech leaders and practitioners. The opening of the event was. Well. You know, just watch it…
Woke Capital incarnate. pic.twitter.com/KHlfMzjOt9
— Balaji Srinivasan (@balajis) November 4, 2021
This is beyond wokeness; it’s stage-four mindvirus. In a sane world, they would be laughed off the stage. But corporate America lost its sanity long ago.
To ensure I am not canceled and shipped off to a gulag, I should reintroduce myself to the Ricochet community. Ahem…
I acknowledge I’m typing from land previously occupied by the Tohono O’odham people and whatever tribe they knocked off before taking it. Then the Spanish ruled the region and renamed it the Indendency of Arizpe. About a hundred years later, the US seized it and filled it with cowboys. Today, it’s occupied mostly by golf enthusiasts and air-conditioner salespersons.
I am a shockingly handsome yet humble caucasian male wearing a Memphis record studio T-shirt, khaki shorts, and scandalous underwear (the less of which said, the better). Also, and my hair is blond, not gray like everyone says. A thick mane of youthful blond hair. And a baseball cap.
At this point, I want the wokies to keep expanding these titles. I want eye color, vaccination status, height and weight, social security number, and their mother’s maiden name. Just go for it.
These bizarre introductions are more extravagant than monarchist titles. “We are His Royal Highness the King of Stuff, Revered Knight of the Most Noble Order of Indie Rock, Grand Vizier of the Ancient Assembly of the Macchiato, Defender of the Holy Catholic and Orthodox Faith…”
This can’t go on. I mean, I’ve been saying that for at least a decade but, really, it can’t. Can it?
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Go woke, go broke.
I’m impressed that the half-Asian babe with the high cheekbones could remember the names of all the primitive tribes that used to live on the Pacific northwest coast.
Good grief! Trying to outdo all the other work corporations.
Occupied since time immemorial?
Yeah … except before those tribes migrated there, that is.
I am a grizzled, grouchy, sardonic, sarcastic Wiseass-American. I have brown hair, brown eyes, a gray beard, and my pants are over there in that corner.
My personal pronoun is ‘milord.’
All the ones we know, or think we know.
“Work” or “woke”?
According to my children, my pronouns are “Dad!/Dad!/Daaaaaaaaad!”
My husband used to say, “I’m ATM.” :-) :-)
I’m confused about why they would need to provide a description of what they’re wearing, along with their ethnicity. ??
Best I can figure, the visual descriptions are for the blind? Maybe?
Virtual reality is starting to sound not so bad.
Well, that didn’t seem at all awkward.
Hi I’m a straight white man and . . .
Guy running the prompter should have snuck in at least one fake tribe name, if only for the self-flagellating apology that would have had to follow.
Dammit. That’s My password to get into windows.
No pronouns? Must be Republicans.
That’s the Biden administration.
BTW, how big is that campus? They had about nine different tribes living there.
Are You really assuming Their pronouns? In this day and age? His(?!) just may be “Blue Shirt/ Khaki pants” (or is that an Indian (Native American) tribe?)
You pronounaphobe/tribeaphobe.
Khaki is a word of Persian origin. I call cultural appropriation
If it weren’t for linguistic appropriation, you could just about fit the English language on the back of a cereal box.
It’s sad that the Pacific Northwest has become a monoculture, when once it was a colorful patchwork of indigenous tribes competing for resources and raiding each other’s territories for slaves and loot.
Yeah, but thank Gawd We got rid of all those menacing buffalo.
Sorry. Autocorrect at work, I think.
Wow. This is creepy.
On Sept 30, 2020, I received an e-letter from “Winnie”, a program assistant at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, BC. No last name was given. The letter contained this under the signature:
I respectfully acknowledge that I live and work on the unceded traditional territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
We can use this tag lines as a Rosetta stone.
“xʷm” must be M. Ok, fine. But there’s also an algebraic identity, (x to the w) times m= M. If x = M/2 and m = 3, what are possible values of w? Where’s John Derbyshire when you need him?
“ə” has to be a u sound.
“θ”, normally “theta”, or a “th” sound in Greek, is here sounded as s. Or is it? Perhaps the pronunciation is “Muthqueam”. Did the Pacific aborigines speak with a lisp?
“kwə” = qu
“əy̓əm” = eam. This I can perhaps buy, although it looks more to me like “ayy-um”, as a Mainer might say in agreeing with you. Right latitude, wrong coast.
Her similarly family-free colleague Jamie’s apology read:
SFU acknowledges the Squamish, Musqueam, Tsleil-Waututh, Katzie and Kwikwetlem peoples on whose unceded traditional territories our three campuses stand.
Note that here, SFU does the apologizing, not Jamie herself. Is that because Jamie is a proud Canadian oppressor, unwilling to concede her guilt?
Wokesters can be so much fun when they are being stupid (and not burning down your cities or indoctrinating your kids).
So now it’s a gray, bland patchwork of indigenous tribes competing for resources and raiding each other’s territories for slaves and loot?
I’m thinking that if I were blind I would not be all that interested in the color of your trousers, but it might yet be reassuring to know that you are wearing pants.
This is more sickening than when Steve Ballmer hopped around the stage like Cypress Hill shouting “Developers! Developers! Developers!”