Many people say that I’m GOATed with the sauce, many people. It’s true! The thousands and thousands of people who come to my rallies, they’re all my little pogchamps. They know we’re going to Make America Lit Again.
We'll have to wait until the younger generations finish taking over our government, first. Though, it would be funny to hear the older politicians say that.🤣
My dad worked at motorola during the (red) campaign, and I can assure you that the whole campaign certainly helped the upper management get a lot of good bonuses.
I still remember Patrick Stewart's response to the ALS ice bucket challenge. _Actually writing a freaking cheque_ to support research. Everybody remembers the challenge and the fun videos but hardly anyone actually contributed to making life better for people suffering ALS.
This'd be funnier if this wasn't a central plank in the Republican party platform. Seriously, half our country is more interested in denying people rights because they think they're yucky than maintaining our infrastructure or any number of things that sane adults would understand are not partisan issues.
@@frankm.2850 The Republican Party has always been like this. Since the 60s, the Republican Party has been subtly insane, now they are out and out about their insanity
This hits the nail on the head. People feel satiated by the socially progressive “activism” of these corporations but then are happy to turn a blind eye to any attempt for organized labor, which by the way would help marginalized groups way more than any socially progressive branding or publicity.
I disagree. Alot of the same people who like corporate activism also agree that most workers should organize and wholy support unions. I mean democrats and leftist as a whole push more legislation supporting unions and worker organizing.
@@RedFezLad I'll grant you that they agree with it. But the performative gestures don't really equate to tangible support beyond, maybe, how they were already going to vote and donate during election seasons.
It is more complicated. Because the only one that has real impacts in standing up to governments trying to claw back social policies like abortion and LGBTQ rights are the corporations. There have been multiple businesses pushing back against these draconian laws Republicans are pushing forward, even some corporations putting money in to shelter people who need abortions. Of course this isn't always the case and what the video says has merit, but with the current political situation, you have to take the lesser of two evils sometimes. Do you want human rights?
@@chad8767 It for sure is case-by-case - no denying there's been some good that's come from corporate activism, just worth being aware of possible ulterior motives
I feel so much better now knowing that Fruit Gushers is against racism. For a while I was thinking "Fruit Gushers could potentially be racist" but now that they've cleared that up I can sleep soundly.
Bo Burnham showcases socially aware brands and their stances for radical change in his role as a brand consultant. ua-cam.com/video/fkKu09BwFgc/v-deo.html
😂 I’ve said it about Chick-Fil-A, and I’ll say it about Gusher’s-companies are concepts, NOT people, so it’s silly to say they are for or against anything. The people behind them can do those things, though being a client of those companies can indirectly move money and influence to efforts that you may or may not want it to go.
My thing is how the system keeps you in a spiral of overwhelming anxiety and burnout to keep people from being woke in the traditional sense (Edit) damn I wasn't expecting all these likes seesh thanks yall
and what wokeness has become keeps people too distracted and divided to come together to do anything significant about the fucked up spiral. People just want to act like pissing each other off and getting offended, or walking around with their fist in the air, waving a flag is accomplishing something.
@Dusty Hurd I mean, a bunch of people organizing in public to demonstrate their opinions is the foundation of public grievance, it does accomplish something. I feel like you’re mistaking authentic political trends and organization for Corporation’s attempts at co-opting of ‘wokeness’. Authentic wokeness never went away, it just exists alongside a sterile “pop culture” version.
From a psychological perspective, the political discourse of woke vs anti-woke has transformed into a mirroring conflict of revengeful narcissism vs grandiose narcissism. I would argue this is the main reason why the current situation seems so pathological, convoluted and apparently irrencocilable. Essential empathy and understanding being replaced by ideological dogmatism and self-righteous virtue-signaling by proponents on both sides of the spectrum.
I think the problem with wokeness is that it robs us of individuality. I don't want to hear from a black millionaire that a white low income worker is more privileged than him, because the black millionaire's father was discriminated against, while the white low income worker's ancestors had power. This sort of thinking creates tribalism, and tribalism always creates more tribalism. We are so far into this nonsense, that here in Germany Syrians and Turks play this game as well. A well integrated Turk is an "uncle Tom" for other Turks. This absolute nonsense. Germans and Turks were allied in ww1, we never had any colonization/slavery history with them, and yet: They're playing the same cards as Afro-Americans. You can't make this up. This is peak wokeness for me.
Psychology cannot solve socio-economic problems. Of course it can explain authoritarianism, how we become authoritarian. But psychology is incapable of understanding social movements and, above all, changing the balance of power. I bet many CEOs give money to Greenpeace while discussing how to increase productivity without paying workers more... Some even may work in fossil fuels. They are loving, open-minded, fairly balanced, in short, far from being sociopaths or narcissists.
In many ways though it has also broken up the social conservative base that capitalism has relied on for a long time. The once unified "right" is very visibly splitting apart between fascists and corporatists.
the woke issue is used to keep people thinking about issues that have no effect on them, instead of worrying about the economic issues or democratic issues that matter. it keeps the working people fighting amongst eachother instead of fighting the super wealthy individuals creating this mess.
@@XioriannaEBDjinn im not saying they are seperate but when people start feeling left behind by their government and the economy is when people start becoming susceptible to the demagoguery that leads to the social issues
And it’s on purpose. Because seriously, only people who have very bad intentions would want to turn the term « social justice » into a negative expression. The exact same thing happened with « woke »
The reason Republicans replaced social justice with woke but mainstream society never stopped using social justice positively is the same reason most Americans think being woke is a good thing. Republicans lose every culture war they fight in about five years. It's why they need the Supreme Court instead.
this happens a lot with words the right wing of politics finds being used against them. The same with groomer. It used to refer to people like priests, politicians, billionaires and such who used their money, power or social clout to SA young people. Now they are trying to twist it into meaning any queer person existing
As a black man I knew the word "woke" my whole life and never found a time to use it. Things like "eyes open" or other simple terms would be used. The first person who said it out loud to me with its new meaning wasn't black. Now I don't think I know any of my friends who use it.
Same, knew all my life what it meant to be "Woke" to us black folks but never ever used it in a sentence. Then all of a sudden it just took over discussion and got twisted into something else by those outside of our collective.
It’s so frustrating that so many Wisecrack videos pull back the curtain of controversy to show that someone is only propagating it to better themselves. I love that you’re spitting facts, but it truly is an ugly truth. Another thought provoking vid, thanks Wisecrack.
IT MEANS A LOT TO US THAT YOU UPLOAD THESE VIDEOS YOU ABSOLUTE LEGEND! I can't find much content like this on the internet. To know it's regular, well-researched, and to such high quality, is an absolute blessing
I love having videos online that I can share with people that make my point in a succinct, well edited way. Also makes me feel less a one when my lefty friends get all up in arms about rainbow, and ironically the right wing friends are saying the same thing? Like they are both upset about it, why don't they just hold hands lmao. stay woke.
I’m so glad “blackout Tuesday” was brought up for this video. The entire point was for social media pages that were using social media regularly for profit/business could take a step back from business and use social media to spread awareness rather than a sponsor. But then every single bystander sat behind their computer and posted a black screen on their stories. I remember being seconds away from making a post of my own and thinking “how the hell does this do anything”??
I also received a (Red) Motorola Razr, but my reason for wanting it was entirely for the color red and I learned about the campaign from reading about it after. It did give me a tiny "oh look my purchase made me feel ethically good" feeling but like the usefulness of the Motorola Razr; that faded fast. I also am a Pepsi fan, it was what my parents bought so I liked it better than Coke when I tried that. That said, I don't remember the last time I purchased a Pepsi or any cola.
I can’t speak to what happened at Motorola. Some of my family and friends works for the one campaign, which was the nonprofit organized. The red campaign with Bono Bono is in charge of one and my mother and a few others a ton of successful initiatives over in Africa to reduce the likelihood of aids being passed along the children it’s been largely a massive success. I can’t tell you what Motorola got out of it besides potential profit, but the overall initiative was right and good and effective and effective.
This is a great video, and something I've been saying forever. Many friends I had were thrilled that Disney threw its weight around in Florida, and commanded from on high that Floridians couldn't pass laws Disney didn't like. They felt happy because "their side" won.... but, they did not see that they were happy that an UNELECTED CORPORATION beholden only to profit was telling a state GOVERNMENT what laws it could pass and using "woke ideology" as an excuse to do so. This is true for other corporations as well. Laws can be unfair, and should be changed, this is true. But they should be changed by the PEOPLE, by VOTING, by DEMOCRACY ...because Disney might symbolically help the 5% of the country that is LGBTQ by blocking a law that...actually was just a bunch of posturing and wouldn't really have done much of anything...but will SQUASH the 99% of Americans who want unions, better pay, better work conditions, healthcare, etc. (including the lgbtq people who want those things).
"changed by the PEOPLE, by VOTING, by DEMOCRACY " good joke. democracy with capitalism is a good joke “Laws! We know what they are, and what they are worth! Spider webs for the rich and powerful, steel chains for the weak and poor, fishing nets in the hands of the government.” - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
I think we can celebrate the result of this one particular instance of a corporation using its inflated power to stop something that would've been very bad for a lot of people (5% of 336,607,917 people is still a lot of people) while still recognizing that no corporation should ever have that kind of power in the first place. Although, if we're really gonna be honest here, DeSantis should've never reached the position of power he has either.
It's not my fault that the GOP is so far gone, that I, a socialist, who can't stand giant soulless corporations, has to side with Disney on this. Then again, this isn't an all or nothing situation. Disney can be right in this very specific instance for standing up for their LGBTQ+ employees, and they can still be wrong when it comes to almost everything else.
Mike from Redlettermedia used the term "passive prograssive" to describe Disney having more diverse characters. Passive progression is my favourite term for billionaire companies pretending to care as its good advertising.
@@wrestlinganime4life288 It is a company. What really makes me sick is retarded activist pretending that pushing these bullshit corporate activism will solve "minorities" real problems.
I get the argument but I don’t think it holds much value. Yes, the companies are pretending to care to boost profits, but why should that matter? This is still encouraging diversity to the kids who watch these movies. Good things can be done with greedy intentions.
A good mantra to live by. Wish more people had followed this logic last year during the rail strike - it was presented as "either we bust up the strike and force the union to back down, or Christmas is ruined and the economy is crashed". They ignored the much more reasonable option: force the _companies_ to accept the union's demands.
The two sides are globalists/elites vs nationalists/citizens but instead people believe it's left vs right or black vs white. Meanwhile, Trump is the only one who isn't controlled by the uniparty and wasn't supposed to be part of the globalist agenda but people think he's the bad guy because of talking heads reading off teleprompters.
Very well made video essay! I went in very skeptical and worried.. A headline like that could have gone either way. I left with some pretty fascinating new concepts to consider. I’m glad I gave this video a shot!I’ll be chewing on this for a while! Thank you!
Thank you for this video! I work for a hospital department that offers transgender therapy (which I have no problem with at all). It attracts ‘open-minded’ employees, but many of them seem focused only on cultural diversity. We constantly have DEI talks and take surveys about improving diversity. Again, this is great. But there is NO talk of pay equity in a city that has seen rent increases of 25% post-pandemic, for a hospital that just completed one of the costliest construction projects in the company’s history. I saw a post on our internal message board about pay equity (with tons of likes from other employees). It was removed.
They got you fighting a culture war to keep you distracted from the class war. more cultural diversity is not a priority when people cant afford to their rent
I get you, I have a disability and get called to a lot of job interviews "because they want inclusion." But I never get the jobs and they're always saying disabled people aren't qualifies. The few times I've known who they actually went for, I was way more qualified and some of them actually lost their jobs because they couldn't do it.
@@mandisaw it is, but a different organization for my country. The problem with such things is that they're hard to prove and even then rarely successfully corrected for. For me, it's usually an odd parameter but in place testing "my skill level" put in place that I'll invariably fail despite experience abd training in the required skill set, and no one else would've usually done this test.
People are complex. Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man was written 70+ yrs ago, but includes a nuanced critique of [white] liberalism, and the way it emphasizes individual/shallow change, while sidestepping the more uncomfortable, deep-seated social & economic issues that have plagued America since its inception. Been a long time since we read it in HS, but you still see echoes today. People can be in support of same-sex marriage and green energy, but don't support trans-rights or public transit. Or they'll go hard-left on national policies, but obsess over crime & "good" school districts at the local level. That dissonance was what the original "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" play/movie was meant to explore. Comes up too in political-satire comedies like "I'm Gonna Git you Sucka" and "Undercover Brother".
Remarkable, this is the only topic ya'll could have slipped a Masterworks promotion into and have the comment section forget about it. Well done Wisecrack team!
@@eldrickemc4602 they have repeatedly failed to act as a hedge against inflation, and they have extremely restrictive rules about how long you have to stay invested that are never acknowledged in ads. I find the ads to be very dishonest. It's a risky investment, just like any investment it's you betting that the value of something will increase over time, and you have no possible way to predict if a painting will appreciate in value.
@@justcallmenoah5743 On top of that the actual value is incredibly hard to measure, and harder to realize. For it to be a successful "investment" someone has to actually buy the painting for more than you invested in it, and it's not clear that really ever happens on masterworks outside of a few special cases. It's basically gambling. Which is bad, because it's sold as "safe investing"..
@@JD-ub5ic exactly, as much as all investment can be characterized as gambling, this is really really risky gambling. And seeing these guys advertise for them implies that they either don't properly vet their advertisers, or worse that they don't care if their audience loses their money.
The origin of words doesnt seem to matter much anymore. For the longest time gay meant happy and carefree now is a synomnym for homosexuality....and no one seems to care. Even the word Fuck can have multiple meanings or shit
That's perfectly fine because you are (presumably) mad at the soulless company and not the diversity itself. I feel like that's the main issue in arguments about diversity in media. A lot of people blame the characters for existing rather than the writers or producers for being hacks.
@@tyreonbooker5304 I pretty much agree. I mean, we all have met some absolute goobers on the "left" who demand some ridiculous things. Just the other day I saw a video where a person was lambasting John Gwyne's Shadow of the Gods because it only had white people in it when it's centered around Nordic culture and mythology. So while I do think there are some frustrating people out there that think every single piece of media or art should look like downtown LA I think they are just a loud minority. While Disney and other corporations are the main problem by using diversity as a marketing gimic to stir up free publicity and pat themselves on the back.
@@tyreonbooker5304Even if a diverse character is perfectly written, you still have people whining about how they're shoehorned into the TV show/movie/game. Just the sight of a minority in media triggers some people now. Lol
I agree with conservatives at being annoyed at woke capitalism. But I strongly disagree with how they define the problem. It makes conversations with conservatives difficult for me because I show solidarity in the irritation, but I have no idea what to say when they start exploding into ideas of there being some kind of uprising or agenda, trying to take over the world this video gives me some content to consider adding in conversation
And also more recently on places like 4cham and other venerable bastions of the internet. I mean how many times has someone told you something like "wake up, sheeple!". Being asleep(not seeing, dreaming, living in temporary illusion, being unconscious) versus being awake(seeing, being in the now, the real, being conscious), is an age old trope. One that is prevalent I'm many cultures and languages throughout the ages. So it's a little more complicated than saying it just sprouted from black American culture and then we assimilated it.
@@mandisaw yeah that's absolutely true. My point is that it's such a basic and obvious concept that it's been repeating in history for ages. Like I'm not American, my first language is not English, but the concept of "waking up" and staying "woke" was a thing I'm my country in the late 19th century, because we weren't independent then and it referred to gaining national consciousness. We have to be aware that not everything is USA centric. But yes, the most recent popular iteration of "woke" owes a lot to black American culture. But because it's a very universal concept, that's why it has had such a prevalent global impact and staying power. I live in Europe in a non English-speaking country and the term "woke" is very prevalent, at least in the vernacular because it's a concise term that characterizes a certain type of people and certain types of policy and ideology. Like I move around in mostly left-leaning circles, who all use "woke" to one extent or other. There is always at least a little irony involved, but it is a very useful term to characterise certain trends.
Guy said to me just yesterday that the problem with schools is that they’re “woke.” Not guns. Not class sizes. Not social media. Not device addiction. Not educator recruitment. Oh & the guy had his doctorate & was wearing a dashiki shirt. 😅
Tbf ultra Liberals want to teach kids how to swallow grown up's cum properly so I'd say that's pretty high up on priorities to end immediately. Do you agree?
He might’ve meant schools focus on being “woke”, whatever that means, while ignoring the actual issues you listed. Sort of like Apple supporting pride month while kids are in cobalt mines over seas for their phones.
@Mr Map dude, this year USA had in 3 months more mass shooting than most countries will have in the entire year. I don't think that having access to guns helped to protected the people in the shootings
Revolutionaries decided wokeness was a call to action against tyranny, liberals decided wokeness was applauding a call to action against tyranny, and conservatives... well, they took that personally. "Woke" is as much a slur among the conservative right as miscegenator or bleeding heart. Which is to say, if you think it's an actual slur just because Nazis call you one, no version of the word ever would have included you anyway... 😂😂
@@RoninX33 Buddy... A guy says, "Puppies are cute" then 100 years later a group starts passing anti-puppy legislation every opportunity they can and shouting, "This puppy-centric ideology needs to stop!!!" Except 70% of Americans polled and even 50% of cat people are exhausted because they also agree that puppies are kind of cute. Then someone arrives and declares, "This puppy debate has been corrupted by a misuse of the word puppy to mean the opposite of a puppy and we now need a new word for puppy that everyone can agree on." To the rest of the world, this is not a serious person.
Good point. Like they said in the beginning of this video, black slang often juxtaposes itself at some point but we as a collective always remember it's root meaning. Once white people got ahold of it however, they either intentionally or unintentionally misunderstood the juxtaposed meaning and ran with their incorrect interpretation of the phrase.
I refuse accept the word “woke” to mean “fake corporate social consciousness.”or anything else like that. While I am extremely cynical about corporate support of social issues and believe that corporations are looking only after their bottom line. This usage of woke on the right has turned into a way to try not to take any social consciousness seriously. It’s been used as a way single out lgtbq people, especially trans and not take their issues seriously. It’s a way not to take police violence against racial minorities seriously. It’s become a catch all term on the right not try to learn anything or take social issues seriously. And yes corporations are not helping these issues
It also seems to be the new dogwhistle for Black people, women, & any kind of anti-racism or anti-sexism legal/political action. A lot of folks in comment sections and videos seem to use "woke" as a catch-all slur.
When I studied marketing there were abundant chapters on how to use social trends to sell. A social cause might be just, up a company will hardly ever adopt it for genuine reasons.
Every big business involved with social topics always reminds me of when my teachers in high school would say, "Hey kids I am crunk! Like little John!"
Apple sells a rainbow-colored wristband for their Apple Watches -- but does not offer it in a size that is large enough to fit a large-boned trans-woman's wrist. For that matter, nor do _any_ of the femininely colored wristbands offered for the Apple Watch.
Black people always used to say, "I'm in the house" instead of "I'm here." But then white people all started to say "in the house" so we switched it to "in the hizzouse." Hizzouse became hizzizzouse, and then white folk started saying that, and we had to change it to hizzie, then "in the hizzle" which we had to change to "hizzle fo shizzle," and now, because white people say "hizzle fo shizzle," we have to say "flippity-floppity-floo."
I'm a little surprised that you didn't bring up that moment where Brianna Joy Gray on Rising asked her guest who had just released a book on "wokeness" and the guest struggled to answer at all. Overall, good video on the topic.
@@evhwolfgang2003 You are right but maybe it's a bit more complicated. Bethany Mandel wrote a book called "Stolen youth: how radicals are erasing innocence and indoctrinating a generation" a book about wokeism been bad. You would imagine a person writing a book about it would be an authority on the subject. Apparently not, since she couldn't define woke on Brianna Joy Gray show. So you are right, she is not an authority on the subject even though she is passing as one.
Our daughter likes Pepsi. We've asked her to explain why, but as of yet she's been unable to articulate it in a manner we can comprehend. We're old. Yes, we still love her, but my wife and I will forever remain confused.
I'm not a regular soda drinker anymore but I always go for pepsi over coke. It's been a while since I've had either so I'd have to try them again, but I remember pepsi being less syrupy and tasting better
The thing that drew me to this video was the fact that I wasn't able to discover the context of this word because of how sensitive the word was. I am very thankful!
About the use of ''woke'' by certain politicians, I think it has become more of a characterization about people whose arguments should not even be considered. The same way that when people used to demand more economical equality, they were called ''commies'' ( not even the full ''communists'') and the argument was considered done, because their opinions were considered so outrageous and anti-American that it was meaningless to even considered their arguments. I would say this is to an extend due to the lack of proper counter-arguments and fear of debate, something we see today. In conclusion, using words with this intend is very bad for democracy in general, because the point of democracy is to hear and consider the opinions of others before taking a decision. P.S. I was recently called woke for saying that America needs more intercity rail and true high-speed rail, and I did not know how to respond to this.
"they were called ''commies'' and the argument was considered done" This is iirc called a thought-terminating cliché - it's just a magic buzzword that ends the discussion and to your braindead supporters sounds like a "win".
Unfortunately, this phenomenon cuts both ways on the political sixteen and public discourse is reduced to name calling and virtue signaling with all the nuance you expect from 144-character "dissertations " The irony is that neither side is really strengthened by pitting their arguments against the most robust version of their adversary so you end up with anemic and meaningless discourse.
Spot on as far as "Woke" being another term appropriated by corporate interests. It's a strategy that keeps working though I'm hoping there will be some sort of equally unprecedented pushback to all this "Corporate Wokeness." In a positive way.
I'm fifth generation Irish, and real familiar with the USA's carceral "system." That's where I got "woke," courtesy of Dostoevsky among other notables. Frederick Douglass et al. You know: "The state of any society can be determined by it's prisons (to paraphrase)" Got to be Instructed in the veracity of that idea at the ungentle hands of the State. Like everybody else who is actually "woke." Gotta think to yourself, "what's so bad 'bout being aware that I'm being shafted by the Usual Suspects every time I leave my house and sometimes without going outside at all?" Why'd rich, comfortable, gated-community folks hate on being "woke?" Make it some harder for them to cash cheques? What gives? Half the stuff that's labeled "woke" ain't. Most nobody's woke at all, which is part of the idiom itself. Right? This is about idiom? George Carlin said "you have to be asleep to believe in the American Dream." Maybe that's what the huge "problem" is? Stay Woke 100% at all times and places comrades.
No, you are American. 5th generation Irish, go Ireland and say that and look closely at the annoyance on their faces as they tell you you are not Iriish.
@@samsoncooper1again, why do you think not having any pride in your heritage is a good thing? Try saying this to a fifth generation Mexican and see how well it goes.
"Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them." Thomas Sowell
“Woke” has been around since the 20’s. Now that it’s available at Walmart, the people who actually understand it have moved on. It’s similar to that time when the Kardashians discovered cornrows and basketball players. We’ve moved on. 😊
It's always so confusing watching these videos because its almost always like 19.5 minutes of solid information and nuanced opinion, with one or two soundbites of attempts to degrade or insult a certain group of people. Amidst such a strong sets of arguments, what is the value in leveraging an insult that middle class white America's only culture is mayonnaise? It feels like an ignorant gotcha that is meant degrade rather than inform. Most recent videos by this channel seem to include at least one or two lines like this call your credibility as an moderate thinker into question.
Amazing how a paycheck can alter your opinions. Hard to criticize it, however, when most of us would do the same. As long as we need money to live in this world we are all hypocrits. That is the reality we have to live in.
You got this video for free. You can just fast forward though the ad too. This guy gave you a free product and now you are complaining about the free product. Pretty entitled Businesses find ways to make money. Not a hard or foreign concept
@@mitchconner403 he could have taken a different ad. If you disagree with an industry, and then choose to work with that industry over others, then you are hypocrites. If you believe something then you should take a stance on it, lest you lose all credibility.
@@justcallmenoah5743 It could have been an oversight. The person talking in the videos is not the person who is making the ad deals This UA-cam channel is ran by a team of people. Those people need a source of income to keep people employed and working. Therefore, whoever pays the highest price will get the ad read. More income means the more ambitious a project can be. It seems that you are holding a higher standard for independent content creators when compared to main stream media. For example, consider if a Director made an anti war movie, and that anti war movie is shown on TV. During a commercial break when watching the movie, you see an ad for military recruitment. Do you then complain to the director that he is a hypocrite because technically an ad played during his movie disagrees with the message of the movie? Probably not. People need money to live. Capitalism rules America there is not much else you can do to survive
For most of my life I preferred Coca-Cola, but for a few years I switched to preferring Pepsi for reasons unknown to me. If forced to speculate, I believe it was my boss's idiosyncrasies rubbing off on me. He had a Pepsi everyday and I thought he was a pretty cool guy (in my field), so I was probably subconsciously imitating him or something. I actually recommend A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage, which hypothesizes that Pepsi is actually more preferable to more people (based on some testing) but that Coca-Cola has such a stranglehold on beverage marketing in contrast that it really dominates Western (especially American) subjective feelings about the beverage.
I know what i prefer. Coke, its slightly stronger flavor and slightly less sweet, and possibly stronger carbonation. But some people prefer the smoothness and slightly sweeter Pepsi. But you're still picking one of a duopoly. When given the chance, pick the smaller lesser known, and avoid both Coke and Pepsi.
co-opted by corporations and spit upon by most, no, it's sad. I AM WOKE !!! Also Black Americans should know that some Western Europeans have change their ways long ago. why do you think jazzmen came here ??? Still today, don't go east...they're freaking xenophobs. Being black and american is a bit much.
I believe Black Mirror's Fifteen Million Merits episode showed it very well, how even "wokeness" can be turned against the protagonist who in the end just becomes part of the thing he sought to destroy.
I've literally seen it happen many times on the internet through the course of about 10 years. Mostly it happens on the left, and I'm probably a bit biased because I don't hang out in right wing spaces. The machine itself can chew through and spit out even the most ardent supporter as soon as they become inconvenient to the machine, or there is something greater to be gained by doing so. At that level there is no honour, principals, ideologies, morals, ethics or even sides. Just the turning off the gears.
That episode is something I bring up almost any time I want to explain what recuperation means in the context of politics. Honestly astounding how well it manages to showcase that phenomenon despite it not really intentionally setting out to do that. How power can take something, even something that very explicitly criticizes it, and somehow find a way to repackage it into a toothless product that they can sell for themselves, letting people who might be riled up by the message simply spin their wheels without actually doing anything. (just now hitting me that, I've been using the "spinning one's wheels" metaphor for ages, but it actually literally applies in this episode)
Nice comparison. The only way it would be more accurate would have been if someone completely different replaced the protagonist before he became a part of the system.
I just kinda feel like we’re making enemies with people that could’ve been our friends. It doesn’t matter to me what side of the political spectrum you’re on. If you are capable of being a good person, that’s enough for me.
I think just like you, and nowadays I'm considered "the other" on the eyes of both sides. You basically have to pick a group to hate and if you don't you end up in the bottom of every comment session... hate is a very efficient feeling too unify people, unfortunately.
It’s all to divide us. I don’t care who you are as long as you’re a good person. The people pushing all this stuff are just trying to fill their pockets. Everyone not an individual thinker just parrots crap they hear without critical thinking
Yep republicans don’t get this they keep pushing people away who would agree with some of them. Politics getting treated like Steelers vs Ravens games sad times 😕
It was my understanding, that the striving for enlightenment and becoming a more empathetic species, was kind of the point of this whole human evolution thing.
At the same time, a world that’s not designed to handle well over 8 billion people too many that has sprouted in less than a century (1.9 billion people in 1920).
I also remember "woke" being used as a way to make fun of conspiracy theorists, playing on the CTs saying things like "the lizard people want us to stay asleep." I think the modern use of "wokeness" is just the same thing as what we used to call "political correctness," which, when you think about it, is all about being performative. I mean, clue is in the name. It's about politics -- making yourself look like a better person than your opponent in the eyes of the largest number of people.
No I think you missed it. The modern use of the word work is purposefully tainted by the MAGA media machine to erase the meaning. And it worked. They were calling Brie Larson woke. Then they started calling entire movies and tv shows that woke, when they had nothing to do with Black oppression. They took this powerful word from the Black people and thy stomped the life out of it. Tactically, they disarmed the Blacks. That's what happened, and it was done on purpose.
'Woke' is 'Narcissism' in Psychology. Primarily 'Covert Narcissism' (the 'Woke Mind Virus'). Empathetic people will naturally despise people with 'evil' Cluster B personality disorders. And Covert Narcissists are some of the most toxic and manipulative. Woke is essentially "bending the knee to Narcissist Cultures and People". And this is one of the biggest No-No's in Psychology. For example, the Left-leaning black community is the most narcissistic according to all data and surveys. And much of that is due to the Left's coddling ('Going Woke'). Coddling and bad parenting both lead to Narcissism. Narcissist Personality Disorder is a serious problem in black culture, Islamic culture, Transgender culture, etc. And the one thing you don't do, is massage the Narcissist's Ego. Which is what the Left are doing. Particularly as Narcissism is the primary cause of crime (not 'Poverty'), and many other human social problems. NB: Actors are one of the societal Narcissist groups. They will naturally be attracted to Woke Narcissism, and the 'Narcissist Supply' of virtue signalling (attention and praise for the Ego). #WokeNarcissism
Woke has become an abbreviateon for the sentence: "I am morally superior to you." And that's why it's become so divisive. Take any philosophical or ideologic concept and throw it to the masses and it becomes dumb.
The way anti-woke people use it, it's anything left. Wanting to ignore or continue oppression because it makes one uncomfortable is morally interior to acknowledging and fighting for equally.
'Woke' is 'Narcissism' in Psychology. Primarily 'Covert Narcissism' (the 'Woke Mind Virus'). Empathetic people will naturally despise people with 'evil' Cluster B personality disorders. And Woke Covert Narcissists are some of the most toxic and manipulative. Woke is essentially "bending the knee to Narcissist Cultures and People". And this is one of the biggest No-No's in Psychology. For example, the Left-leaning black community is the most narcissistic according to all data and surveys. And much of that is due to the Left's coddling ('Going Woke'). Coddling and bad parenting both lead to Narcissism. Narcissist Personality Disorder is a serious problem in black culture, Islamic culture, Transgender culture, etc. And the one thing you don't do, is massage the Narcissist's Ego. Which is what the Left are doing. Particularly as Narcissism is the primary cause of Crime (not 'Poverty'), and many other human social problems. NB: Actors are one of the societal Narcissist groups. They will naturally be attracted to Woke Narcissism, and the 'Narcissist Supply' of virtue signalling (attention and praise for the Ego). #WokeNarcissism #CovertNarcissists
I would love to hear your take on "Agile" methodologies, as they have become so prevalent that, to me, it feels more like religious ideologies than actual frameworks.
Agile product management is just an excuse to overwork developers and ship unfinished service products while having basically no plan and trend chasing.
This would be really cool! I'm a late transitioner into a tech career and Agile does seem ubiquitous. Having had multiple other careers without it, I'm actually a big fan. Maybe it's just implemented well where I work. But I would love to see a wisecrack breakdown.
Isn't "agile" essentially just a check-in framework to designate milestones and timetables by name? Once I learned what agile workflows were, I wondered why they weren't the norm in every industry. What is your specific grievance against it? I'm not sure ubiquity is its own indictment.
@@TPNYC Well that's not what the agile manifest says, nor their proponents and most practitioners. Still while I do agree there are useful things that those workflows might contribute, I don't think they can be the absolute norm as every context is different and that requires to not follow frameworks blindly.
@@nishidohellhillsruler6731 actually i was in a public space with no control of the tv... with head phones. So I guess the Matrix has me. Where is my white fucking rabbit!?!
Fun fact: I have been discriminated against via corporate “wokeness” 😂 This whole ordeal is therefore for me an equivalent of rich slavers painting red stripes on their back and giving few lashes to random poor people on the street to symbolise their “feeling for slaves” 🤷♂️
@@Sang-Je I have been discriminated on bases of my gender, sexuality and nationality. This happened because the company I worked for aimed to improve its ‘diversity ratings’ on paper and its image on LinkedIN. I have been refused for a department change due to “not wearing skirt”, I was told in a manager training I would have been a good leader if only I would have been “adding more to overall diversity of the leadership” and was refused the promotion after successfully completing it. I was refused to be promoted by top management on LinkedIn because “We prefer to promote ‘more diverse employees” and lastly I was refused a project because they wanted to associate it with someone who posted job related promotions together with photos with his boyfriend on LinkedIn (who was also quickly promoted due to the fact). A bigot or an anti-intellectual you say? I for one got my wife’s name trough marriage just because she did not like my original name. I have been part of a ‘pride club’ in the company in question and supported their events directly. I speak 4 different languages. I lived, studied and graduated (Master’s) in a muslim country (where a I worked and studied in two different languages at the same time both foreign to me). I am an active member of a political party that is the most liberal on my country’s political scene for which I also held an office… I now actually work abroad. So yeah, you can be easily discriminated on bases of so called “wokeness” by a soulless corporation based on your gender or what have you, while it actually has nothing to do with how “woke” you are or claim to be.
@marknalberta lmfao yes meaning if u let people be bigots or racist then your silence is almost just as bad. You might as well victimize them as also, That's what that means.
Great video. The top note of a cola is vanilla. Coke is extra vanilla-y and Pepsi is a bit more citric. If you are making a drink wherein the vanilla is to be emphasized (for example a paralyzer) then go Coke. If you're making something more eucalytpic or bold like a gin cola; go Pepsi. But me personally, if I'm just having a cola, it's Pepsi every time. It's CRISP.
An accurate take an corporate wokeness, however I think you often fail to see how the same thing happens in individuals. They are expressing wokeness for virtue points instead of profits, but are equally uncaring about the actual issues.
Yes, the whole woke and cancel culture things are in fact virtue signaling devices. If social media didn't exist, you'd see a lot less people engaging in such behaviors
@@Comicbroe405 No they weren't. A black man was elected as President, Gay people were allowed to Marry and movies were a lot better before BLM, ME TOO and Teaching boys it's ok to suck dick in school.
@@dominushydra it seems like you need to wake up to the real world. just because you do not have to personally experience the oppression minorities have to go through does not mean that it doesn't exist. classic example of someone very priviliged claiming that issues don't exist because they don't affect you.
As a South African who grew up reading Steve Biko and his Black Consciousness philosophy, I was able to easily associate with the word Woke. So it is quite disappointing and quite hurtful to see how, again, black ideology is being stripped of its meaning. It was even more frustrating hearing Chris Rock use it in his latest special in the same manner as white people. Black Americans should really push back on this theft of blackness
14:42ish. This! So, what can I do to make meaningful change? I've watched 100 of these kinds of videos (long job so lots of hours to binge UA-cam ). The best advice I've seen so far to become the seed of ‘wisdom.’ Learn how the other side thinks and how to have a real conversation based on their values. Then hopefully you can have a real conversation based on what is really going on to you and them and what is causing systemic inequalities that we are all feeling. But the way to even start this conversation is to be kind and plant a seed. To basically, share truths without blame or yelling or shame to those who will listen or to social media. People won't respond but they might remember later on what you said or that you are a safe person to talk to. Because right now we all want to stand up and fight but we end up fighting each other rather than the corporate interests that rule over us. So, basically, post on social media in a specific way and wait...
Anger against "Allies" was always excessively cynical and annoying to me, but now that it's again becoming a stigma just to show that you are or approve of LGB (and especially T), it feels like encouraging people to not hang rainbow flags because it's "performative" and "virtue signalling" is just handing over the stage to the loud and self-righteous mob that are going to the legislatures and are boycotting Target and Busch and actually getting results.
because it literally is performative and virtue signaling. No one gives a fk about your sex or preferences and why do you need to fly a LITERAL flag to "show off you're an ally".. (also no one thinks you're an ally if you fly an lgbt flag they just assume you're not straight) it reeks of desperation and a need for attention. The idea of having flags for sexualities etc, literally just hijacking a extremely common thing as "yours now" like the rainbow is absolutely ridiculous. More so when you demand that it's show prominently everywhere. No one cares who you sleep with, it doesn't mean people enjoy you closing of entire roads so you can parade them mostly naked in an extremely oversexualized way not only is that weird af, it's not really strange that people thing you're a bunch of creeps if you feel the need to parade in leather bikinis with dog fetish masks. The reason why it's now stigmatized again is exactly because you people took it way too far and then applauded even demanded companies bow down to you. We get shit like ESG and DEI. It doesn't matter which way you turn, the .1% is pushed in your face. Companies are so desperate for an ESG score, they do the dumbest shit. COD always releases with country flags for example. This time? Not a single country flag .. ok .. but you know what was included though? Every single dumb attention seeking "my identity is my sexuality" flag that exists.
The thing is. No one is bothered by LGBT. But what is happening is people are tired of constantly being reminded of it and if companies start showing some interest in it then it becomes pandering. We get it. Lgbt people been through stuff. So have black people. I’m black. But I don’t need to get constant reformation or acknowledgement that that is what I identify with. I don’t think people of lgbt want to identify their whole movement on trauma. The idea is to be accepted right? But now that people accept you it almost seems like flaunting your beliefs in front of everyone. No other month is as aesthetically in your face than lgbt anything. Not only that but people in lgbt are so aggressive about calling people out for inequality that it developed people to be the exact opposite. Earlier I said people do not mind lgbt. This is 100% true. But when you start forcing or reminding people of said movement all time. Then criticize or condescend your morals as more right than someone else’s. It becomes the very thing people reject. Also my brothers gay. But he doesn’t use the LGBT to define him. It’s a part of him but by no means his entire personality.
Conservatives: "Would you stop calling yourself an ally!? It's just some performative, virtue signaling nonsense!" Those same conservatives: *have cars littered with decals stating they "back the blue" "support veterans" and "trigger libs" yet don't recognize the hypocrisy*
@@modell1084 1. LGBT Hate crime has gone up tremendously in the past few years from personal crimes that are done against members or the tremendous laws now being brought up in states and passed in others targeting Trans people and Trans kids. 2. Don't use your race to put down other groups of people who are also persecuted. It's actually problematic and dismisses the issues that both groups struggle through (And especially BIPOC LGBTQ+ people who get tremendous hate/violence) 3. You complain about LGBTQ+ stuff being up everywhere in June but str8 peoples stuff be up everywhere all year round yet we don't complain about it 4. Your brother doesn't speak for all LGBTQ+ so.... 5. You don't speak for all LGBTQ either so... Just admit you are uncomfortable by us existing and you hate being reminded of it which is really all I got from this post as a queer/person of color myself :/
@@modell1084 what a profoundly disingenuous comment you made. Right out the gate, you started your comment with a false premise. To say "no one is bothered by LGBT" and to then frame it as people just being annoyed by excessive and unnecessary advocacy from/for LGBT people is patently absurd and falls on it's face under any myriad of examples of popular right wing media calling for the eradication of trans people and openly gay people from public life, the over 500 anti-lgbt bills being legislated in this year alone and more. The fact of the matter is that LGBT people are still very much facing hatred and civil rights abuses regularly and you'd rather push that under the rug and say they're making a fuss over nothing because it makes you feel justified in your own prejudices. "I don't hate gay people, I just hate hearing about them and seeing them all the time" is the most blatantly obvious homophobic dog whistle ever. Combine that with acting like you represent the perspective of all black people and like having a gay sibling absolves you of being homophobic speaks volumes about how misguided and delusional your entire perspective on these issues is.
People drink pepsi all the time. Usually it follows this conversation. Customer: could i get a coke Cashier: we have pepsi, is that okay Customer: okay, it tastes the same.
they did a study without labels, and pepsi was picked more because of its taste. so coca cola is more of a brand thing. I love both, but slightly pepsi more. I invested in both though lol.
I'm finding the criticism of wisecrack's use of sponsorships more and more annoying. Recognize they need money to operate, and fast forward through the ads like a normal person.
Most people that I know in the LGBT community hate the companies that go rainbow for the month of June we call it rainbow capitalism and it's very much looked down upon in the community that I'm a part of
It's better than before, when corporations would cater to bigots by preventing LGBTQ+ from using their services. The moment the corporations feel that LGBTQ+ are no longer worth marketing to, that's when the real fear happens. Basically, it's a mixed bag. They may be seeking cash, but it's better than when they were refusing it.
@@greghauser742 It's a pretty sad situation. Listen to the gripes of the right wing, and it's effectively them whining about no longer being the target demographic. For movies, for television, for advertising... they're now a part of the general diaspora, when before, they were the ones that the money makers wanted the wallets of. They hate that they no longer have the limelight, and that minority groups, and their allies, are more prominent in all of our fractured ways.
Thank you so much for explaining progressivism. Very good and wonderfully crafted points. It turns out that woke has a great backstory! As for your question, corporations loooove buzzwords. Business speech (BS) is crucial in their ways of communication. When your channel says things with meaning to deliver the message, they say things to say something, but say nothing. I think their driving factor is not maximizing the profits, but the fear of loss. As for conservatives' point. Woke (in today's common meaning ofnthe word) is not loved because of forcing one to believe in some values and angry mob that will follow those, who are somewhat disagree with them. And not necesseringly by fact, but by interpretation of those who judge. You can replace woke with "reverse bad word". Well, every group will be discredited by it's worst members. Because, negative thinking helped us to survive during primal times. And we still have this annoying feature. 🤷♂️ Once again, I very much appreciate this educational session. It's really awesome to explore the constructive side of things.
You might see people choosing pepsi over coke in Norway. The sugarfree version of pepsi (pepsi max) is one of our most popular beverages. I always found it strange that when a company choose to signal support for something "woke", the backlash is rarely just towards the company, it's mostly towards the group that are recieving the support. They are acting like these small minority groups strongarmed these billion dollar companies into painting a rainbow (or whatever cause they want to capitalize on) on their products.
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This is that Scottish forest buy-a-title thing all over again, isn't it?
So NFTs...
Since politicians are unironically use the word "woke" now, I hope the next step is that they start calling each other "soy" on the debate stage.
And beta cuck. Tell them it's the big brother of "woke" so it's a more effective persuasive
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No, that would upset soybean farmers, and they have money 😂
We'll have to wait until the younger generations finish taking over our government, first. Though, it would be funny to hear the older politicians say that.🤣
My dad worked at motorola during the (red) campaign, and I can assure you that the whole campaign certainly helped the upper management get a lot of good bonuses.
And isn't that what's really important? :D
I don't understand. What do you mean?
@@jmrabinez9254 In the video he talked about a campaign by Motorola that said that by paying more for a phone would help end aids in Africa.
😂😂well well well, "Aids in Africa"
It's so great to chase the good causes!
I still remember Patrick Stewart's response to the ALS ice bucket challenge. _Actually writing a freaking cheque_ to support research. Everybody remembers the challenge and the fun videos but hardly anyone actually contributed to making life better for people suffering ALS.
Yup, him sitting next to a bucket of ice, writing a cheque. Then he uses the ice to make himself a drink.
I am sure this will be a rational and calm discussion here in the comments
No, it won't .
On fleek
People that shout "woke" don't watch intelligent thought provoking content.
@@mickael486 This video is heavily left-biased and not conducing to intelligent discussion
@@mickael486 they don't but they sure show up to bash it and attack it regardless
Whether you're woke or broke, we can all agree on one thing...
The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.
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-emia, meaning presence in blood.
No, the electron transport chain is you Woke-snowflake-groomer-communist-Trotskyite!!
Of the Zell.
When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear. - Sowell
I think a better word for ‘culture war’ is ‘strawman skirmish’
Gotta remember that one. So on fleek
Part of the war.
This'd be funnier if this wasn't a central plank in the Republican party platform. Seriously, half our country is more interested in denying people rights because they think they're yucky than maintaining our infrastructure or any number of things that sane adults would understand are not partisan issues.
The vaguely-defined-dread war?
@@frankm.2850 The Republican Party has always been like this. Since the 60s, the Republican Party has been subtly insane, now they are out and out about their insanity
This hits the nail on the head. People feel satiated by the socially progressive “activism” of these corporations but then are happy to turn a blind eye to any attempt for organized labor, which by the way would help marginalized groups way more than any socially progressive branding or publicity.
I disagree. Alot of the same people who like corporate activism also agree that most workers should organize and wholy support unions. I mean democrats and leftist as a whole push more legislation supporting unions and worker organizing.
@@RedFezLad I'll grant you that they agree with it. But the performative gestures don't really equate to tangible support beyond, maybe, how they were already going to vote and donate during election seasons.
It is more complicated. Because the only one that has real impacts in standing up to governments trying to claw back social policies like abortion and LGBTQ rights are the corporations. There have been multiple businesses pushing back against these draconian laws Republicans are pushing forward, even some corporations putting money in to shelter people who need abortions. Of course this isn't always the case and what the video says has merit, but with the current political situation, you have to take the lesser of two evils sometimes. Do you want human rights?
Do people feel satiated by corporation activism? I feel like most people (I hope) see through the facade.
@@chad8767 It for sure is case-by-case - no denying there's been some good that's come from corporate activism, just worth being aware of possible ulterior motives
I feel so much better now knowing that Fruit Gushers is against racism. For a while I was thinking "Fruit Gushers could potentially be racist" but now that they've cleared that up I can sleep soundly.
we dodged a bullet on that one
The fact that Fruit Gushers were different colors shows that they stand for diversity.
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😂 I’ve said it about Chick-Fil-A, and I’ll say it about Gusher’s-companies are concepts, NOT people, so it’s silly to say they are for or against anything. The people behind them can do those things, though being a client of those companies can indirectly move money and influence to efforts that you may or may not want it to go.
I'm still waiting to see which side of the fence Dunkaroos lands on.
My thing is how the system keeps you in a spiral of overwhelming anxiety and burnout to keep people from being woke in the traditional sense
(Edit) damn I wasn't expecting all these likes seesh thanks yall
Definitely this
and what wokeness has become keeps people too distracted and divided to come together to do anything significant about the fucked up spiral. People just want to act like pissing each other off and getting offended, or walking around with their fist in the air, waving a flag is accomplishing something.
they keep you stupid by keeping you busy
@@dustyhurd424 cop out
@Dusty Hurd I mean, a bunch of people organizing in public to demonstrate their opinions is the foundation of public grievance, it does accomplish something. I feel like you’re mistaking authentic political trends and organization for Corporation’s attempts at co-opting of ‘wokeness’.
Authentic wokeness never went away, it just exists alongside a sterile “pop culture” version.
From a psychological perspective, the political discourse of woke vs anti-woke has transformed into a mirroring conflict of revengeful narcissism vs grandiose narcissism. I would argue this is the main reason why the current situation seems so pathological, convoluted and apparently irrencocilable. Essential empathy and understanding being replaced by ideological dogmatism and self-righteous virtue-signaling by proponents on both sides of the spectrum.
I think the problem with wokeness is that it robs us of individuality. I don't want to hear from a black millionaire that a white low income worker is more privileged than him, because the black millionaire's father was discriminated against, while the white low income worker's ancestors had power. This sort of thinking creates tribalism, and tribalism always creates more tribalism. We are so far into this nonsense, that here in Germany Syrians and Turks play this game as well. A well integrated Turk is an "uncle Tom" for other Turks. This absolute nonsense. Germans and Turks were allied in ww1, we never had any colonization/slavery history with them, and yet: They're playing the same cards as Afro-Americans. You can't make this up. This is peak wokeness for me.
Psychology cannot solve socio-economic problems. Of course it can explain authoritarianism, how we become authoritarian. But psychology is incapable of understanding social movements and, above all, changing the balance of power. I bet many CEOs give money to Greenpeace while discussing how to increase productivity without paying workers more... Some even may work in fossil fuels. They are loving, open-minded, fairly balanced, in short, far from being sociopaths or narcissists.
In many ways though it has also broken up the social conservative base that capitalism has relied on for a long time. The once unified "right" is very visibly splitting apart between fascists and corporatists.
In other words, humans are incapable of thinking rationally no matter what their “values” are.
That is a very large thesis to cram into a comment section.
the woke issue is used to keep people thinking about issues that have no effect on them, instead of worrying about the economic issues or democratic issues that matter. it keeps the working people fighting amongst eachother instead of fighting the super wealthy individuals creating this mess.
Be mindful economic and democratic issues tie into social ones. They're not completely separate from another, much like the chicken and egg.
Post and comment are spot on
@@XioriannaEBDjinn im not saying they are seperate but when people start feeling left behind by their government and the economy is when people start becoming susceptible to the demagoguery that leads to the social issues
They’re also issues that don’t m impact politician’s wallets or power negatively.
That is the Plan.
Divide and conquer
woke is like the phrase social justice: the phrase has been hollowed out and thrown around so much its lost most of its original meaning.
Social Justice is bullshit. There is only Justice. Pure and Simple. Nobody is special.
And it’s on purpose. Because seriously, only people who have very bad intentions would want to turn the term « social justice » into a negative expression. The exact same thing happened with « woke »
The reason Republicans replaced social justice with woke but mainstream society never stopped using social justice positively is the same reason most Americans think being woke is a good thing.
Republicans lose every culture war they fight in about five years. It's why they need the Supreme Court instead.
this happens a lot with words the right wing of politics finds being used against them. The same with groomer. It used to refer to people like priests, politicians, billionaires and such who used their money, power or social clout to SA young people. Now they are trying to twist it into meaning any queer person existing
That’s the worst part about it
As a black man I knew the word "woke" my whole life and never found a time to use it. Things like "eyes open" or other simple terms would be used. The first person who said it out loud to me with its new meaning wasn't black. Now I don't think I know any of my friends who use it.
Personally I go the Spike Lee route "Wake Up"
I just stick with the original meaning from my community (black) not the new one tbh
I’ve never used it but only time I’ve ever been called woke was by a black man. This was years ago before this new meaning took hold.
Same, knew all my life what it meant to be "Woke" to us black folks but never ever used it in a sentence. Then all of a sudden it just took over discussion and got twisted into something else by those outside of our collective.
@abrashio Again I'd just go the Spike Lee route "Wake up"
It’s so frustrating that so many Wisecrack videos pull back the curtain of controversy to show that someone is only propagating it to better themselves. I love that you’re spitting facts, but it truly is an ugly truth. Another thought provoking vid, thanks Wisecrack.
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I love having videos online that I can share with people that make my point in a succinct, well edited way. Also makes me feel less a one when my lefty friends get all up in arms about rainbow, and ironically the right wing friends are saying the same thing? Like they are both upset about it, why don't they just hold hands lmao. stay woke.
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I’m so glad “blackout Tuesday” was brought up for this video. The entire point was for social media pages that were using social media regularly for profit/business could take a step back from business and use social media to spread awareness rather than a sponsor. But then every single bystander sat behind their computer and posted a black screen on their stories. I remember being seconds away from making a post of my own and thinking “how the hell does this do anything”??
I also received a (Red) Motorola Razr, but my reason for wanting it was entirely for the color red and I learned about the campaign from reading about it after. It did give me a tiny "oh look my purchase made me feel ethically good" feeling but like the usefulness of the Motorola Razr; that faded fast.
I also am a Pepsi fan, it was what my parents bought so I liked it better than Coke when I tried that. That said, I don't remember the last time I purchased a Pepsi or any cola.
I can’t speak to what happened at Motorola. Some of my family and friends works for the one campaign, which was the nonprofit organized. The red campaign with Bono Bono is in charge of one and my mother and a few others a ton of successful initiatives over in Africa to reduce the likelihood of aids being passed along the children it’s been largely a massive success. I can’t tell you what Motorola got out of it besides potential profit, but the overall initiative was right and good and effective and effective.
Apologies for the terrible dictation
This is a great video, and something I've been saying forever. Many friends I had were thrilled that Disney threw its weight around in Florida, and commanded from on high that Floridians couldn't pass laws Disney didn't like. They felt happy because "their side" won.... but, they did not see that they were happy that an UNELECTED CORPORATION beholden only to profit was telling a state GOVERNMENT what laws it could pass and using "woke ideology" as an excuse to do so. This is true for other corporations as well. Laws can be unfair, and should be changed, this is true. But they should be changed by the PEOPLE, by VOTING, by DEMOCRACY ...because Disney might symbolically help the 5% of the country that is LGBTQ by blocking a law that...actually was just a bunch of posturing and wouldn't really have done much of anything...but will SQUASH the 99% of Americans who want unions, better pay, better work conditions, healthcare, etc. (including the lgbtq people who want those things).
"changed by the PEOPLE, by VOTING, by DEMOCRACY " good joke.
democracy with capitalism is a good joke
“Laws! We know what they are, and what they are worth! Spider webs for the rich and powerful, steel chains for the weak and poor, fishing nets in the hands of the government.”
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
I think we can celebrate the result of this one particular instance of a corporation using its inflated power to stop something that would've been very bad for a lot of people (5% of 336,607,917 people is still a lot of people) while still recognizing that no corporation should ever have that kind of power in the first place. Although, if we're really gonna be honest here, DeSantis should've never reached the position of power he has either.
agreed. It shows how much power corporations have
It's not my fault that the GOP is so far gone, that I, a socialist, who can't stand giant soulless corporations, has to side with Disney on this. Then again, this isn't an all or nothing situation. Disney can be right in this very specific instance for standing up for their LGBTQ+ employees, and they can still be wrong when it comes to almost everything else.
@@Totoofwarful found the Communist. Hail Stalin.
Mike from Redlettermedia used the term "passive prograssive" to describe Disney having more diverse characters. Passive progression is my favourite term for billionaire companies pretending to care as its good advertising.
Another term is corporate activism.
This company makes me sick 😂
@@wrestlinganime4life288 It is a company. What really makes me sick is retarded activist pretending that pushing these bullshit corporate activism will solve "minorities" real problems.
"Good Advertisement"
Disney Box Office:
Flop after Flop after Flop
The Dimentia makes Mike say things.
I get the argument but I don’t think it holds much value. Yes, the companies are pretending to care to boost profits, but why should that matter? This is still encouraging diversity to the kids who watch these movies. Good things can be done with greedy intentions.
"Keep an open mind but not so open that your brain falls out." - Richard Feynman
One of my favorite quotes
So how woke is too woke?
@@rskl8083when it bleeds into every aspect of everyday living. Where everything is a perceived grievance.
@@John-rn1nm Exactly!
I don't agree with everything you said, but the idea of corporate wokeness, you hit that nail on the head. Good job.
A ray of hope through a dark cloud.
When the powerful tell you that you have two sides to choose between, it is your duty to refuse their false dichotomy.
A good mantra to live by.
Wish more people had followed this logic last year during the rail strike - it was presented as "either we bust up the strike and force the union to back down, or Christmas is ruined and the economy is crashed". They ignored the much more reasonable option: force the _companies_ to accept the union's demands.
Understood, sir!
So... Which is it then? Pepsi or Coca Cola?
;)
The two sides are globalists/elites vs nationalists/citizens but instead people believe it's left vs right or black vs white. Meanwhile, Trump is the only one who isn't controlled by the uniparty and wasn't supposed to be part of the globalist agenda but people think he's the bad guy because of talking heads reading off teleprompters.
@@nyirmogikandur6050 Groselha it is
@@nyirmogikandur6050 Pepper. DOCTOR Pepper to you.
Very well made video essay! I went in very skeptical and worried.. A headline like that could have gone either way. I left with some pretty fascinating new concepts to consider. I’m glad I gave this video a shot!I’ll be chewing on this for a while! Thank you!
Thank you for this video! I work for a hospital department that offers transgender therapy (which I have no problem with at all). It attracts ‘open-minded’ employees, but many of them seem focused only on cultural diversity. We constantly have DEI talks and take surveys about improving diversity. Again, this is great. But there is NO talk of pay equity in a city that has seen rent increases of 25% post-pandemic, for a hospital that just completed one of the costliest construction projects in the company’s history. I saw a post on our internal message board about pay equity (with tons of likes from other employees). It was removed.
They got you fighting a culture war to keep you distracted from the class war. more cultural diversity is not a priority when people cant afford to their rent
I get you, I have a disability and get called to a lot of job interviews "because they want inclusion." But I never get the jobs and they're always saying disabled people aren't qualifies. The few times I've known who they actually went for, I was way more qualified and some of them actually lost their jobs because they couldn't do it.
@@availanila That sounds like a complaint to the EEOC & your State Dept of Labor
@@mandisaw it is, but a different organization for my country. The problem with such things is that they're hard to prove and even then rarely successfully corrected for. For me, it's usually an odd parameter but in place testing "my skill level" put in place that I'll invariably fail despite experience abd training in the required skill set, and no one else would've usually done this test.
People are complex. Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man was written 70+ yrs ago, but includes a nuanced critique of [white] liberalism, and the way it emphasizes individual/shallow change, while sidestepping the more uncomfortable, deep-seated social & economic issues that have plagued America since its inception.
Been a long time since we read it in HS, but you still see echoes today. People can be in support of same-sex marriage and green energy, but don't support trans-rights or public transit. Or they'll go hard-left on national policies, but obsess over crime & "good" school districts at the local level.
That dissonance was what the original "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" play/movie was meant to explore. Comes up too in political-satire comedies like "I'm Gonna Git you Sucka" and "Undercover Brother".
Remarkable, this is the only topic ya'll could have slipped a Masterworks promotion into and have the comment section forget about it. Well done Wisecrack team!
Honestly always annoyed to see people taking masterworks sponsorships
@@justcallmenoah5743 why, did they do something?
@@eldrickemc4602 they have repeatedly failed to act as a hedge against inflation, and they have extremely restrictive rules about how long you have to stay invested that are never acknowledged in ads. I find the ads to be very dishonest. It's a risky investment, just like any investment it's you betting that the value of something will increase over time, and you have no possible way to predict if a painting will appreciate in value.
@@justcallmenoah5743 On top of that the actual value is incredibly hard to measure, and harder to realize. For it to be a successful "investment" someone has to actually buy the painting for more than you invested in it, and it's not clear that really ever happens on masterworks outside of a few special cases.
It's basically gambling. Which is bad, because it's sold as "safe investing"..
@@JD-ub5ic exactly, as much as all investment can be characterized as gambling, this is really really risky gambling. And seeing these guys advertise for them implies that they either don't properly vet their advertisers, or worse that they don't care if their audience loses their money.
The origin of words doesnt seem to matter much anymore. For the longest time gay meant happy and carefree now is a synomnym for homosexuality....and no one seems to care. Even the word Fuck can have multiple meanings or shit
I can be annoyed at Disney doing soulless checklist diversity and my grandpa being unstable and unreasonably angry about it at the same time lol.
Me too. They just force feed the messages in their movies.
That's perfectly fine because you are (presumably) mad at the soulless company and not the diversity itself. I feel like that's the main issue in arguments about diversity in media. A lot of people blame the characters for existing rather than the writers or producers for being hacks.
@@tyreonbooker5304 I pretty much agree. I mean, we all have met some absolute goobers on the "left" who demand some ridiculous things. Just the other day I saw a video where a person was lambasting John Gwyne's Shadow of the Gods because it only had white people in it when it's centered around Nordic culture and mythology. So while I do think there are some frustrating people out there that think every single piece of media or art should look like downtown LA I think they are just a loud minority. While Disney and other corporations are the main problem by using diversity as a marketing gimic to stir up free publicity and pat themselves on the back.
@@tyreonbooker5304this. This right here.
@@tyreonbooker5304Even if a diverse character is perfectly written, you still have people whining about how they're shoehorned into the TV show/movie/game. Just the sight of a minority in media triggers some people now. Lol
"New Private State" is a really interesting way to say "Corporate Oligarchy"
I agree with conservatives at being annoyed at woke capitalism. But I strongly disagree with how they define the problem. It makes conversations with conservatives difficult for me because I show solidarity in the irritation, but I have no idea what to say when they start exploding into ideas of there being some kind of uprising or agenda, trying to take over the world this video gives me some content to consider adding in conversation
I always thought the term "woke" came from new age philosophy and that it originally meant spirituality awake.
The New York Times in the '50's had an article explaining why white kids were suddenly using the term woke. So nope.
That's "enlightened", and it too is Older than They Think
And also more recently on places like 4cham and other venerable bastions of the internet. I mean how many times has someone told you something like "wake up, sheeple!". Being asleep(not seeing, dreaming, living in temporary illusion, being unconscious) versus being awake(seeing, being in the now, the real, being conscious), is an age old trope. One that is prevalent I'm many cultures and languages throughout the ages.
So it's a little more complicated than saying it just sprouted from black American culture and then we assimilated it.
@@Shinkajo Enlightenment = waking/not-dreaming is old, the term "woke" as in socially-aware, politically-active is Black America circa 1920s/30s IIRC
@@mandisaw yeah that's absolutely true. My point is that it's such a basic and obvious concept that it's been repeating in history for ages. Like I'm not American, my first language is not English, but the concept of "waking up" and staying "woke" was a thing I'm my country in the late 19th century, because we weren't independent then and it referred to gaining national consciousness. We have to be aware that not everything is USA centric. But yes, the most recent popular iteration of "woke" owes a lot to black American culture. But because it's a very universal concept, that's why it has had such a prevalent global impact and staying power.
I live in Europe in a non English-speaking country and the term "woke" is very prevalent, at least in the vernacular because it's a concise term that characterizes a certain type of people and certain types of policy and ideology. Like I move around in mostly left-leaning circles, who all use "woke" to one extent or other. There is always at least a little irony involved, but it is a very useful term to characterise certain trends.
Guy said to me just yesterday that the problem with schools is that they’re “woke.”
Not guns.
Not class sizes.
Not social media.
Not device addiction.
Not educator recruitment.
Oh & the guy had his doctorate & was wearing a dashiki shirt. 😅
wow.
Tbf ultra Liberals want to teach kids how to swallow grown up's cum properly so I'd say that's pretty high up on priorities to end immediately. Do you agree?
He might’ve meant schools focus on being “woke”, whatever that means, while ignoring the actual issues you listed. Sort of like Apple supporting pride month while kids are in cobalt mines over seas for their phones.
@Mr Map somehow I think guns are still worse, call me crazy.
@Mr Map dude, this year USA had in 3 months more mass shooting than most countries will have in the entire year. I don't think that having access to guns helped to protected the people in the shootings
as my friend who is much more intelligent than me said:
'activism without action is just virtue signaling'
Every time our culture’s terms are taken, over used, and used incorrectly we end up with discourse like this 🙃
Yup, they basically took the term flipped its meaning and turned it into a slur.
And it comes from everyone
Revolutionaries decided wokeness was a call to action against tyranny, liberals decided wokeness was applauding a call to action against tyranny, and conservatives... well, they took that personally.
"Woke" is as much a slur among the conservative right as miscegenator or bleeding heart. Which is to say, if you think it's an actual slur just because Nazis call you one, no version of the word ever would have included you anyway... 😂😂
@@MrBazBake Ok
@@RoninX33 Buddy...
A guy says, "Puppies are cute" then 100 years later a group starts passing anti-puppy legislation every opportunity they can and shouting, "This puppy-centric ideology needs to stop!!!" Except 70% of Americans polled and even 50% of cat people are exhausted because they also agree that puppies are kind of cute.
Then someone arrives and declares, "This puppy debate has been corrupted by a misuse of the word puppy to mean the opposite of a puppy and we now need a new word for puppy that everyone can agree on."
To the rest of the world, this is not a serious person.
They pretty much took the jokey, Twitter version we use to describe hoteps and really decided that was gonna be the real definition.
EXACTLY!!!! It was an inside joke for decades abt hoteps and the govt screwing us
Exactly!
Good point. Like they said in the beginning of this video, black slang often juxtaposes itself at some point but we as a collective always remember it's root meaning. Once white people got ahold of it however, they either intentionally or unintentionally misunderstood the juxtaposed meaning and ran with their incorrect interpretation of the phrase.
I remember my Dad would always say "once something becomes fashionable, its dead". Same thing applies today.
I refuse accept the word “woke” to mean “fake corporate social consciousness.”or anything else like that. While I am extremely cynical about corporate support of social issues and believe that corporations are looking only after their bottom line. This usage of woke on the right has turned into a way to try not to take any social consciousness seriously. It’s been used as a way single out lgtbq people, especially trans and not take their issues seriously. It’s a way not to take police violence against racial minorities seriously. It’s become a catch all term on the right not try to learn anything or take social issues seriously. And yes corporations are not helping these issues
It also seems to be the new dogwhistle for Black people, women, & any kind of anti-racism or anti-sexism legal/political action. A lot of folks in comment sections and videos seem to use "woke" as a catch-all slur.
Best analysis of Woke ever! This clears up so much as to why it is what it is and why businesses do it today.
It’s just some word that means people without empathy are uncomfortable.
When I studied marketing there were abundant chapters on how to use social trends to sell.
A social cause might be just, up a company will hardly ever adopt it for genuine reasons.
Every big business involved with social topics always reminds me of when my teachers in high school would say, "Hey kids I am crunk! Like little John!"
Taking someone else's culture, twisting it, and making it something else sure sounds like the American way
Apple sells a rainbow-colored wristband for their Apple Watches -- but does not offer it in a size that is large enough to fit a large-boned trans-woman's wrist. For that matter, nor do _any_ of the femininely colored wristbands offered for the Apple Watch.
Michael and all you Wisecronians, thank you! Keep doing what you’re doing 👍
Black people always used to say, "I'm in the house" instead of "I'm here." But then white people all started to say "in the house" so we switched it to "in the hizzouse." Hizzouse became hizzizzouse, and then white folk started saying that, and we had to change it to hizzie, then "in the hizzle" which we had to change to "hizzle fo shizzle," and now, because white people say "hizzle fo shizzle," we have to say "flippity-floppity-floo."
Sounds like you just don't like white people.
I'm a little surprised that you didn't bring up that moment where Brianna Joy Gray on Rising asked her guest who had just released a book on "wokeness" and the guest struggled to answer at all. Overall, good video on the topic.
Considering that I have never heard of whatever you're talking about, I'm guessing none of those people are authorities on the meanings of words.
@@evhwolfgang2003 You are right but maybe it's a bit more complicated. Bethany Mandel wrote a book called "Stolen youth: how radicals are erasing innocence and indoctrinating a generation" a book about wokeism been bad. You would imagine a person writing a book about it would be an authority on the subject.
Apparently not, since she couldn't define woke on Brianna Joy Gray show.
So you are right, she is not an authority on the subject even though she is passing as one.
Our daughter likes Pepsi. We've asked her to explain why, but as of yet she's been unable to articulate it in a manner we can comprehend. We're old. Yes, we still love her, but my wife and I will forever remain confused.
I’m sorry for your loss
My son is gay and I absolutely don't have a problem with that... but if he drank pepsi... i don't know how i would react to that...
I'm not a regular soda drinker anymore but I always go for pepsi over coke. It's been a while since I've had either so I'd have to try them again, but I remember pepsi being less syrupy and tasting better
The thing that drew me to this video was the fact that I wasn't able to discover the context of this word because of how sensitive the word was. I am very thankful!
About the use of ''woke'' by certain politicians, I think it has become more of a characterization about people whose arguments should not even be considered. The same way that when people used to demand more economical equality, they were called ''commies'' ( not even the full ''communists'') and the argument was considered done, because their opinions were considered so outrageous and anti-American that it was meaningless to even considered their arguments. I would say this is to an extend due to the lack of proper counter-arguments and fear of debate, something we see today. In conclusion, using words with this intend is very bad for democracy in general, because the point of democracy is to hear and consider the opinions of others before taking a decision.
P.S. I was recently called woke for saying that America needs more intercity rail and true high-speed rail, and I did not know how to respond to this.
"they were called ''commies'' and the argument was considered done"
This is iirc called a thought-terminating cliché - it's just a magic buzzword that ends the discussion and to your braindead supporters sounds like a "win".
Unfortunately, this phenomenon cuts both ways on the political sixteen and public discourse is reduced to name calling and virtue signaling with all the nuance you expect from 144-character "dissertations "
The irony is that neither side is really strengthened by pitting their arguments against the most robust version of their adversary so you end up with anemic and meaningless discourse.
I would recommend a video titled: words that change the truth - george calin. His take on softening words might make a good addition
It comes exactly from where one would expect.
Spot on as far as "Woke" being another term appropriated by corporate interests. It's a strategy that keeps working though I'm hoping there will be some sort of equally unprecedented pushback to all this "Corporate Wokeness." In a positive way.
Pushback in the form of economic demands is already happening as we see with all the strikes.
@@cryptbeast3222Nothing more woke than a strike in solidarity. Disney can fly a red flag next.
As long as victim narrative (from non-victims) works in the west, strategies like this will not fade away.
I'm fifth generation Irish, and real familiar with the USA's carceral "system." That's where I got "woke," courtesy of Dostoevsky among other notables. Frederick Douglass et al.
You know: "The state of any society can be determined by it's prisons (to paraphrase)" Got to be Instructed in the veracity of that idea at the ungentle hands of the State. Like everybody else who is actually "woke."
Gotta think to yourself, "what's so bad 'bout being aware that I'm being shafted by the Usual Suspects every time I leave my house and sometimes without going outside at all?"
Why'd rich, comfortable, gated-community folks hate on being "woke?" Make it some harder for them to cash cheques? What gives?
Half the stuff that's labeled "woke" ain't. Most nobody's woke at all, which is part of the idiom itself. Right? This is about idiom?
George Carlin said "you have to be asleep to believe in the American Dream." Maybe that's what the huge "problem" is?
Stay Woke 100% at all times and places comrades.
No, you are American. 5th generation Irish, go Ireland and say that and look closely at the annoyance on their faces as they tell you you are not Iriish.
@@samsoncooper1again, why do you think not having any pride in your heritage is a good thing? Try saying this to a fifth generation Mexican and see how well it goes.
"Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them." Thomas Sowell
“Woke” has been around since the 20’s. Now that it’s available at Walmart, the people who actually understand it have moved on. It’s similar to that time when the Kardashians discovered cornrows and basketball players. We’ve moved on. 😊
We never stopped using woke.
It is currently the '20s.
@@xczechr and some people are 100 years late.
Walmart? I don't understand. And who moved on, do people not wear cornrows or watch basketball anymore? I'm confused.
@@Shinkajo I agree that you don’t understand. It’s ok. Enjoy your weekend.
This video was great as always! Thanks for the hard work guys!😊😊😊😊❤❤🎉🎉🎉
It's always so confusing watching these videos because its almost always like 19.5 minutes of solid information and nuanced opinion, with one or two soundbites of attempts to degrade or insult a certain group of people. Amidst such a strong sets of arguments, what is the value in leveraging an insult that middle class white America's only culture is mayonnaise? It feels like an ignorant gotcha that is meant degrade rather than inform. Most recent videos by this channel seem to include at least one or two lines like this call your credibility as an moderate thinker into question.
A bit wierd for the same guy who told us the art market is philosophically dubious at best, is now encouraging us to participate in the art market.
🤑🤑🤑🤑
Amazing how a paycheck can alter your opinions. Hard to criticize it, however, when most of us would do the same. As long as we need money to live in this world we are all hypocrits. That is the reality we have to live in.
You got this video for free.
You can just fast forward though the ad too.
This guy gave you a free product and now you are complaining about the free product. Pretty entitled
Businesses find ways to make money. Not a hard or foreign concept
@@mitchconner403 he could have taken a different ad. If you disagree with an industry, and then choose to work with that industry over others, then you are hypocrites. If you believe something then you should take a stance on it, lest you lose all credibility.
@@justcallmenoah5743
It could have been an oversight. The person talking in the videos is not the person who is making the ad deals
This UA-cam channel is ran by a team of people. Those people need a source of income to keep people employed and working.
Therefore, whoever pays the highest price will get the ad read. More income means the more ambitious a project can be.
It seems that you are holding a higher standard for independent content creators when compared to main stream media.
For example, consider if a Director made an anti war movie, and that anti war movie is shown on TV.
During a commercial break when watching the movie, you see an ad for military recruitment.
Do you then complain to the director that he is a hypocrite because technically an ad played during his movie disagrees with the message of the movie?
Probably not.
People need money to live. Capitalism rules America there is not much else you can do to survive
For most of my life I preferred Coca-Cola, but for a few years I switched to preferring Pepsi for reasons unknown to me. If forced to speculate, I believe it was my boss's idiosyncrasies rubbing off on me. He had a Pepsi everyday and I thought he was a pretty cool guy (in my field), so I was probably subconsciously imitating him or something.
I actually recommend A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage, which hypothesizes that Pepsi is actually more preferable to more people (based on some testing) but that Coca-Cola has such a stranglehold on beverage marketing in contrast that it really dominates Western (especially American) subjective feelings about the beverage.
Or u just like Pepsi because as you grow your tastebuds change
Finally, a comment that's delving into what really matters.
I choose Pepsi, but only if it's liquor'd down significantly.
Mmm I actually prefer coke taste-wise. And I gave ample opportunities to pepsi, but I find coke a bit more acidic, and I like that more.
My people
I know what i prefer. Coke, its slightly stronger flavor and slightly less sweet, and possibly stronger carbonation. But some people prefer the smoothness and slightly sweeter Pepsi. But you're still picking one of a duopoly. When given the chance, pick the smaller lesser known, and avoid both Coke and Pepsi.
Woke was an AAVE term black americans used. It's great to watch such a positive term from my childhood co-opted by white folks
co-opted by corporations and spit upon by most, no, it's sad. I AM WOKE !!! Also Black Americans should know that some Western Europeans have change their ways long ago. why do you think jazzmen came here ??? Still today, don't go east...they're freaking xenophobs. Being black and american is a bit much.
I believe Black Mirror's Fifteen Million Merits episode showed it very well, how even "wokeness" can be turned against the protagonist who in the end just becomes part of the thing he sought to destroy.
American Capitalism is good at appropriating dissident / radical ideology / symbols and disarming them through compdification processes.
I've literally seen it happen many times on the internet through the course of about 10 years. Mostly it happens on the left, and I'm probably a bit biased because I don't hang out in right wing spaces. The machine itself can chew through and spit out even the most ardent supporter as soon as they become inconvenient to the machine, or there is something greater to be gained by doing so. At that level there is no honour, principals, ideologies, morals, ethics or even sides. Just the turning off the gears.
That episode is something I bring up almost any time I want to explain what recuperation means in the context of politics. Honestly astounding how well it manages to showcase that phenomenon despite it not really intentionally setting out to do that.
How power can take something, even something that very explicitly criticizes it, and somehow find a way to repackage it into a toothless product that they can sell for themselves, letting people who might be riled up by the message simply spin their wheels without actually doing anything. (just now hitting me that, I've been using the "spinning one's wheels" metaphor for ages, but it actually literally applies in this episode)
Nice comparison. The only way it would be more accurate would have been if someone completely different replaced the protagonist before he became a part of the system.
What does fifteen million merits have to do with wokeness, I’m confused
I just kinda feel like we’re making enemies with people that could’ve been our friends. It doesn’t matter to me what side of the political spectrum you’re on. If you are capable of being a good person, that’s enough for me.
I think just like you, and nowadays I'm considered "the other" on the eyes of both sides. You basically have to pick a group to hate and if you don't you end up in the bottom of every comment session... hate is a very efficient feeling too unify people, unfortunately.
@@nospoon3822 Thing is, I don’t want to hate anyone if I don’t have to, and I feel like if I don’t want to hate anyone, then I shouldn’t have to.
What if you're trying to take trans kids from their parents and shove them in conversion camps? How big is that table?
It’s all to divide us.
I don’t care who you are as long as you’re a good person.
The people pushing all this stuff are just trying to fill their pockets. Everyone not an individual thinker just parrots crap they hear without critical thinking
Yep republicans don’t get this they keep pushing people away who would agree with some of them. Politics getting treated like Steelers vs Ravens games sad times 😕
I don’t understand the glitches going on in our simulation.
It was my understanding, that the striving for enlightenment and becoming a more empathetic species, was kind of the point of this whole human evolution thing.
At the same time, a world that’s not designed to handle well over 8 billion people too many that has sprouted in less than a century (1.9 billion people in 1920).
Being empathic in nature gets you killed. So no it's not benefiting human evolution.
"I disagree" - social darwinistic neolibs and their obsequious toadies
I'm listening to this on my way home from the supermarket. I got Pepsi over Coke because Pepsi was slightly cheaper lol
Until corporations pay their share of taxes, and living wages, I don't want to hear shit from them. Except maybe apologies.
I also remember "woke" being used as a way to make fun of conspiracy theorists, playing on the CTs saying things like "the lizard people want us to stay asleep."
I think the modern use of "wokeness" is just the same thing as what we used to call "political correctness," which, when you think about it, is all about being performative. I mean, clue is in the name. It's about politics -- making yourself look like a better person than your opponent in the eyes of the largest number of people.
No I think you missed it. The modern use of the word work is purposefully tainted by the MAGA media machine to erase the meaning. And it worked. They were calling Brie Larson woke. Then they started calling entire movies and tv shows that woke, when they had nothing to do with Black oppression. They took this powerful word from the Black people and thy stomped the life out of it. Tactically, they disarmed the Blacks. That's what happened, and it was done on purpose.
'Woke' is 'Narcissism' in Psychology.
Primarily 'Covert Narcissism' (the 'Woke Mind Virus').
Empathetic people will naturally despise people with 'evil' Cluster B personality disorders. And Covert Narcissists are some of the most toxic and manipulative.
Woke is essentially "bending the knee to Narcissist Cultures and People".
And this is one of the biggest No-No's in Psychology.
For example, the Left-leaning black community is the most narcissistic according to all data and surveys. And much of that is due to the Left's coddling ('Going Woke'). Coddling and bad parenting both lead to Narcissism.
Narcissist Personality Disorder is a serious problem in black culture, Islamic culture, Transgender culture, etc.
And the one thing you don't do, is massage the Narcissist's Ego. Which is what the Left are doing.
Particularly as Narcissism is the primary cause of crime (not 'Poverty'), and many other human social problems.
NB: Actors are one of the societal Narcissist groups. They will naturally be attracted to Woke Narcissism, and the 'Narcissist Supply' of virtue signalling (attention and praise for the Ego).
#WokeNarcissism
Biiiig difference between disliking rainbow capitalism and disliking companies cuz they use a rainbow flag
Stellar video once again wisecrack
Woke has become an abbreviateon for the sentence: "I am morally superior to you." And that's why it's become so divisive.
Take any philosophical or ideologic concept and throw it to the masses and it becomes dumb.
The way anti-woke people use it, it's anything left. Wanting to ignore or continue oppression because it makes one uncomfortable is morally interior to acknowledging and fighting for equally.
'Woke' is 'Narcissism' in Psychology.
Primarily 'Covert Narcissism' (the 'Woke Mind Virus').
Empathetic people will naturally despise people with 'evil' Cluster B personality disorders. And Woke Covert Narcissists are some of the most toxic and manipulative.
Woke is essentially "bending the knee to Narcissist Cultures and People".
And this is one of the biggest No-No's in Psychology.
For example, the Left-leaning black community is the most narcissistic according to all data and surveys. And much of that is due to the Left's coddling ('Going Woke'). Coddling and bad parenting both lead to Narcissism.
Narcissist Personality Disorder is a serious problem in black culture, Islamic culture, Transgender culture, etc.
And the one thing you don't do, is massage the Narcissist's Ego. Which is what the Left are doing.
Particularly as Narcissism is the primary cause of Crime (not 'Poverty'), and many other human social problems.
NB: Actors are one of the societal Narcissist groups.
They will naturally be attracted to Woke Narcissism, and the 'Narcissist Supply' of virtue signalling (attention and praise for the Ego).
#WokeNarcissism #CovertNarcissists
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I would love to hear your take on "Agile" methodologies, as they have become so prevalent that, to me, it feels more like religious ideologies than actual frameworks.
I can’t find any information on the concept, except for some nebulous stuff about project management. But this really has my interests piqued.
Agile product management is just an excuse to overwork developers and ship unfinished service products while having basically no plan and trend chasing.
This would be really cool! I'm a late transitioner into a tech career and Agile does seem ubiquitous. Having had multiple other careers without it, I'm actually a big fan. Maybe it's just implemented well where I work. But I would love to see a wisecrack breakdown.
Isn't "agile" essentially just a check-in framework to designate milestones and timetables by name? Once I learned what agile workflows were, I wondered why they weren't the norm in every industry.
What is your specific grievance against it? I'm not sure ubiquity is its own indictment.
@@TPNYC Well that's not what the agile manifest says, nor their proponents and most practitioners. Still while I do agree there are useful things that those workflows might contribute, I don't think they can be the absolute norm as every context is different and that requires to not follow frameworks blindly.
I love how cleverly this script acknowledges and distances themselves from potentially problematic stuff.
It's simply not fair that Crazy Town gets so much heat because of "Butterfly" and so little recognition for "Drowning".
Wtf.... Butterfly just came on on a TV in front of me and I haven't even gotten to that part in the video....
@@yourfriendlyinternetmeatshield well, it's either because the matrix has you, or because you bought one of those smart TVs, one of those.
Butterfly is a masterpiece on par with Eiffel 65's Blue.
@@nishidohellhillsruler6731 actually i was in a public space with no control of the tv... with head phones. So I guess the Matrix has me.
Where is my white fucking rabbit!?!
Fun fact: I have been discriminated against via corporate “wokeness” 😂
This whole ordeal is therefore for me an equivalent of rich slavers painting red stripes on their back and giving few lashes to random poor people on the street to symbolise their “feeling for slaves” 🤷♂️
No one is chastised for not being woke. You have to do something like being an anti intellectual or a bigot. Lmfao
@@Sang-Je I have been discriminated on bases of my gender, sexuality and nationality. This happened because the company I worked for aimed to improve its ‘diversity ratings’ on paper and its image on LinkedIN. I have been refused for a department change due to “not wearing skirt”, I was told in a manager training I would have been a good leader if only I would have been “adding more to overall diversity of the leadership” and was refused the promotion after successfully completing it. I was refused to be promoted by top management on LinkedIn because “We prefer to promote ‘more diverse employees” and lastly I was refused a project because they wanted to associate it with someone who posted job related promotions together with photos with his boyfriend on LinkedIn (who was also quickly promoted due to the fact).
A bigot or an anti-intellectual you say? I for one got my wife’s name trough marriage just because she did not like my original name. I have been part of a ‘pride club’ in the company in question and supported their events directly. I speak 4 different languages. I lived, studied and graduated (Master’s) in a muslim country (where a I worked and studied in two different languages at the same time both foreign to me). I am an active member of a political party that is the most liberal on my country’s political scene for which I also held an office… I now actually work abroad.
So yeah, you can be easily discriminated on bases of so called “wokeness” by a soulless corporation based on your gender or what have you, while it actually has nothing to do with how “woke” you are or claim to be.
@@Sang-JeI disagree, ever heard a gang of terrorists yelling, silence is violence?
@marknalberta lmfao yes meaning if u let people be bigots or racist then your silence is almost just as bad. You might as well victimize them as also, That's what that means.
@@Sang-Je they said anyone who is not anti-racist is racist
Thanks for all that you & your team do, Wisecrack! 🎉🙏🎉
Great video.
The top note of a cola is vanilla.
Coke is extra vanilla-y and Pepsi is a bit more citric. If you are making a drink wherein the vanilla is to be emphasized (for example a paralyzer) then go Coke.
If you're making something more eucalytpic or bold like a gin cola; go Pepsi.
But me personally, if I'm just having a cola, it's Pepsi every time. It's CRISP.
Was wondering why I preferred Pepsi, it’s got the bite.
It's also cheaper and contains more caffeine, which were definitely the most important factors when I drank it to help with hangovers.
An accurate take an corporate wokeness, however I think you often fail to see how the same thing happens in individuals. They are expressing wokeness for virtue points instead of profits, but are equally uncaring about the actual issues.
Yes, the whole woke and cancel culture things are in fact virtue signaling devices. If social media didn't exist, you'd see a lot less people engaging in such behaviors
They manufactured the issues in the first place. There was no racism systemic or otherwise or LGBTQ rights trampled on at all.
@@dominushydra Ok that's a wild take. Those issues very much exist.
@@Comicbroe405 No they weren't. A black man was elected as President, Gay people were allowed to Marry and movies were a lot better before BLM, ME TOO and Teaching boys it's ok to suck dick in school.
@@dominushydra it seems like you need to wake up to the real world. just because you do not have to personally experience the oppression minorities have to go through does not mean that it doesn't exist. classic example of someone very priviliged claiming that issues don't exist because they don't affect you.
It’s the obnoxious version of being considerate or trying to be considerate. Well, actually, not being considerate.
As a South African who grew up reading Steve Biko and his Black Consciousness philosophy, I was able to easily associate with the word Woke. So it is quite disappointing and quite hurtful to see how, again, black ideology is being stripped of its meaning. It was even more frustrating hearing Chris Rock use it in his latest special in the same manner as white people. Black Americans should really push back on this theft of blackness
Honestly you get used to it st some point, that's why I'm starting my own channel to try and take back our narrative and SAns
Hilarious
Sad
In my understanding of the term, absolutely dumb.
14:42ish. This! So, what can I do to make meaningful change? I've watched 100 of these kinds of videos (long job so lots of hours to binge UA-cam ). The best advice I've seen so far to become the seed of ‘wisdom.’ Learn how the other side thinks and how to have a real conversation based on their values. Then hopefully you can have a real conversation based on what is really going on to you and them and what is causing systemic inequalities that we are all feeling. But the way to even start this conversation is to be kind and plant a seed. To basically, share truths without blame or yelling or shame to those who will listen or to social media. People won't respond but they might remember later on what you said or that you are a safe person to talk to. Because right now we all want to stand up and fight but we end up fighting each other rather than the corporate interests that rule over us. So, basically, post on social media in a specific way and wait...
Anger against "Allies" was always excessively cynical and annoying to me, but now that it's again becoming a stigma just to show that you are or approve of LGB (and especially T), it feels like encouraging people to not hang rainbow flags because it's "performative" and "virtue signalling" is just handing over the stage to the loud and self-righteous mob that are going to the legislatures and are boycotting Target and Busch and actually getting results.
because it literally is performative and virtue signaling. No one gives a fk about your sex or preferences and why do you need to fly a LITERAL flag to "show off you're an ally".. (also no one thinks you're an ally if you fly an lgbt flag they just assume you're not straight) it reeks of desperation and a need for attention. The idea of having flags for sexualities etc, literally just hijacking a extremely common thing as "yours now" like the rainbow is absolutely ridiculous. More so when you demand that it's show prominently everywhere. No one cares who you sleep with, it doesn't mean people enjoy you closing of entire roads so you can parade them mostly naked in an extremely oversexualized way
not only is that weird af, it's not really strange that people thing you're a bunch of creeps if you feel the need to parade in leather bikinis with dog fetish masks.
The reason why it's now stigmatized again is exactly because you people took it way too far and then applauded even demanded companies bow down to you. We get shit like ESG and DEI. It doesn't matter which way you turn, the .1% is pushed in your face. Companies are so desperate for an ESG score, they do the dumbest shit. COD always releases with country flags for example. This time? Not a single country flag .. ok .. but you know what was included though? Every single dumb attention seeking "my identity is my sexuality" flag that exists.
The thing is. No one is bothered by LGBT. But what is happening is people are tired of constantly being reminded of it and if companies start showing some interest in it then it becomes pandering. We get it. Lgbt people been through stuff. So have black people. I’m black. But I don’t need to get constant reformation or acknowledgement that that is what I identify with.
I don’t think people of lgbt want to identify their whole movement on trauma. The idea is to be accepted right? But now that people accept you it almost seems like flaunting your beliefs in front of everyone.
No other month is as aesthetically in your face than lgbt anything. Not only that but people in lgbt are so aggressive about calling people out for inequality that it developed people to be the exact opposite.
Earlier I said people do not mind lgbt. This is 100% true. But when you start forcing or reminding people of said movement all time. Then criticize or condescend your morals as more right than someone else’s. It becomes the very thing people reject.
Also my brothers gay. But he doesn’t use the LGBT to define him. It’s a part of him but by no means his entire personality.
Conservatives: "Would you stop calling yourself an ally!? It's just some performative, virtue signaling nonsense!"
Those same conservatives: *have cars littered with decals stating they "back the blue" "support veterans" and "trigger libs" yet don't recognize the hypocrisy*
@@modell1084 1. LGBT Hate crime has gone up tremendously in the past few years from personal crimes that are done against members or the tremendous laws now being brought up in states and passed in others targeting Trans people and Trans kids.
2. Don't use your race to put down other groups of people who are also persecuted. It's actually problematic and dismisses the issues that both groups struggle through (And especially BIPOC LGBTQ+ people who get tremendous hate/violence)
3. You complain about LGBTQ+ stuff being up everywhere in June but str8 peoples stuff be up everywhere all year round yet we don't complain about it
4. Your brother doesn't speak for all LGBTQ+ so....
5. You don't speak for all LGBTQ either so...
Just admit you are uncomfortable by us existing and you hate being reminded of it which is really all I got from this post as a queer/person of color myself :/
@@modell1084 what a profoundly disingenuous comment you made. Right out the gate, you started your comment with a false premise. To say "no one is bothered by LGBT" and to then frame it as people just being annoyed by excessive and unnecessary advocacy from/for LGBT people is patently absurd and falls on it's face under any myriad of examples of popular right wing media calling for the eradication of trans people and openly gay people from public life, the over 500 anti-lgbt bills being legislated in this year alone and more. The fact of the matter is that LGBT people are still very much facing hatred and civil rights abuses regularly and you'd rather push that under the rug and say they're making a fuss over nothing because it makes you feel justified in your own prejudices.
"I don't hate gay people, I just hate hearing about them and seeing them all the time" is the most blatantly obvious homophobic dog whistle ever. Combine that with acting like you represent the perspective of all black people and like having a gay sibling absolves you of being homophobic speaks volumes about how misguided and delusional your entire perspective on these issues is.
I, in fact, prefer Pepsi over coke. I find the flavor much nicer, and overall less harsh. But I generally enjoy both.
Insanity. But good for you, like what you like.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so there truly is no wrong answer. Having said that, I actually agree. ESPECIALLY if it was Crystal Pepsi.
Pepsi class solidarity🤤
I honestly can't even tell the difference.
I agree. Smoother, less harsh/acidic. I always prefer Pepsi. But Coke is usually all I can get.
Pepsi is sweeter and smoother with less harsh carbonation.
People drink pepsi all the time.
Usually it follows this conversation.
Customer: could i get a coke
Cashier: we have pepsi, is that okay
Customer: okay, it tastes the same.
they did a study without labels, and pepsi was picked more because of its taste. so coca cola is more of a brand thing. I love both, but slightly pepsi more. I invested in both though lol.
As far as Pepsi vs. Coke, I’ll take the one with Jack in it
Good call.
It all makes sens actually. Black consciousness doesn’t align with the interests of racists.
I'm finding the criticism of wisecrack's use of sponsorships more and more annoying.
Recognize they need money to operate, and fast forward through the ads like a normal person.
It's just people's natural response to scams, it's perfectly fair imo
@@dramasoldier8669 hm, seems like the "natural" (ie without conscious thought) response to scams is *just* to be scammed 🤔
Most people that I know in the LGBT community hate the companies that go rainbow for the month of June we call it rainbow capitalism and it's very much looked down upon in the community that I'm a part of
Im guessing theres plenty of black americans who feel the same way about blm and the june thing u got over there as well.
Watch SNL skit from around 6 years ago "Woke Jeans" and you will get a full understanding of what woke means.
It's better than before, when corporations would cater to bigots by preventing LGBTQ+ from using their services.
The moment the corporations feel that LGBTQ+ are no longer worth marketing to, that's when the real fear happens.
Basically, it's a mixed bag.
They may be seeking cash, but it's better than when they were refusing it.
@@greghauser742 It's a pretty sad situation.
Listen to the gripes of the right wing, and it's effectively them whining about no longer being the target demographic. For movies, for television, for advertising... they're now a part of the general diaspora, when before, they were the ones that the money makers wanted the wallets of.
They hate that they no longer have the limelight, and that minority groups, and their allies, are more prominent in all of our fractured ways.
Thank you so much for explaining progressivism. Very good and wonderfully crafted points. It turns out that woke has a great backstory!
As for your question, corporations loooove buzzwords. Business speech (BS) is crucial in their ways of communication. When your channel says things with meaning to deliver the message, they say things to say something, but say nothing. I think their driving factor is not maximizing the profits, but the fear of loss.
As for conservatives' point. Woke (in today's common meaning ofnthe word) is not loved because of forcing one to believe in some values and angry mob that will follow those, who are somewhat disagree with them. And not necesseringly by fact, but by interpretation of those who judge. You can replace woke with "reverse bad word".
Well, every group will be discredited by it's worst members. Because, negative thinking helped us to survive during primal times. And we still have this annoying feature. 🤷♂️
Once again, I very much appreciate this educational session. It's really awesome to explore the constructive side of things.
I had a Pepsi in my hand when he said “who’s actually drinking Pepsi over coke” 💀
You might see people choosing pepsi over coke in Norway. The sugarfree version of pepsi (pepsi max) is one of our most popular beverages.
I always found it strange that when a company choose to signal support for something "woke", the backlash is rarely just towards the company, it's mostly towards the group that are recieving the support. They are acting like these small minority groups strongarmed these billion dollar companies into painting a rainbow (or whatever cause they want to capitalize on) on their products.
It has indeed been distorted, its too late to save it and restore the original meaning...
Past verb of word wake. See? It is easy. I always using it every morning and I bet you too.
It was kind of a stupid sounding term to begin with, I think we can move on without it
@@lewa9575Thank you for calling black history “stupid sounding”
As a black man, "woke" to me sounds dumb because its the past tense of wake or awaken. Black milennials think theyre clever but not
Sounds like internalized racism to me.
Deep or Dump? It’s Deeply Dumb! 🎉