Political Correctness thread

[connor_in]

CAT FIGHT! Back and forth between SJWs about spirit animals and Harry Potter gets HEATED (ha!) – twitchy.com


SJW does something SJW, posts on Twitter, someone who supports her gets labeled for cultural appropriation, devolves even further

 

[wizards8507]

What's with SJWs and Harry Potter? They fucking love Harry Potter. Read another goddamn book.

 

[IrishLion]

What's with SJWs and Harry Potter? They fucking love Harry Potter. Read another goddamn book.

They can't. Everything else appropriates from other book cultures.

 

[wizards8507]

They can't. Everything else appropriates from other book cultures.

Harry Potter is 99.9% derivative. Every single character, plot point, and location is appropriated from somewhere else.

 

[Rack Em]

Harry Potter is 99.9% derivative. Every single character, plot point, and location is appropriated from somewhere else.

Character names are literally appropriate from the tombstones of people in the cemetary adjacent to where Rowling wrote the first book.

 

[ACamp1900]

Proud to say I haven't read a page of or watched a minute of anything Harry Potter....

 

[Rack Em]

Proud to say I haven't read a page of or watched a minute of anything Harry Potter....

But you have almost 32,000 posts on this site and have been a member for 11 years.

What's worse?

 

[IrishLion]

Harry Potter is 99.9% derivative. Every single character, plot point, and location is appropriated from somewhere else.

 

[wizards8507]

Proud to say I haven't read a page of or watched a minute of anything Harry Potter....

I know you're a bit older than me, but there's no shame in it for people my age. The first book came out when I was eight years old and the last one came out when I was 18. It's a coming-of-age story that captured the zeitgeist of my generation when we were coming-of-age. But the ongoing obsession at the expense of any other knowledge is where it becomes a sickness.

 

[koonja]

Harry Potter is 99.9% derivative. Every single character, plot point, and location is appropriated from somewhere else.

Have you ever been happy? Have you ever over-praised something, rather than over-dogging it?

 

[zelezo vlk]

I know you're a bit older than me, but there's no shame in it for people my age. The first book came out when I was eight years old and the last one came out when I was 18. It's a coming-of-age story that captured the zeitgeist of my generation when we were coming-of-age. But the ongoing obsession at the expense of any other knowledge is where it becomes a sickness.

I know a few priests (good ones, too) that are big fans of the series. No it's not East of Eden, but the books are easily digestible and have some pretty good, and even Christian, themes. I don't plan on revisiting the series for a long time, but there's nothing wrong with enjoying the books and movies. The problem is as you pointed out, our generation is obsessed with it. And coupled with the decline in reading overall for young people, it's an easy target.

 

[ACamp1900]

I know you're a bit older than me, but there's no shame in it for people my age. The first book came out when I was eight years old and the last one came out when I was 18. It's a coming-of-age story that captured the zeitgeist of my generation when we were coming-of-age. But the ongoing obsession at the expense of any other knowledge is where it becomes a sickness.

It's not even that... I read a lot of different books my students were into when I was in public schools. Just for my tastes, a story about a kid in a wizard academy with a bunch of sorcery and such going on....... I can't think of a story line I'm less drawn to. I'm good.

 

[connor_in]

It's not even that... I read a lot of different books my students were into when I was in public schools. Just for my tastes, a story about a kid in a wizard academy with a bunch of sorcery and such going on....... I can't think of a story line I'm less drawn to. I'm good.

Try:

Matthew Looney's Voyage to the Earth (1961)
Matthew Looney's Invasion of the Earth (1965)
Matthew Looney in the Outback (1969)
Matthew Looney and the Space Pirates (1974)

 

[BeauBenken]

Have you ever been happy? Have you ever over-praised something, rather than over-dogging it?

Have you seen this dude talk about Star Wars?

 

[wizards8507]

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2017/06/12/proposed-school-name-change-drops-ramsey-honors-alan-page

 

[ACamp1900]

 

[IrishLion]

Harry Potter is 99.9% derivative. Every single character, plot point, and location is appropriated from somewhere else.

Have you ever been happy? Have you ever over-praised something, rather than over-dogging it?

Have you seen this dude talk about Star Wars?

I don't think he was dogging Harry Potter haha.

He was just saying that everything in Harry Potter has a basis in some other aspect of culture.

The spells are largely bastardized Latin; the names that aren't English are derived from other cultures by the very nature of how you name things (with the exception of a few goofy, clearly made-up magical names); the idea of a patronus exists in like every culture; the very story line and themes are derivative of texts and stories that already exist.

 

[connor_in]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Make <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/culturalappropriation?src=hash">#culturalappropriation</a> illegal worldwide, <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Indigenous?src=hash">#Indigenous</a> advocates tell United Nations: <a href="https://t.co/WPVke6GjNV">https://t.co/WPVke6GjNV</a> <a href="https://t.co/7DQWAfu0ag">pic.twitter.com/7DQWAfu0ag</a></p>— Yahoo Canada (@YahooCanada) <a href="https://twitter.com/YahooCanada/status/874698270903328768">June 13, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Cultural appropriation: Make it illegal worldwide, Indigenous advocates say

Indigenous advocates from around the world are calling on a UN committee to make appropriating Indigenous cultures illegal — and to do it quickly.

Delegates from 189 countries, including Canada, are in Geneva this week as part of a specialized international committee within the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a United Nations agency.

Since it began in 2001, the committee has been working on creating and finishing three pieces of international law that would expand intellectual-property regulations to protect things like Indigenous designs, dances, words and traditional medicines.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Activists are demanding that governments punish people for speech simply for belonging to the "wrong" race <a href="https://t.co/Rg0eRXPM8B">pic.twitter.com/Rg0eRXPM8B</a></p>— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) <a href="https://twitter.com/HashtagGriswold/status/874705897007796228">June 13, 2017</a></blockquote>
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[Irish#1]

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2017/06/12/proposed-school-name-change-drops-ramsey-honors-alan-page

""I just really want everybody to feel safe in Ramsey," said sixth-grader A.J. Gayetay"

I feel ya kid. Having that school named after Ramsey has left everyone scared to go out of their homes.

 

[wizards8507]

Cultural appropriation: Make it illegal worldwide, Indigenous advocates say

Good idea. From now on, non-Caucasians are no longer allowed to benefit from things us white people invented...

Like freedom. And books. And electricity.

 

[Bishop2b5]

Have you ever been happy? Have you ever over-praised something, rather than over-dogging it?

Ask him about Disney World. Also, his wife's pregnant. I'm thinking he's probably pretty fond of ***** and over-praises it a bit.

 

[NorthDakota]

Good idea. From now on, non-Caucasians are no longer allowed to benefit from things us white people invented...

Like freedom. And books. And electricity.

Modern banking, air planes, etc.

 

[IrishSteelhead]

Good idea. From now on, non-Caucasians are no longer allowed to benefit from things us white people invented...

Like freedom. And books. And electricity.

Start the countdown until some "Well actuallllllllly" guy comes in and educates us all that Sumerians in Mesopotamia wrote the first book.......etc.

 

[zelezo vlk]

Good idea. From now on, non-Caucasians are no longer allowed to benefit from things us white people invented...

Like freedom. And books. And electricity.

Freedom? Whoa whoa whoa. We're counting Greeks as whites now?

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[wizards8507]

Freedom? Whoa whoa whoa. We're counting Greeks as whites now?

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Jesus invented freedom and he's as white as my left ass cheek.

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Freedom? Whoa whoa whoa. We're counting Greeks as whites now?

Italians are pretty swarthy too, so you can toss law with reason.

 

[wizards8507]

Italians are pretty swarthy too, so you can toss law with reason.

My last name begins with a vowel. God bless my people, those fishermen and wallbuilders.

 

[Bluto]

My last name begins with a vowel. God bless my people, those fisherman and wallbuilders.

I'm reading that as you being Portuguese and Mexican...would sort of explain the Jesus ass cheek remark.

 

[Whiskeyjack]

"When he is stripped of the Christian tunic and the classical toga, there is nothing left of the European but a pale-skinned barbarian." - Nicolás Gómez Dávila

 

[ACamp1900]

Some educational reading for the lot of ya...