Comments by "Jason Dashney" (@jasondashney) on "John Cleese's War on Wokeism" video.

  1. "Punching up - challenging those with power and offending those with power, is quite different from punching down." Who's up and who's down is a matter of great debate. If you can utter a single word or phrase and get completely ruined for it (your whole career destroyed etc), especially when it's clearly uttered either in reference to the word itself, or worse yet when it's commonly agreed upon it was said with absolutely no malintent, who holds the actual power? I've never heard the phrase "punching up" by anyone who didn't have a very warped vision of what power really is. If you can ruin the lives of people who meant no ill will, simply be deciding to be offended, (often on behalf of someone else), then you clearly have the power, and also the actual ill will. Perhaps you are the exception to the rule, but I've never heard that phrase from someone who wasn't malevolent on some level.
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  2. David Feherty, the golfer turned writer said that the biggest difference was that the leaders wear different looking funny hats.
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  3. Nick made Cleese laugh hard a few times and was keeping things well on track. He's the borderline perfect interviewer. Not sure what there is to hate.
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  4. Yup. Apathy is the issue. People are technically capable of so, so much more but they aren't motivated to give a shit and it's so sad because the world would be so much better if people didn't do just the bare minimum to not get fired.
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  5. It was a joke, on a humorous stage presentation by the man who made Cleese laugh hard multiple times.
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