#performative wokeness

[bingoboingobongo]

im gonna go on a real long rant here.

cancel culture in and of itself is not "bad". the main idea of cancel culture, holding people accountable who are not typically held accountable, is not a bad idea. at. all.

the problem with cancel culture is that the people partaking in it tend to act really stupidlu. like really, really stupid. i hate to say it but they are acting like idiots. cancel culture by nature is a judge of someone's character. it is an insanely nuanced conversation that frankly, social media and the people using it are not equipped to understand.

for some reason, avid social media users and cancel culture enthusiasts have this inane belief that the world is black and white. good and evil. just and unjust, but that's not how it works.

good people can do bad things and bad people can do good things. someone could do something terrible in the past but be a great person now, or a they could have been a great person in the past but do a terrible thing now.

take the whole "taylor swift carbon emissions" drama that's going on now. everyone's getting so bent out of shape because somehow they've all fallen into the belief that just because she wears sustainable clothing or promotes women's rights means she's automatically a great person and can do no wrong.

or even the "will smith-chris rock" drama that happened a while ago. is it objectively bad to slap someone, yes. but does that make will smith an inherently bad person? not necessarily.

the problem with cancel culture happening almost exclusively on social medias like tiktok and twitter is that these platforms are quite literally not built for the kind of nuanced conversations you need to be having when you're judging someone's character.

you can't decide whether someone's a good or bad person in like 280 characters, and even for the people who are involved in cancel culture that do understand nuance, it's significantly harder to communicate it through text and online mediums.

not to mention that people change. im not saying that "time heals all wounds" or something like that. it is 100% valid to approach someone with a grain of salt based on what they did in the past, but the key is that you're approaching them with a grain of salt, not a whole carton of it.

one of cancel culture's favorite things to do is dig up problematic things people did in the past and then lord it over their heads and use it as an excuse to view them exclusively based on what happened in the past, but the unfortunate truth is that people can change. people can grow. and something they did when they were sixteen or whatever shouldn't be used to judge their character as a whole.

another problem is that people don't understand the extenuating circumstances that are in play when people do problematic things. one of my favorite expressions is "it's an explanation, not an excuse" and it is so true here. yes a lot of people do stupid things when they're young, but the difference is that they're not young in the same social standards as we're experiencing right now, the social standards they experienced when they were young were probably significantly more conservative and less liberal.

people don't realize that we're really living in a new age of activism, and that a lot of the stuff we see, instagram infographics, tabloid headlines, and of course, cancel culture, didn't exist or weren't widely popular when a lot of these people who are being persecuted by cancel culture were kids.

if they lived in a neighborhood or community that was predominantly one race or group of people, they didn't have as many resources as we do right now to know what is offensive and what isn't.

now this is not to say that any of the things that these people did is right in any way whatsoever. not at all. it's an explanation of why they did something they did, but not an excuse. most, if not all, of the things these people did are objectively bad things, but you can't let that be a judge of their entire character.

does this mean you can't be wary of these people? no. if i meet someone and my friend tells me they're notorious for smacking people in the face, yeah im definitely gonna protect my face around them, but it's not right for me to judge them and deem them solely as a face slapper. maybe they're a face slapper but they also have a passion for woodworking. or maybe they were just taught that slapping people in the face is how you show love.

it sucks but people are complicated. people change, circumstances change, viewpoints and opinions change, and if you're judging someone by one thing they did that doesn't make you woke or an activist, that just makes you naive and jaded.

another thing is that nine times out of ten, people partaking in cancel culture don't have all the facts. at the end of the day, you are an outsider in the lives of most celebrities. you don't know the details or the nuances of their relationships, of their thoughts, of their actions, etc. and so frankly you can't come to a just or correct conclusion when you're not dealing with all of the facts. and one of the factors of "dealing with all of the facts" is actually letting the person being canceled share their side.

the problem is that as people cancel more and more "prestigious" people, the people being canceled are less likely to see what's going on, or if they don't have social media then there's a good chance they're completely unaware of what's happening. and if the person you're "canceling" has no idea that they're being canceled or is unable to tell their side of the story or at least give an explanation than you're not canceling them. you're pretty much just trash talking them behind their back.

people on the internet are simply not capable enough and frankly shouldn't be able to play judge, jury, and executioner when it comes to judging people's characters. if you're going to have a conversation about canceling someone, please for the love of god don't do it on twitter or tiktok, and if you do then you better be prepared to have a thread of like a hundred tweets so you can properly discuss all the nuance needed in this topic.

in conclusion, the world is not black and white. you wouldn't (and really shouldn't) judge yourself in black and white, in terms of completely good or completely evil, so why should you do the same to celebrities? learn to see the grey in the world. stop living in a binary of good and evil. it's not helping us and it's definitely not helping you.

#bingoboingobongo.com #canceled #cancel culture #cancel #cancel culture is stupid #fix cancel culture #cancel cancel culture #sorry for the rant #activism #performative activism #performative wokeness #nuance #omdjdjjd i actually hate having these kinds of discussions on the internet bc its so hard to explain over text but at least tumblr doesnt #have a word limit #< she says as she is limited by tumblrs word limit #but also thats just the hashtags so whatever #also off topic but can we repopularize the word bastard

[choppedcowboydinosaur]

We need to get past the woke identity politics controversies in movies and just point out they’re shit. That way they can’t hid behind that crap anymore and you kill them.

#identity politics #movies #performative wokeness #wokeness #using wokeness as an excuse for shitty movies

[gyrrakavian]

#twitter screenshot #clout shout #fake woke #performative wokeness

[superbeans89]

Companies on pride month

#shitpost #gravity falls #rainbows #pride month #performative wokeness

[kyliaquilor]

Right. A Rec blog striking is gonna do sooooo much.

#Rolling My Eyes #Performative Wokeness #Solidarity my ass

[windex-for-blood]

QUESTION!

Am I allowed to say the new Little Mermaid sucks? Is that allowed? No shade on the actors, but this remake is so fucking bad it made me want to slam the door of a meat freezer on my head until I was in a coma

#The Little Mermaid #Bad remakes #Fuck you Scuttle has a song #FUCK YOU ERIC HAS A SONG #ERIC ISN'T A CHARACTER HE'S A PENIS ON LEGS #A PRIZE TO BE WON #performative wokeness

[clouvu]

*wheezes* Okay so Hear Me Out-

#genshin impact #lynette #clorinde #clorinette #I WOKE UP IN A COLD SWEAT A FEW DAYS AGO WITH MY DELUSIONAL MONKEY BRAIN BEATING ME WITH A HOCKEY STICK #THESE TWO WILL PROBABLY HATE EACH OTHER OR NEVER INTERACT IN THE STORY BUT THAT WONT STOP ME #Stage performer x High Class/Authority figure...Rewrite the stars song esque typa relationship potential;;; MWAH chefs kiss #*slaps the roof of my smooth brain* This bad boy could fit so many delusional thoughts in it

[redrobin-detective]

Listen, we know Bruce was traumatized by his parents’ death but I hold that even before they were killed Bruce Wayne was a little weirdo. Like his paranoia and difficulty with emotion and attachment are from that terrible night. But I imagine 8 year old Brucie was OCD as hell and painstakingly arranging and rearranging his things to his satisfaction. He was meticulous, even as a child, very detail oriented. Highly intelligent, showing a boundless curiosity and determination to understand everything from a young age. I bet he was hell to enforce bedtimes on, always to do much to do and too little hours in the day. 

Bruce was that kid who dragged bugs in the house for study, pulled down all the books on one shelf so could arrange them in height order, skittered around the house’s many passages like a little rat. He was the kid who was happy and cheerful but a bit awkward from growing up a Wayne, he would much rather squirrel away somewhere with a book considered too old for him than talk with people he didn’t know. He loved the macabre in the way weird little kids too, he wanted to see Zorro for the action and the violent fight scenes. Thomas and Martha Wayne had to listen to their precocious son ask them time and again how they thought they would die and listen to his speculations.

I want the Justice League to have to go back in time for whatever reason and they expect Bruce to be a delightful, happy, normal child. Instead, they find a kid with a lovingly worn Sherlock Holmes omnibus under one arm, an entire bag of raisins in the other, dark circles under his eyes from late nights reading and he’s covered in dust and debris from getting stuck behind the drywall again. 

“You’re not mom and dad’s friends,” he’d say in a petulant voice with a familiar set of his mouth. “I’m gonna call my butler and he’s going to kick your butt.” And the whole League loses their mind because Bruce really has always been Bruce.

#Bruce being a perfectly normal child is broke #woke is Bruce was a Weird Little Girl before he ever had trauma #Alfred knocks on his door to call him to dinner and Brucie Wayne is performing a seance to raise his great great grandfather to find treasur #he definitely wrote on the walls and floor when he was thinking too hard and needed to write something down #DEF was that weird kid who liked sneaking up on people and hide in small odd places #No robin can hide from B or Alfred bc baby Bruce absolutely found all the good weird ass hiding spots a small child can wedge into #he carries weird shit on him at all times in case he needs it #he works so hard to be seen as smart and mature #he's a bit of a brat but in kind of a charming way bc he's so sweet and thoughtful #he gives his mom a frog he found in the pond for mothers day #he's still dripping wet and covered in pond scum and grinning so proud as he deposits the frog in her manicured hands #we need more weirdo baby bruce wayne

[empiireans]

it’s just gay people calm down

more sillies because they make me SICK

if you got the reference in the second doodle, you get a cookie and a handshake

#may i also suggest uhhh #stagemance as a ship name #it sucks i know #i cried last night thinking of them im not joking #then i woke up at 2 am and lazily colored these #so sorry if they look like shi #i won’t apologize for posting one of my fave old married couples tho #they tickle my tism #performance guide #frantic stagehand

[bogkeep]

clocks have a beating heart , ergo they are creature

#pendulums. quartz. and the most heart like at all: the balance assembly #every day i go to school and perform clock surgery #hey do u wanna hear an anecdote about baby haiz. of course u do #when i was a small child i saw an anatomical poster at a doctor's office and my mom had to explain what a heart was #at that time however. i believed doctors only had posters depicting illnesses and stuff on their walls #so when i later heard my own heart beat through my pillow late at night i panicked and woke up my mom about it #who reassured me this is normal and in fact necessary to keep me alive #so to answer the question yes ive always been this neurotic and anxious about my own mortality

[shinobicyrus]

Hey, yanno how Climate Change is a real thing that is tangibly, at this moment, affecting our world?

Well it turns out, the wealthy and their investment firms have been seeing the mounting evidence that oil companies have had for decades and are slowly starting to think more long-term about their portfolios in the face of rising sea levels, more extreme weather, and the myriad of ways climate crises are affecting...well. Everything. Maybe this means they invest more into sustainability, green energy, building more resilient infrastructure, or carbon offsets. Some of it, of course, is simple corporate greenwashing, but there are those that are taking this trend and packaging it into something called ESG (Environmental, Social, and corporate Governance).

Now some people would say this is predictable, even sensible. Just the good ol’ Free Market(tm) rationally responding to market forces and a changing world.

But those people would be fools! Insidious fools! For conservative sorcerers have come out with a new cursed phrase to explain this new market trend: Woke Investing.

What makes this investing “woke?” Well, much like how conservatives normally flounder when trying to define a word they stole from black people, “Woke Investing” essentially just means any kind of capital investment that they, the fossil fuel billionaire class and their sycophants, don’t personally profit from.

One of these aforementioned sycophants is Andy Puzder, conservative commentator, fellow at The Heritage Foundation, and former fast-food CEO. He calls this kind of so-called woke investing “socialism in sheep’s clothing,” further explaining in leaked audio of a closed-door meeting:

“My father's generation's challenge was the Nazis, who, by the way, were, of course, very proud socialists[citation fucking needed]. The challenge of my generation was the communists, who were, of course, very committed socialists. The challenge of your generation is ESG investing, and it's more insidious than communism or the Nazis.”(source)

You heard it here first, folks. Not investing as much in fossil fuels is more insidious than the Third Fucking Reich.

As usual, the Heritage Foundation is putting their petro-chemical donor’s money where their mouth is. Bills are being proposed to blacklist banks that don’t invest in key state industries, such as West Virginia coal or Texas oil. Fourteen states have already passed bills to restrict ESG-type investing, with Florida Governor Ron “Bullies Kids for Wearing Masks” Desantis leading the charge.

In other words, Climate Denial has reached such a point that so-called Free Market Conservatives who claim to hate big government are trying to make it illegal for banks, investment firms, and financial institutions to make any financial decisions that acknowledges Climate Change is real.

#of course ESG has also been used to describe any kind of internal corporate action #to increase diversity in the work place or implementing new anti-discrimination policies #(which are usually more performative than actually meaningful but that's a separate issue) #a Republican Presidential candidate #Vivek Ramaswamy #has even made ESG investing his personal bugbear #writing such books as 'Woke Inc' and warning of socially conscious investors ''forcing'' companies they invest in #to devote resources to environmental and social policies that are anathema to the right #which is just...a brand new invented crisis by a political movement #in constant need of a crisis to rally their base and justify for draconian legal controls #to favor certain industries and undercut their competition #all under the guise of red scare-type moral and economic panic #ESG #Woke Politics #Climate Change #Capitalism #Republicans #Investment

[thelien-art]

Hi I just want to say that I absolutely adore your Caranthir thank u very much for ur contributions have a lovely day <3

Hi, I just wanted to say you just made sure my day was very lovely!! Waking up to this was everything♡♡♡

Have a lil Moryo!

#hes very happy you like him just a bit shy #yeah i woke up hoursssss ago but this was kinda an almost finished sketch and i was never going to finish it completely #so why not just add some hands hair and colors to it #rich boy chek #my emotional elf disasters #ask #tolkien #silmarillion #jrr tolkien #caranthir #carnistir #morifinwe #silm art #digital art #my art #literally this comment made sure i came through the day in one piece #we have been making theater all week and will perform tomorrow and im tiiiired #i have to get on stage when the piece is done so ill see if my angst survives that but otherwise i have helped with the props and such

[qqueenofhades]

The extent to which the tankie-lite "America Has A Magic 'Stop Everything Bad in the World' Button and Biden Just Refuses to Push It Because He Doesn't Want To!" mindset has infiltrated this website, even among supposedly sensible people, continues to be alarming.

#hilary for ts #politics for ts #i don’t know how to tell you that is not how things work #and that threatening not to vote for biden (you know the same as for the last 4-5 years) is yet again #not the Magical Progressive Antiwar Flex you think it is #everything will become uncounted orders more terrible for everyone if biden loses in 2024 #i cannot stress this enough #but when needing to perform for Progressive Woke Points in new ways #we get the “okay vote for democrats down ballot maybe but ugh i can't bring myself to vote for biden” #and i say this from the bottom of my heart: shut up ❤️ #read the 2025 project #and get back to me #cool? bye.

[yibo-wang]

if you need me I'll be living rent free in that strand of hair

#he really woke up and showed up on set to see tony's performance 😭 i love him #yibobibo

[liviusofpella]

season 1 of theodora reminds me of atonement (2007) which makes it all the more gut wrenching soul crushing and heartbreaking

#screaming into the void #THEO AND LAWRENCE DESERVED MORE TIME TOGETHER #THEO AND LAWRENCE SHOULDVE SETTLED DOWN IN HIMWORDE AND GO TO FRIEDRICH'S PERFORMANCES AND JOHN SHOULD'VE STAYED TOO AND WORKED IN THE HSPTL #AND BRUNO WOULD'VE GROWN UP SURROUNDED BY THE MOST AMAZING FOUND FAMILY IN THE WORLD #THIS IS STAGE THREE OF GRIEF BTW!!! #I CRIED SO HARD LAST NIGHT I WOKE UP WITH A HEADACHE FUNNNN #HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO FALL FOR ANTONIO WHOS A VERY CHARMING DADDY WHEN I WILL NEVER BE OVER LAWRENCE AND THE REST OF THE GROUP!!!! #AND CHARLOTTE MY SWEET DELICATE FLOWER DESERVES THE WORLD BUT MY HEART IS BREAKING WHENEVER I BUY HER 💎OPTION #tldr im not fine #romance club #rc theodora #rc lawrence #theodora avery #lawrence barkley

[jazzy-tzw]

I’m a Dante Reyes apologist actually

#I woke up thinking about Jason’s performance in fast x and I’m making it everyone else’s problem #dante reyes #jason momoa