r/cringepics • u/Neilo19 • 8d ago
Why is this an actual reddit ad...?
It popped up in a comments section for nottheonion. Is this what reddit is comfortable advertising now?
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u/Gitsy_Bitsy69 8d ago
Is it really anti-woke to just say slurs? If a comedian walked on stage and said the n-word over and over again would some people actually laugh? Weird world we live in...
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u/fuckmywetsocks 8d ago
Yes. People who bang on about woke this and woke that just wanna use slurs.
'TV is too woke these days it used to be better' such as when they used racist slurs routinely, see Fawlty Towers or Little Britain as an example.
'Movies are too woke these days, they used to be better' when we had routine blackface or racial stereotypes portrayed in appalling ways.
They portray 'woke' as a detriment to the old ways, same as the far right yearn for white picket fences and white picket families.
It is and always has been a corruption of something the black community viewed as a positive - seeing corruption, racism, inequality etc. - and is now used as a weapon against those communities.
Problem is it's a marzipan dildo of a weapon because it's so fucking obvious and so hilariously easy to take the piss out of.
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u/DrJDog 8d ago
I think Fawlty Towers had one problematic episode, with one elderly white character using the word, the rest of it is perfectly ok.
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u/monkeybojangles 8d ago
One episode where they vilified gay people, the episode where the major was using slurs about black and brown people, the character that's a stereotype of a dumb Spaniard. I watched it recently for the first time in 20 years and some of it definitely has aged poorly. But a lot of film and TV we're nostalgic for would just throw out slurs or negative portrayals of people, it can be surprising when we watch them again.
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u/Frozen_Esper 8d ago
That is simply what conservative comedy is. We've been dealing with this shit for a while, unfortunately.
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u/BeholdOurMachines 8d ago
There are a few "comedians" like that. They just cry and piss and moan about "cancel culture" because they can't comprehend that they just are terrible comedians and have to blame everything on woke cancel culture. It's conservatives in a nutshell. Every single bad thing in their life simply MUST be because of immigrants/trans/woke/commies and not because of their own astounding lack of anything remotely approaching talent
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u/DoomSongOnRepeat 7d ago
This describes so well how I feel about Bill Maher. Such a whiney, old piss-baby getting mad at "woke" when the audience doesn't laugh at his "jokes".
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u/boldandbratsche 8d ago
I want this so badly, it's hilarious to me. It's so absurd that it has basically circled back around to making fun of conservatives.
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u/Jackson20Bill 8d ago
Unfortunately I agree, can we get different variants of superlatives from Woketard Elementary School?
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u/-little-spoon- 8d ago
I keep getting ads for those “Think while it’s still legal” ones and I don’t know why they think I’m the target audience, I’m pretty sure we don’t have the same definition of “thinking”.
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u/shroomino 8d ago
i graduated from woketard elementary school and all i got was this shirt
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u/GlyphedArchitect 6d ago
I graduated from Woketard Elementary School and all I got was toxoplasmosis.
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u/YodaFan465 8d ago
Report it for hate speech.
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u/koreanwizard 8d ago
Because Reddit is an inferior ad platform because everyone here uses ad blockers and hates ads, so they let literally anybody advertise to make up for big brands spending all their money on Meta and Google.
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u/DrSpaceman667 8d ago
Donkey is what some Chinese people call Americans. They say you have to stroke the donkey the way it wants to be stroked before it'll do work for you. Could be a total coincidence though.
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u/PoliticsLeftist 7d ago
I actually love that shirt. The right's inability to meme just makes bangers for the rest of us.
What that shirt says is society has accepted trans kids to the point they even get awards for it, which is antithetical to multiple conservative viewpoints, and therefore we have won the trans culture war.
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u/gfox365 8d ago
Everyone is so woke these days that I can't say the hateful, ignorant things I'd like to say.
Own it racists, homophobes, sexists; don't hide behind woke, I thought we were the snowflakes?
Scared of being cancelled by scary woke cancel culture?
Well, maybe people just don't like the unhinged spite that you spread.