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Kav "The woke took Pepe le Pew from us" P 🍉

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Translator of too many languages who Plays Games Poorly at http://twitch.tv/kav_p, makes videos at https://www.youtube.com/@KavP & decolonises museums while literally getting their PhD in detecting white nonsense. Support me: http://patreon.com/kavp

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Kav "The woke took Pepe le Pew from us" P 🍉 @kavp.net · 11d

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Kav "The woke took Pepe le Pew from us" P 🍉 @kavp.net · 1d

Constantly astounded at this current age when a boycott of someone's products is treated like an act of violence

That BG Dork @thatbgdork.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck Simon Stone & Keira Knightley, frankly.

Comparing what Rowling is doing to classroom politics of just not liking someone is one of the most reckless, selfish, privileged piece of shit ways I've ever seen this reduced. Just absolute nonsense. decider.com/2025/10/10/k...

Keira, my last question for you—I saw you’re voicing Professor Umbridge in the new Harry Potter audiobooks. Are you aware that some fans are calling for a Harry Potter boycott, given J.K. Rowling’s ongoing campaign against trans people?

KK: I was not aware of that, no. I’m very sorry. You know, I think we’re all living in a period of time right now where we’re all going to have to figure out how to live together, aren’t we? And we’ve all got very different opinions. I hope that we can all find respect.

SS: I think that’s right. I think that we have learned over time, unfortunately, that the unbearable voice in the room is something that we should try and shut down. And actually, I think everyone needs to recognize that they’re the unbearable voice for someone else, as well. The live and let live thing of like, “Oh God, your voice is really loud, and I can’t stand you.” That’s part of our lives.

We all have hatred, deep hatred for someone in the universe—someone in the class. Let’s reduce it to classroom politics. There is always the kid that we cannot stand. I think we’d all agree that where that kid for someone else, too. Unfortunately, all sides of the political spectrum are currently trying to shut that kid’s voice down, but they don’t realize the irony of the fact that they’re also that kid for someone else. If we can have all have a moratorium on that, and just let chaos live for a little bit, we might find our way out.

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Kav "The woke took Pepe le Pew from us" P 🍉 @kavp.net · 1d

They're off making YouTube videos and postulating about theoretical struggles they have no experience with outside of the Internet

Kav "The woke took Pepe le Pew from us" P 🍉 @kavp.net · 1d

Right??

Kav "The woke took Pepe le Pew from us" P 🍉 @kavp.net · 2d

I just tried to do a Woody Woodpecker impression and my cat came inside looking concerned

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Kav "The woke took Pepe le Pew from us" P 🍉 @kavp.net · 2d

I did the thing. I made myself one of those "Tick Tocks" that all the kids are talking about, just in time for the Australian ban on social media for kids:

www.tiktok.com/@realkav_p

What could possibly go wrong?

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Kav "The woke took Pepe le Pew from us" P 🍉 @kavp.net · 2d

Fact checking and issuing corrections only work if the person you're talking to gives a shit about facts.

It's the age of disinformation, the age of the influencer. The only way to break the veneer of these cult leaders is to show that no one needs to respect them.

Interrupt. Dismiss. Be rude.

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Kav "The woke took Pepe le Pew from us" P 🍉 @kavp.net · 2d

I keep saying we need to bring back the milkshake. See how much more effective humiliation is than reason against this cult mentality.

It's only upholding social norms which got us into this mess. Be rude. Fuck civility. Fuck "when they go low, we go high"

When they go low, milkshake them & laugh.

WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 2d

George Stephanopoulos cuts off JD Vance mid sentence 🤣🔥….this is the way!

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Kav "The woke took Pepe le Pew from us" P 🍉 @kavp.net · 2d

Ah yes, this is the distinction I was looking for. Thank you for clarifying who exactly the targeted people are rather than assuming I'm bringing up language policy in bad faith.

Kav "The woke took Pepe le Pew from us" P 🍉 @kavp.net · 2d

Pretty much, yeah!

Kav "The woke took Pepe le Pew from us" P 🍉 @kavp.net · 2d

I'm a decolonial scholar and activist who believes staunchly in the right of the Baltic states to decolonise, so I'm genuinely not sure why you're acting so oppositional here.

Kav "The woke took Pepe le Pew from us" P 🍉 @kavp.net · 2d

The language policy is literally the policy which has the power to displace people for their refusal to learn a language.

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Diamond Comics Out of Context @diamondcomicmine.bsky.social · 2d

A very long speech bubble emerges from the window of a house saying 'Ahh! I found it. A new in the sky.' It is not clear what the speaker is referring to.

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Kav "The woke took Pepe le Pew from us" P 🍉 @kavp.net · 2d

White USians: Former colonies need to stop complaining about colonisation. They're independent now! Fuck off about reparations

Also white USians, after the nuclear meltdown in Japan in 2011: That's payback for Pearl Harbour!! 😭

(This literally happened)

Kav "The woke took Pepe le Pew from us" P 🍉 @kavp.net · 2d

Exactly. It irks me that language policy alone has so much power to displace people. There are so many other issues that should have more weight here. It does no one any good to feed the "one nation, one language myth" as is it means anything

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Kav "The woke took Pepe le Pew from us" P 🍉 @kavp.net · 2d

And let's please also reserve some bile for white dude comedians criticising participants in this morally bankrupt comedy festival by invoking the unproven claim that the Saudi Arabian government was behind 9/11.

Not least bc the rest of the world is very much over the US constantly invoking 9/11

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Kav "The woke took Pepe le Pew from us" P 🍉 @kavp.net · 2d

I'll be the first to critique people for using donations as a means to deflect criticism. But there's something uncomfortable about fixating on the brown comedian trying to (likely performatively) atone for bad judgement in a sea of white dude comedians doing no such thing with their blood money

CNN headline reads: "Here's what Aziz Ansari can do with his Riyadh Comedy Festival money"

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 3d

The palpable relief of reading a syntactically awkward student paper nevertheless brimming with ideas they’re trying on after having to consume the stale cardboard generalities of a Chat GPT essay.

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Kav "The woke took Pepe le Pew from us" P 🍉 @kavp.net · 3d

To be honest, I think all "one nation, one language" policy is a really underhanded way to talk around the actual issues. I get the awkward relationship with Russia in this region, but language is so much more than the nation states that claim it.

Kav "The woke took Pepe le Pew from us" P 🍉 @kavp.net · 3d

I am once more looking pointedly at those people who have been trotting out the tired claim that Israel is the "world's most successful example of decolonisation" for the past two years, before returning my gaze to the US flag sitting on the table with all the entitlement of a mediocre white man

Kav "The woke took Pepe le Pew from us" P 🍉 @kavp.net · 3d

Nothing colonial-looking about that image at all, nope nope nope

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Kav "The woke took Pepe le Pew from us" P 🍉 @kavp.net · 3d

I can't help but feel like there's an important flag missing from the table here

An image accompanying an article about the Gaza peace deal shows a bunch of white dudes gathered around a table with the Israeli and US flags on it

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Kav "The woke took Pepe le Pew from us" P 🍉 @kavp.net · 4d

This was a personal favourite of mine:

"[W]hen they issue ‘trigger warnings’ about the ‘outdated’ language or social views of authors from Ovid to Roald Dahl, from Immanuel Kant to Virginia Wolf, we know we are in ‘Maoist’ territory."

I don't think Monk realises quite how shrill he comes across 😋

Kav "The woke took Pepe le Pew from us" P 🍉 @kavp.net · 4d

Gosh, I read the article and it came across as a very long screed against a bunch of strawmen and doesn't seem to understand what either decolonisation or DEI actually entails.

I used to travel in skeptic circles & it's disappointing to see they're still fighting the same non-existent demons

Kav "The woke took Pepe le Pew from us" P 🍉 @kavp.net · 4d

How wonderful. I've been following this initiative since its onset, so I'm very much looking forward to reading this book!

Kav "The woke took Pepe le Pew from us" P 🍉 @kavp.net · 6d

Yes!! Would you believe that's already on my list

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