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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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When people talk like that they sound like President Obama when he rebuffed Republican objections to his stimulus plan, saying, “I won.” They’re just trying to rub it in that the land that once belonged to the indigenous people now belongs to them. Think of it as conspicuous political consumption.
It seemed like a joke at first, but they were serious! Well, it is a joke, only they don’t get it.
There’s only one living human left per tribe. -Kidding. ;)
Who’s to say they are real? Has anyone ever heard of any of them?
I feel gypped. I was waiting for the babe to give us a description of her undergarments.
Without the saddlebags of sweat under his arms, though.
^^ Under-rated comment.
I read “half-asian babe” and watched the video.
I want my money back.
Dang. Got me again.
Shouldn’t the Hispanic male apologize for the colonialism of his ancestors that made it possible for him to end up where he is? No, of course not. Of course not. But it’s always interesting how Spanish and Portuguese colonialism gets waved away as ancient history, whereas the colonialism that led to America is INCREDIBLY RELEVANT TO EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED AT 4 PM TODAY.
Especiallty when you consider how horrific Spanish and Portuguese was *and is* compared to the more British alternatives.
There’s a reason that New Mexico’s old Spanish communities want nothing to do with being called “Mexican”. They’re the ones who blitzed north instead of gronking the locals, and they’re not the Mestizos popular in the La Raza literature. You want to see a real fight? Call an old-school New Mexican a “Mexican”. They don’t want anything to do with Latino blah-blah (“we’re not Puerto Ricans for crying out loud”), and Mexico can go screw its primitive self as far as they are concerned.
Also, in many venues the speakers should respectfully acknowledge that they are now occupying land that was taken by the power of eminent domain from unwilling sellers, and should name names and give dates where possible. They should also respectfully acknowledge that they arrived at the venue using transportation systems that were taken by the power of eminent domain.
In addition, I can guarantee that these days this sort of “respectful acknowledgement” is not being done only on unceded traditional territories. It is also being done on territories that were duly ceded, the cessions often having been obtained through threats, bribes, and other less savory tactics. So even when eminent domain was not involved, the speakers should respectfully acknowledge the people–farmers, homeowners, business owners–whose ways of life were sacrificed for the new developments.
And when Ted Cruz is inaugurated as President in January, 2025, he should begin his speech by respectfully acknowledging, “We won. They lost.”
I would rather have the blue screen of death
Yeah. My thoughts to. But those blind since birth, or at least since infancy , have no idea what red or blue are.
What narcissistic ableism. Tell us what textures you’re wearing, bigots.
That opening reminds me of PBS children’s programs. Same diction, gestures, etc.
Maybe this how you reach an audience raised on Sesame Street.
I’d remind her that her Asian babe forefathers once set balloon bombs to strike the Native Americans in the Great Northwest, during WW2.
Conundrum. Now she must go to box, and feel shame.
Well, Jon is funny.
The ones that didn’t slaughter, enslave or eat their rivals during “time immemorial”.
I just sold my shares in The Babylon Bee. They can’t compete with this.
Asian culture is all about racist oppression.
What is so amazing to me is Europen culture and then American is the only culture to ever even care, and yet we are the bad guys.
Hater
“Person who is visually challenged”
Why use one word when five will do?
Thats the made up written language for the tribe which wasn’t able to figure out writing during “time immemorial”.
I only got two names into the list of tribes before I decided I wasn’t going to waste my time on that. Too woke already.
I think someone should mention the Weh-deh-fek-ah-we tribe.
Most tribal names translate to some version of “the people.” Meaning we are the only humans around here and all those other tribes are not even human so we can slaughter them with impunity and take all their stuff.
Are we sure this video is not an opening segment to Saturday Night Live? I’m not kidding……. We see their ethnicity and clothes, but they forgot the new golden rule – they forgot to say how they identify? cis-boom-bah?
A trend among successful companies is to refuse to hire woke employees by not hiring anyone from the Ivy League or other coastal liberal bastions, hiring instead from state universities in the interior United States.
Go woke, go broke.
Well, if you’re going to be persnickety about it …
Might have been a good strategy about 30 years ago. But not for a while. One of the problems you have is that the second and third tier schools are all trying to emulate the Ivy League nuttiness. But they have been worse because their leftist professors and many of their students are lower caliber.
For example, a guy like Ben Shapiro could run rings around his leftist professors and classmates at UCLA; whereas at Harvard he had adversaries more willing and able to debate.
Thus, some of the most notable of harassment of non-leftists are at second and third tier schools (consider U of Missouri and Evergreen State).
Very recently, the extreme PC appears to be feeding back to the top tier schools.
So are we implying that we shouldn’t respectfully acknowledge the taking of property and children from uncivilized savages who shop at Wal-Mart, drink cheap domestic beer out of cans, and vote for Trump?
Little known fact: The Tribes of the Pacific Northwest were the first people in history to develop the concept of “Timeshare.”