Wokey, wokey! Rise and shine!

General off-topic debates and discussions forum.
User avatar
tamada
udonmap.com
Posts: 17216
Joined: February 21, 2007, 4:03 am
Location: Down two...then left

Wokey, wokey! Rise and shine!

Post by tamada » June 10, 2021, 8:01 pm

A readers letter.

"Reading the headlines last week, I could have sworn it was April 1 not June 1. The first was the MOD had appointed a Director of Diversity and Inclusion at £110k a year to lead a review into military titles and determine which ranks do not offer enough inclusivity.

A spokesperson said that after an assessment, positions and other titles will be rebranded if they cannot be gender-neutral. No doubt First Sea Lord will be the first to go.

Next was Met Chief Cressida Dick wanting to legalise positive discrimination in order to increase recruitment from minority ethnic and other groups. If this is allowed, it will not be the most qualified person who gets the job, but the one who ticks all the boxes. Is she not aware of Newton’s Law that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction?

And last but certainly by no means least, was Kings College London cravenly apologising to staff who complained about the use of Prince Phillip’s photograph in an email they had been sent. The apology read ‘We have come to realise the harm that this caused members of our community, because of his history of racist and sexist comments. We are sorry to have caused this harm’.

In 1984, George Orwell wrote: “Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.” Seeing what is happening in this country with the constant attacks on liberty and free speech, I cannot help but think that reshaping our minds is the intention of the woke brigade.

Be afraid, be very afraid."


https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/n ... mme-minds/

I'd just like to add that the Students at one of Oxford University's colleges have voted to remove a portrait of the Queen from their common room. Members of Magdalen College Middle Common Room (MCR) deemed the image a symbol of "recent colonial history".

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-oxf ... e-57409743



User avatar
AlexO
udonmap.com
Posts: 2505
Joined: June 8, 2015, 11:45 am
Location: Nong Lat Udon

Re: Wokey, wokey! Rise and shine!

Post by AlexO » June 10, 2021, 9:54 pm

tamada wrote:
June 10, 2021, 8:01 pm
A readers letter.

"Reading the headlines last week, I could have sworn it was April 1 not June 1. The first was the MOD had appointed a Director of Diversity and Inclusion at £110k a year to lead a review into military titles and determine which ranks do not offer enough inclusivity.

A spokesperson said that after an assessment, positions and other titles will be rebranded if they cannot be gender-neutral. No doubt First Sea Lord will be the first to go.

Next was Met Chief Cressida Dick wanting to legalise positive discrimination in order to increase recruitment from minority ethnic and other groups. If this is allowed, it will not be the most qualified person who gets the job, but the one who ticks all the boxes. Is she not aware of Newton’s Law that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction?

And last but certainly by no means least, was Kings College London cravenly apologising to staff who complained about the use of Prince Phillip’s photograph in an email they had been sent. The apology read ‘We have come to realise the harm that this caused members of our community, because of his history of racist and sexist comments. We are sorry to have caused this harm’.

In 1984, George Orwell wrote: “Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.” Seeing what is happening in this country with the constant attacks on liberty and free speech, I cannot help but think that reshaping our minds is the intention of the woke brigade.

Be afraid, be very afraid."


https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/n ... mme-minds/

I'd just like to add that the Students at one of Oxford University's colleges have voted to remove a portrait of the Queen from their common room. Members of Magdalen College Middle Common Room (MCR) deemed the image a symbol of "recent colonial history".

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-oxf ... e-57409743
Okay Tam who is worse, BOJO or these idiots.???

User avatar
Laan Yaa Mo
udonmap.com
Posts: 9185
Joined: February 7, 2007, 9:12 am
Location: ขอนแก่น

Re: Wokey, wokey! Rise and shine!

Post by Laan Yaa Mo » June 10, 2021, 10:15 pm

Does one have to make a choice or can you praise or reject both?
You only pass through this life once, you don't come back for an encore.

saint
udonmap.com
Posts: 3516
Joined: February 28, 2008, 5:31 pm
Location: On lookout duty ,spotting for snipers .

Re: Wokey, wokey! Rise and shine!

Post by saint » June 11, 2021, 7:24 am

Anyone else had enough of this diversity equality rubbish ?
Im grateful to be born when i was , and should not be alive to see the concerned snowflakes finally running the world .
If you want an example of positive discrimination , look no further than South Africa . Didnt turn out well for them .

User avatar
tamada
udonmap.com
Posts: 17216
Joined: February 21, 2007, 4:03 am
Location: Down two...then left

Re: Wokey, wokey! Rise and shine!

Post by tamada » June 11, 2021, 8:43 am

AlexO wrote:
June 10, 2021, 9:54 pm
tamada wrote:
June 10, 2021, 8:01 pm
A readers letter.

"Reading the headlines last week, I could have sworn it was April 1 not June 1. The first was the MOD had appointed a Director of Diversity and Inclusion at £110k a year to lead a review into military titles and determine which ranks do not offer enough inclusivity.

A spokesperson said that after an assessment, positions and other titles will be rebranded if they cannot be gender-neutral. No doubt First Sea Lord will be the first to go.

Next was Met Chief Cressida Dick wanting to legalise positive discrimination in order to increase recruitment from minority ethnic and other groups. If this is allowed, it will not be the most qualified person who gets the job, but the one who ticks all the boxes. Is she not aware of Newton’s Law that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction?

And last but certainly by no means least, was Kings College London cravenly apologising to staff who complained about the use of Prince Phillip’s photograph in an email they had been sent. The apology read ‘We have come to realise the harm that this caused members of our community, because of his history of racist and sexist comments. We are sorry to have caused this harm’.

In 1984, George Orwell wrote: “Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.” Seeing what is happening in this country with the constant attacks on liberty and free speech, I cannot help but think that reshaping our minds is the intention of the woke brigade.

Be afraid, be very afraid."


https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/n ... mme-minds/

I'd just like to add that the Students at one of Oxford University's colleges have voted to remove a portrait of the Queen from their common room. Members of Magdalen College Middle Common Room (MCR) deemed the image a symbol of "recent colonial history".

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-oxf ... e-57409743
Okay Tam who is worse, BOJO or these idiots.???
Sorry Alex, the 'Is Bojo an arse or a total arse?' thread is over there --->

viewforum.php?f=138

User avatar
pipoz4444
udonmap.com
Posts: 2038
Joined: April 8, 2011, 1:33 am
Location: All Over the Place

Re: Wokey, wokey! Rise and shine!

Post by pipoz4444 » June 11, 2021, 4:31 pm

That Shuttle to Proxima centauri b, can't come quick enough for me \:D/ =D>

Proxima centauri b.jpg

If Proxima is full by the time I get there, I will mosey along over to Barnard's Star b

Barnard’s Star.jpg
Barnard’s Star.jpg (21.82 KiB) Viewed 4406 times
pipoz4444
That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

User avatar
stattointhailand
udonmap.com
Posts: 19114
Joined: October 25, 2007, 11:34 pm
Location: Oiling the locks on my gun case

Re: Wokey, wokey! Rise and shine!

Post by stattointhailand » June 11, 2021, 6:12 pm

Get yer eyes tested before you leave , you will be behind Dom in the queue at Specsavers Barnard Star

User avatar
pipoz4444
udonmap.com
Posts: 2038
Joined: April 8, 2011, 1:33 am
Location: All Over the Place

Re: Wokey, wokey! Rise and shine!

Post by pipoz4444 » June 12, 2021, 3:08 pm

To use the Words of, "William Durant"

“A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself within” :-k :-k :-k

pipoz4444
That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

Bonanza
udonmap.com
Posts: 323
Joined: September 16, 2012, 9:08 pm

Re: Wokey, wokey! Rise and shine!

Post by Bonanza » June 13, 2021, 7:26 am

I have a few questions for those who wish to remove the statue of Cecil Rhodes at Oriel college , Oxford.

1. Do your principles go as far as also canceling all Rhodes Scolarships (worth $1.5million per year), and winding up the Cecil Rhodes Trust Fund for Education, standing at approximately £250 million? :shock: :confused:

2. Will you agree to an increase in your Uni fees to cover the expenses of those student who would have been awarded Rhodes Scolarships ?
3. Should those who have accepted Rhodes Scolarships in the past return to money?

Ominous silence

glalt
udonmap.com
Posts: 2984
Joined: January 14, 2007, 10:35 am
Location: Nong Hin, Loei

Re: Wokey, wokey! Rise and shine!

Post by glalt » June 13, 2021, 9:44 am

People need to be at the least aware of history, good or bad. Destroying pictures, statues and monuments will not remove history. It is a stupid act that accomplishes nothing except creating ignorance. Freedom of speech and religion is under attack and that is a dangerous thing. The PC pushers have made the term racism into a too much-used accusation. Common sense is lost and gone.

User avatar
AlexO
udonmap.com
Posts: 2505
Joined: June 8, 2015, 11:45 am
Location: Nong Lat Udon

Re: Wokey, wokey! Rise and shine!

Post by AlexO » June 13, 2021, 9:58 am

The PC pushers have made the term racism into a too much-used accusation. Common sense is lost and gone.

glait
Not many a truer word spoken. But the Woke's hate being shown that that they are actually the worst.

User avatar
AlexO
udonmap.com
Posts: 2505
Joined: June 8, 2015, 11:45 am
Location: Nong Lat Udon

Re: Wokey, wokey! Rise and shine!

Post by AlexO » June 13, 2021, 10:01 am

tamada wrote:
June 11, 2021, 8:43 am
AlexO wrote:
June 10, 2021, 9:54 pm
tamada wrote:
June 10, 2021, 8:01 pm
A readers letter.

"Reading the headlines last week, I could have sworn it was April 1 not June 1. The first was the MOD had appointed a Director of Diversity and Inclusion at £110k a year to lead a review into military titles and determine which ranks do not offer enough inclusivity.

A spokesperson said that after an assessment, positions and other titles will be rebranded if they cannot be gender-neutral. No doubt First Sea Lord will be the first to go.

Next was Met Chief Cressida Dick wanting to legalise positive discrimination in order to increase recruitment from minority ethnic and other groups. If this is allowed, it will not be the most qualified person who gets the job, but the one who ticks all the boxes. Is she not aware of Newton’s Law that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction?

And last but certainly by no means least, was Kings College London cravenly apologising to staff who complained about the use of Prince Phillip’s photograph in an email they had been sent. The apology read ‘We have come to realise the harm that this caused members of our community, because of his history of racist and sexist comments. We are sorry to have caused this harm’.

In 1984, George Orwell wrote: “Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.” Seeing what is happening in this country with the constant attacks on liberty and free speech, I cannot help but think that reshaping our minds is the intention of the woke brigade.

Be afraid, be very afraid."


https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/n ... mme-minds/

I'd just like to add that the Students at one of Oxford University's colleges have voted to remove a portrait of the Queen from their common room. Members of Magdalen College Middle Common Room (MCR) deemed the image a symbol of "recent colonial history".

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-oxf ... e-57409743
Okay Tam who is worse, BOJO or these idiots.???
Sorry Alex, the 'Is Bojo an arse or a total arse?' thread is over there --->

viewforum.php?f=138
You sound like you need a new room boy Tam. Easy question, why not give straight answer.

User avatar
pipoz4444
udonmap.com
Posts: 2038
Joined: April 8, 2011, 1:33 am
Location: All Over the Place

Re: Wokey, wokey! Rise and shine!

Post by pipoz4444 » June 13, 2021, 11:08 am

Bonanza wrote:
June 13, 2021, 7:26 am
I have a few questions for those who wish to remove the statue of Cecil Rhodes at Oriel college , Oxford.

1. Do your principles go as far as also canceling all Rhodes Scolarships (worth $1.5million per year), and winding up the Cecil Rhodes Trust Fund for Education, standing at approximately £250 million? :shock: :confused:

2. Will you agree to an increase in your Uni fees to cover the expenses of those student who would have been awarded Rhodes Scolarships ?
3. Should those who have accepted Rhodes Scolarships in the past return to money?

Ominous silence
You won't get a answer on this from those who wish to cancel history and what history has given them. All they want to do is take the modern day benefits that history his given them, ignoring the fact that they only have what they have now, because of it. They wouldn't have a modern society to live in, if it wasn't for what the Cecil Rhode's of the world did, in the past.

Those few who want to cancel history choose to ignore the fact that they do not own it (History) and that the history of the world, good or bad or in between, belongs to all of us.

On another note, these are the same idiots, who also advocate spending a fortune on Climate change prevention, whilst at the same time, they continually use and benefit from all the Luxuries/Advantages that modern day lifestyle, gives them, (i.e. ease of communications, travel, food, etc). They also conveniently forget that these "Luxuries/Advantage" do not just pop up from the earth surface, and they have limited or no comprehension of what it takes to manufacturer them and how much energy is involved in producing them at a reasonable cost.

On another note, one of Australia's better Prime Ministers was a Rhodes Scholar. Yes he was Labour (who are known for their Socialist's philosophy, in today's era), and yet Bob had the common sense to be educated at the University of Oxford, were he also managed to set a world record for "Downing a yard of ale in 11 second". If Bob was alive today, then I am sure he would have a different view, to those clowns, who want to remove the statue of Cecil Rhodes. :-k

pipoz4444
Last edited by pipoz4444 on June 14, 2021, 7:02 pm, edited 5 times in total.
That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

User avatar
Khun Paul
udonmap.com
Posts: 7741
Joined: September 16, 2008, 3:28 pm
Location: Udon Thani

Re: Wokey, wokey! Rise and shine!

Post by Khun Paul » June 13, 2021, 5:51 pm

If the subject of slavery is to go the whole ten yards, then what about those AFRICAN leaders who with their soldiers captured and coerced many Africans to become people with which they made money by selling them to the traders/ship-owners etc.
Many did not mount expeditions into the hinterland, rather just p[icked them up at certain ports or anchorages and transport them . So if you are pillorying those who were involved from Western nations you should also hold top account African nations for their part in that trade, but of course NO-ONE mentions that do they !!!!!!!!!!!!!

User avatar
tamada
udonmap.com
Posts: 17216
Joined: February 21, 2007, 4:03 am
Location: Down two...then left

Re: Wokey, wokey! Rise and shine!

Post by tamada » June 13, 2021, 6:12 pm

AlexO wrote:
June 13, 2021, 10:01 am
tamada wrote:
June 11, 2021, 8:43 am
AlexO wrote:
June 10, 2021, 9:54 pm
tamada wrote:
June 10, 2021, 8:01 pm
A readers letter.

"Reading the headlines last week, I could have sworn it was April 1 not June 1. The first was the MOD had appointed a Director of Diversity and Inclusion at £110k a year to lead a review into military titles and determine which ranks do not offer enough inclusivity.
..
.
In 1984, George Orwell wrote: “Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.” Seeing what is happening in this country with the constant attacks on liberty and free speech, I cannot help but think that reshaping our minds is the intention of the woke brigade.

Be afraid, be very afraid."


https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/n ... mme-minds/

I'd just like to add that the Students at one of Oxford University's colleges have voted to remove a portrait of the Queen from their common room. Members of Magdalen College Middle Common Room (MCR) deemed the image a symbol of "recent colonial history".

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-oxf ... e-57409743
Okay Tam who is worse, BOJO or these idiots.???
Sorry Alex, the 'Is Bojo an arse or a total arse?' thread is over there --->

viewforum.php?f=138
You sound like you need a new room boy Tam. Easy question, why not give straight answer.
Because this is neither the thread nor forum to indulge your proclivity for the British PM. The clue is up top, it's the General Debates and Discussions forum.

Actually, I could do with some pizza.

User avatar
jackspratt
udonmap.com
Posts: 16075
Joined: July 2, 2006, 5:29 pm

Re: Wokey, wokey! Rise and shine!

Post by jackspratt » June 13, 2021, 6:23 pm

AlexO wrote:
June 13, 2021, 9:58 am
The PC pushers have made the term racism into a too much-used accusation. Common sense is lost and gone.

glait
Not many a truer word spoken. But the Woke's hate being shown that that they are actually the worst.
Given you have demonstrated that you have NFI of the meaning of the word, I am surprised you chose to comment.

Then again.... ;)

User avatar
pipoz4444
udonmap.com
Posts: 2038
Joined: April 8, 2011, 1:33 am
Location: All Over the Place

Re: Wokey, wokey! Rise and shine!

Post by pipoz4444 » August 28, 2021, 11:56 pm

Bill Maher on "Progressophobia"

Quote: "There actually was a World, before you got here". =D> [-(




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB9KVYAdYwg


pipoz44444
That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

User avatar
tamada
udonmap.com
Posts: 17216
Joined: February 21, 2007, 4:03 am
Location: Down two...then left

Re: Wokey, wokey! Rise and shine!

Post by tamada » January 17, 2023, 1:00 pm

BUMP!!!

Konstantin Kisin speaking at the Oxford Union for the motion "This House Believes Wokeness Has Gone Too Far".

'Don't waste your words on people who deserve your silence'
~Reinhold Messner~

'You don't have to be afraid of everything you don't understand'
~Louise Perica~

User avatar
noosard
udonmap.com
Posts: 3998
Joined: April 17, 2011, 4:07 am
Location: Ban Jumpa Udon
Contact:

Re: Wokey, wokey! Rise and shine!

Post by noosard » January 23, 2023, 1:01 pm

Dark side.png
Was and are Pink Floyd woke

Pink Floyd fans slam band’s cover art as ‘woke’ despite 50-year history
Social media users have slammed Pink Floyd over a “woke” move — leaving fans of the iconic rock band in stitches.

Jack Hobbs — NY Post

Whistler
udonmap.com
Posts: 5522
Joined: June 15, 2019, 8:24 pm

Re: Wokey, wokey! Rise and shine!

Post by Whistler » January 23, 2023, 3:12 pm

You do love News Limited don't you?
Attachments
images (1).jpeg
I had a bumper sticker in Texas that read 'Beam me up Scotty'. I often wish I could find one in Udon Thani

Post Reply

Return to “General Debates & Discussions”