This has been lying around in my stack of stuff for a while, but it is still amusing. It is an ad for a recruiting firm, RedBalloon, that contributor Pam Brown referenced back in 2021 (“Finding Freedom“).
And no, we’re not getting paid for putting it up. Doesn’t matter – when you are watching and thinking about the words, it IS how the Left is distorting our normality by changing how people are perceived (character traits, intellectual horsepower, motivation, work ethic, care of family and friends) to simply immutable attributes (race, chromosomes) to changeable-on-a-whim ones (“this morning, I was a male, now I’m female, and tonite I’ll be ten other “genders” all at once and you WILL affirm and love every single one).
After all, Woke is part of Social Justice, and we ALL know how fast somebody is pulling that chain around in random ways – simply because they can in attempting to drive the rest of us nuts.
But only if we let them. I’ve easily learned that if I laugh at them, the table gets turned rather quickly. You know, like making a 5-year-old frustrated for sport (and then I give him a big hug – the SJWs, I just laugh harder and longer. They’re even easier to frustrate.).
Anyways, the commercial hits all the right top notes: “If You Are Struggling to Define ‘Woke,’ a Viral Ad From RedBalloon Makes it Child’s Play.”
One of the most absurd talking points lately is that people who oppose the radical left’s agenda should stop using the term woke because it can’t be defined. Unless you have been asleep since Jan. 21, 2021, you see examples of it almost every day in the White House press briefing and whenever the dementia-patient-in-chief appears in public to pander to his far-left constituents.
Perhaps the best definition of woke is the one memorialized when Justice Potter Stewart tried to define hard-core pornography in 1964. “I know it when I see it.” A more technical explanation would be an ideology that requires adherents to view people as atomized individuals. Then society must provide social benefits and punishments based on the full complement of observable and claimed characteristics in a complex intersectional ranking system.
This laborious exercise divides society into the oppressors and the oppressed… It is also why some employment applications and medical forms now ask for your “gender assigned at birth.”
…The worst part of wokeness, aside from it showing up in public school curricula, is how it has invaded the workplace. As corporations try to satisfy the newest requirement set upon them by the Human Rights Council, DEI training proliferates. Some of it morphs into expecting employees to engage in outright activism for left-wing causes.
…And God forbid that you say the newest unutterable phrase or make an O.K. sign. Some companies even have their own version of a struggle session, where you confess your privilege and apologize to coworkers who score more points in the Oppression Olympics than you do. Pay no attention to the fact that half of those you somehow oppressed are probably senior to you and make more money. It is enough to make you feel like the guy in the head-desk gif banging his head.
I am so glad that, being retired, I don’t have to worry about my paycheck being dependent on what I say or do that has NOTHING to do with my actual job responsibilities and how successful I am in doing them. Frankly, I would think that with all of this nuttiness (although it seems since 2021 when DIE and Wokeness were peaking), it would be pushing Conservatives along in a directed fashion: make your own job.
Be an entrepreneur and control the atmosphere in your company.
HT | PJ Media
