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- drgs-1
- lol no. The new paradigm does not get to co-opt old terms and then push the original definitions into a new term.cannonball1978
- hey, you need to check your superphobiadrgs
- while we're at it, feminists who are anti-trans, are superfeministsdrgs
- considering how trans people make up such a tiny insignificant part of our population - it really is amazing how loud and influential their voice is.inteliboy
- ^ not saying thats good or bad btw. just an observation.inteliboy
- Lol nice back pedal intelliboy.TOMMYxGUNN
- Thats a caveat, not a backpedalcannonball1978
- spl33nidoru3
Oh the stupidity....
French skunk Pepe Le Pew will not appear in an upcoming "Space Jam" sequel and is not planned to feature in any new "Looney Tunes" cartoons, sources familiar with the productions told AFP, as a debate swirls over sexism and "cancel culture" in Hollywood.
The lovelorn cartoon animal -- who spends most of his time in luckless pursuit of a female cat who is repelled by his advances and noxious smell -- hit the headlines last week after a New York Times columnist said Pepe "normalized rape culture."
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At the launch of streaming platform HBO Max last year, "Looney Tunes Cartoons" producer Peter Browngardt said cartoon hunter Elmer Fudd would no longer tote a rifle, telling The New York Times: "We're not doing guns."
- https://i.imgur.com/…Gnash
- Finally.oey_oey
- I can't wait to see Robin Hood without a bow and arrow and Jesus without nails.Nairn
- ^ did you guys have Rocket Robinhood cartoon in the UK?Gnash
- https://youtu.be/6Mf…Gnash
- My mother used to say 40 years ago he should leave the kitty alone cause she didn't want it. That was enough for me.oey_oey
- rocket robin hood, one of the best intro tunes ever. Also funny how they used to reuse episodes from spiderman and switch spidey for Robin hood_niko
- but seriously, how about the homicidal maniac Wily Coyote? don't forget to cancel him too._niko
- Thank the lord, Warner Bros has solved rape.MondoMorphic
- QBN’rs outraged at Warner Bros?NBQ00
- No one mentioning today’s modern cartoons and how they are ultra hyped up shouty crap. At least I gained an impression of French accent from this.shapesalad
- Hi kids, do you like violence??StoicLevels
- So what? They’ve been canceling their own problematic cartoons for decadesscarabin
- Pepe le Pew was brilliant. I still do his voice to this day. The point of the cartoon - the point of cartoons - is to hilight ridiculousness. Wrong is funny.Nairn
- Shhh, nairn. Don’t wreck itGnash
- To be fair, since watching Pepe Le Pew, every time I rape someone it kinda does just feel, like, normal.NonEntity
- inteliboy0
Slack will soon respect your chosen skin tone color when you smash that emoji reaction
https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/…
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- had to rack my brain to remember what slack was therekingsteven
- Is it ok to use a different colour to your own or is that cultural appropriation?Chimp
- yespango
- drgs5
https://www.city-journal.org/the…
The Miseducation of America’s ElitesTl;td: elite $50,000-tuition prep schools teach their students that everything in life is explained by your skin color. Black multimillionaire students are taught that they are inherently oppressed because they are black, white students are taught that they are racists from birth etc.
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"All of this “has made me think about race more,” said one teen boy in Manhattan. The curriculum, he explained, was trying to teach him to feel obsessed with his whiteness, the opposite of what his parents had taught him to do. Making students separate out by race in affinity groups is racist, he said. “MLK would condemn my school.”Some students are rebelling, which, in this case, looks like becoming a Republican. But others go all-in on the ideology, which has created conflicts with parents who don’t. “The school has taken over as the moral guide, with me being the irritating person in the background who doesn’t really get it,” says one Harvard-Westlake mother.
So children learn how the new rules of woke work. The idea of lying in order to please a teacher seems like a phenomenon from the Soviet Union. But the high schoolers I spoke with said that they do versions of this, including parroting views they don’t believe in assignments so that their grades don’t suffer."
//==========One of the teachers at one of these schools has resigned her position:
https://bariweiss.substack.com/p…
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"What passes for “progressive” today at Smith and at so many other institutions is regressive. It taps into humanity’s worst instincts to break down into warring factions, and I fear this is rapidly leading us to a very twisted place. It terrifies me that others don’t seem to see that racial segregation and demonization are wrong and dangerous no matter what its victims look like. Being told that any disagreement or feelings of discomfort somehow upholds “white supremacy” is not just morally wrong. It is psychologically abusive.Equally troubling are the many others who understand and know full well how damaging this is, but do not speak out due to fear of professional retaliation, social censure, and loss of their livelihood and reputation. I fear that by the time people see it, or those who see it manage to screw up the moral courage to speak out, it will be too late."
//==========Soviet paralysis is when everyone says one thing, but thinks something else, and no one can break this evil circle in fear of being shamed, even if they know that other people think the same.
Soviet communism was a beautiful idea on paper, but essentially it was a 70 years long period of "pretending to be".You cannot blame the woke minority for how Americans got here, this is like saying that Nazism corrupted German people in 1930s. The masses are also to blame. In all humans there is an immanent base for corruption, consisting of several components:
desire for justice, two skills which we develop in childhood to avoid being punished by parents -- lying and self-deception, desire to build a hierarchy, desire to shame someone for violation of morality etc.
Because the goals of one individual's biology are stronger than the goals of society, ie. your own safety is more important than wellbeing of the society, and this is how this order reinforces itself.+
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/th…
The Sovietization of the American Press
The transformation from phony "objectivity" to open one-party orthodoxy hasn't been an improvement
- Projectile6
- 6 books + countless more benign shit + former presidents + free speech does = repression.MondoMorphic
- yeah exactly this fn memeStoicLevels
- 1 book is too far—way to miss the point <3 (meanwhile you can grab your copy of Mein Kampf on Kindle, Google and Apple Books in a single click!) derp much?PonyBoy
- repression is not being able to unpublish your own books by whining idiotsStoicLevels
- ^ More like having to unpublish books *because* of whining idiotsMondoMorphic
- PrVatE cOmpanYGnash
- The reality of meme is that the people who don’t care, also don’t read.Gnash
- They've just decided not to republish a small number of books with overtly racist imagery in them. The rest are in print and will remain so.Fax_Benson
- That was not the case, Mondo. This was self induced. Happens all the time.StoicLevels
- In bookshops, libraries, schools. Things go in and out of print, on and off curriculums for less legitimate reasons than this all the time.Fax_Benson
- stop talking sense fax, you are making their dicks go soft.fadein11
- You think too much about other peoples dicksGnash
- LoLoLoLz, yOu GoT Me TheRe, FeEliN' tHe Burnzfadein11
- All books die a natural death, eventually. Publishers stop printing books that stop selling. That’s normal.Gnash
- The glee with which the Wokeus Dei celebrate the excommunication of any work that is out of scripture is the pathetic partGnash
- Faded, you’re a complete moron. You likely haven’t read a book in decadesGnash
- You just regurgitate other people’s opinions., except when you talk about other people’s dicks, and your masturbation routineGnash
- such trigger, much wow.
I don't even give a fuck about this post lol. It's just funny that you are bothered by every trivial little bit of culture war fodder onfadein11 - Or you “quote” ideas. That’s your most pathetic move. Trying to suggest you have some deeper understanding that’s best left unsaidGnash
- this site. Thankfully others call you out for it now so I don't have to. I aM OuTraGeD!fadein11
- Are you going to tell me how tall you are and you aren't bald again? LolLozLolZlolZfadein11
- ‘Thankfully!’Gnash
- It’s ok to be short, and bald, fade. You got it going on. Maybe your wife’s boyfriend is short, tooGnash
- Nothin to be ashamed ofGnash
- do you know how ridiculous you sound now? It's time to stop posting.fadein11
- Oops. Too close to home. Got it. ApologiesGnash
- You sound about 14 lolz.fadein11
- "well, well, you have a mental age of 5, so thEre's NoThiNg wrOng with bEing 14"
zzzzzzzfadein11 - it is a bit weird, Gnash. Seems to unnecessarily pull your plums.Fax_Benson
- Got it. I’ll just keep it to ‘other people’s soft dicks — which is totally not ridiculous, or childishGnash
- que?fadein11
- wait.... you can really get Mein Kampf on kindle, google, apple?pango
- I doubt most people have even heard of or seen even one of the six books. Most haven’t been distributed for many years because they suck.monospaced
- This can be taken off the shelf because apparently the publishers own the copyright and it's legally their property.Khurram
- I think the problem here is our obscenely overarching copyright protections that gives publishers monopoly rights over works long after the author is dead.Khurram
- There is no reason Dr Seuss books aren't freely available and openly disseminated, like Mein Kampf.Khurram
- the estate can do what it wants. is that so hard to comprehend? if disney wants to unpublish foxy robin hood it canStoicLevels
- i don't have kindle, google, apple. can someone go get a copy of Mein Kampf and let me know if it's real?pango
- Mondo doesn't get that he's being the whining idiot in this situation. Snowflakes are funny that way.garbage
- No reason not public domain?! That only kicks in many decades after the author dies, and if nobody owns the rights. He hasn’t been dead very long dude.monospaced
- There are many reasons, all good, why his books are published and not free like mein kampf. What a stupid fucking thai g to say.monospaced
- is it 30 yrs or 50 yrs?
i know disney is trying to make it even longer.pango - If we don’t learn from history we’re bound to repeat it, we should absolutely have access to the worst shit ever written, the most vile, the most racist_niko
- It’s a snapshot of a time and a place, how else can we get past it and evolve?_niko
- Yes pango. You can download Mein Kampf of on Google Play Store, App Store and Kindle. I just checked Play Store, in fact you can freely downloadKhurram
- the audio version of Mein Kampf narrated by Michael Ford no less. In my opinion, this is an absolutely benign book. It's nothing more than a culture curiosity.Khurram
- It's the belligerent ravings of an idiot, who can't write for shit, complainign about slavic races and the betrayal of the austro-hungarian empire.Khurram
- we have no contextual framework for the grievances Hitler was airing in this book; not even white supremacists can relate to the historiiocityKhurram
- of the German defeat in WW1 from which the racism and hates of Mein Kampf breeds forth. And so, it's not even an important text in white supremacist ideology.Khurram
- it's nothing like the great work of literature say, Karl Marx' Communist manifesto is or Das Kapital. With resolute intellectual rigor and a timeless messageKhurram
- Mein Kampf absolutely has no power and we should all be able to freely download it and stare at it and be like "wtf"?Khurram
- It'd be like downloading Donald Trumps tweets - not comparing him to a Nazi - but his specific grievances and the anger and sentiment he's explioiting are soKhurram
- historically contigent, that they could never make any more sense to future generations that the wild ravings of a mad man.Khurram
- So yeah, i do think Mein Kampf and all these Dr Seuss book should be openly and freely available as the historicla curiositiies that they are.Khurram
- They have no power apart from that.And the guy who wrote the is dead, so they should not be copyright protected decades after his demiseKhurram
- They should be copyrighted for decades after his death of course, because the estate still publishes it and claims it. Nobody did that with Mein Kampfmonospaced
- Having MK in the public domain, I AGREE, is important. The Seuss estate has every right to unpublish their own works, for any reason.monospaced
- And you have every right to go find those books and buy them.monospaced
- also i hear the library to keep track of who borrows MK. not sure if true.pango
- drgs3
Why is everyone so high-strung?
- These people want to be our leaders. Let that sink in for a moment.Morning_star
- America is Fucked.
Upvoted.palimpsest - https://www.american…NonEntity
- Point of personal privilage! haha oh lord.shapesalad
- drgs-1
There is a number of stories in America where professors who pretended to be black or latino, while actually being Jewish or Anglo-Saxon, have been fired/canceled/deplatformed, because it's cultural appropriation of someone else's identity. Men who do the same by appropriating female identity (trans), are not canceled. What is the difference?
Richard Dawkins loses ‘humanist of the year’ title for asking this question on twitter
https://twitter.com/RichardDawki…
https://www.theguardian.com/book…Generally people get fired immediately for asking such questions. Don't ask questions which are forbidden.
- yawn. fuck I hate twitter.inteliboy
- How do people still not understand how one thing is a choice and another isn’t!?monospaced
- Female identification isn’t a culture being appropriated. It’s a sexuality being expressed. It’s innate. It’s part of who they are down to biology.monospaced
- Pretending to be what you are not for personal gain is totally different. You’d have to be a special kind of ignorant fuck to compare them as equal.monospaced
- +1 monooey_oey
- and dawkins didn't even make that assumption or group [fired/ canceled/ deplatformed]. again, the outrage missing the point as much as the SJWskingsteven
- Normally you would assume the opposite: gender is in your chromosomes (does not change) and culture is something you acquire.drgs
- The current interpretation is turned upside down: culture is something you inherit through race, and gender is a social construct.drgs
- but that doesn't matter because you know race and gender are both social constructs right? i don't know why you let this stuff get to you, it's just activismkingsteven
- The trans/gender discussion is for entertainment. The only thing which gets to me is the censorship, canceling, deplatforming etcdrgs
- The principle which gives me the right to speak freely is the same principle which gives freedom of speech to people with opposite views.drgs
- If I allow the idea that my opponent can be cancelled, I allow the idea that my own freedom of speech is not guaranteed.drgs
- There are tons of people who do it for attention or to boost their subscribers/follower... on social media and thus for monetary gain_niko
- So not much different than people pretending to be another race for gainful employment or for opportunities that weren’t available to them before_niko
- If you are a shitty person, the cheapest way to appear better to others is to pick any of the trending virtual signaling topicsdrgs
- and become the most radical version of it. Wokeness/transgender... in a nutshelldrgs
- We see it with men entering women’s athletics, vying for scholarships or prize money. Likewise since we share 99.something % of the same DNA as_niko
- ...dogs, and species are a social construct, we will probably see in our lifetimes some dude enter and win the Westminster dog show lol_niko
- you wouldn't give a shit if it was a biological female competing in mens sports nikokingsteven
- You can say that trans-movement is an extension of male dominance. It's not enough that men and women compete separately because men are so much betterdrgs
- But men will also dominate women's sports. Of course biological women cannot return like for like.drgs
- I don't give a shit about males competing either kingsteven, I just love the absurdity of it all. But I would draw the line if males were allowed to fight_niko
- ...against females in MMA or boxing, and I'm sure even the most woke in the woke-sphere would feel the same._niko
- the very idea of professional sports is entirely daft. teams buying players, paying people to punch eachother so you can guess who wins, leagues. hahakingsteven
- lol, when you put it that way..._niko
- drgs0
^"Pretending to be what you are not for personal gain is totally different. You’d have to be a special kind of ignorant fuck to compare them as equal."
That's the problem -- there is no way to question the pretending ones and it's impossible to beat the trans/blm lobby because they will always be able to fend off any attack to their favor.
Both transgenderism and BLM have the same function -- to redistribute capital and power (best examples are from academic circles, people fighting for best positions etc):
People steal/appropriate blackness (or use their race card, which can be fine) in order to gain specific opportunities & social capital.
The transgender-platform is designed to capture organizational resources from feminists and gays: https://www.theguardian.com/educ…
https://leiterreports.typepad.co…By gays^ I mean lesbians who refuse to fuck m2f transgenders. We don't hear much about gay men who refuse to fuck f2m's, mainly because f2m's don't stand up for themselves in the same way as m2f's (naturally because they are women). Similarly with transgenders in sports (there are no f2m's competing with biological men, the news headlines are always about biological men competing against women). Trans-movement is strongly skewed in favor of biological men (m2f's).
The main weapon of the Spanish Inquisition is not surprise, but to pass off a financial issue as an ethical one. Any campaign for morality and ethical purity is of the same nature, busy redistributing capital.
Ethics itself is a financial question: "which distribution of resources is the most fair?"
The hypocrisy is that fighters for a fair division of resources somehow always end up having more than what is fair:
https://nypost.com/2021/04/10/in…They fought for rights, which means that they are justly entitled to more rights than those for whose rights they fought -- in the same way bankers are justly entitled to more money than their depositors.
- There’s definitely a way to question if a Jewish guy is black or Hispanic. But I 100% see your point.monospaced
- I don’t think it’s fair to reduce legitimate social issues to a mere capital power struggle. That would be ignoring a lot of actual humanity involved in trans Mmonospaced
- To claim that a person is trans because it benefits them is pretty ignorant. Not sure if this is me misinterpreting this though.monospaced
- There are trans who are fighting for their rights, which is distributing power, in general, which is okdrgs
- There are probably some trans who are in it for personal benefits (always m2f's, like men in prison etc), but this was not my pointdrgs
- My point was that the discourse which is built around blm/trans makes it possible to introduce the broadest censorship, to control any free individualdrgs
- This censorship gives shelter to all kinds of parasitesdrgs
- “In an unfair system, underdogs are always the good guys.” Is a bias.cannonball1978
- Local BLM chapters vs BLM Global Network
https://www.blmchapt…
https://edition.cnn.…drgs - Struggle for high ideas always leads to distortions of this kind, because due to the its abstract nature there is no formal criteria to distinguish core valuesdrgs
- drgs0
>Last year, the author JK Rowling returned an award given to her by the Robert F Kennedy Human Rights organisation, after its president, Kennedy’s daughter Kerry Kennedy, criticised her views on transgender issues.
“I am deeply saddened that RFKHR has felt compelled to adopt this stance, but no award or honour, no matter my admiration for the person for whom it was named, means so much to me that I would forfeit the right to follow the dictates of my own conscience,” said Rowling in a statement at the time.JK Rowling -- the most intelligent human on earth
- Terfs get the wall.face_melter
- "most intelligent human on earth"
Wut? Who got that idea?pango
- fooler0
Epicurious will stop publishing recipes with beef to encourage sustainable cooking.
- Sustainable cooking is political correctness? What is the world coming to?!palimpsest
- Guess it's politically 'correct' when it's the act of waving a commercially strategic 'ethical' stance about which has no credible ecological groundingNonEntity
- It's not cattle; it's monoculture and factory farming that are the problemNonEntity
- u broke if ur wok ain’t wokeGnash
- Haters gonna hateoey_oey
- Oh good lordMondoMorphic
- "get some vitamin B-12 morans"GuyFawkes
- Nairn4
Homophobic Horses.
- palimpsest1
Has political correctness gone too far?
https://vegoutmag.com/news/eleve…
Eleven Madison Park Is Reopening as an All-Vegan Restaurant
This June, NYC’s three-Michelin-starred restaurant—Eleven Madison Park (EMP)—will reopen with a new, 100% plant-based menu. Owner and chef, Daniel Humm, recently announced the relaunch is set for June 10.- lol at thinking vegan is political correctness...inteliboy
- It is when you give in to the capitalist machine that promotes this so called "sustainability" craze.palimpsest
- so the existing vegan restaurant upsets you? i don't like vegan as much as the next guy, but I'm not forced to eat there.pango
- its part of capitalism. there's a market for vegan, there will be vegan restaurants.pango
- what pango said. PC is usually social / political -- not environmental.inteliboy
- Thank you both for your feedback. I've revised my stance and now believe sustainability is something we should all strive for.palimpsest
- Vegans do not care if everyone reduces their meat consumption by 50% - you're only worthy if you are 100% vegan. You have to control your food intake thoroughlydrgs
- and in detail, according to vegan canons. Vegans want to be pure and socially superior, above anything else (animals/environment...drgs
- Well playedGnash
- i´am vegan and i don´t give a shit what everybody else eats.... u make your on luck.neverscared
- It's not political, though.monospaced
- Yet, I don't fault anyone for associating Republicans with being anti science, anti earth conservatism, anti climate change reform, and anti progress in generalmonospaced
- I shoot food for Germany's only star rated vegan restaurant. The chef is quite a cool guy, so is the whole place. https://www.sevenswa…SimonFFM
- I think that people getting their panties in a wad over veganism just screams of geezerism. lol at "sustainability craze".garbage
- What's next, groaning about "that climate change fad"?garbage
- @simon That's some amazing work, props.garbage
- Mono hit the nail on the head: "I don't fault anyone for associating Republicans with being anti science, anti earth conservatism, anti climate change reform"CyBrainX
- My job is done here.palimpsest
- I don't know that this is specifically political correctness but yes, PC has gone way too far.MondoMorphic
- some said pure vegan diet gives one vegan powers, such as telekinesis. however due to how powerful these powers can be, one must register with vegan police.pango
- the only thing i don't like about vegans is vegansGuyFawkes
- I don’t know a single vegan who would be mad at you for eating 50% less meat, drgsscarabin
- Ending meat consumption actually could be the difference between your kids getting to live in a decent world or not. It's the opposite of a trivial concern.yuekit
- @mondo Channeling his inner Mark Corrigangarbage
- drgs0
Social fragmentation intensifies
- SteveJobs-5
Lego unveils first LGBTQ set ahead of Pride Month
Lego fans can build castles, jungles and entire town centers with the right set of bricks. But from June, the company will launch a brand new product -- its first ever LGBTQ-themed set, named "Everyone Is Awesome."
The product comes with 11 figures, each with an assigned rainbow color.
https://www.cnn.com/style/articl…- Madness.palimpsest
- lol those look ridiculoussted
- I think those are pretty cool! It'd even cooler if they had cool mythological creature add-ons, like unicorn horns, wings, etc. I'm really not ...MondoMorphic
- ...kidding either. I think they could sell a shit ton of these to a lot of different people.MondoMorphic
- So, some solid flat color figures. No faces, hair color or clothing. Whatever. I don’t see kids wanting this. More of a woke douche thing.monospaced
- So gay!mort_
- https://i.imgur.com/…sted
- It's absolutely a woke douche thing, mono. lolMondoMorphic
- plz link to the onion article thxcherub
- wtf?!? not lego!renderedred
- https://m.youtube.co…Chimp
- why not, looks kinda kool.. the reps are losing their shit i guessneverscared
- Not going to lie, I thought this was fucking cool when I saw it in the papers this morning and resolved to buy one.Nairn
- lol mortGuyFawkes
- will be worth a lot in a few yearssandpipe
- Terrible idea. It implies that prior "normal" lego sets were heterosexual or cisgender which is untrue and STUPID.nb
- Corporations are really bad at equality, diversity and progressivism. They should stfu, they're not helping anythingnb
- I am 100% in support of LGBTQ2S+ people. But this is just a bad idea that doesn't teach equality at allnb
- Nairn is woke.monospaced
- Totally agree nb! lolMondoMorphic
- Presuming everyone has arms and legs. what about midgets, wheel chair uses, etc..shapesalad
- @nb yeah. 0 effort products. they are all butt naked goddammit.sted
- I'm with Nairn. I like this.Continuity
- the brown one has an afro, the black one has a weave, the yellow one has a bowl cut. just sayin'_niko
- Apple?utopian
- Although I appreciate getting black hair right, it was on the nose to choose black and brown for those characters.shellie
- As a black child I remember the black and brown options feeling dark, ugly, and unattractive. There's not an implied asian figure that's yellow.shellie
- technic lego circa late 80's was best time for lego. Built on the moto of toys for learning, not learning to kill. nowadays it's all so aggressive.shapesalad
- Why can't the POCs be colorful, too?shellie
- most kids are just going to see this as a colourful bunch bricks and figures. and get either creative making something or bored due to the lack of exotic piecesshapesalad
- yeah shellie, my point exactly, so dumb. The brown and black feel tacked on for some kind of racial inclusion, which has nothing to do with LGBTQ_niko
- ideally each character would come in each colour._niko
- they should have had a clear one for the non-conformiing meta-poly-neutral exclusionist.SteveJobs
- Of course the straights are complaining about how it affects them and lecturing how the LGBTQ community should treat this.face_melter
- Everyone is Awesome? Really? https://www.youtube.…
Beyond parody when you parody yourself I guess.NonEntity - One can support a community or cause and disagree with its approach to advocacy at the same time, no?SteveJobs
- Maybe targeting emotionally retarded 20s/30s demographic. Actual kids got no fucks to give like shapesalad saidNonEntity
- What will they think of next?
Selling advent calendars for Christmas?palimpsest - also who's this for? kids? here ya go johnny, i know you wanted that space set, timmy next door is getting for christmas but we need you to be more woke.SteveJobs
- So this isn't an onion article?cherub
- stop this planet I wanna get offcherub
- What a fucking piece of unicorn diarrhea. No faces? FUCK OFF, CUNTS. Fuck Lego.babydick
- Johnny was really looking forward to getting that Lego Bonsai Tree. His heart will be broken.palimpsest
- Also, Lego Bonsai trees are cultural appropriation.palimpsest
- As a dad tasked with making figures for battle, I am always trying to figure out how to make a faceless assassin... these are very great for that reason alone.wordssssss
- They have nor penis or vadgei_was
- when u achieve maxiumum wokeness, u don't need penis or vadge.cherub
- I like how you can decide the priority of the various colours. At the mo it's black out front and pink behind, but fuck if I'd not have my gingermensch up frontNairn
- Also, I'd take the black figs legs and bits.Nairn
- Give violet the ginger fig's trousers and just have her entire existence fretting about the incongruence of her being, irrespective of the hopes of inclusivity.Nairn
- I know they meant well, but actually, this is just some kind of perverse hell.
I'm buying three.Nairn - For the record - I've had a bit to drink since my initial earnest post earlier today and these last few. Also earnest.Nairn
- whoever said "Of course the straights r complaining" I'm blk+gay-ish supporting LGBTQ POCs I have a perspective on the bok+brwn figs. I don't love the executionshellie
- gay "ish" ?Khurram
- I think these look cool. Get off your high-horse shellie. You ain't the voice of minorities round here. "As a blk+gay+ish-ally let me say something bla bla bKhurram
- I don't believe corporation can be genuine about these things. Looks cool, cool collection. gonna make lots of money.pango
- black and brown are colours in the rainbow?autoflavour
- the B in LGBTQ stands for black and or brown.pango
- Duhpango
- A lot of you is not using the updated acronym, LGGBDTTTIQQAAPP. Bigots.jagara
- My apology :(pango
- Gay-ish? Fuck off, shellie.babydick
- What's wrong with gay-ish, captain judgy-pants?mort_
- Explain what gay-ish means, mort_babydick
- I'm cuck-ish, by the waybabydick
- swing the other way sometimes but not all the time?pango
- hi cuck-ishpango
- @babydick Not sure tbh. Maybe it's something you can't neatly categorize in your mind? Maybe sexuality is a spectrum? Maybe STFU?mort_
- Gay fish? ...Kanye?NonEntity
- Sucking dick from time to time ain't gay, it's just gay-ish. Because life is a South Park episode. Fuck off, mort.babydick
- Gayish is when you want to be gay, but don't want to be gay.
RIP Paul Mooneypalimpsest - this is a cool set. stop complaining about everything. you can do great combinations mix matching them all. why is this supposed to be wrong?ESKEMA
- it's fucking plastic toys, nothing else.ESKEMA
- there you go Shellie. straights are complaining.pango
- perspective != high horse. everyone is entitled to their opinionSteveJobs
- i hate wokeness and all that douchery but i really like this. probably not its raison d'etre, but the end result is fab.hans_glib
- @ESKEMA i never cared about the gender or sexual orientation of the lego figures, it was always what I wanted at the moment...sted
- This makes you care, discuss, argue and all that shit what Lego isn't about for me.sted
- No one's making you do anything sted. Relaxe your body.Khurram
- @Khurram To think about it this way, deal with such aspects. I wouldn't act on it.
Yeah my body is in the need for some relaxation :Dsted - Ya Sted. Relax and get your body ready!
https://i.kym-cdn.co…pango
- bainbridge3
Overweight people are "body positive" now.
- bainbridge2
Mental illness is a personality trait that should be celebrated now.
- pr20
Everyone who's scratching his/her head at this PC madness, MUST read Thomas Sowell's "Intellectuals and Society" - this provides historical context and countless examples of significant waves within society that blew up in some people's faces just as this craziness will. Because it goes deep into history, it will make you feel good to realize that this nonsense is nothing new. There were always huge groups of madmen willing to embrace loony ideas.
- it's an overcompensation for the human condition. we need a baseline approach to how people treat eachother, something a child can understand - and go from therSteveJobs
- a child understands already, everyone tries to teach that child how to live and that causes confusions throughout generations.uan
- As someone who has young kids and see other parents strange ways, I'm not sure there is such a thing as "baseline".pr2
- Things that appear immediately good, blow up in people's faces in "long run," and vice versa. I have countless first-hand accounts of that.pr2
- i'd classify baseline as things that lead to the mutual happiness of self and others. being selfless, considerate, honest, compassionate, etc. - all easy to do.SteveJobs
- it's what we know deep down to be right as it resonates with us. do your best and assume the best of others in spite of our imperfections. rinse, repeat.SteveJobs
- holy shit... Sowell's already 90 :(PonyBoy
- mort_-1
Do you think that white people using the lighter shade emojis in apps like Slack or WhatsApp instead of the default yellow ones is a bit off?
I totally get the representation of minorities in emoji sets and the use of them and am glad my black colleagues are represented.
But I cautiously stick to the default, being white. It just feels inappropriate to consciously choose a lighter skin tone.
I know it’s only an emoji. Nobody’s losing sleep over it. Just curious.
- yellow is a waysist term.teh
- I'm not a Pacman so I choose a closer shade to my own. Except when I think it's amusing to needlessly appropriate a darker shade than my own.Nairn
- Ultraviolet tends not to be well-represented in these things, so gingers gotta ginge.Nairn
- I don't find the white emoji, white enough for my likings. Certainly need to get some sun this yearIanbolton
- Yeah, needs Irish-British Blue in there too.
Scandies can have a look in, although they seem a bit healthier.Nairn - I guess I see deliberately choosing the white emoji as slightly aligned with the ‘white lives matter too’ mentality. But you clearly don’t so not condemning it.mort_
- I mean having different skin tone emojis is clearly about more than everyone getting their own skin tone.mort_
- Maybe if you're body positive albinodrgs
- Both sides of the skin tone scale are forbidden, darker emojis are also bad if you're whitedrgs
- Mort, do you identify as white?! I do get what you mean though. I feel like yellow is generic, but then I was aneamic when i was a kidIanbolton
- @Ian Yes I’m white.mort_
- mort_ - then surely the same can be said for any given type to choose their own? Why fret it? It's crueller to have all been forced with Yellow.Nairn
- Yeah I dunno. Yellow in the Simpsons represents white people. Maybe it’s not that neutral after all.mort_
- I'm still using simple :-) emojis...never mind these graphic ones.shapesalad
- too much work to change them for me.pango
- Huh, I've just realised - in the Simpsons, white people are yellow and oriental Asians are white. Having Googled, this is A Thing.Nairn
- Oops. 'Oriental' is not PC in the states.
'Soz'.Nairn - https://i.imgur.com/…Nairn
- pr2-4
I though it's some satirical joke so i had to look it up to confirm that it's real. Yes, childish colorful drawings with some childish little girl voice to recruit future "warriors":
Just as i read Thomas Sowell's "Intellectuals and Society" chapter about WWII and how the strongest military in Europe (French) folded to Hitler's Germany in just a few weeks because their soldiers were raised on come beginning-of-century woke pacifism.
- gotta get them when they're young. they have used video games for recruitment. doesn't seem far off.pango
- also as recruitment standards keep going up, the eligible young males' pool are getting smaller and smaller. hence the female recruitment.pango
- as for the french, you need to consider they were at many wars. it costs the society a lot of money and stress on the general public. anyone would grow tired ofpango
- wars eventually.pango
- why do you think every US president election every candidate were promising to pull out of X war.pango
- the point is that wars are fought and won not only with weapons but ALSO a spirit. The French have lost that fighting spirit during WWII (despite weapons).pr2
- The same loss of fighting spirit is visible here where to attract the future "warriors" you use childish images, VO and symbols.pr2
- Gotta get them interested when they're young. Otherwise college might be a better I deal when they get older.pango
- What's this spirit you're talking about?pango
- Idea*pango
- Good time to stop funding the military.Gnash
- good idea but hard. any us senate who says that, will stop receiving campaign funding from weapon manufactures.pango
- the spirit that drives us to sacrifice - something so worthy of the cause, that we risk putting our lives on the line.pr2
- here in this cartoon this concept is purposefully camouflaged by childish colors and VO.pr2
- I question if whoever signs up based on this version of "reality" will ever be ready for the sort of sacrifice army historically calls for.pr2
- first of all who do you think the target audience is? and I still don't get this 'spirit you're talking about. how would you visualize it if you are to pitch itpango
- Using cartoons for this is wildly innappropriate. What the fuckscarabin
- We can’t use cartoons to sell tobacco but we can use it to urge idiot kids to become murderers?scarabin
- Exactly. +Showing how she got dragged into politics when she was just a kid is a very bad idea.sted
- "Raised by 2 moms... who also wanted to fight for their country when they were my age but the army told them that lesbians are lesser people & can't be heroes"nb
- Her story is true. The voice is hers. It's showing how "anyone" can be in the military. And the military is allowed to recruit, after all. Not just to meatheadsmonospaced
- Cartoon is cool, but not really appropriate for this audience, I agree.monospaced
- By showing that "anyone" can be in the army, you implicitly discourage those who might have real interest in this profession.pr2
- Her voice doesn't sound like that to anyone around her in real life, just as yours doesn't sound the same when recorded.pr2
- To use this childish-sounding voice was some creepy choice.pr2
- her holding proverbial "peace" & "love" sign is the ultimate hypocrisy showing truly Machiavellian forces behind this cartoon.pr2
- I agree, pr2.MondoMorphic
- @pr2 u got that reaching out to young people was the goal here. which cannot be accomplished by bloodshed and the reality of war.sted
- That's her voice tho. Is she not good enough for the military for you?pango
- @pr2 ahaha yess that is the biggest contradiction in these two and half minutes of WTFsted
- there is a paralle between your complaints and Leni Riefenstahl's complaints on how real soldiers don't look like the ideal soldier you imagined.pango
- and to the rest of you who don't like military recruitment propaganda. i don't like em as well but i hope you hold G.I. Joe and the likes to the same criticism.pango
- they're all military propaganda aim at kids. it's fun to research which movie had their scripts approved by the military.pango
- lol pango why bring that shit into this argument? fucked up army starts when you have to lower required performance limits in order to show up diversitysted
- ah ic pr2 mentioned WW2 and hitler lol.
he could mention the good old Hungarian army in Europe, we did the same.sted - @pr2. "peace" & "love" sign. you're right that is pretty stupid. but considered who their target is. it's kinda called for. lolpango
- They came in wigs with swords on decorated horses, we just had soldiers hungry for blood with arrows from which there was no escape.sted
- "By showing that "anyone" can be in the army, you implicitly discourage those who might have real interest" hmmm a touch bit too much superiority complex?pango
- Target audience... lolGnash
- Young girls lolpango
- G.I. Joe style lolsted
- *GIGOsted
- https://www.academia…pango