The Woke thread AKA Liberal Kaynesplaining

Did he beat them first though. Doesn't sound like it

He's an open racist and bigot but let's not be mean about him.

What's striking about the Liddle thing is that this Luckhurst bloke is personally mates with him, and has a long history of pretending they're mere fellow journos or w/e in order to defend Liddle. Seems like that happened again now he's in charge of a Uni, he's pretending like it was "just about free speech", when in fact it's more like "You can't walk out on my mate Rob!!!". Honestly he should be fired.

Also the comments on the article from like 2010 or whenever Luckhurst wrote defending Liddle are fairly hilariously awful, lauding basic-bitch Islamophobia and so on.

My big question is with people like Liddle, who there are boatloads of, what happens with them to change them from open-minded to mindless contrarians? Or were they always mindless contrarians, and when they were young that looked like being open-minded because they were being contrary to older people, not younger ones? I'm also astonished that people think they're "meticulous" in their arguments, when everything I've seen Liddle write (which is considerably more than I'd like) has basically been a well-edited/large vocabulary forum post, and like most forum posts of that kind is meandering, doesn't really have a point, and expresses a lot of ill-formed opinions. It's almost like a large slice of the intelligensia can't tell the difference between "knows a lot of words" and "actually has a brain". You'd think public school might have helped them out there - it sure helped me see the difference.

Being a communist and being a sexist, racist prick are not mutually exclusive.

The new Sex and the City series is literally the wokest thing that ever happened. It’s actually painful. And I’m only 20 minutes into episode one. We’ve had five minutes of lockdown jokes that will make no sense in ten years, Carrie is now on a podcast about gender roles and queerness, being the awkward “cis-het female”, and Miranda spends several minutes apologising for mentioning a black woman has braids. It’s so, so bad. And apart from the actors and character names, appears to have been written by people who have never watched the original show.

Is he called Mr Big because... you know...

I mean, it's not actually woke, that's the problem.

It's desperately trying to be hip and down with the kids and relevant despite being about three elite wealthy white women who live in bloody NYC, i.e. the very enemies of any actual kind of woke-ness. It's using modern lingo to try and signal this whilst still, in the end, being about the same three wealthy dullards (the only interesting one having left). When people talk about "virtue signalling" they're usually just being cunts, but here it's kind of accurate.

The apologising to a the Black woman scene is actively anti-woke in real terms, like, it's condescending/patronizing/insulting.

The writer is the same main writer from the original SatC, so yeah, he's just still a mediocre writer, and now he's terrible because he's trying to write stuff he doesn't really understand and he's 20 years older. So yeah we cannot sadly blame "kids today", it's the same old white gay man.

My wife introduced me to the original series, the characters are all terrible people but I can see why it was pretty groundbreaking for women when it first came out. The films are fucking awful though, and this is definitely more in the mould of the films.

was that pulled out of a cervix?

I think It's Always Sunny already has me covered for my "watching terrible people do terrible things" needs.

Sometimes you just wonder if anyone checks anything before putting it out there

www.theguardian.com/business/2021/dec/11/john-lewis-removes-lollita-childs-party-dress-from-sale-after-backlash

"One Twitter user stated it was different to the novel, due to having two “l”s in the name."

Right? Damn cancel culture snowflakes completely missed that

It really is very, very good though.

The best is when someone tries to draw the line on what the correct terminology to use is if a nonce is interested in pre-pubescent, pubescent or post-pubescent but still underaged. Excellent sense of priority those guys.