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Refugees from Woke America
Woke “culture” has created hostile environments in universities, blue cities, and corporations across the nation. Some people will meekly submit to constant “all white people are racist” verbal abuse, but some will vote with their feet.
From an antiracist seminar:
All white people are racist. So, I put this up because I really want any white person in the room to know, up front, that this is what we’re dealing with. The it’s not going to be this coddling of white tears and what that looks like. We’re not going to discuss, “Oh, maybe some of us have worked it out.” No, you’re always going to be racist, actually. So, even when you’re on your path to trying to figure out how to be a better human being – because I believe that white people are born into not being human. Like that, actually, instead of people of color and black folks being dehumanized, that, actually, everyone is dehumanized within white supremacy. That y’all are born into a life to not be human, and that’s what y’all are taught to do, to be demons. So, in this particular way, white people are all racist, so I just want y’all to know that up front.
After the “you’re always going to be racist” statement the only logical action would be to leave. If I’m always going to be racist, what’s the point of sitting through an antiracist seminar? If there’s no hope, why shouldn’t I just go be racist somewhere else?
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It just highlights the utter lawlessness of the current legal state of affairs. This stuff is allowed even though it violates the law to have this kind of hostile environment in a workplace. Half of the judges to whom a case may be brought believe in allowing racism as long as the reason for it is a reason that they like. “My reason for allowing racism is good, yours is bad.” Is that position based on a law? No, it’s pulled out of their arse. But everyone just sits by watching, spellbound and impotent.
Ms Shackleford, I speak for all of us present for your lecture to implore you not to shift shape until you have concluded.
😂😂😂
Dang! Those Vogons and their holo disguises and their poetry! The milk in my refrigerator curdled. With the door closed.
Someone needs to translate that batch of word salad.
Does “data futurist” mean she makes up facts and figures?
I found Ms. Shackleford’s website, and I did find an article that I agree with:
Stop Excusing Black Men’s Violence — Like Nate Parker’s — for the Sake of Black Liberation
Good for her.
If I had been sitting in this class, I would have been fired the moment the words “All white people are racist” appeared.
I would have asked that pig of an instructor, “Are the white people who fought against slavery in the mid-1800s racist? Are the whites who died fighting the War Between the States racists? Are the whites in the state legislatures who voted for the 13th and 14th amendments racist? Are the whites who voted to abolish Jim Crow laws racists? Woman, if it weren’t for white people, you would still be slaves.
I would have taken that display and shoved it so far up . . . oh nevermind . . .
I take it the premise of “All white people are racist” implies that POC are not racist. Are these two categories of earthly inhabitants different species?
“Fatphobia” is one of her causes, so I’m guessing that her skin-tight outfit is a “statement.”
I’m not surprised that she has “roots” in Richmond since we Virginians know it’s the Athens of the state.
Ms. Shackleford’s take on reparations is a riff on Obama’s “you didn’t build it”:
Exactly. If it it hadn’t been for the knockout bod and eye-catching apparel, I don’t think I could have made it through the presentation.
Seriously, why would someone wear such an inappropriate costume to give a presentation, no matter the content?
In this day and age, there’s something comforting about a rant that’s so unhinged it doesn’t even require a response.
Sounds like some things I could use, too. It’s not likely that anyone will give them to me.
If you say it three times, that must make it true.
I think Black fat cultural producer is my favorite.
It actually sounds like the perfect resume for this job. From what I can see, to be woke you need to combine non-sensical words in novel ways (check). You must include references to colonization (check), violence (check), multiple oppressed groups (check), your preferred pronouns (check), and write in such as way that a non-woke person cannot tell if it is serious or parody (check).
You’re hired!
Guess I’m not here for the movement then. Bye!
Why oh why did everybody not just wave goodbye at that point?
“All <choose a color> people are <choose a characteristic>,” is a racist statement. Period. Full stop.
We’ve reached a point where two wrongs supposedly make a right. They never do. This nonsense will not end well.
One of my favorite Chad Mulligan lines, “Someone around here has a sense of humor.”
Most dominatrices actually look attractive while abusing their clients. This lady does not have a figure for spandex…
Also: “nonbinary shapeshifter”? So, she’s a werewolf or something? I knew an insane guy who believed he could turn into a Black raptor.
Is that a new offering on the commidities exchange?
Reading through that description of her background and talents was punishment enough and I still don’t have a solution to what it meant.
I wonder how much she is getting paid for this so-called “training”.
Seriously folks, I pity the satirists of today. If you wanted to make the most absurd parody of a racial reconciliation seminar, it could not be any more ridiculous the the reality that we are seeing each day before our very eyes. We must mock, we must laugh out loud at these antics and shame those that sponsor them.
I would hesitate to take advice from anyone who makes that fashion choice.
Oh. I first read that as “back fat.” But I’m sure that what she said is also true.
I think her statement is that I eat enough food to feed several starving African countries.
From her website:
Latin?
Awareness is curative? I’m not sure, but it might be interesting to hear why she thinks what she does.