French government denounces American Woke Left

[Vassenor]

So you support blackfacing and the stereotypes that come with it? Since you clearly disagree with someone deciding to eliminate it from their theatrical production.

No. It means they are against the far left, not for blackfacing and stereotypes. Blackfacing is racial discrimination and should not be condoned; there is nothing in PPC's post implying they are in favor of that.

Siding with someone getting the vapours over someone else saying Blackface Bad certainly implies it.

[Vassenor]

Odd how I used to deeply hate Macron, he actually doesn't seem so bad anymore. Still don't like his economic policies but he's showing he's got a spine in terms of social policies.

Getting upset over someone calling blackface a bad thing is a good social policy now?

[Post War America]

Gotta love how half the time being woke is a cover or a front. I saw a black history month display at target last night and couldn't help but remember that target uses convict labor, which is disproportionately African American, but go off about how you respect minorities Target.

Chevron has also embraced Black Lives Matter without a hint of self awareness.

I mean, it could be worse, you could be Chiquita Banana coming out in favor of the peaceful democratic transition of power.

[Proctopeo]

So you support blackfacing and the stereotypes that come with it? Since you clearly disagree with someone deciding to eliminate it from their theatrical production.

No. It means they are against the far left, not for blackfacing and stereotypes. Blackfacing is racial discrimination and should not be condoned; there is nothing in PPC's post implying they are in favor of that.

I think people are, accidentally or deliberately, neglecting to realize that the blackface thing was only the final straw - as an isolated incident, it would've prompted eye-rolling instead of a major discussion, but the incident is not isolated.

Notably, this point was established on the first page and then promptly and immaturely discarded.

[SD_Film Artists]

No. It means they are against the far left, not for blackfacing and stereotypes. Blackfacing is racial discrimination and should not be condoned; there is nothing in PPC's post implying they are in favor of that.

Siding with someone getting the vapours over someone else saying Blackface Bad certainly implies it.

Which person? As one of the sources says that this is "many prominent politicians, intellectuals and academics in France" rather than a single person and (as I've already explained earlier) the measure is more about woke leftism rather than being somekind of 'legalise blackface' bill.

[Thermodolia]

Chevron has also embraced Black Lives Matter without a hint of self awareness.

I mean, it could be worse, you could be Chiquita Banana coming out in favor of the peaceful democratic transition of power.

I mean Coke did denounce the Jan 6th coup attempt. Ya know the people who funded death squads in Columbia

[Repubblica Fascista Sociale Italiana]

Odd how I used to deeply hate Macron, he actually doesn't seem so bad anymore. Still don't like his economic policies but he's showing he's got a spine in terms of social policies.

In general the French are all around pretty nationalistic, unlike Americans

[South Reinkalistan]

Odd how I used to deeply hate Macron, he actually doesn't seem so bad anymore. Still don't like his economic policies but he's showing he's got a spine in terms of social policies.

Getting upset over someone calling blackface a bad thing is a good social policy now?

Really interesting to see how the indictments of the so-called "woke left" obsessing over petty idiots being slightly racist - while people are still living paycheck-to-paycheck - appear to have merit.

[Vassenor]

Getting upset over someone calling blackface a bad thing is a good social policy now?

Really interesting to see how the indictments of the so-called "woke left" obsessing over petty idiots being slightly racist - while people are still living paycheck-to-paycheck - appear to have merit.

"I dont want to use blackface in my production even though its traditional" is "obsessing over petty idiots being slightly racist"?

Surely the criticism is that the conservatives are getting hot and bothered over statements like that while neglecting the people living paycheck to paycheck.

[South Reinkalistan]

Really interesting to see how the indictments of the so-called "woke left" obsessing over petty idiots being slightly racist - while people are still living paycheck-to-paycheck - appear to have merit.

"I dont want to use blackface in my production even though its traditional" is "obsessing over petty idiots being slightly racist"?

Yeah. Indirectly.

[Democratic Exodian Territories]

Odd how I used to deeply hate Macron, he actually doesn't seem so bad anymore. Still don't like his economic policies but he's showing he's got a spine in terms of social policies.

Getting upset over someone calling blackface a bad thing is a good social policy now?

yes

[Alcala-Cordel]

Odd how I used to deeply hate Macron, he actually doesn't seem so bad anymore. Still don't like his economic policies but he's showing he's got a spine in terms of social policies.

In general the French are all around pretty nationalistic, unlike Americans

Americans are extremely nationalistic.

[Borderlands of Rojava]

Odd how I used to deeply hate Macron, he actually doesn't seem so bad anymore. Still don't like his economic policies but he's showing he's got a spine in terms of social policies.

I still don't like him. Yellow vest happened for a reason.

[Borderlands of Rojava]

In general the French are all around pretty nationalistic, unlike Americans

Americans are extremely nationalistic.

If you say 9/11 was one of a million terror attacks, people will want you dead here.

[Repubblica Fascista Sociale Italiana]

In general the French are all around pretty nationalistic, unlike Americans

Americans are extremely nationalistic.

Hahahaha no

If a foreign government denounces the American president, our people and politicians will agree with the foreigners if the president happens to be from another political party. Furthermore, there is a growing number of people from the "woke left" who think America is the worst thing to ever happen to humanity, and most of these people happen to be… Americans

[Borderlands of Rojava]

Americans are extremely nationalistic.

Hahahaha no

If a foreign government denounces the American president, our people and politicians will agree with the foreigners if the president happens to be from another political party. Furthermore, there is a growing number of people from the "woke left" who think America is the worst thing to ever happen to humanity, and most of these people happen to be… Americans

Considering how many people voted for a second round of Trump, I think at least half of Americans are literally ultranationalists, even if people in Portland are not.

[Repubblica Fascista Sociale Italiana]

Hahahaha no

If a foreign government denounces the American president, our people and politicians will agree with the foreigners if the president happens to be from another political party. Furthermore, there is a growing number of people from the "woke left" who think America is the worst thing to ever happen to humanity, and most of these people happen to be… Americans

Considering how many people voted for a second round of Trump, I think at least half of Americans are literally ultranationalists, even if people in Portland are not.

They aren’t ultranationalist, if, say, Putin or Merkel denounces Joe Biden, Republicans and Trump supporters will most like agree with them because Biden belongs to another political party. On the contrary, when Erdogan denounced Macron, everyone in France, including Macron’s biggest opponents like Marine Le Pen rushed to his defense as the president of France. This is the kind of nationalism we need

[Cordel One]

Americans are extremely nationalistic.

If you say 9/11 was one of a million terror attacks, people will want you dead here.

Can confirm, a few years ago someone said I should be beheaded by terrorists for saying 9/11 was a side effect of US interventionism and that we shouldn't celebrate the US military as they've committed unspekable atrocities.

[Cordel One]

Americans are extremely nationalistic.

Hahahaha no

If a foreign government denounces the American president, our people and politicians will agree with the foreigners if the president happens to be from another political party. Furthermore, there is a growing number of people from the "woke left" who think America is the worst thing to ever happen to humanity, and most of these people happen to be… Americans

And at the same time we have a massive number of people who think Mexicans are rapists and murderers, a larger portion that worships the military, and an even larger portion that thinks we're the greatest country on the planet. Oh, and the constant propaganda, pledge recitals, flags everywhere, 4th of July... The United States is unbearably nationalistic and self-centered.

[South Reinkalistan]

If you say 9/11 was one of a million terror attacks, people will want you dead here.

Can confirm, a few years ago someone said I should be beheaded by terrorists for saying 9/11 was a side effect of US interventionism and that we shouldn't celebrate the US military as they've committed unspekable atrocities.

I wonder what'd happen if it was put bluntly to them: that 9/11 is absolutely nothing compared to injustices inflicted by the United States upon other nations, and that frankly it's the only time they've been hit back.

[Cordel One]

Can confirm, a few years ago someone said I should be beheaded by terrorists for saying 9/11 was a side effect of US interventionism and that we shouldn't celebrate the US military as they've committed unspekable atrocities.

I wonder what'd happen if it was put bluntly to them: that 9/11 is absolutely nothing compared to injustices inflicted by the United States upon other nations, and that frankly it's the only time they've been hit back.

I would've got beat up.

[Nilokeras]

No. It means they are against the far left, not for blackfacing and stereotypes. Blackfacing is racial discrimination and should not be condoned; there is nothing in PPC's post implying they are in favor of that.

I think people are, accidentally or deliberately, neglecting to realize that the blackface thing was only the final straw - as an isolated incident, it would've prompted eye-rolling instead of a major discussion, but the incident is not isolated.

Notably, this point was established on the first page and then promptly and immaturely discarded.

'First zey came for our secrétaires and I zaid nozing, for I was not ze one being groped, zen zey said we could not have our racisme traditionnel, but zen I stood up because zis was le dernière paille et ze Americans can take my shoepolish and tout blanc opera over my cold dead cadavre'

[Kowani]

I think people are, accidentally or deliberately, neglecting to realize that the blackface thing was only the final straw - as an isolated incident, it would've prompted eye-rolling instead of a major discussion, but the incident is not isolated.

Notably, this point was established on the first page and then promptly and immaturely discarded.

'First zey came for our secrétaires and I zaid nozing, for I was not ze one being groped, zen zey said we could not have our racisme traditionnel, but zen I stood up because zis was le dernière paille et ze Americans can take my shoepolish and tout blanc opera over my cold dead cadavre'

awesome quotes thread it is

[Western Fardelshufflestein]

Americans are extremely nationalistic.

Hahahaha no

If a foreign government denounces the American president, our people and politicians will agree with the foreigners if the president happens to be from another political party. Furthermore, there is a growing number of people from the "woke left" who think America is the worst thing to ever happen to humanity, and most of these people happen to be… Americans

Yup. And there is a difference between patriotism and nationalism, with the former of the two often being misconstrued as the latter.

[UniversalCommons]

This is bizarre. Woke means awareness of injustice and racism. People are blowing it up into something which it is not. It is like the word neoliberalism. It is a word that is being misused out of context. It is bizarre fear mongering on the right and hyperbole on the left. You can apply things like meditation to the word woke, but I seriously doubt the way this word is being touted is correct. There is no specific action in the word, nor is action implied. It is a word focused on observation. It is going from a state of being a sheep to becoming aware.