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Democracy on the brink

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You only meet the worst women in Court.
Posted by Josephus, Tuesday, 18 January 2022 11:20:14 AM
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Josephus,

I guess you'd know.
Posted by Foxy, Tuesday, 18 January 2022 11:46:49 AM
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The term "woke" has been appropriated by the far right as an insult, just like "the elites" and "socialist" and are now the debating equivalent of Godwin's Law. You can hear them used every night on Sky After Dark as they attack the left but never seem to defend the right.
When they toss those words around it shows they have no real argument beyond name-calling.

It's ironic that many high profile commentators are themselves "elites" and happy for the taxpayer to bail them out when things go bad and by being "non-woke" implies they support social injustice and racism.

mhaze I don't need to rely on the misinterpretation of data to form an opinion and plain old common sense will usually do.
If I stand with one foot in a bucket of hot coals and the other on a block of ice, on average I'm quite comfortable. I work toward a conclusion rather than state an opinion and look backwards for ways to justify it. You can easily jump onto the Dictator Dan Bandwagon if that makes you feel powerful and informed but we have an inept and corrupt government in NSW and other states have problems too.

Otherwise maybe I should await the day when we can again be "free" to smoke in public buildings and on public transport and drive at any speed we like. After all, more people die of cancer and the flu every year than in motor accidents and I'm sure I can still find "experts" who insist that smoking is harmless.

This pandemic been about overall public health and not some trivial matter and it's now obvious that a healthy economy depends on a healthy society and provocateurs and public agitators offer nothing except division and unrest. Some poor possums don't like to wear masks yet they call leftists "snowflakes".
It's also a fact that social media is now a tool to get people to vote against their own best interests.
Posted by rache, Wednesday, 19 January 2022 12:31:48 AM
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Rache,

Woke has gone a long way from simply meaning "aware of social injustice" with the advent of racism in the form of extreme identity politics to meaning "virtue signalling and intolerant of other opinions."

Today woke is a joke.
Posted by shadowminister, Wednesday, 19 January 2022 3:38:26 AM
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To quote Martin Luther King

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Which is how many people see wokeness.
Posted by shadowminister, Wednesday, 19 January 2022 3:50:47 AM
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rache,

"I work toward a conclusion rather than state an opinion and look backwards for ways to justify it."

That's the idealised way you see yourself.

Yet you rejected the evidence in the doco purely because of who was presenting it.

That's the real you.
Posted by mhaze, Wednesday, 19 January 2022 6:39:56 AM
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