The vibe shift, end of "wokeness"?

[YZT580]

If your daughter has a sense of curiosity about these things she’ll figure it out eventually.

There shouldn't be an IF. Our education system has been hijacked and we have willingly allowed it in the names of equality, diversity, and because we simply didn't see it coming. There are a number of controversial issues such as Covid, the pronoun furor, indigenous arguments, creation vs. evolution, language standards, pass, fail or push on, Semitism vs. the Palestinians, and the decisions taken on all of them have reduced the quality of education for our kids. We pulled them our grandkids out of the public system and went searching for a private school that focused on academics and not political issues. But we are amongst the fortunate few that can afford it. The better solution is to support elected officials who will actively oppose the entrenched experts. They do exist.

 

[OldSolduer]

Diversity, Equality and Inclusiveness are admirable.

But only if you agree with the proponents of the current iteration - in other words communist in everything but name only.

 

[Jarnhamar]

Calling a someone a savage is bad but calling someone a colonizer is acceptable. Sounds like a double standard.

We just need take back the word colonizer. Run a positive PR campaign about it and how it changed people's lives for the better, including ending slavery and reducing systemic sexual assault.

 

[Kirkhill]

Calling a someone a savage is bad but calling someone a colonizer is acceptable. Sounds like a double standard.

We just need take back the word colonizer. Run a positive PR campaign about it and how it changed people's lives for the better, including ending slavery and reducing systemic sexual assault.

The word is colonial, not colonizer.

Ruddy settlers!

 

[Navy_Pete]

Charitably, if you go back far enough that's likely true... But you're talking tens of thousands of years, not thousands. The first Homo Sapiens who inhabited what is now Scotland were black, then adopted to their environment.

The whole notion that white people are always "wrong" and "invaders" is likely to be the cause of genuine "White Nationalism" over the next few years.

What kind of blows my mind about that is people left somewhere really warm, went past places that were equally warm and fertile, went past areas that were less warm and still fertile, then kept going until they hit essentially the end of the earth and settled in a wet, cold place where it's difficult to grow much of anything and decided to stay there. Also wondering how many generations did it take them to lose all their pigmentation when it was obvious that they wouldn't see the sun often, or have things like seasoning other than salt. Maybe it was a convoy of people that were really not fun at parties (until they discovered whiskey).

Not quite as confusing about people like the early Innuit and others that settled in the Artic tundra areas, but how bad were things that you just kept going and needed to figure out how to survive in such brutal conditions?

Plus lots of evidence there was competition between homo sapieans and neanderthals, as well as inter-species breeding, so kind of fascinating to think about.

 

[Brad Sallows]

What kind of blows my mind about that is people left somewhere really warm, went past places that were equally warm and fertile, went past areas that were less warm and still fertile, then kept going until they hit essentially the end of the earth and settled in a wet, cold place where it's difficult to grow much of anything and decided to stay there.

More likely people were pushed out of somewhere really warm, pushed out of places equally warm and fertile, pushed out of areas that were less warm and still fertile, and kept getting pushed until they hit essentially a place there was no one to push them out of.

 

[Remius]

What kind of blows my mind about that is people left somewhere really warm, went past places that were equally warm and fertile, went past areas that were less warm and still fertile, then kept going until they hit essentially the end of the earth and settled in a wet, cold place where it's difficult to grow much of anything and decided to stay there. Also wondering how many generations did it take them to lose all their pigmentation when it was obvious that they wouldn't see the sun often, or have things like seasoning other than salt. Maybe it was a convoy of people that were really not fun at parties (until they discovered whiskey).

Not quite as confusing about people like the early Innuit and others that settled in the Artic tundra areas, but how bad were things that you just kept going and needed to figure out how to survive in such brutal conditions?

Plus lots of evidence there was competition between homo sapieans and neanderthals, as well as inter-species breeding, so kind of fascinating to think about.

Competition, war, following where the food was and weather. Nomadic people followed food ie animal herds etc.

 

[Navy_Pete]

More likely people were pushed out of somewhere really warm, pushed out of places equally warm and fertile, pushed out of areas that were less warm and still fertile, and kept getting pushed until they hit essentially a place there was no one to push them out of.

For sure, just seems like they had a series of really bad years to end up in northern Scotland.

@Remius Do you suppose early Scottish settlers were following a particularly confused group of sheep, and that sparked the legend of the wee hairy haggis?

 

[Kirkhill]

For sure, just seems like they had a series of really bad years to end up in northern Scotland.

@Remius Do you suppose early Scottish settlers were following a particularly confused group of sheep, and that sparked the legend of the wee hairy haggis?

The walrus hunting was good and there was a fair few salmon and lots of hazel trees.

 

[Jarnhamar]

Seen a funny comment about wokeness.

Pointed out how one minute people were screaming bloody murder about an ad for jeans then a few weeks later were laughing and dancing about someone being murdered.

 

[Brad Sallows]

For sure, just seems like they had a series of really bad years to end up in northern Scotland.

Being outcast a lot can make a people very tough.