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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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Perhaps if you saw what is coming out of those state universities in “flyover” country you’d be suprised how woke they are.
“Try some. They taste like chicken.”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9W7pvOLxmQ
Thanks. :-)
Try this experiment:
Grab your cell phone and try to dictate three common ethic slurs. I recommend the N-word, a slur for a Hispanic, and an American Indian word to describe a woman or wife. Tell me what you get. Try using the word in a sentence so there is context.
These days, you’ll get a knock at the door.
Well all is not lost. Hispanics make-up 43.6% of the population in Tucson. A ballot measure to make Tucson a sanctuary city was defeated by a six to one margin.
Assimilation in Tucson has a long history. It has been said distance is your friend, and throughout the history of Tucson the distance from Mexico City as well as the distance from Washington DC was a great motivator to assimilate. The Apache Wars was another motivator, a common enemy, or equal opportunity raiders. Just as a side note the Apache Wars lasted about 37 years, with the last raid taking place in 1924. Not all neglect from the seat of power is necessarily a bad thing.
Hopefully Tucson will be able to resist the corporate Wokeinstas.
I was thinking that the SEC, Big 10 and Big 12, and some of the ACC universities would be the best bets for hiring.
Oh please! It all belonged to the dinosaurs first.
immemorial — extending or existing since beyond the reach of memory, record, or tradition
That’s about 3-4 generations if you can’t read and write and if you don’t build and maintain anything of substance out of stone or wood. So let’s call it 100 years or so.
The false confession of seizing/occupying indigenous peoples’ lands is not silly. It is deadly serious. It takes as given that the United States Constitution, and our constitutional republic, is illegitimate, evil, and may be discarded/disregarded in the name of socialist
justicepower.The weirdness about the tribes is called an “Acknowledgement Ceremony” my workplace starts every conference call with this stuff followed by a moment of silence for reflection or meditation (but not prayer) – generally wastes about 15 minutes of the call… Which is in itself a general waste of time…
I think this started because of the resurgence in media interest in the ‘residential schools’ in Canada – with the publicity surrounding the “unmarked graves”…
The Space Telescope Science Institute, which operates the Hubble Space Telescope, has had some of their meetings open with the same litany of “acknowledging” the Indian tribes that used to live in (or more often around) Baltimore. I have wanted to dig into the archaeology and tribal histories and find out which earlier tribes they drove out and raise an objection the next time that is brought up. Act really offended and mad that they’re acknowledging the oppressive tribe X, who had driven out the victimized tribe Y. How dare you?! I’m only debating with myself whether I should ever let on that I’m being sarcastic or not.
In many of these cases, though, they acknowledge a tribe that may only have occupied that land for a short time compared with the many hundreds of years it has been settled by Europeans and their descendants. If Tribe X was there for 100 years, but it’s been part of the United States for ~250 and was a British/French/Spanish/Russian or whatever colony for 200 years before that, then what’s the point? It would be more honest to acknowledge the historical claims of the colonial power alongside that of a briefly-occupying tribe.
Finally, these are pointless in the sense that most (not all) of those tribes did not contribute much to making the city what it is today. That’s the result of a modern society, not of a tribal one.
Sad Emoji.
@exjon, I just figured it out. It’s race, sex, appearance. Calling out their own victim or nonvictim status for the -isms. That’s why it’s sandwiched between the anti-colonialism and anti-sexual-dimorphism. You’re supposed to make a sad face if you say any of “caucasian”, “male”, or “tall”. Presumably “showered” is equally bad.
If you are color blind because you are in fact blind, you can’t participate in the woke. Denying such people full access to the woke is ableist. Mustn’t be ableist.
It’s about time we started dumping Thorazine in the water supply.