I admire J.K. Rowlings for standing her ground.
We need more of these kinds of people in the world.
shareshe's literally woke on every other issue. We don't need her kind.
shareI think you missed the point. OP simply admires her for standing her ground.
shareAs far as I'm concerned, you can be as woke as you like as long as you don't attack and silence your opponents.
shareThat kinda contradicts the whole "woke" thing.
Big part of the woke culture is oppressing other opinions in any way possible. Even ruining other people's lives is in order if it serves "the cause".
Big part of the woke culture is oppressing other opinions in any way possible. Even ruining other people's lives is in order if it serves "the cause".
That's actually in the Woke charter..
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Exactly. The U.S. had a core belief of the freedom to state your opinions without being censored or attacked for expressing your ideas in a nonviolent way, but now that freedom is under attack. Except currently if you speak out against, or even state your opinions/beliefs that contradict what the “woke” or “leftist” or “mainstream,” whatever you want to call it, happen to support this week, then they do everything in their power to ruin your reputation, livelihood, even safety and freedom, anything they can, as punishment for not agreeing with the. Yet they are sick/delusional enough to claim that everyone who doesn’t think and act as they want are the fascist bigots who must be stopped. It’s like a terrible joke, except it’s reality. I’m all for differing opinions and beliefs, but don’t punish, silence, and ostracize everyone who doesn’t conform to your ideals, that is not what this country is supposed to be about.
It’s as if they pretend to encourage freedom of ideas and beliefs, except if those ideas/beliefs don’t line up with theirs, then they attack you and claim you are real as accepting and enlightened as they are so you no longer deserve the right to express yourself. If you don’t think and act exactly as they want, then you’re an intolerant bigot, nazi fascist who silenced opposing ideas. It’s so hypocritical and pathetic that it makes me sad that so many think that way. It’s dangerous and bad for the country and it’s people.
That was very eloquently stated Juno. If I could vote it into a “best of the moviechat posts” I would.
shareBack when I first got on the web in the 90s, there were plenty of on-line arguments that often ended with the one thing everyone back then agreed with: "I disagree with what you say but will fight to the death to protect your right to say it". That pretty much ended it.
Today, that's no longer the truth. Anyone with a dissenting opinion of a leftist idea gets shouted down and cancelled. Leftist start swarming and demand advertisers remove support of a program lest they be boycotted.
When I was in college in the 70s, plenty of leftists/socialists/Communist speakers spoke. None of us conservatives shouted them down, demanded they be removed from the program, or otherwise prevented them from telling their lies. It's rare when a conservative gets to speak at a college without a huge controversy from the leftists.
“ Yet they are sick/delusional enough to claim that everyone who doesn’t think and act as they want are the fascist bigots who must be stopped.“
And what is so terrifying and infuriating is that this whole trans rights thing comes at the expense of women’s rights and our freedom to define ourselves and protect our privacy, safety, comfort, jobs, career and educational opportunities, the list goes on and on. So while all of these woke people are on this supposed lefty bandwagon screeching “bigot!” to anyone who disagrees with them, they are trampling upon women’s rights and they think that’s just fine, even the women.