If being a woke means being against racism, then count me in, unlike some of the racists on here.

Good work, racism sorted.
Next time you’re being racially abused just say ‘sticks and stones will break my bones but words will never hurt me’ to yourself and everything will be fine/ or just grow up because if someone wants to racially abuse you it’s up to them and you should grow up and take it.
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He's just desperate to be thought well of by his in-group.

The weaponsised 'racism' word is just a way of demonising an out-group for him.

The fact that they don't see it is a constant source of irony, then again it isn't in their interest to.

Until enough people reject the 'sticks and stones' stuff we will continue on this pointless charade. In truth change only comes when enough elites want it to, as they fund the cultural zeitgeist that the unthinking plebs follow.

When enough elites feel threatened that's when it'll change, that's how history works....it's all very Salem witch trials...which didn't end until the governor of the colony's own wife was accused of witchcraft.

Until then it didn't matter.

However, something on this scale would require an event much more dramatic, which no doubt wouldn't be fun at all.

Edited by Stirlingsays (13 Feb 2021 9.00am)

It's certainly overused, but of course racism can and does come from all directions. The act of trying to redefine racism in such a way that declares that white people cannot even be on the receiving end of racism is of course absurd for instance.

But I'm not all that eager for a muddled political climate to be used as way of blotting out repugnant acts of racism. That of course is what these footballers have been on the receiving end of, and as I say in any other form of communication people wouldn't put up with it and so they shouldn't have to online either. If someone's brave enough to reel off slurs, they can be brave enough to put their name to it. That'll soon shut them up for the most part, because nobody with a shred of decency about them wants to be linked to such conduct.

Edited by BlueJay (13 Feb 2021 6.10am)

Similar to the devaluation of the word 'racist' is the use of the word 'fascist'. We have now reached the laughable position where Miriam Margoyles calls JK Rowlings, saying people who mensurate are women, 'fascist'.

Edited by georgenorman (13 Feb 2021 12.10pm)

Not sure how I'm just desperate to be thought well of by my in-group, as Stirling says, as you don't know me, perhaps it's just something I genuinely believe.

But unlike others, I also appreciate that I may be wrong.

Not sure how I'm just desperate to be thought well of by my in-group, as Stirling says, as you don't know me, perhaps it's just something I genuinely believe.

But unlike others, I also appreciate that I may be wrong.