Woke Media Purity Spirals Alienating Journalists Who Don't Want To Push Their Radical Agenda

[Yzermandius19]

she's certainly not the first

and won't be the last

Tara Henley quits the CBC after finally realizing

that they are a bunch of radical zealots trapped in a woke twitter echo chamber

trying to stamp out any dissent of their worldview

because woke Canadians vastly prefer woke virtue signalling to real journalism

[eyeball]

Good for her and even better for Canada.

Edited January 10, 2022 by eyeball

[Yzermandius19]

9 minutes ago, eyeball said:

Good for her and even better for Canada.

unfortunately it's going to get a lot worse for Canada and Canadian journalism before it gets better

see the way Rebel News gets treated as a prime example

Edited January 10, 2022 by Yzermandius19

[eyeball]

1 minute ago, Yzermandius19 said:

see the way Rebel News gets treated as a prime example

That's good too.

[Yzermandius19]

1 minute ago, eyeball said:

That's good too.

if you dare publicly dissent from the woke

no mortgage for you

 

Edited January 10, 2022 by Yzermandius19

[eyeball]

No respect (around here anyway) if I dissent from Rebel News - just a different flavour of woke is all.

Snore....

[Yzermandius19]

20 minutes ago, eyeball said:

No respect (around here anyway) if I dissent from Rebel News - just a different flavour of woke is all.

Snore....

they ain't woke, they're one of the only media outlets in Canada who oppose them in fact

they are being canceled by the woke, that's how not woke they are

you are free to disagree with them all you want

but the way they are treated by the woke cancel culture pervading Canada is appauling

Tara Henley saw that dynamic at the CBC, when they went after Chappelle

and she rightly gtfo of there

Edited January 10, 2022 by Yzermandius19

[Zeitgeist]

The same thing is happening in universities.  If you don’t accept radical left views you’re painted as a right-wing lunatic.  Debate is treated as some kind of trauma triggering event.  The fastest way to destroy people’s reputations and careers is to paint them as racist and/or misogynist.  Our Prime Minister demonizes people he disagrees with this way too.  It’s a sick and dangerous game, defamatory too.  Inquisition anyone?

[Yzermandius19]

2 minutes ago, Zeitgeist said:

The same thing is happening in universities.  If you don’t accept radical left views you’re painted as a right-wing lunatic.  Debate is treated as some kind of trauma triggering event.  The fastest way to destroy people’s reputations and careers is to paint them as racist and/or misogynist.  Our Prime Minister demonizes people he disagrees with this way too.  It’s a sick and dangerous game, defamatory too.  Inquisition anyone?

more like the Chinese Cultural Revolution

but the Inquisition is also apt

the universities are where most of these activist journos picked up their wokeness

it's not just in the universities either, the public schools are rife with woke bullshit as well

education as a whole had been captured

same with media

Edited January 10, 2022 by Yzermandius19

[myata]

Dogmatic authoritarian spiral is a one-way trajectory. No need to test it again, so many examples back in history.

[Yzermandius19]

2 minutes ago, myata said:

Dogmatic authoritarian spiral is a one-way trajectory. No need to test it again, so many examples back in history.

but it can't happen here

because reasons

said every society who slid into totalitarianism ever

the Germans said that too, and they were the most progressive nation on the planet when the Nazi's came to power

Canadians of course are oblivious to history

which is why they think they are immune to falling into obvious historical pitfalls

Edited January 10, 2022 by Yzermandius19

[myata]

Take pretty much any storyline, topic in "progressive" (so called) media. Always it's on the same blueprint: a heartwarming anecdotal, "kick off" story; a cute and intelligent wise and bearded or female "expert", professor somewhere etc (qualifications are rarely discussed or focused on). And an ugly, aggressive better still, violent opponent, "anti"-something. Here you go, narrative's all ready for public consumption.

Label, brand it noisily, loudly, in your face. Ivermectin, a broad anti-infectious drug given a Nobel prize for discovery, in mass clinical practice over four decades a "horse dewormer", not so bad eh? Who said it has anything to do with l-ying only your "information". You want to see isolated episodes but it can very well be a progression.

[Nationalist]

I salute this woman. A principled liberal. A rarity these days.

[Michael Hardner]

The first six words of the subject line here can induce a coughing fit...

[Michael Hardner]

1 hour ago, Zeitgeist said:

The same thing is happening in universities.  If you don’t accept radical left views you’re painted as a right-wing lunatic.  Debate is treated as some kind of trauma triggering event.  The fastest way to destroy people’s reputations and careers is to paint them as racist and/or misogynist.  Our Prime Minister demonizes people he disagrees with this way too.  It’s a sick and dangerous game, defamatory too.  Inquisition anyone?

Here's the thing.  I have looked into every case that is submitted as an example of 'wokism gone amok' and 80% of them are trumped-up nothings.

The PM plays hooky on Reconcilation Day and plays in Blackface and wins elections anyway.

I doubt you could express liberal views in a trading room or a construction site very easily... let's stop clutching our pearls here.

[myata]

Not having an honest, open conversation on any essential issue. That seems to the essence of the problem. "A march in one direction". Until no directions are left, dead end. How novel.

[Yzermandius19]

12 minutes ago, Michael Hardner said:

Here's the thing.  I have looked into every case that is submitted as an example of 'wokism gone amok' and 80% of them are trumped-up nothings.

The PM plays hooky on Reconcilation Day and plays in Blackface and wins elections anyway.

I doubt you could express liberal views in a trading room or a construction site very easily... let's stop clutching our pearls here.

there is no pearl clutching

you're just pulling an ostrich

you looked into nothing

your cognitive dissonance kicking in isn't looking into it

 

any time someone points out substantive examples

you claim it's a trumped up nothing

and point to lame counter examples like you did above

Trudeau was elected so the woke haven't taken over, even though he's the wokest PM in Canadian history

construction sites ain't woke yet so the woke haven't taken over education and media

you are such a hack

Edited January 10, 2022 by Yzermandius19

[Michael Hardner]

The examples that were not trumped-up nothings were Lindsay Shepherd at WLU and an academic who was disinvited from speaking at Ryerson University.  

[Yzermandius19]

28 minutes ago, Michael Hardner said:

The examples that were not trumped-up nothings were Lindsay Shepherd at WLU and an academic who was disinvited from speaking at Ryerson University.  

those are far from the only examples

 

on one hand you claim all the experts agree with the woke

on the other hand you claim the woke have no institutional power

when you publicly side with the woke you claim the former to justify it

when you publicly pretend to be against them you claim the latter

despite the ridiculously obvious contradiction between both positions

 

you still act like both are true depending on the scenario 

you flip flop to gaslight everyone and downplay the woke at every turn

with MH

it's either a good thing the woke are in charge

or they aren't in charge and anyone who says they are is pearl clutching 

 

I know you're lying

you know you're lying

you know that I know you're lying

and you still blatantly lie anyway

it's pathetic

Edited January 10, 2022 by Yzermandius19

[myata]

7 minutes ago, Yzermandius19 said:

it's pathetic

It's just a symptom. One clear way of knowing you're a woke if you see any case of exploitation of positions of power and responsibility to promote woke views as entirely normal, and all filtering out, ignoring, and in increasing number of cases, suppression of different views as non existent. Once in it, it's exponentially harder to return back to normal not just because someone is forcing them, but because they stopped seeing and understanding normality. Only a pathetic symptom, treatment can be complicated in these cases.

[Yzermandius19]

14 minutes ago, myata said:

It's just a symptom. One clear way of knowing you're a woke if you see any case of exploitation of positions of power and responsibility to promote woke views as entirely normal, and all filtering out, ignoring, and in increasing number of cases, suppression of different views as non existent. Once in it, it's exponentially harder to return back to normal not just because someone is forcing them, but because they stopped seeing and understanding normality. Only a pathetic symptom, treatment can be complicated in these cases.

spineless fence sitting jellyfish

who constantly defend the woke

and will only call them out on a very rare occasion

as if the woke are the most reasonable ideology around

yet doesn't have balls to just admit to being woke

pretends like they are in the "reasonable middle"

as a lame attempt to avert suspicion

 

it's a common mold, that MH fits to a tee, he's practically the poster boy for it

Edited January 10, 2022 by Yzermandius19

[Michael Hardner]

Wokism is an idea.  You can counter it with other ideas or play it up to be the worst plague on the history of mankind ever.

The playing-it-up stuff is what we're seeing more than the former.  

Just like "the war on Christmas" and "gay marriage is the downfall of our society"... this bogeyman too will pass soon enough...

[Yzermandius19]

7 minutes ago, Michael Hardner said:

Wokism is an idea.  You can counter it with other ideas or play it up to be the worst plague on the history of mankind ever.

The playing-it-up stuff is what we're seeing more than the former.  

Just like "the war on Christmas" and "gay marriage is the downfall of our society"... this bogeyman too will pass soon enough...

it's not going to pass soon

it's a bad idea that has taken over key institutions

it took them decades to do it, and it will take decades to take them back or create new institutions that actually function

it's not a fad

the overhyped boogeymen didn’t take over the institutions

the woke did and you are downplaying it as if they didn't

except when you claim the experts agree with them so it's all good, to downplay the takeover instead

Edited January 10, 2022 by Yzermandius19

[Michael Hardner]

Interracial marriage was probably thought to be a fad at one time... Dylan said "the times they are a changin'" It's happening again.  These are ideas - nothing more.  If you think they are bad then counter them.  You have little faith in public moral discourse I guess.

And why would you discuss with somebody you believe to be a knowing liar ?!? ?

[Yzermandius19]

10 minutes ago, Michael Hardner said:

Interracial marriage was probably thought to be a fad at one time... Dylan said "the times they are a changin'" It's happening again.  These are ideas - nothing more.  If you think they are bad then counter them.  You have little faith in public moral discourse I guess.

And why would you discuss with somebody you believe to be a knowing liar ?!? ?

obviously I have little faith in the public who side with this bad idea

why would I have faith in them? I'm not that naive

when the public gets this delusional

they don't snap out of it when confronted with logic

the woke are anti-reason they claim reason is white supremacy

and the public is woke

 

the last time the public of a western nation went race commie

it took getting destroyed in WWII to make them rethink that lunacy

only the shit hitting the fan will bring an end to this craziness

rational discussion isn't going to change their mind anymore than it changed the Nazi's mind

Edited January 10, 2022 by Yzermandius19