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parody or woke? 6/18 puzzle (hard)

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el gato malo
Jun 18, 2021
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ok tough guys. many thought that yesterday was too easy. you want hard? we deliver.

“without knowledge of a speaker’s priors, any sufficiently woke statement is indistinguishable from parody.”

no more hints from fonts or images. just text. answers to be added later.

  1. Federal Judge Rules That Jewish Baker Must Make 'Death To Israel' Cake For Arab Customer.

  2. NJ school district removes all references to holidays and simply calls them "days off" in the calendar to avoid offending marginalized groups.

  3. It's no surprise that inequality in the U.S. is on the rise. But what you might not know is that math is partly to blame. New book, "Weapons of Math Destruction," details all the ways that math is being used for evil.

  4. Bird Names for Birds, a group trying to make birding more inclusive by removing all bird names named after people to decolonize birding.

  5. Tensions Rise As G7 Attendees Accidentally Refer To Justin Trudeau Using Masculine Pronouns.

  6. if you don't find overweight people attractive then you are a racist

  7. IRS Denies Tax Exemption to Texas Religious Group Because Prayer, Bible Reading Boost the Republican Party

special lord of the rings supplement: guess which are real statements/papers/seminars from the tolkein society and which are jokes.

  1.  Gandalf the White: Perpetuator of White Supremacy

  2. Gondor in Transition: An Introduction to Transgender Realities in The Lord of the Rings

  3. Pardoning Saruman?: The Queer in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings

  4. Frodo and Sam being really good friends but not actually gay pushes a harmful heteronormative narrative. 

  5. The protagonists of both ‘Lord of the Rings’ and ‘The Hobbit’ were white men … The biggest racial problem we see in ‘Lord of the Rings’ is with the Uruk-Hai, which is completely Tolkien’s fault …Tolkien’s ethnocentrism geography of Middle-Earth describes a good and sophisticated West versus an evil and scheming East. Obviously, this creates a disparity between two groups of people, one who happen to be people of color and the other who happen to be white men

  6. Hobbits are a mockery of the obese community eating seven meals a day. Second breakfast? Elevenses? Afternoon tea? Every time a person of size reads Tolkien's references to Hobbits' eating habits, he or she dies a little inside. Extremely fatphobic.

    good luck…

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parody or woke? 6/18 puzzle (hard)

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ANSWERS:

(first off, clearly too many of you read the bee to use their parody in the future. good to know. need to find a parody pool where people do not know the priors/have not read the headline)

many guesses they were all real. they were not.

1. joke

2. woke

3. woke (yes, "weapons of math destruction" was real)

4. woke

5. joke

6. woke

7. woke (yes, really)

tolkien:

1. joke

2. woke

3. woke

4. joke

5. woke

6. joke

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Ben Mumma
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Jun 18, 2021

I'm calling it: you are doing the trick where they are all real. All woke for the win!

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