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Nonetheless, the phenomenon is undoubtedly global. Wherever you go, it is hard to escape social-justice warriors. World police, indeed.

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Like all The Economist articles, this has such little substance to it.

Lmao at their recent anti-China headlines on their main page xi :

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Mr Rozado’s new paper ["The Great Awokening as a Global Phenomenon"] takes things further. He analyses 98m news articles, tracking words such as “transphobic”, “racist” and “sexist”.

Index of words expressing concern with prejudice, 2008-2023

"Wokeness is when people acknowledge racism and bigotry exist" is a more mask off moment than I expected

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

"There's NO SUCH THING AS RACISM. Although I consider myself racist and will criticize people for not being racist enough.....but there's no thing as racism btw."

Do these dumbasses hear themselves speak? How do you deny something YOU CALL YOURSELF!? It's like chavs whining that people call them gammons even though they call themselves gammons.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Lenin quote: Something something bourgeoise newspaper

[–] [email protected] 37 points 9 months ago (1 children)

A journal that speaks for the British millionaires, is pursuing a very instructive line in relation to the war. Representatives of advanced capital in the oldest and richest capitalist country, are shedding tears over the war and incessantly voicing a wish for peace. Those Social-Democrats who, together with the opportunists and Kautsky, think that a socialist programme consists in the propaganda of peace, will find proof of their error if they read The Economist. Their programme is not socialist, but bourgeois-pacifist. Dreams of peace, without propaganda of revolutionary action, express only a horror of war, but have nothing in common with socialism.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 9 months ago (1 children)

don't mind me, I'm just contact tracing the woke mind virus

[–] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago

13 year old redditor ass article

[–] [email protected] 36 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I remember when the Economist would rail against this sort of reactionary conservatism, opting instead for neoliberalism. I guess when their main protagonist, capitalism, is looking so fucking shitty, this is the sorta thing they need to publish.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago

It's kind of a recent change. Even during the Bush era, they would mock the antics of reactionaries (although still recommending people vote for Republicans). I think they're just getting more in touch with the gestalt of the divorced dads and reactionary older "liberals" who make up their subscriber base.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

Fundamentally, it's a rag started by the bourgeoisie in protest over tarrifs on grain. I don't think it ever was against reactionary beliefs, I think when they publish anything even slightly critical of the right it's for "balance" in the way American news does it. It's really funny because you see people comment on the articles saying "wow the ecommunist is woke"

If you watch the Jon Stewart interview of one of the lead editors of the paper, it's abundantly clear who the paper has always supported and their propaganda intentions.

It will always be this kind of low hanging fruit, so it's it's easy to get a laugh out of it.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Everytime someone describes what ''woke'' is, the definition is at best 60s civil right movement activism

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's either that or they define it as believing trans people are real

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

or that people try to fix bad things and be kind

[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago

geordi-no Contact tracing COVID infections

geordi-yes Contact tracing woke mind virus infection

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The numbers are larger today and the (now) billionaires are international, but nothing has fundamentally changed since Lenin wrote this over a century ago.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I already know about this one, thanks comrade. rat-salute

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So, if "woke" is bad, asleep must be good. And Ignorance is Strength?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

If the masses are ignorant, that is the strength of readers of the Economist. So basically yes

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

They're competing for the position of Quilette, an Ozzie libertarian rag...

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

This article's thesis is that Canada, Australia, and Sweden are less racist than America

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

OH SHIT! LOCKDOWN TIME!!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oh shit, well I guess capital had better not stop to try to contain this "woke mind virus", and everything must continue as 'normal' while it spreads, right?

Just like the last virus, right? covid-cool

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

Yeah I thought the new consensus was that viruses are natural and we should just let them rip, and doing anything to prevent their spread is tyrannical overreach

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

MA! Econ has gone mask off again! GET THE CAMERA!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

God I fucking hate the sheeple.

Sorry I'm not a malignant narcissist like the rest of you dumbfucks.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

Nooo not Chinese well to do oooaaaaaaauhhh

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

What do they mean by "woke mind virus"?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They briefly define it at the start.

The term refers to a loose constellation of ideas that have changed how educated, left-leaning folk view the world. It says all disparities between racial groups are proof of structural racism; that norms of free speech, individualism and universalism are camouflage for discrimination; and that injustice will persist until systems of privilege are dismantled.

It's the same as when that judge tried to get the Ron DeSantis administration to define woke. They defined it as something like "a belief in structural discrimination and a call to change it." They mean any and all belief in structural oppression. The opposite of wokeness is believing everything's fine except a few scattered individuals.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It says all disparities between racial groups are proof of structural racism

If you don’t believe this then you believe disparities between racial groups are caused by genetic or cultural inferiority. The racists are ashamed to say they are racists out loud, but it’s clearly implied by what they don’t say

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

The way they'd phrase it is they believe disparities come from individual acts of racism. Separate, atomized racists all acting without connection to one another. And also without connection to networks of authority, because liberals don't believe distinct economic class authority exists.

But when you push liberals further, that's when they'll start talking about cultural inferiority

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

Judeo-Bolshevism