Wokeism of the day *Revised Mod Note in OP and threadbanned users*

NattyO

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120484206#Comment_120484206

Similarly to the Ashling Murphy case - the initial hysterics about Irish toxic masculinity, and "educate your sons" came to a crashing halt with the arrest of the suspect, and since then, the case has barely merited mention in the media. The reaction to her killing by certain elements of the media were sickening - they were almost celebrating their hatred for Irish men.

MisterAnarchy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120488427#Comment_120488427

It didnt stop Dylan Mulvaney from advertising them.

Karppi

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120488427#Comment_120488427

It'd be an interesting experiment, though. A bit risky. Take care and let us know how you get on 😮

Cordell

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120488479#Comment_120488479

He's the kind of person who will try sounding with them just to experience girlhood.

If you don't know what sounding means, do yourself a favour and don't search.

BattleCorp

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120488480#Comment_120488480

I got a friend to knit me one. I'll get back to you shortly when I try it.

BattleCorp

Gnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Well, it was a struggle but I got it all in. Probably should have used lube, or butter, or something.

Think I'll need a tug o war team or the fire brigade to get it back out. 🤣

Leg End Reject

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120488578#Comment_120488578

I hope you can find the string ... 😬😬😬😂

Karppi

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120488578#Comment_120488578

Did you forget the safe word as well?

Potential-Monke

Gonna preface this with an allegedly, but this is gold:

https://news.sky.com/story/disney-criticised-after-revealing-cast-for-lilo-stitch-remake-12857544

Sydney Agudong - a 22-year-old who has Hawaiian ancestry - has been cast as Lilo's older sister, Nani.

But some fans say she is not representative of how Nani was depicted in the 2002 animation, where the character had darker skin, black hair and ethnic features.

One critic of the casting tweeted: "Not being Indigenous or from a PoC community, it may not be easy to see a problem with this casting, but within our communities this is a big issue.

"Nani is Indigenous Hawaiian with strong features and dark skin, this casting is blatant colourism."

And another fan who is from the state wrote: "Listen, she's probably a lovely woman but I can't help but feel disappointed. I wanted Nani to look like me."

Lol. My niece tried to argue that the Little Mermaid is a mermaid and Nani is a character based on real people. I asked her what the real life version of Stich was, reminded her both are cartoons, and it can't be ok one way but not the other.

AllForIt

"And another fan who is from the state wrote: "Listen, she's probably a lovely woman but I can't help but feel disappointed. I wanted Nani to look like me."

I'll never get this "I want to see me" on screen. The last thing I want to see is 'me'.

silverharp

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120489789#Comment_120489789

True, if they make a Genghis Khan film, I dont want it to star Colin Farrell and a bunch of other spud faced chancers.

kowloon

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120488616#Comment_120488616

It's actually a ripcord; It expands to its full size when the spring engages.

realitykeeper

How can we fix it so that young people will be able to buy a house? Simple. Just increase property taxes for houses that were build prior to 2023 and exempt houses that get built from this point forward. Also, exempt first time buyers of pre 2023 houses from the property tax for at least 20 years, (provided they did not make the purchase before 2023).

If the tax on pre 2023 houses was high enough, it would have these effects:

1) It would create a real economic demand for new builds (over existing housing stock). Anyone who can afford a new house will buy one and sell their existing house which will be costing them too much to keep. This will make building new houses far more economically viable as they will fetch a higher price.

2) This increase in sales of existing houses will put serious downward pressure on the price of pre 2023 houses., making them more affordable.

3) It would correct the mistake the governments made in enriching and protecting property owners by re-inflating property prices which were trying to correct themselves in 2009. Re-inflating property prices has cost us all 200 billion euro in borrowed money since the crash of 2008. Natural justice dictates that 200 billion should be repaid by the people who benefitted from it and not by young people who were school children back in 2008. And by raising 200 billion (by taxing pre 2023 properties), the government could bring the national debt back to where it was in 2008, before they did their bank bailouts and market manipulations.

@BoxcarWilliam99

@BoxcarWilliam99 threadbanned

c.p.w.g.w

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120476316#Comment_120476316

If that was in Ireland it's even stranger...white folk account for 94.7% of the population...if it's about proportional representation then it should still have some white folk...also a few weeks back some empty-head 'journalist/blogger" was on the tonight show whining about politics not being inclusive enough and said Ireland doesn't have anyone of colour in the dail...a-hem Leo is of Indian decent

StevenToast

Sky sports leading story this evening is some womens game a very small minority of people are interested in...

The champions league quarter finals where literally millions of people are far more interested in worldwide is pegged down a few rungs of the ladder to make way for this blatant shoehorning wokeism....

Fine, cover the womens game...no problem...but making it top billing tonight is taking the pìss.....

c.p.w.g.w

BBC had one tonight's women's games... surely it would have made more sense to have it when there wasn't a champions league QF

Me_Grapes

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120497722#Comment_120497722

Yep

Number 1 billing on their website all evening....... not even in their top 10 most trending articles.

Strumms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120497773#Comment_120497773

Attendance confirmed at 6,658…. Ballpark mid table league two attendance.

Attendance in Munich for the Munich vs City game was confirmed at 75,000 with millions watching on tv worldwide…

6658 people.. that interest is akin to the attendances at Grimsby Town …but ..

why not just have it Friday night…? I know, wanting to be ‘seen’ to be competing with men’s fixtures.

Cordell

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120497695#Comment_120497695

I think you posted in the wrong forum, and your communism is showing.

Killinator

It's probably just as much about the fact that Sky don't have the rights to the Champions League but do to the WSL, hence pushing one over the other

MisterAnarchy

Did someone mention Arsenal, Womens Football and Sky ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy4U6mjt90A

CGI_Livia_Soprano

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120498455#Comment_120498455

It should be blatantly obvious to anyone with a shred of media literacy that this is the real reason, but that still doesn’t stop the denizens of boomers.ie from crying about “shoe horning wokeism.”

Let’s not forget that the people crying about Sky Sports’ exploiting their right to post headlines on their website as they please are exactly the same people who blubber about “freedom of speech” and “cancel culture” when anyone has a go at their own heroes. 🤣

Evade

I don't follow sport much but when did they drop "women's" when talking about womens' sports?

c.p.w.g.w

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120498818#Comment_120498818

Seems to been done since last year

Cordell

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120498723#Comment_120498723

About this boomer thing when used derogatory towards people who are virtually all gen X, what's the deal with it? How is it acceptable to misage a person? I know it started as a meme, it should have died as that, so don't give me that answer.

Evade

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120498893#Comment_120498893

For some people there are no bad tactics only bad targets. They will claim to have a philosophy like be kind but only apply it to those that agree with their outlook and apply all sorts of -isms to the right targets, in their view. It's olympic gold medal level mental gymnastics.

CGI_Livia_Soprano

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120498893#Comment_120498893

….

TomTomTim

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120498723#Comment_120498723

Let’s not forget that the people crying about Sky Sports’ exploiting their right to post headlines on their website as they please are exactly the same people who blubber about “freedom of speech” and “cancel culture” when anyone has a go at their own heroes. 🤣

News outlets having agendas isn't a free speech matter as you know, it's a matter of ethics. I know it's a dead concept in the modern world, but we once expected impartiality from the media.

CGI_Livia_Soprano

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120499104#Comment_120499104

What on Earth are you talking about? There’s nothing “unethical” about Sky Sports putting a women’s football game result on their website.