Politically Correct OTD
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- monospaced0
On Facebook some page I'm following created a post that had the words "spirit animal" in it, and it was amusing how many people chimed in to point out only certain people can even use the phrase "spirit animal." Apparently it's offensive to some people of indigenous american descent, and they've declared the term theirs and theirs only. They even offered up "patronus" as an alternative. Really.
- Never thought I'd grow up to be a "reactionary" - being the radical lefty I've always been. But these kids with their "wokeness" have left me so far behind.Khurram
- I had a girl tell me she felt guilty getting a pinata for her niece's bday because it's "cultural appropriation" - are you mad???Khurram
- I couldn't be more proud that chicken tikka massala is the national dish of England. We're part of the FABRIC of this country.Khurram
- But some pathetic losers are determined to paint themselves as perpetual victims. The "others" that are having bad things done TO them for all history.Khurram
- Such a loser mindset.Khurram
- It's like that chick that told me that you can't be racist against white people because they're inherently part of the de facto power structure bla blaKhurram
- I'm like what about Jews??? They're white! "Oh well, you can't be anti-semetic against black people" - what??!?!?! You're just playing language games now. idiotKhurram
- Eternal victimhood, they make me sick. No wonder intellectually feeble "thinkers" such as Jordan Peterson have an audience of baying closet racists.Khurram
- I used to rail against people who had a problem with "PC culture". And now i have a problem with it. Who knew?Khurram
- And now this obsessions with having "diverse" cast on every period costume drama. You expect me to believe that there were that many black people...Khurram
- running around Elizabethan england? They just stick some negro with a thick Jamaican accent and call it diverse. "See look, we're diverse!"Khurram
- I'm meant to by into that? Sorry, i don't. It's bullshit.Khurram
- Especialyl when the hero (Tom Hardy) is portrayed as some Victorian gent whose best friend is a blackie.Khurram
- As if! The whole of victorian society is built on a scaffolding of racism and white supremacy. But to satiate modern audiences they stick one inKhurram
- And show how kindly he's treated by all the good white people. They have to do that, cos the white people are still the "heros" of the show so they have..Khurram
- to be seen to be nice to the blacks. That's just whitewashing history! Why? Because in 2020 we need to see more colored people on TV. Just fucking lies.Khurram
- Or maybe they have a point. I don't even know. I wonder how this cultural moment will play itself out. We're going to completely re-write British historyKhurram
- to show how tolerant we've always been, just because some black actors aren't getting enough parts in period dramas.Khurram
- btw- i identify as black. I'm part of the black experience.Khurram
- I used to think USA was sexist at work, but I started workin with UK office. Holy fuk so much sexism towards office women by men, no wonder they have word lawsrobotron3k
- ^^All that talk about sports and football at work is apparently oppressing women over here. It's terrible.Khurram
- It’s a cultGnash
- lol, Khurram, tell us how you really feel! I love how you used "blackie," "negro" and "colored" to refer to black peoplemonospaced
- also "the blacks." Get a sense of irony mono, i feel like you are missing it in your life :-/Khurram
- wow thats a long rant in the sidenotes.pango
- i literally wrote "I love..." to indicate the irony I'm sensing and have in droves in my life. Maybe you can get a sense of humor as it's clearly missing?monospaced
- sorry i thought you were being sarcastic. Difficult to get across irony on text. As you were.Khurram
- Khurram rails against PC culture & blames it on Jordan Peterson and his followers? You are a confused man sir.lambsy
- Think you got comprehension problems lambsy. But there was a lot of text to read. I understand.Khurram
- probably because this trend or movement(?) is not exactly organized by 1 group of people. people will interpret it in their own way.pango
- and we know peiople can be very different from what youre used to. of course some of it will seem confusing to you. but i really think the core message ispango
- 'dont be a dick'pango
- and evalue everything individually.
They think the "spirit animal" thing is like white people always taking their culture from them, and either repurposing itpango - Isn't everything appropriated at this point? There's a person I work with who won't eat their Thai food with chopsticks because it's"appropriation".ben_
- I didn't have the heart to tell them.ben_
- or nullify its cultural meaning to them. i mean they're not wrong. knowing the result of colonization of NA took almost everything from them. and people didpango
- take bunch of native kids away from their parents and put them in a school and forbid them from speaking their own language. in a attempt to kill the savage inpango
- ^ Not wrong at all, of the handful of indigenous people I know, two of them play in a delta blues band. And I'm certain I've seen black, asian, hispanic andben_
- them. im not surprised some of them were not amused seeing their culture getting altered, despite your harmless intention.pango
- white people wearing headdress at coachella. Fuck, a Japanese guy rips off native clothing and sells it for as much money as Chanel... The world is just everyben_
- ben_ it really depends on the individual as there's no centralized rules on these kind of thing. and when we have it, we can call it the PC Police.pango
- one taking inspiration from everywhere, and unless someone is really being disrespectful, maybe people should just calm down and sweat the big stuff?ben_
- i rather see someone eating comfortably. its really pathetic seeing someone struggling to eat a meal. i mean c'mon, just give that man knife and fork already!pango
- why you making him go through that!pango
- pango, yeah I totally agree it's a case by case situation, and that's what I mean, if there's disrespect for something of cultural significance, I totally getben_
- why people would be upset. But a lot of the time it feels like people simply want something easy to be upset about.ben_
- headdress thing is more of a "earned" cultural statues kind of thing. its like if someone wears a fake army medal, you can bet some people will go ape shit.pango
- pango, She's so woke that if I told her that the only reason she gets chopsticks in her takeout bag from the thai restaurant is because the owners are Chineseben_
- she'd implodeben_
- however not all native people will get upset about the headdress thing cuz some are more intouched with their culture and some didn't grow up with their culturepango
- But hey, if she ever goes to Thailand she'll fit right in with her fork and will probably come back telling everyone something they don't know.ben_
- i mean if you take inspiration from another culture and nobody got upset. great. keep running with it. but if somebody got upset, then just move on and keep crepango
- Re: headdress, yeah I get it - and some don't care because there are way bigger fish to fry, like getting working sewage on a reserve or drinking water thatben_
- creating. imo most of the best creative ideas were made with restrictions. remember those viagra ads on TV? they couldn't mention what the drug does cuz thepango
- restrictions on drug commercials but everybody knows what drugs they were selling. and funny as well.pango
- doesn't cause generations of birth defects. There's just better places to put your energy than correcting some millennials who's catchphrase of the monthben_
- offends you. Mono didn't mention, but I can almost guarantee the people educating the others on that post are white people who've likely never even met anyoneben_
- indigenous.ben_
- i can agree white people are more harsh on themself general LOLpango
- Except for when we actually do something wrong, then it's justification time!ben_
- Do you feel appropriated when people say "you got pango'd"?ben_
- no. not particularly.
but it does get old.pango - ok, i get it, the native american experience is the only context I see where headdresses are demeaning and belittling of the genocide these people suffered.Khurram
- but pinatas? white people wearing corn rows? katy perry dressed as a geisha? come on. grow up!Khurram
- Ya pinata, corn row, geisha. People are trying too hard. Not sure what deeper meaning pinata has. You beat the crap out of this thing and candies come out forpango
- As far as I can see. Corn row ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ . Katy Perry should look up what job description geisha had.pango
- But however, are they a wide spread thing or just something happened once or twice and people viral share on internet?pango
- Are they worth 1 minutes of you life to worry about?pango
- do non-asians using chopsticks in asian restaurants seem odd? are they the next target of cultural appropriation rage?lol_niko
- @pango - they use the term geisha. But much of that dress is just kabuki theatre, which David Bowie famously "appropriated" for his Aladdin Sane period.Khurram
- @_niko no. not at all. but if you struggle like a toddler using chopstick, then just use a fork. its awkward watching people struggle trying to eat.pango
- I'm going to Japan next month and in Osaka all the guides tell me to visit the "last surviving geisha neighbourhood". Maybe tell the Japanese tourist boardKhurram
- about what job they actually do/did?Khurram
- i think it is worth worrying about. Cancel culture has become a real phenomena. And this new thing called "purity spirals" are ruining people's careersKhurram
- you're at the table already for fuck sake. shouldn't have to work for it.pango
- I get where you're coming from. I'm on the left and I think there are much worse things happening on the right for us to worry about.Khurram
- But what Gnash said about the left feeding on their own is of real concern to me. Especially when it comes to issues around identity politics.Khurram
- not sure what this purity spirals is. i guess im not as woke.pango
- yes do tell them what you know about geisha. and tell us their reaction.pango
- I think it's a lot of bullshit, but then again my grandparents said the same things about the N word.Projectile
- 10 years ago I laughed at people finger wagging about headdresses, now I totally get it. If many native Americans say not to use, then ffs we should stop.Projectile
- Similarly, if it's fairly unanimous among them with the spirit animal thing, then maybe we can just get used to it. They've had a rough go of things, those folkProjectile
- Imagine your daughter got raped on her way home from school, and then the rapist was running around drunk at parties in a schoolgirl outfit for fun.Projectile
- Cos let's be honest, the British raped the everloving fuck outta the Native Americans.Projectile
- That said, I'm pretty sure they'd rather have their actual rights protected than some uber-woke hippies not saying "spirit animal"Projectile
- @pango - re purity spiral - i was listening to this radio4 program yesterday while this thread was happening: https://www.bbc.co.u…Khurram
- re: geisha - oh they've been told pango. But they're too addicted to their moral outrage to listen to any reasonable counter-argument.Khurram
- wait... who are "they"?pango
- *low whistle*
Well done, you managed to self-escalate your post!Continuity - projectile - I get your point - but yes, who are "they"? The power of a handful of twitter people has got out of hand. And is why Trump will win 2020.inteliboy
- "Black trans and cis women, gender-nonconforming... and nonbinary people are the backbone of our democracy" Elizabeth Warren. Hmmm... righto.inteliboy
- Off topic but... Again
“you got pango’d” had nothing to do with pango being Asian! He bragged about poop-bombing in his bosses bathroom!Gnash - Get the meme right!Gnash
- Also, it’s a cultGnash
- Most of this intersectional unicorn Logic Is driven by upperclass white phd’s of gender theoryGnash
- Sorry, i'm on severe jet-lag. Trying to fix my sleep. Sleep 3 hours, wake up 12, sleep 3 hours, etc. Ignore me. Let these notes die. ThanksKhurram
- I got confused. You meant the Japanese tourist board. I thought you meant the woke people on Twitter.Khurram
- Lol, Gnash I know. By the time I posted that I was 4 beer in (lightweight with toddler) and just over the absurdity of it all.ben_
- Cultures of the world are so enmeshed country to country that barely any of it matters anymore. Cultural propriety is just another thing people use to divide usben_
- 4 beers is a lot man. You shouldn't be drinking that much on a Thursday night.Khurram
- I’m pretty sure 4 beers would kill me now.Gnash
- Using "spirit animal" is NOTHING like a rapist dressing like the schoolgirl he raped. "White" people today aren't the settlers from several centuries earlier.monospaced
- At this point, I laugh at the idea that someone using the term spirit animal could be offensive. Sure, it takes a cultural term out of context, but that's it.monospaced
- Saying someone can't say it because they aren't native and therefore can't HAVE spirit animals is ridiculous to me. I can have a fucking spirit animal if I wantmonospaced
- and it doesn't change your religion.monospaced
- because let's face it ... like ALL religious mumbo jump from any religion, it's all fucking bullshit too. I'll make fun of all silly religous ideas equallymonospaced
- drgs1
Is it just me or are all of these SWJ-horrors confined to US and Canada? Maybe a little UK, but at least the british are fighting against the virus
In the Nordics, continental Europe, none of this transgender rights movement, teenagers changing sex etc, exist at allFuck em
https://www.spiked-online.com/20…
The Tavistock, the NHS clinic that specialises in treating
children 'who experience difficulties in the development
of their gender identity', has just released its annual
batch of statistics. The figures reveal that the children
being referred to the clinic are younger than ever, and
that far more girls than boys are seeking treatment.As The Times reports, over half of all the children seen by the
Tavistock are now under the age of 14. The number of
13-year-olds referred in the past year rose by 30 per cent
to 331, while the number of 11-year-olds is up by 28 per
cent. The youngest patients were just three years old.Three quarters of children who want help to change their
gender are now girls - the highest proportion ever
recorded. We urgently need to ask why girls in particular
are so unhappy with the prospect of growing up to be women
that they would prefer to change gender altogether.- cuz being a women kinda sucks?
imaging staying in the kitchen allll day. that's really boring.pango - I think you're wrong, like errything else culturally this shit is slowly seeping into europe; west + nordic at leastshoes
- check out the universities, labor unions, far left, all on the kool aid, I am seeing considerable momentumshoes
- "at least the British are fighting against the virus" - please expand?fadein11
- though not as excessive as north america, yetshoes
- not just far left. far right is one the rise too. while us normies wondering whats going on.pango
- US was 10 years behind in allowing women to vote, and about 40 years behind Europe in decriminalization of homosexualitydrgs
- If there was any urgency to the transgender rights movement, we would at least have a debate of some kind.
But no one knows whats happeningdrgs - Similarly with sexual harassement (touched someone's ass, 10 years later in jail) -- a purely American thingdrgs
- while raping someone gets 6 month in jail...
ya the system is fucked.
https://www.cnn.com/…pango - Women want to be men, they so jelly...robotron3k
- I think it all boils down to Puritan-Christian heritagedrgs
- I've finally found the thread / post / comments that makes me physically sick. You miserable, brainless fucks.see_thru
- The opposite of this thread is COTDrobotron3k
- ya man never tried to be women.
https://i.imgur.com/…pango - what does SWJ mean?imbecile
- super wacky jeanspango
- i know its a confusing time. but it get better.
hang in there.pango - Thanks, I needed that support...imbecile
- Russian trolls trying to destabilize America. Easy targets. They do whatever the kardashians and or instagram tell them to do._niko
- Asking 11 year olds about what gender they want sounds really dumb. "I didn't know what I wanted" they will say in the future with regret.Beeswax
- wow. there's a whole lot of weird bigotry in this thread. why would anyone be concerned about someone else's sexual identity or gender?exador1
- like, how does it possibly affect you?
live and let live. just a thought... if you are about to throw around words and phrases like 'SJW' or 'virus'.. chancesexador1 - ..chances are, you're most likely a fucking asshole.exador1
- this is exactly the problem i'm having -- that other someone is not happy with my indifference.drgs
- not sure i understand you drgs. If you're calling out people as a virus, or SJW's, then you're not 'indifferent'.exador1
- cuz being a women kinda sucks?
- set0
Part of me does genuinely wonder whether this is the beginning of the end of humanity as we know it. The way technology, and people, are going.... what with 3D printing body parts etc.
I think in the future you'll be able to be whatever you want... cat, dog, helicopter, sandwich. You'll probably be able to change as easily as you do an avatar on a video game, eventually. In a way I guess it'll could be rather nice, because you can be judged on your character, on the presentation you choose rather than the fat ugly ginger body you were born with.
*brainfart
- What could possibly go wrong? :-)
I wonder if eventually it's people's consciousness that's transferred to a machine, will life even be worth it?PhanLo - Being a helicopter for a while would be fun though.PhanLo
- will we still need our urine spigots?Gnash
- I'd probably choose to be a couple of inches shorter.Fax_Benson
- I could do with an inch off my forehead to be fairset
- Maybe I'd go the other way and become a foreheadset
- there's almost too much choiceFax_Benson
- Arnolds bod with tiger headset
- Pamela's tits for an arseset
- pretty sure memories will degrade, nothing is permanentimbecile
- This sounds like a post I'd make but with pooor english en lots of "typical Bennnsplain!" in the sidenotes lolBennn
- Every time humans get to a point of advanced civilizations, we fuck up... Do you really think we'll get that far this time before we blow ourselves to oblivion?Maaku
- History teaches us exactly what Maaku is saying. I believe that technology and our understanding of history aren't here to just prolong the collapsested
- "Pamela's tits for an arse" ahah Set oh i love you :Dsted
- I'm convinced we've been more advanced than we are now at least a few times in earth's history. A species with amnesia as Graham Hancock puts it.set
- ... and I don't imagine we'll make it as far as transferring consciousness to sandwiches before the earth shakes us off againset
- @maaku @sted did you see the declassified CIA documents about the many cycles of human development, ancient technology...set
- ... pole shifts whiping out each civilisation, the elite building bunkers as we're overdue another shift. Fascinating read if nothing else.set
- I still had it on my phone - https://www.pdfhost.…set
- Wonder if we'll go out in a human sacrifice meltdown to try and fix the situation?
Posting it all on Youtube as the world burns.PhanLo - So did the ancient advanced human civilization built the great pyramids? or was it aliens?Krassy
- mehhh i think this is a getting old moment. the world will be just fine.pango
- @set read somewhere that after a few hundred thousand years there is literally nothing left of a civilisation in the earth records, so...grafician
- @Krassy So really can't you see that the Sphinx was actually a big lion sculpture before egyptians slapped a generic pharaoh head on it?grafician
- @set re: your post - no man, we aren't and can't get that advanced so soon - we just have internet and smartphones and social f'ing mediagrafician
- also AI being a buzzword these days - there's no AI! we just have machine learning, like writing code to sort thru data and give results, no "general AI" yet!grafician
- also we can't get too advanced when 90% of ppl online still reply-all to emails so...grafician
- Miles of ice will crush every trace of civilisation to dust. Read that originally classified CIA document, it's all in there.set
- @grafician what do you mean 'so soon' I didn't give any time frame to my original brain fart of a post. I don't believe I wrote I'm just having a discussion.set
- @set took our life times as a measure, so maybe up to 2050-2060...grafician
- What could possibly go wrong? :-)
- pablo282
- no, we don't.imbecile
- My body my choice.palimpsest
- Alissa silverstein is an insufferable cunt_niko
- Big lives matter.Chimp
- Colonel Sanders' faultnbq
- Are those gigantic drummies?stoplying
- never skipped chicken leg dayb_a_b_y_d_i_c_k
- I thought they were gas clouds and I have no idea whyrobthelad
- omahadesigns3
- A good example of horseshoe theory.Chimp
- How is this horseshoe? Maher has always been right-wing.garbage
- Maher's fairly central and grounded... He seems to prefer to speak toward reality which often confuses folks into thinking he's a righty...PonyBoy
- God forbid someone call BS on actual BS... some dopes on the left confuse him as rightwing because he calls out your bullshit... such a silly reaction. <3PonyBoy
- Maher (as with most older libs) start their life full of idealist leftist nonsense. As the get older they become the onese they mocked in their youth.hotroddy
- why he have to be either/or? fuck this idea that we all need to sit in a very particular defined political corner.inteliboy
- The far left idea of cultural appropriation is similar to the far right’s racism.Chimp
- https://youtu.be/Ev3…Chimp
- the far right storms the capitol... so much fur cultural appropriation..neverscared
- Far left government blocks bank accounts of protesters.Chimp
- Far left governments in China and Russia have killed millions.Chimp
- no shit sherlock... and the far right ?neverscared
- they wanna hang mike pence and make abortions illegal... great job guys...neverscared
- That’s my whole point about horse shoe theory. The far left and far right end up being pretty similar.Chimp
- not similar enough... abortion, climate change . migration. drug legalisation., healthcare, free university.... no rightwingers there..neverscared
- Yeah Maher is a ultra-rich and out of touch libertarian. Hard to call him a centrist given his history of racism, bigotry, transphobia, xenophobia, etc.garbage
- Plus he dated Ann Coulter back in the day, lol.garbage
- lol.^ you probably think Salman Rushdie is an Islamaphobehotroddy
- It’s funny how the woke left shout racist / transphobic <insert new slur here> at anyone who doesn’t agree with their position.Chimp
- The left started the culture war and sowed the seeds for the likes of Trump to gain traction.Chimp
- they 'label' people to get out of arguments as with any populist movement.hotroddy
- its the right accomplishment that joe biden won, because their are so weak...neverscared
- i listened to mahers random podcast 2-3 episodes... he is pretty weak .. when no ones writing for him... kinda dumbo when it comes to it.neverscared
- the only culture war we saw was the right storming the capitol and killing law enforcement by doing so....neverscared
- I dont mind Bill, but he doea Cherrypick facts for a quick wintank02
- can u believe it ..blaming the left that the right can´t keep their shit togehter, that the get all upset and start an insurrection.. that makes the right evenneverscared
- more puny and dumb in how they operate. lol..neverscared
- as in war Some pro-Trump media figures reacted to the search at Mar-a-Lago with talk of ‘war,’ the clearest outburst of such language since the days leading upneverscared
- https://www.nytimes.…neverscared
- @hotroddy Um, it's pretty obvious from reading it that he's not an Islamophobe, but was using blasphemy as a narrative device.garbage
- But you knew that because you read it decades ago, and not just a recent headline, right?garbage
- @chimp I only give reasoned responses, never shouting labels and whining. Transphobia is 100% a wedge issue the right is grinding on, so sorry if I push back.garbage
- There's a weird dichotomy where arguments from the right tend to be pretty hateful, but if called out on bullshit it's shockedpikachuface.g...garbage
- 'arguments from the right tend to be pretty hateful'
For each hateful righty argument I can find a comparable line from the left. Both sides do this regularly.PonyBoy - Maher's grow up a bit... he seems able to call an asshole and asshole — regardless of political party.PonyBoy
- I’m not sure why people need to identify as left or right when the people in control want to fuck us all over.Chimp
- It’s a shame people are so tribal about it and when someone with a common sense centrist point of view gets called whatever slur is in fashion for disagreeingChimp
- centrist is the new right wing, when blaming the left for the deadly violence of the right as in jan.6 and trump.neverscared
- we get it u try to smear the desasters of the right on to the left .. a desperate and mortifying method you are trying to establich ...neverscared
- 19 people died in the BLM riots. BLM founder then stole millions. For every terrible thing the right does there is an equally terrible thing the left does.Chimp
- Or we could perhaps see the left right divisions as a false agenda to divide people.Chimp
- Perhaps the real enemies are the billionaires who lobby our governments. It’s in their interest that the rest of are fighting over pronouns.Chimp
- Or maybe it's just annoying when rich, out-of-touch, libertarian old folks like Bill Maher with massive media platforms think they have any idea..garbage
- ..what a normal person's life is. And all the racism, bigotry, and yadda yadda. Dude once tried to equate mentally handicapped children to his dogs.garbage
- His whole shtick is that he "tells it like it is" and nobody can tell him to stop. That falls flat when his jokes suck and he can't even find America's pulse.garbage
- You seem triggered. Take it easy.Chimp
- The "New Rules" are him telling it how he wants it to be, and him thanking his lucky fucking stars he was grandfathered into celebrity status.garbage
- If you can’t attack the message, attack the messenger.Chimp
- I'm clearly attacking his message in all of this. I didn't say "he's a nasally dork". I said he's a rich, out of touch racist with a history of saying really..garbage
- ..shit things. Find your ad hominem elsewhere, and step off if you can't keep things.. what's the phrase? Facts over feelings.garbage
- pango2
- hwy can haz qbyen a kickass woman tred?sted
- *i upvoted this message, shezhatt!sted
- Wut? You on different language keyboard?pango
- had to pee.
i'm asking why can't we have a thread dedicated to womensted - ...or people with Down syndrome sted?grafician
- maybe, i don't know if anyone is willing to share some thoughts to have a conversation about it. we don't have much activity around health conditionssted
- @sted keep disrespecting people with Down syndrome...grafician
- @grafician your google translate isn't working on these notes, try learning English.sted
- "had to pee.
i'm asking why can't we have a thread dedicated to women"
sted
Is this you sted? Really?grafician - You joined a conversation for no reason just to make false accusations, again.sted
- and you joined a conversation for no reason...just because you woke up at 3AM in the morning and wanted to comment on QBN? Weirddddddddgrafician
- are you out of your meds? yeah me.i'm at the office working, since 10am. and i was typing the first message while standing at my desk and ran out to the toilet.sted
- what 3AM? AHAHAA i asked @pango a questionsted
- Sted. because it will get turned into porn thread. we can't have nice things.pango
- Sexualize down syndrome!scarabin
- 7/10utopian
- Headlines: "Person Gets Job, Starts Working"cannonball1978
- 7/10 in the Nicky Cage scale?sted
- oh come on you fucks. We are in design/marketing - don't trip over the details here. Are we talking about it - hell yeah - it wins awards now.toemaas
- dense titsbabydick
- Gnash2
Toronto District School Board to remove 'chief' from job titles out of respect for Indigenous communities.
No more Chief Operating Officer, etc...
- "chief" was first used in Middle English sometime in the 15th century. Its etymological origins traced back to the Latin word "caput," meaning head.monospaced
- ridiculousmonospaced
- it's kinda out of controlGnash
- We won't be aloud to walk soon in case other people that can walk think we're taking the piss out of themset
- allowed...set
- enforced double amputation of the legs is a small price to pay to avoid such unpleasantnessFax_Benson
- you exaggerate but not by much, set -- the 'ableist' police are just as loud a lobbyGnash
- Seriously? Why do we bother existing when just existing offends people?Ianbolton
- That's all I exist forset
- getting upset at the people getting upset is the new getting upsetFax_Benson
- it's also kinda crazy what constitutes a disabilityGnash
- there's a prof at UofT who waxes on about the "ableist patriarchy' at the school. her disability (that she gets accommodation for)? -- IBS, and a sore backGnash
- (the kind of sore back all us old fucks get sitting at a desk all day -- not some congenital defect)Gnash
- Even Native activists are laughing at this_niko
- "It's political correctness gone mad Stew"fadein11
- LOL at all you getting offended that COO, CEO and CFO will change their job titles. hahaha who fucking caresnb
- Article is very funny, though.nb
- What's most hilarious is that the people who held meetings on this and promoted it thought they were really helping.nb
- ^ exactly. stupid.Gnash
- lol nb, nobody here is offended by that ... what gave you that impression?monospaced
- Gnash0
- in ontario, Down syndrome is a race. so is being jewish, or muslimGnash
- have you considered moving across the border to the US?fadein11
- https://www.youtube.…fadein11
- nope. love it hereGnash
- you get triggered easy. you should just take the plunge and have that surgery. you'll feel better!Gnash
- it's funny because the people we most make fun of here are cakers._niko
- ^ lol, that's so trueGnash
- They all look so dreamy...except for the that muslim, why is she giving eye contact?utopian
- The message seems that it's a white disease, white vs. all other races. Idiocy. There is racism FROM and TO all races.BustySaintClaire
- racist as fuck..thank god burkas are forbidden here.sureshot
- That's a hijab.detritus
- I know. wasnt talking about the picture.sureshot
- But (example) Judges arent allowed to wear hijabs here either. And future employees can refuse you wearing one. Here.sureshot
- ps judges arent allowed to wear any religious stuff. a cross or whatev.sureshot
- As a native photoshop user this image utterly offends meset
- ^ tru. anyone in the Set PS thread could do betterGnash
- lol setsureshot
- Me:
Copies above image, inserts Set's face, saves it as gif, uploads it to Imgur, posts it on qbn.nbq - we so need a gash PC triggered PSB thread - please post a pic of your angry self gashfadein11
- You can find bad examples of anything you big dildo if you look hard enough (which you obviously do)fadein11
- lol at the triggered one. you keep bringing up gender, dildos, etc. Just do it! be your authentic self :)Gnash
- that was a weak comeback for you if I am honest. at least you aren't ridiculing silly 18 year old college students today though.fadein11
- not a comeback, simply an observation.Gnash
- Ha at me bringing up gender ever on this site, you do it daily and seem permanently triggered by something you found that actually has zero effect on your life.fadein11
- Oddball.fadein11
- and those silly students are the ones who end up writing policy for the gov't. you may not care who ends up influencing policy, but many people doGnash
- i.e., one of the 'silly students' who contributed to this report featured here is this chick: https://pbs.twimg.co…Gnash
- they don'y make me angry, they make me smirk. Just like your simple-mindedness. It doesn't upset me at all -- it's just kinda funnyGnash
- right idea. wrong executionkona
- ^ exactly the point.Gnash
- nb-1
This feels wrong to me. “A bank made for black and Latino people”
I mean....? Am I wrong?
- I guess it depends on how you read it. I think I may be misunderstandingnb
- Communities of color have been targets of bad banking practices in the past. This looks like a product aiming to help build back some trust.aliastime
- It seemed like desegregation was a good thing but what do I know...?MondoMorphic
- gov't of california has a program that loans free money to 'black women' for real estate investments. only black women (not men). Talk about systemic racismhotroddy
- Ya cuz banks in America has a history to decline black people who make the same paycheck as their white counter part.pango
- Each step closer to Serpent's Walk
https://www.qbn.com/…drgs - ya cuz banks are in the business of getting a return on their investment. Gov't are in the business of social justicehotroddy
- Arent you all for libertarianism? If one of them decided to right the wrong of history. Who are you to stop them?pango
- If it's a bad business, then it won't last long. What's your worry?pango
- They could just say they offer their services in dark mode.shapesalad
- ^pango
- If I may, white folk are definitely more "good" to steal loads of money from. I wish I hadn't done my last mortgage. Fucking christ - more for principle thantoemaas
- my former rent in total!toemaas
- Interest, I mean ;(toemaas
- "I have a dream that children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character“Chimp
- but if you're already judged by the color of your skin for 100+ years, well that's just too bad.pango
- @Hotroddy "Gov't are in the business of social justice" LOL pull the other one, it's got bells on.BuddhaHat
- Also, community banks have existed in the past which were not getting a return on investment, they existed for communities.BuddhaHat
- _niko1
here's another gem by what's become Canada's version of the Onion:
Words and phrases you may want to think twice about using:
Blackmail, blacklist and black sheep
"The issue here is that these are all negative terms," said Joseph Smith, an anti-racism trainer and educator. "[It] connotes evil, distrust, lack of intelligence, ignorance, a lack beauty — the absence of white."
This lowering of blackness on the spectrum with regards to value was developed further in the wake of the transatlantic slave trade but it also predates that, explained Smith.
Grandfathered in
Likewise, the phrase grandfathered in — modernly referring to someone or a business being exempt from new rules and continue operating as is — dates back to a 19th century policy called the "grandfather clause," which indirectly stopped Black Americans from voting by limiting eligibility to only those whose ancestors could vote.
"It's re-inscribing the idea of a male-dominated society or world."
"At a meeting, let's say you said 'grandfathered in' — you had no idea that it has racist roots. If a Black person asks you not to use that term, then don't," said Taniguchi.
Spooky
The term "spook" — used sometimes to refer to a ghost, spy, or something that's strange and frightening (often used during Halloween) — has a history of being an anti-Black slur when white soldiers began calling fellow Black soldiers as "spooks" during World War II.
"[It's offensive] because of who and to what it's applied to," said Smith.
"There's a history behind it and there's also all these connections that are made to other groups," he said. "It's almost like these terms have tentacles that spread and attach themselves to other things and infect."
Brainstorm, blindsided and blind-spot
The prefix blind is often used in metaphorical terms like blindsided, blind spot and blind leading the blind, to describe the limitation of sight.
"I can see that being offensive to people who can't see," said Julie Cashman, a member of the disability community and co-chair of Consumer Action Committee, which advocates for individuals with disabilities.
Using the term brainstorm could also be insensitive to those who have brain injuries or are neurodiverse, added Cashman.
"More important is the stigma that it will effectuate about ... disorders [like] epilepsy for example," said Kalra.
First-world problem
People have slowly moved away from using the term third world to describe low-income countries, says Kalra, but the phrase first-world problem is still used to convey that something is an issue only to those who live in a country with privilege and wealth.
It can be classist, she said.
"When we're saying first world, we're putting them at the top ... What does it convey?" she said. "Why do we have to use these prefixes, which kind of dehumanize some country or some human being or a group?"
Tone deaf
Though it's used to describe someone who's not able distinguish musical pitch, or metaphorically as someone who's insensitive to certain matters, tone deaf may not be a kind term to those who have hearing impairments.
Cashman suggests using descriptors like "musically disinclined" instead. Insensitive is another suggestion.
- lol wild shit mannb
- I'd bet many people at CBC would want to publish this so that there would be a backlash. I don't think writers believe this bullshitnb
- well I have to say that the term blacklist and black sheep is being discussed actively in some circles I know since the end of the 80's so no surprise there...oey_oey
- ...and i totally agree with what's written.oey_oey
- the only terms I never heard of being discussed are the grandfathered in and the blind...oey_oey
- and I can say I totally follow the logic and find it very important to try to explain to people why is it so and the best way is communication building empathy.oey_oey
- Empathy, respect, awareness and acknowledgment are essential for the change to take place.oey_oey
- First-world problemsGnash
- just because words have roots in obscure and outdated practices, getting offended by them 200 years later is absurd. Grandfathered in is such an obvious term_niko
- people instantly get that it means doing something before the rules changed so you get to keep doing it. Nobody has thought it meant anything else for centuries_niko
- if we go down this path, and look hard enough, every single expression and word has offended someone at some point in history._niko
- idiotic. Victimization seems to be the hottest currency in "journalism" these days._niko
- my frequencies have increasedcanoe
- add to the list the word 'looting' - it is not to be used and is deemed racisthotroddy
- Instead of ‘looting’ use the word, redistribution, or the phrase, luxury-goods equityGnash
- add to the list of words someone has looked at to see whether some might find them insensitive, but that you're fully entitled to carry on usingFax_Benson
- By that 'logic' @oey_oey — was it fine to use terms like blacklist etc *before* previously called negro/coloured/etc people decided to call themselves black?NonEntity
- I mean, it was clearly an act of self-affirmation, right?NonEntity
- Instead of the word 'logic', I would prefer it if you used the term 'prissy socio-historical ignorance', if that's ok.NonEntity
- Projectile5
- give me $5 crackerGuyFawkes
- lol Sidam rocks._niko
- Ooo You eat beans!
Ooo well your my slave.milfhunter - LolzGnash
- _niko6
like a modern-day Ouroboros, these wackjobs are eating themselves.
- that's because they're not truly woke! NOT WOKE ENOUGH!pango
- the wokesters have had a good run in canada, of late.Gnash
- they de-funded Vancouver rape-crisis centreGnash
- Shut down Edmonton PrideGnash
- and torpedoed the indigenous music awardsGnash
- Fuck just read about the indigenous awards. Ludicrous._niko
- The paradox of tolerance states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually seized or destroyed by the intolerantGnash
- https://en.wikipedia…Gnash
- Ah, Makes total sense_niko
- And is happening before our eyes lol_niko
- oh missed this.
who are these wokesters that de-funded Vancouver rape-crisis centre, Shut down Edmonton Pride, torpedoed the indigenous music awards?pango - You must have been busy pooping and not flushingGnash
- Ya. Everyday. Gotta stay healthypango
- _niko1
- the dumbest part is the CBC actually running this non-story.Gnash
- http://www.dmfashion…
https://sahiphopmag.…monospaced - lol yeah CBC next article: The NHL should change the colour of the ice to make it more inclusive as well._niko
- fuck me I can't tell whats an onion article anymore. Everything's become an onion article._niko
- media outlets publishing the myopic squeaking of some insignificant slacktivist and presenting it as news.Gnash
- Here is another Whiteout party, it looks like a fun event for all boys and girls to attained.
https://i.imgur.com/…utopian - ^ ya, that's the same thing exactly!Gnash
- Lol self-hating has become a white thingrobotron3k
- what are you talking about, robo?monospaced
- In time I'm sure they'll find a reason why the pucks shouldn't be blackPonyBoy
- who?monospaced
- Hmm a bunch of white guys with sticks and masks going around slapping a black puck. I’m triggered_niko
- They also wear white because when on the ice, the opposing team is wearing white, they can't see each other because of the crowd. Their color stands out way morcbass99
- LOLpango
- Gucci4
@hobgoblin: Hypocrites? I don't get it. It's exceedingly possible that I'm reading this wrong as my sinuses are practically making my head explode, but it reads to me that you're having the same issue as the people who are dumbfounded that the song has been banned—just with songs that are controversial in another way.
The lyrics have some thorny issues, of course, but where do you draw the line? Plenty of popular songs in every genre have questionable lyrics. Fair play dictates that those should be scrutinized and banned too, no?
Banning art in whatever form is kinda bullshit imo and often has a reverse, unintended effect.
- the institutions aren't 'banning' the song because they feel it's has problematic lyrics.Gnash
- they're banning it because it's not worth the social media backlash storm that will ensue from the outrage addictsGnash
- it's an easy bone to throw themGnash
- Are you comparing them to dogs?soundofreason
- great question. simple answer. Smack My Bitch up, or any hip-hop song of that nature, would never be played at a starbucks, walmart,hobgoblin
- walgreens, or any store, shop, restaurant endlessly for 2 solid months of the year. Those songs exist, but don't get much airtime (an assumption here).hobgoblin
- baby it's cold outside will be played endlessly for 2 solid months during the hight of the metoo campaign. and yes, the lyrics are beyond questionable.hobgoblin
- the hypocrites comment was that the right, the ones complaining that the song is no longer being played, never listened to it in the first placehobgoblin
- , know it, and listen to other questionable shit on their own.hobgoblin
- the outrage addicts are the women and men whom have been assaulted and a part of the metoo campaign. and now you're calling them dogs, lol.hobgoblin
- lol. looks like you're the only one outraged here. the whole issue is pathetic, not dangerous.Gnash
- it's just pandering.Gnash
- that said, I have no issue with them taking the song of rotation. it doesn't affect me in anyway. It's just silly issue.Gnash
- you know there is a list of songs you'll never hear on the radio simply because they encourage free thinking or anti govt views, right?imbecile
- I can find outrage in every single song ever. Should we fucking ban them all? Just be left with white noise? Oh shit that’s racist and white supremist! Lol_niko
- drgs0
https://compactmag.com/article/a…
Professor Vincent W. Lloyd, director of Africana Studies at Villanova University, author of "Black Dignity", who himself is black, visits an anti-racist workshop put on by college-age students:
"During our discussion of incarceration, an Asian-American student cited federal inmate demographics: About 60 percent of those incarcerated are white. The black students said they were harmed. They had learned, in one of their workshops, that objective facts are a tool of white supremacy. Outside of the seminar, I was told, the black students had to devote a great deal of time to making right the harm that was inflicted on them by hearing prison statistics that were not about blacks. A few days later, the Asian-American student was expelled from the program. Similarly, after a week focused on the horrific violence, death, and dispossession inflicted on Native Americans, Keisha reported to me that the black students and their allies were harmed because we hadn’t focused sufficiently on anti-blackness. When I tried to explain that we had four weeks focused on anti-blackness coming soon, as indicated on the syllabus, she said the harm was urgent; it needed to be addressed immediately."
"Late Sunday night, I was informed the students were too exhausted to have class on Monday. Tuesday morning, no one was in the seminar room. I waited 10 minutes, and Keisha entered. She said the students had something to say to me. Ten more minutes of waiting in silence. Then all nine remaining students entered, each carrying a piece of paper. One by one they read a paragraph. Out of their mouths came everything Keisha had said to me during the “urgent” meetings she had with me after classes when students had allegedly been harmed.
They alleged: I had used racist language. I had misgendered Brittney Griner. I had repeatedly confused the names of two black students. My body language harmed them. I hadn’t corrected facts that were harmful to hear when the (now-purged) students introduced them in class.
The students had all of the dogma of anti-racism, but no actual racism to call out in their world, and Keisha had channeled all of the students’ desire to combat racism at me."
https://medium.com/market-for-id…
"The ‘seminar purge’ is a clear result of a trend that is spiraling out of control: professional racists embedded within the bureaucracies of government, academia, and corporations have discovered they can increase their income and influence — without challenge — by promoting extreme ideologies under the guise of ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion.Imagine Janus, bitten by Ouroboros, and trying to eat his other face, compromising both the past and the future. That’s where the so-called Anti-Racist movement is now: losing sight of the future by corrupting the past, and in the process, it is running out of things to devour in the present, leading to self-destruction."
Debate
- I have learned that body language can now be harmful... I will try to change my career to "Body Language Inclusivity and Diversity Manager." seems profitableshapesalad
- and a stable career move as no one would dare to challenge me for fear of being called a "slouching body racist"shapesalad
- The way you have titled your left shoulder down has caused great and long lasting harm to me.shapesalad
- Those crazy kidsGnash
- A part of me thinks this kind of narcissistic victim fuckery should just be ignored. Reality will bite.Morning_star
- This is the logical conclusion of critical race theory. Good luck and Have a great life :)_niko
- This racist cunt is the bookie's tip to rule Scotland: https://www.youtube.…zardoz
- Those cunt students can eat a big, black 25-to life dickcrazyprick
- Imagine going through this short life being so miserable, imagine being triggered to the point of debilitation from every small trivial thing_niko
- Your shoulders are racistcrazyprick
- Whoever is teaching them to be this way should be charged with child abuse. Instead of callusing the mind we’re turning them into whimpering imbeciles_niko
- Also it’s like 99% chicks isn’t it? Karens pms-ing 24/7. Feel bad for profs that have to deal with this shit, who’d want this gig in the future?_niko
- he doesn't look black (enough)Krassy
- This is insanity.stoplying
- drgs7
America -- wallowing pit of ideologies
- I don't believe it, it doesn't have a blue check.palimpsest
- PhanLo2
- https://twitter.com/…PhanLo
- cancelled!pango
- when you post a video on twitter about a video on tiktok. cannibal shit posting that's what is happening here.sted
- ^oey_oey
- why is POC Karen with all the shit on her face mad about frolicking in the rain?hotroddy
- all I can think of is hair colonizationhotroddy
- Hahahaha so cancelledpango
- Btw you guys know Lib of tiktok is an anger bait channel? That's pretty much their whole mission lol quit being a sucker.pango
- These people vote to defund the police much like you pango. we should start a libs of QBN.hotroddy
- ya no lol those are people pretending to be libs to get libs. but it got you i guess.
no i'm lib leaning but not lib.pango - if rep got policies i can agree with i'll vote for them.pango
- wuuuut i thought reps are defunding the FBI now? so hard to tell who's who now a day.pango
- bury your head in the sand and pretend these people don't exist or pretend you aren't one with statements like 'British Colombia' is a racist provincial name.hotroddy
- Nahh I wouldn't say it's racist. But its kinda hollow. There are definitely better name options out there.pango
- Go-ahead and search if I actually said it's racist. I dare you to try XDpango
- I'll wait :)pango
- i'm not going to argue semantics w you. The fact that you feel shame in the name for its significance in colonialist oppression is enough..hotroddy
- Shame? Why? LOL I'm not white or native. Is calling xbox's naming system stupid the same as feeling ashamed? dude try harder LOLpango
- :P this is fun. What else are you gonna throw at me?pango
- I'm not going to argue semantics. whatever negative connotation associated with thanksgiving, Columbus, British, Queen Victoria: [insert word here]hotroddy
- LOLpango
- haha. pango totes has it. its just someone trying to rile up other peeps for $$ and/or famehardhat
- drgs0
Btw, about age of consent:
A study form 1995 where a group of (normal) men were shown pictures of women of varying ages (the age was not revealed), and they had to rate their attractiveness:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/sc…Sexual attractiveness peaks surprisingly early at 14. Maybe like in all of animal kingdom a female is attractive as soon as she is fertile, but this study is also a case against pedophilia -- attractiveness falls abruptly before the age of 14. There are no normal men who are sexually attracted to 10 year olds. Nature draws a clear line here between pedophilia and pedohysteria.
Just to be clear I am turning 40 soon and my age preference for women is 31-35.
Discuss
- that's weird dude. at 40 you got full access to the 23-55 old ones. why limit your choices by 'preference'. go have fun.uan
- https://i.kym-cdn.co…_niko
- If the point is to have fun, why would I go against my preference? For exceptionally beautiful women I set no age limitdrgs
- Haha. Weirdly I was reading about the fucked up and rather odd world of consent laws in Japan yesterday.Ianbolton
- "community sample of normal men" lol, according to the graph these normal men would prefer to fuck someone aged 10 than 40 and above...rzu-rzu
- 10 *rather than 40rzu-rzu
- Your age preference is 31-35 for women. Not your woman but all women that you aim to have under your control?shapesalad
- Lol yes tell that to the police.
"Sir! But their sexual attractiveness peaks at 14!"pango - I suspect a large portion of convicted pedophiles are simply men who are attracted to/had sex with 15-16 year olds. Japan has solved this by loweringdrgs
- age of consent to 14, and no one seems to care about it. It's like with weed: most drug offenders in prison are in there simply because of weeddrgs
- This graph doesn’t bode well for my wife. ..shapesalad
- Why is there a sudden decline when it hits 18?
Well japan needs more babies and more people to fuck. Anything to keep the population fuckingpango - "I suspect a large portion of convicted pedophiles are simply men who are attracted to/had sex with 15-16 year olds." No shit. Lol what else?!pango
- forgot where on qbn but i said this before "very soon we're gonna have people defending podophiles"pango
- *pedophilespango
- ^ Nobody is defending them. Just presenting a study. Just because we don't like it, doesn't make it not true.Hayzilla
- I find it really fucked up that more men would rather fuck an 11yr old than anyone over 29!! Can't be right man. Were all the women presented fat biffas?!Hayzilla
- fooler3
Portland beer bar and bottle shop N.W.I.P.A. announced that it is changing its name to North West IPA. The name change comes after Black Portlander posted a Tiktok video that voiced concern about the name.
- yup, the hardcore gangster rap group who talked about murder, rape, killing police, killing gays, slapping around bitches are sure to be offended by this beer._niko
- can we start a go fund me for billionaire dr Dre? will the oppression never end?_niko
- the only thing they're guilty of is bad font choices_niko
- “... I am committed to doing better“ totally not a cultGnash
- lol, because it has the letters NWA. Holy fuck people are so goddamn stupidmonospaced
- I sorta understand, but I don’t really see the big issue with cultural appropriation. I don’t really think it’s a bad thing. Explain?monospaced
- Shouldn’t we also look critically at the idea that some black people have an issue with white people liking their music? That’s just as fucked up.monospaced
- Acting like white people cannot enjoy and celebrate gangsta rap is pretty exclusive too. Just sayin.monospaced
- rap appropriated the japanese 808 drum machine! I'm furious!inteliboy
- oh yeah, also the Japanese technics sl. 1200 turntables lol_niko
- and RUN DMC appropriated German sneakers and Cool J stole Australian goofy hats. outraged!_niko
- hah, the business is registered as NWIPA, so you can assume that N-word was implied before. Appropriation, meh? Stupid yehkingsteven
- To be fair, NWIPA is the legit acronym for his company and has nothing to do with the n word.monospaced
- but when their logo is the NWA logo and there's no mention of 'North West' before? (i assume, from a quick google search) cringe at best.kingsteven
