Comment on As a child of the 90s we grew up with PC Political Correctness. Is that WOKE but just in a different form?

Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• RedWeasel@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You mean treating people with respect and empathizing about their life situations? Shouldn’t that just be normal?

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  • Hayduke@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    With rational, well-adjusted, reasonable people, absolutely. With chest-puffing brainwashed conservatives, it is somehow a handicap.

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    • oo1@lemmings.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They’re trying justify making the selfish choice in the prisoner’s dilemma and abusing the trust that is so useful to cooperative/polite society.

      They also get annoyed if coperative society is rational enough to slap them with the reciprocity they deserve after being found out for being a twat.

      But I think they rationally they do want a 2-tier society, where lots of people in one tier cooperate to build trust and wealth (generally using trust instead of lawyers), then their tier extorts that wealth. And they find ways to protect themselves from consequences (generally using lawyers).

      I’m sure many of the brainwashed masses don’t know which tier they’re in though.

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      • Hayduke@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        That does seem to be the thought process. Too bad the majority of them don’t realize they are on the bottom rung with (most of) the rest of us.

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• Naich@lemmings.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What’s the agenda?

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  • SolidShake@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Oh I know this! When I was in middle school I had a weekly calendar that I had to fill out what I did for each class that day and write down future events like field trips etc. that was literally called our “agenda”.

    Hope this helped.

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  • oo1@lemmings.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think the idea is that someome wants to avoid being “cancelled” after they’ve been exposed for for abusing social trust and norms of behaviour - usually to their own benefit.

    So they denigrate or attack anyone exposing their shitty behaviour or anything similar. If they can do this they can contine to be cunts to society and avoid being ostracised by it.

    But once they can get away with it, one can systematically exploit social trust and norms repeatedly, and presumably grow the power and influnce of their subculture. Even at the cost of overall the weath of the encompassing society - it won’t matter to the dicks so long as they can extort a bigger share of the smaller pie.

    Polite society will unfortunately struggle to effectively ostracise the people who do this because they’re (rightly) worried about due process, accountability, fairness, and miscarriages of justice.

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