To the people who are worried about woke-ism going too far: what's your best specific example?
What opinion was uttered and what consequence followed?
What opinion was uttered and what consequence followed?
https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/sdge-worker-fired-ove...
A Mexican driver was fired for stretching his fingers when driving. Somebody thought he was making a white supremacy sign and started the classical social media shitstorm.
For a blue collar immigrant worker, losing their job overnight might be pretty serious. They usually have fewer savings to rely on.
> NBC 7 spoke to the man who originally posted the picture on Twitter. He has since deleted his account and said he may have gotten "spun up" about the interaction and misinterpreted it. He says he never intended for Cafferty to lose his job.
Is one to come to mind. Students and other teachers are deprived of a lecture because a small vocal minority of students are upset that in an unrelated interview, the professor expressed a fairly mainstream view of preferring "equality" over "equity".
A few questions for you personally:
1) When you use the term woke-ism, what are you referring to?
2) What would 'going too far' look like, to you in particular?'
3) In your worldview, is it possible for uttered opinions to have consequences that 'go too far'?
Oberlin Administrators & Bakery incident found the school owing 44 Million in Damages.
Honorable mentions
USC's Business School for being offended at the Chinese word "Na Ge"
Yale Law School for the Native American Law Students Association party invite
A lost friendship is benign, I guess.
I suggest watching it if you have not seen it (10min long) but it basically boils down to that if you disagree with someone you can call it racists instead of formulating an argument. There is ofc no evidence that anyone on that show on that day is actually a racists but somehow people just accepted that it was valid to say anyway.
The consequences is that people said it more and more and other similar terms whenever it somehow fit. An opinion if it can be made to look like it affects a specific group of people is attacked as being against these people. It basically made a subset of he most pathetic and weak ad hominem fallacies acceptable and thus broke the way people had public discourse.