When does being “woke” go too far?
 

Another day, another BBC apology.

Embarrassing scenes from the BBC at the Women’s World Cup as they have to apologise to the Morocco team for asking their captain if there are any lesbians in the team and how they feel living in a country where homosexuality is a crime.

They obviously wouldn’t ask all the (male) Premier League captain to out their team-mates when statistically there must be dozens of players who are gay. Similarly they wouldn’t ask them to incriminate themselves in any other crime.

This comes after a summer confusing Russians and Belorussian tennis players asking them to condemn the regimes there and risk their families at home.

When will the western liberal elite realise it’s not their job to co-opt others, risking their jobs, reputations and at worst their lives for ideals they may not hold and if they do may not seek to verbalise. Would the journalists be willing to swap places?

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About 5 years ago

This story isn't woke though. The BBC were just stupid asking them questions

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It went to far about 25 years ago, and is still going.

The rise of [anti] social media sent it full speed off the rails.

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Utterly inappropriate questions and as you pertinently say, would the journalist concerned want to be asked such a question? Suspect it might be trying to fill the time due to a lack of knowledge of women's football.

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What have these inappropriate questions have to do with "woke"?

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"Woke": to be aware of situations, conditions or history of someone or something that YOU now deem to be wrong.

The BBC news has become very female-orientated in its reporting over the past few months, so maybe they want to keep "on topic" by asking all the "woke" questions?

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It’s clear that the BBC were trying to reflect (and impose) values in the line of questioning.

All meaningless virtue signalling unless they will apply the same principles without fear or favour. And we all know they wouldn’t ask an English footballer to put homosexuals in their dressing rooms.

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Clear to you, perhaps…

Not sure how asking Russian & Belorussian players idiotic questions is "woke".

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You say they ask idiotic questions as if they just chanced upon a press conference and at a few seconds notice thought “I’m out of ideas I’ll ask about the war”. These aren’t hapless local radio hacks, they’re accredited journalists for our state broadcaster. In the current example a journalist has been flown around the world to virtue signal without due regard for the situation the Morocco captain is in.

At best she says nothing and avoids the trap. At worst she sets herself and teammates up for invasive scrutiny once they return home. Somewhere in the middle is a sitting on the fence answer viewed with suspicion at home and offends gays and lesbians because she can’t unequivocally stick up for their right to live and love as they please under the media spotlight.

All for a journalist who is happy to sacrifice a North African woman to virtue signal to people in London

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Because woke is evil and must challenged and destroyed wherever and whenever we encounter it. Your days are numbered. Watch the skies.

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I would refer you to Godwin’s Second Law…

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Re: When does being “woke” go too far?
 

Hmm! One step forward,then two steps back?
I'm for equality for everyone.I may not understand the labels but I think everyone is entitled to use whatever term they like about themselves and yes they may have to put up with other peoples opposing views but let's be polite about it.Let's be adults.

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That is impossible isn't it.

Biological women for example may well not want trans females in the same changing room but then the trans women will play the discrimination card.

I have always seen the word "Normal" as to mean the majority or the mean or average. Dunno why it can now be seen as an insult if someone is considered as not normal because often by the very definition of the word they are not

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As a biological woman I really don’t care what everyone else keeps in their pants. I just don’t need to look or judge in a changing room. I’m too busy trying not to put everything on show to care what anyone else has or doesn’t have.Minding your own business seems a much healthier attitude.

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One could equally think it’s a much healthier attitude for the blokes to undress with the other blokes while minding their own business and women undress with the other women while minding theirs.

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It’s an old fashioned point of view, but I agree.

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I worked at a hospital that had access to another hospitals sport and social club. This had sauna's in the changing rooms, one for each. The unit in the ladies often broke so they would come into our changing room to use ours. For most this was no problem but some ladies would complain that there were naked men in the men's changing room. I'd bet that if the men's sauna broke, men would be less welcome in the ladies.

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I don't know, I know dome blokes that behave like women, and vice versa.

We're all different you should value diversity or we'd all be very boring ;)

K (Mr) (he/him)

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Behaving like a woman doesn’t make you a woman. Just like playing Oppenheimer doesn’t make Cillian Murphy a nuclear physicist.

There’s valuing diversity (if someone wants to wear a dress or trousers who am I to judge?) and streamrollering the rights of biological females to favour a small number of individuals who, based on the limited evidence available at this stage, could merely be mentally ill biological males.

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We always have been too obsessed with toilets in this country.

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and rightly so, you don't build an empire the size of ours without setting the threshold high for bum cleanliness

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You've obviously not been out drinking round here.

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spot on.:clap::clap: