“Wokeness” in Canada and elsewhere…

IdRatherBeSkiing

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I think fake is an inappropriate adjective. More like lazy, Current journalism is if somebody tweets something, they run with it as a story. If someone runs with it as a story the next guy runs it as a verified source. Then they all just pile on. Nobody actually verifies the original report or does so with any actual investigation. That costs money that comes off the bottom line. Modern journalism is about making money and not much else.
 

Ron in Regina

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Canadians deserve political leaders who don’t gaslight them about violence in their communities. If the Liberals want to tackle this issue half-heartedly and do only the bare minimum needed to temper public anger, then that’s their choice — but it will be the end of them.

With crime now impacting the middle class, the decarceration movement is dead. A new law and order movement is ascendent across North America and has already transformed several key cities. The Trudeau government should read the room — people are tired of violent crime. And denying there is a problem is political suicide.

For many decarceration advocates, crime is merely a symptom of social exclusion, and criminals are just victims of unjust systems. While this empathetic world view makes some sense, many activists take things too far and assert that criminal behaviour is totally determined by structural factors.

This not only ignores the general lawfulness of the working poor, it also strips criminals of their agency and capacity for moral responsibility, and, by extension, exaggerates their victimhood status so dramatically that their plight can be seen as being on par with, if not more important than, the individuals and communities that are concretely harmed by crime.

By transforming criminals into a romanticized victim-class, decarceration activists are able to narrowly obsess over these individuals’ rights and interests. This obsession, which often manifests as campaigns against abstract “structural violence,” can be so consuming that it eclipses the horrors of the actual violence experienced by others — such as stabbings, shootings and robberies.

In this environment, reasonable leniency towards nonviolent criminals has a tendency to mutate into a general coddling of all offenders, violent or not, etc…link above for the rest.
 

petros

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Canadians deserve political leaders who don’t gaslight them about violence in their communities. If the Liberals want to tackle this issue half-heartedly and do only the bare minimum needed to temper public anger, then that’s their choice — but it will be the end of them.

With crime now impacting the middle class, the decarceration movement is dead. A new law and order movement is ascendent across North America and has already transformed several key cities. The Trudeau government should read the room — people are tired of violent crime. And denying there is a problem is political suicide.

For many decarceration advocates, crime is merely a symptom of social exclusion, and criminals are just victims of unjust systems. While this empathetic world view makes some sense, many activists take things too far and assert that criminal behaviour is totally determined by structural factors.

This not only ignores the general lawfulness of the working poor, it also strips criminals of their agency and capacity for moral responsibility, and, by extension, exaggerates their victimhood status so dramatically that their plight can be seen as being on par with, if not more important than, the individuals and communities that are concretely harmed by crime.

By transforming criminals into a romanticized victim-class, decarceration activists are able to narrowly obsess over these individuals’ rights and interests. This obsession, which often manifests as campaigns against abstract “structural violence,” can be so consuming that it eclipses the horrors of the actual violence experienced by others — such as stabbings, shootings and robberies.

In this environment, reasonable leniency towards nonviolent criminals has a tendency to mutate into a general coddling of all offenders, violent or not, etc…link above for the rest.
It's easy to fix SJWs. Take away their ID, residence, freeze their banking, take away their nicotine, wind them up on meth and let them give it a go in the system.
 

Serryah

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Canadians deserve political leaders who don’t gaslight them about violence in their communities. If the Liberals want to tackle this issue half-heartedly and do only the bare minimum needed to temper public anger, then that’s their choice — but it will be the end of them.

With crime now impacting the middle class, the decarceration movement is dead. A new law and order movement is ascendent across North America and has already transformed several key cities. The Trudeau government should read the room — people are tired of violent crime. And denying there is a problem is political suicide.

For many decarceration advocates, crime is merely a symptom of social exclusion, and criminals are just victims of unjust systems. While this empathetic world view makes some sense, many activists take things too far and assert that criminal behaviour is totally determined by structural factors.

This not only ignores the general lawfulness of the working poor, it also strips criminals of their agency and capacity for moral responsibility, and, by extension, exaggerates their victimhood status so dramatically that their plight can be seen as being on par with, if not more important than, the individuals and communities that are concretely harmed by crime.

By transforming criminals into a romanticized victim-class, decarceration activists are able to narrowly obsess over these individuals’ rights and interests. This obsession, which often manifests as campaigns against abstract “structural violence,” can be so consuming that it eclipses the horrors of the actual violence experienced by others — such as stabbings, shootings and robberies.

In this environment, reasonable leniency towards nonviolent criminals has a tendency to mutate into a general coddling of all offenders, violent or not, etc…link above for the rest.

While I can agree the liberals are half-hearted/half-assed about the criminal system, they're not the only party 'soft' on it.

Personally I wish they'd be harder but... meh, crime only seems to matter at election time.
 
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Ron in Regina

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While I can agree the liberals are half-hearted/half-assed about the criminal system, they're not the only party 'soft' on it.

Personally I wish they'd be harder but... meh, crime only seems to matter at election time.
Or when you’re a victim of it…or when it’s blatant and ignored, etc….my Girlfriend was robbed at an ATM inside a Petro Canada with Cameras recently by a Meth Crack Fentanyl Whatever Addict, and they got away in a highly identifiable green Daewoo car….& and guess how many where arrested or charged?
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…& it wasn’t a stolen vehicle.

This is on a Main Drag (Victoria Ave) beside the same Petro-Canada. Police drive by and ignore this because they’re not committing crimes when unconscious
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…& it would just be a ‘catch&release’ anyway.
 

Serryah

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Or when you’re a victim of it…or when it’s blatant and ignored, etc….my Girlfriend was robbed at an ATM inside a Petro Canada with Cameras recently by a Meth Crack Fentanyl Whatever Addict, and they got away in a highly identifiable green Daewoo car….& and guess how many where arrested or charged?
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…& it wasn’t a stolen vehicle.

This is on a Main Drag (Victoria Ave) beside the same Petro-Canada. Police drive by and ignore this because they’re not committing crimes when unconscious
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…& it would just be a ‘catch&release’ anyway.

That's the point; reagardless of party, crime only matters at election time. All other times it doesn't matter at all. Libs, Cons, NDP; they're all a joke when it comes to crime.
 

Ron in Regina

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Well, it’s definitely gotten much worse in the last five or eight years. The Greens & Bloc & Cons don’t have much say about things…that’s the Libs with NDP backing that do.

Let’s hope it’s close to an election time I guess because something needs to happen.
 

Ron in Regina

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Queen’s classic song Fat Bottomed Girls is being dropped from a greatest hits collection aimed at younger audiences.

The song, which was released in 1978 and written by guitarist Brian May, has been enjoyed by fans for generations.

However, in this day and age, even as all kinds of things are sung and rapped about, this 45-year-old track about a young man who comes to appreciate women with fuller figures has been viewed as too risque for Yoto, a new audio platform aimed at young people, the Daily Mail reported.
When Universal Records revealed its version of the band’s greatest hits for Yoto, music insiders were incredulous about the dumping of the popular song.

“It is the talk of the music industry, nobody can work out why such a good-natured, fun song can’t be acceptable in today’s society,” one industry professional told the Mail.

(The rock song is the fourth track on the band’s original 1981 greatest hits album, which also features Bohemian Rhapsody, Don’t Stop Me Now and We Will Rock You.)
 
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Queen’s classic song Fat Bottomed Girls is being dropped from a greatest hits collection aimed at younger audiences.

The song, which was released in 1978 and written by guitarist Brian May, has been enjoyed by fans for generations.

However, in this day and age, even as all kinds of things are sung and rapped about, this 45-year-old track about a young man who comes to appreciate women with fuller figures has been viewed as too risque for Yoto, a new audio platform aimed at young people, the Daily Mail reported.
When Universal Records revealed its version of the band’s greatest hits for Yoto, music insiders were incredulous about the dumping of the popular song.

“It is the talk of the music industry, nobody can work out why such a good-natured, fun song can’t be acceptable in today’s society,” one industry professional told the Mail.

(The rock song is the fourth track on the band’s original 1981 greatest hits album, which also features Bohemian Rhapsody, Don’t Stop Me Now and We Will Rock You.)
Queen was lightweight category compared to Yankovic. He has a pile of "mysogynoir" Grammys to prove.

Can she prance up a hill?


Here's a silly ditty,
You can sing it right away
Now, here is what you say
So sing it while you may

Here's a silly jingle,
You can sing it night or noon
Here's the words, that's all you need
'Cause I just sang the tune:

Oh, I don't want her, you can have her
She's too fat for me
She's too fat for me
She's too fat for me
I don't want her, you can have her,
She's too fat for me
She's too fat
She's too fat
She's too fat for me

I get dizzy
I get numbo
When I'm dancing
With my Jum-Jum-Jumbo

I don't want her, you can have her
She's too fat for me
She's too fat for me
She's too fat for me
I don't want her, you can have her
She's too fat for me
She's too fat
She's too fat
She's too fat for me

Can she prance up a hill?
No, no, no, no, no
Can she dance a quadrille?
No, no, no, no, no
Does she fit in your coupe?
By herself she's a group
Could she possibly
Sit upon your knee?
No, no, no

We don't want her, you can have her
She's too fat for me
And she's too fat for me
But she's just right for me
We don't want her, you can have her
She's too fat for me
Yeah, she's too fat,
Much too fat
But she's just right for me

She's so charming
And she's so winning
But it's alarming
When she goes in swimming

We don't want her, you can have her
She's too fat for me
She's too fat for me
But she's just right for me
So I sure want her, you can't have her
She's just right for me
But she's too fat!
She's not too fat!
She's just right for me!

She's a twosome,
She's a foursome
If she'd lose some
I would like her more some

I don't want her, you can have her
She's too fat for me
She's too fat for me
She's too fat for me
I don't want her you can have her
She's too fat for me
She's too fat
Much too fat
She's too fat for me
Hey!
 
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pgs

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Queen was lightweight category compared to Yankovic. He has a pile of "mysogynoir" Grammys to prove.

Can she prance up a hill?


Here's a silly ditty,
You can sing it right away
Now, here is what you say
So sing it while you may

Here's a silly jingle,
You can sing it night or noon
Here's the words, that's all you need
'Cause I just sang the tune:

Oh, I don't want her, you can have her
She's too fat for me
She's too fat for me
She's too fat for me
I don't want her, you can have her,
She's too fat for me
She's too fat
She's too fat
She's too fat for me

I get dizzy
I get numbo
When I'm dancing
With my Jum-Jum-Jumbo

I don't want her, you can have her
She's too fat for me
She's too fat for me
She's too fat for me
I don't want her, you can have her
She's too fat for me
She's too fat
She's too fat
She's too fat for me

Can she prance up a hill?
No, no, no, no, no
Can she dance a quadrille?
No, no, no, no, no
Does she fit in your coupe?
By herself she's a group
Could she possibly
Sit upon your knee?
No, no, no

We don't want her, you can have her
She's too fat for me
And she's too fat for me
But she's just right for me
We don't want her, you can have her
She's too fat for me
Yeah, she's too fat,
Much too fat
But she's just right for me

She's so charming
And she's so winning
But it's alarming
When she goes in swimming

We don't want her, you can have her
She's too fat for me
She's too fat for me
But she's just right for me
So I sure want her, you can't have her
She's just right for me
But she's too fat!
She's not too fat!
She's just right for me!

She's a twosome,
She's a foursome
If she'd lose some
I would like her more some

I don't want her, you can have her
She's too fat for me
She's too fat for me
She's too fat for me
I don't want her you can have her
She's too fat for me
She's too fat
Much too fat
She's too fat for me
Hey!
Nobody wants the girl with the skinny legs .
 

Serryah

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Queen’s classic song Fat Bottomed Girls is being dropped from a greatest hits collection aimed at younger audiences.

The song, which was released in 1978 and written by guitarist Brian May, has been enjoyed by fans for generations.

However, in this day and age, even as all kinds of things are sung and rapped about, this 45-year-old track about a young man who comes to appreciate women with fuller figures has been viewed as too risque for Yoto, a new audio platform aimed at young people, the Daily Mail reported.
When Universal Records revealed its version of the band’s greatest hits for Yoto, music insiders were incredulous about the dumping of the popular song.

“It is the talk of the music industry, nobody can work out why such a good-natured, fun song can’t be acceptable in today’s society,” one industry professional told the Mail.

(The rock song is the fourth track on the band’s original 1981 greatest hits album, which also features Bohemian Rhapsody, Don’t Stop Me Now and We Will Rock You.)

Ugh... fuck that.

More people just getting too stupid over shit.
 
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Taxslave2

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Queen was lightweight category compared to Yankovic. He has a pile of "mysogynoir" Grammys to prove.

Can she prance up a hill?


Here's a silly ditty,
You can sing it right away
Now, here is what you say
So sing it while you may

Here's a silly jingle,
You can sing it night or noon
Here's the words, that's all you need
'Cause I just sang the tune:

Oh, I don't want her, you can have her
She's too fat for me
She's too fat for me
She's too fat for me
I don't want her, you can have her,
She's too fat for me
She's too fat
She's too fat
She's too fat for me

I get dizzy
I get numbo
When I'm dancing
With my Jum-Jum-Jumbo

I don't want her, you can have her
She's too fat for me
She's too fat for me
She's too fat for me
I don't want her, you can have her
She's too fat for me
She's too fat
She's too fat
She's too fat for me

Can she prance up a hill?
No, no, no, no, no
Can she dance a quadrille?
No, no, no, no, no
Does she fit in your coupe?
By herself she's a group
Could she possibly
Sit upon your knee?
No, no, no

We don't want her, you can have her
She's too fat for me
And she's too fat for me
But she's just right for me
We don't want her, you can have her
She's too fat for me
Yeah, she's too fat,
Much too fat
But she's just right for me

She's so charming
And she's so winning
But it's alarming
When she goes in swimming

We don't want her, you can have her
She's too fat for me
She's too fat for me
But she's just right for me
So I sure want her, you can't have her
She's just right for me
But she's too fat!
She's not too fat!
She's just right for me!

She's a twosome,
She's a foursome
If she'd lose some
I would like her more some

I don't want her, you can have her
She's too fat for me
She's too fat for me
She's too fat for me
I don't want her you can have her
She's too fat for me
She's too fat
Much too fat
She's too fat for me
Hey!
oddly enough I was singing what I remember of that one on the weekend when my first wife came up in the conversation.none of the people present knew her, although I think one lady might have met her 45 or so years ago.
 
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