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I wanted to be outraged, but that comes from the people that make the terrible (but sometimes entertaining) anti-smoking commercials.

I think this is less of a PC thing, and more of a company pushing their obvious agenda.

The worst part about those TRUTH ads is that the government forces big tobacco to pay for them. What other business in the country has to foot the bill for their own negative advertising?

https://www.legalzoom.com/articles/tobacco-companies-pay-big-bucks-for-anti-smoking-campaigns
 

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I wanted to be outraged, but that comes from the people that make the terrible (but sometimes entertaining) anti-smoking commercials.

I think this is less of a PC thing, and more of a company pushing their obvious agenda.
Maybe it's not technically a PC issue, but it's still cosmically idiotic.
 

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The worst part about those TRUTH ads is that the government forces big tobacco to pay for them. What other business in the country has to foot the bill for their own negative advertising?

https://www.legalzoom.com/articles/tobacco-companies-pay-big-bucks-for-anti-smoking-campaigns

I'm a former smoker, and I know it's not fair in terms of the business world, but I don't really mind that Big Tobacco has to pay for their own negative advertising. I wouldn't win the argument in a court room, and we could make that a separate debate, but I think it's fine that they have to foot the bill.

Maybe it's not technically a PC issue, but it's still cosmically idiotic.

Yes it is. Everyone knows that the cliche western badass has facial scruff and a tobacco product at all times. Bonus points if the tobacco product is lit and being used hands-free. It's simply following the trope, not making an subliminal overture at tobacco use.

(Thought it would be fascinating to learn that a cigar company paid Overwatch any amount of money at some point)
 

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I just shake my head at it... run around and shoot everything that moves... all kinds of sexual themes... all good, no issues, have fun kids... one character happens to have a cigar.................... oh boy.
 

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I just shake my head at it... run around and shoot everything that moves... all kinds of sexual themes... all good, no issues, have fun kids... one character happens to have a cigar.................... oh boy.



Bingo. You can say the same about nudity on TV. We've pretty much accepted it's ok for kids to watch drug use, guns being used for violent murders, characters cussing, but dammit if a boob falls out of a woman's shirt on the tube every mom on the planet is picketing the network.
 

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Probably speaks more to the litigious nature of society and the fear of school administration losing their jobs. If a certain scenario becomes foggy, best let others handle it than jeopardize one's job.
 

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Why police were called to a South Jersey third-grade class party

So now we live in a world where the cops can be called on a child for making a "racist" remark.

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So, LITERALLY, if a 7 year old calls another 7 year old a poo-poo head, the police get called?
 

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Probably speaks more to the litigious nature of society and the fear of school administration losing their jobs. If a certain scenario becomes foggy, best let others handle it than jeopardize one's job.



This right here. Administrators probably spend 75% of their day performing damage control on overzealous parents threatening to "call the news" or some other overreactive measure for extremely mild/mundane stuff, and 25% of it actually doing their job. And those figures are for the good ones.......

Sad that I have to side with the admin here on this, because it's one of the more ridiculous things you will read today, but it is what it is:

A society where someone has to worry about their job security after a child makes an off-hand comment about a dessert food.
 

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Probably speaks more to the litigious nature of society and the fear of school administration losing their jobs. If a certain scenario becomes foggy, best let others handle it than jeopardize one's job.
Except that this situation isn't foggy, even in the slightest.

Kind of related story: We had a class in school called "industrial arts," which included wood shop and some other things. The teacher was a big joker, and he would always make these fake write-up slips for students misbehaving (when they weren't). Then he'd give the write-up slip to a student to "take to the principal's office," and the student knew to walk out the door, then come back in and everyone would laugh and have a good time.

Well one day we're woking on a project building a scale model home. I'm using an X-Acto knife to cut some cardboard and Mr. Funnyguy teacher says "what are you doing, Wiz, threatening people with that knife?" to which I respond sarcastically "yeah, totally." True to form, he writes up a fake disciplinary slip and tells one of my friends to bring it to the principal's office. Well my idiot friend ACTUALLY brings it to the principal's office. I'm promptly handcuffed and escorted to the principal by the police. Naturally, the teacher can't confess that writing fraudulent disciplanary reports was a normal part of his teaching style, so he makes up a story that I was actually waving knives around and threatening people. I had the full weight of the teacher's union against me and I was suspended from school.
 

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Except that this situation isn't foggy, even in the slightest.

Kind of related story: We had a class in school called "industrial arts," which included wood shop and some other things. The teacher was a big joker, and he would always make these fake write-up slips for students misbehaving (when they weren't). Then he'd give the write-up slip to a student to "take to the principal's office," and the student knew to walk out the door, then come back in and everyone would laugh and have a good time.

Well one day we're woking on a project building a scale model home. I'm using an X-Acto knife to cut some cardboard and Mr. Funnyguy teacher says "what are you doing, Wiz, threatening people with that knife?" to which I respond sarcastically "yeah, totally." True to form, he writes up a fake disciplinary slip and tells one of my friends to bring it to the principal's office. Well my idiot friend ACTUALLY brings it to the principal's office. I'm promptly handcuffed and escorted to the principal by the police. Naturally, the teacher can't confess that writing fraudulent disciplanary reports was a normal part of his teaching style, so he makes up a story that I was actually waving knives around and threatening people. I had the full weight of the teacher's union against me and I was suspended from school.

Did you sue?
 

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Did you sue?



This was probably before that was even a thing.

Speaking of suing:

Anybody remember that fairly recent story about the customer at Michael's craft store who stumbled upon the word "n---gers" spelled out in wooden block letters? Well, I know the woman personally who found that, and not too long ago received a rather large out of court settlement from them after milking it long enough.

How or why that kind of situation warrants money to be exchanged is beyond me.
 
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Why police were called to a South Jersey third-grade class party

So now we live in a world where the cops can be called on a child for making a "racist" remark.

What in the hell did he say to that Brownie?

Seriously, why would you make a cop talk to a kid for something he said...in fact I'm struggling to find something short of taking a weapon to school where a cop would be needed to regulate a 9 year old kid...If you don't like what he said, talk to him...if it was obviously not in the context of racism, correct the kid who yelled thats racist...why is that so hard?
 

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Except that this situation isn't foggy, even in the slightest.

Kind of related story: We had a class in school called "industrial arts," which included wood shop and some other things. The teacher was a big joker, and he would always make these fake write-up slips for students misbehaving (when they weren't). Then he'd give the write-up slip to a student to "take to the principal's office," and the student knew to walk out the door, then come back in and everyone would laugh and have a good time.

Well one day we're woking on a project building a scale model home. I'm using an X-Acto knife to cut some cardboard and Mr. Funnyguy teacher says "what are you doing, Wiz, threatening people with that knife?" to which I respond sarcastically "yeah, totally." True to form, he writes up a fake disciplinary slip and tells one of my friends to bring it to the principal's office. Well my idiot friend ACTUALLY brings it to the principal's office. I'm promptly handcuffed and escorted to the principal by the police. Naturally, the teacher can't confess that writing fraudulent disciplanary reports was a normal part of his teaching style, so he makes up a story that I was actually waving knives around and threatening people. I had the full weight of the teacher's union against me and I was suspended from school.

Sounds like like a prima facie case of cutting up in class.
 

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Except that this situation isn't foggy, even in the slightest.

Kind of related story: We had a class in school called "industrial arts," which included wood shop and some other things. The teacher was a big joker, and he would always make these fake write-up slips for students misbehaving (when they weren't). Then he'd give the write-up slip to a student to "take to the principal's office," and the student knew to walk out the door, then come back in and everyone would laugh and have a good time.

Well one day we're woking on a project building a scale model home. I'm using an X-Acto knife to cut some cardboard and Mr. Funnyguy teacher says "what are you doing, Wiz, threatening people with that knife?" to which I respond sarcastically "yeah, totally." True to form, he writes up a fake disciplinary slip and tells one of my friends to bring it to the principal's office. Well my idiot friend ACTUALLY brings it to the principal's office. I'm promptly handcuffed and escorted to the principal by the police. Naturally, the teacher can't confess that writing fraudulent disciplanary reports was a normal part of his teaching style, so he makes up a story that I was actually waving knives around and threatening people. I had the full weight of the teacher's union against me and I was suspended from school.

WOW...did he at least try and make it up to you? I mean I've taken one for the team when a teacher was out of bounds a little...and it paid dividends big time...I gotta say my stuff ended in having to run or taking a paddle shot...nuthin that freakin bad where people wanted me booted...that sucks.
 

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Saw a bunch of folks wearing "Black Workers Matter" T-shirts yesterday at Sam's Club....... a new movement?
 

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I've touched on it before, they are so over the top with some of this stuff in Britain... I've touched on how a nation wide man hunt ensued after a Celtic FC supporter was seen on camera yelling at a black player from another team... it was assumed he was racial other than simply 'harass the enemy player' and Scottish law enforcement moved to arrest him and talk was of a pretty hefty sentence if they ever found him... hard to wrap my mind around as an American.
 
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