Political Correctness thread

[greyhammer90]

This is the sort of thing that should get posted here more than spoiled college kids or fuckwits on facebook:

https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/6p4jcq/subreddit_policy_reminder_on_this_weeks/

Subreddit for science plans on having a transgender week to discuss the condition. Then they put up a message the night before the week starts saying that any discussion of transgender people as having a mental condition is unacceptable and will be met with a ban because... Well. Reddit reacts exactly as they normally do when told not to talk about something. This is a great example of conceding to a viewpoint purely because it's hot button. It's a bitch move by those mods.

 

[no.1IrishFan]

This is the sort of thing that should get posted here more than spoiled college kids or fuckwits on facebook:

https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/6p4jcq/subreddit_policy_reminder_on_this_weeks/

Subreddit for science plans on having a transgender week to discuss the condition. Then they put up a message the night before the week starts saying that any discussion of transgender people as having a mental condition is unacceptable and will be met with a ban because... Well. Reddit reacts exactly as they normally do when told not to talk about something. This is a great example of conceding to a viewpoint purely because it's hot button. It's a bitch move by those mods.

It's just the phrase "mental disorder" that triggers people. It can have two completely different connotations depending who it's coming from. There's no reason to silence honest scientific inquiry into the possibility of a mental disorder. If you're born a male and know you were supposed to be a female the whole time, some process may have gone wrong in the brain. There's no reason not to explore biological processes in the brain that may have contributed to it.

 

[wizards8507]

Ffs.

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[ACamp1900]

2017 everybody...

 

[wizards8507]

Check out that woman's feed. It's full of people talking about the healthcare vote last night using words like "trembling" and "weeping." Where do these people come from? I'm honestly at a loss for words to describe how sad it makes me that people have so little internal locus of control that a piece of legislation can send them into full on psychotic breaks.

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[NorthDakota]

Check out that woman's feed. It's full of people talking about the healthcare vote last night using words like "trembling" and "weeping." Where do these people come from? I'm honestly at a loss for words to describe how sad it makes me that people have so little internal locus of control that a piece of legislation can send them into full on psychotic breaks.

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It cracks me up.

 

[greyhammer90]

Check out that woman's feed. It's full of people talking about the healthcare vote last night using words like "trembling" and "weeping." Where do these people come from? I'm honestly at a loss for words to describe how sad it makes me that people have so little internal locus of control that a piece of legislation can send them into full on psychotic breaks

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Does it make you tremble or weep?

 

[Rack Em]

Does it make you tremble or weep?

"Only Godzilla makes me tremble and only onions make me weep."

- Rack

"Darth Maul makes me tremble and forgetting my Park Hopper Pass for Disney World makes me weep."

- Wiz

 

[NorthDakota]

Alligators, crocodiles, and brain aneurysms.

 

[IrishLax]

Sigh.

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I'm like 99% sure that is sarcasm/trolling because I saw it on the copy pasta Reddit

 

[zelezo vlk]

I sure hope so, because even Chuck "Don't Give a F*ck" Berry congratulated Brian Wilson when he stole "Surfin' USA".

 

[IrishLion]

I love JK Rowling, and sometimes her snarky political commentary is funny and entertaining. I feel like I owe her a personal debt for writing the Harry Potter books. That shit was a huge part of my childhood.

But, she got caught going overboard on some SJW shit:

Barstool Sports

 

[IrishLax]

I love JK Rowling, and sometimes her snarky political commentary is funny and entertaining. I feel like I owe her a personal debt for writing the Harry Potter books. That shit was a huge part of my childhood.

But, she got caught going overboard on some SJW shit:

Barstool Sports

Meh, I give her props for owning it and I don't really blame anyone who assumes the worst from Trump. I do think that everyone going overboard on the littlest things is (obviously) almost 99% projection and not malice by Trump... and this is a pretty perfect example of someone seeing what they want to see.

 

[Irish#1]

Meh, I give her props for owning it and I don't really blame anyone who assumes the worst from Trump. I do think that everyone going overboard on the littlest things is (obviously) almost 99% projection and not malice by Trump... and this is a pretty perfect example of someone seeing what they want to see.

Love the comment from HTXdevil.

Rowling owned up, but read it closely and she tries to deflect some of the blame. Maybe she should do a little more research before she spouts on Twitter.

 

[IrishLax]

Kicker Matt Boermeester was removed from USC after an unfair investigation, girlfriend says - LA Times

So potentially the USC kicker was run off of the team by a bunch of rogue feminist SJWs in the Title IX office in order to look "tough" on domestic violence. I hope this goes to court.

EDIT: also reminiscent of this recent case of Title IX nonsense at Colorado State -- Colorado State Pueblo Settles With Student It Falsely Accused of Rape - Hit & Run : Reason.com

In that case, two people hooked up, both said it was consensual and continued a relationship afterwards... but literally based on a hickey and nothing else the athlete was expelled.

 

[wizards8507]

Kicker Matt Boermeester was removed from USC after an unfair investigation, girlfriend says - LA Times

So potentially the USC kicker was run off of the team by a bunch of rogue feminist SJWs in the Title IX office in order to look "tough" on domestic violence. I hope this goes to court.

EDIT: also reminiscent of this recent case of Title IX nonsense at Colorado State -- Colorado State Pueblo Settles With Student It Falsely Accused of Rape - Hit & Run : Reason.com

In that case, two people hooked up, both said it was consensual and continued a relationship afterwards... but literally based on a hickey and nothing else the athlete was expelled.

I'm not a lawyer, but it feels like there's a 5th Amendment case to be made here.

 

[IrishLion]

Kicker Matt Boermeester was removed from USC after an unfair investigation, girlfriend says - LA Times

So potentially the USC kicker was run off of the team by a bunch of rogue feminist SJWs in the Title IX office in order to look "tough" on domestic violence. I hope this goes to court.

True Story:

In college, my girlfriend (now wife) and I were roughhousing in her living room. Standard play-fight stuff. At one point, she tried to tackle me and ended up blasting her thigh on the corner of the coffee table, and ended up with an awesome bruise.

She went to her friend's house across the street the next day to hang out for a minute while I was still at her house chilling, playing playstation or something.

To set the tone properly, the friend she went to visit has a mom that is just the WORST type of lady - Standard middle class but acts like an uppity snob; gets offended if you aren't overly-polite when talking to her, but won't offer any type of respect herself; makes her husband buy her a new car whenever someone in the neighborhood gets one newer than hers; etc.

My wife comes back from her friend's house looking super upset and pissed, and as soon as she walks in, the phone starts ringing. She picks up, and it's her friends mom. I can hear her mom yelling on the phone, "IF HE ISN'T OUT OF YOUR HOUSE IN FIVE MINUTES, I'M CALLING THE POLICE. HE SHOULD NOT BE HITTING YOU."

My wife got all upset and pissed and started crying, then her dad got involved and went and told the lady to fuck off when he got home from work.

To this day, this lady thinks I'm abusive towards my wife, and won't hear anything different.

I can tell it really chaps her ass when I'm in the neighborhood for a party with all the neighbors, and they treat me like the non-abusive, totally normal guy that I am lol.

 

[TDHeysus]

Kicker Matt Boermeester was removed from USC after an unfair investigation, girlfriend says - LA Times

So potentially the USC kicker was run off of the team by a bunch of rogue feminist SJWs in the Title IX office in order to look "tough" on domestic violence. I hope this goes to court.

EDIT: also reminiscent of this recent case of Title IX nonsense at Colorado State -- Colorado State Pueblo Settles With Student It Falsely Accused of Rape - Hit & Run : Reason.com

In that case, two people hooked up, both said it was consensual and continued a relationship afterwards... but literally based on a hickey and nothing else the athlete was expelled.

im shocked that some leftist sj-dubs came to a conclusion after months of investigation where the facts of the case, didnt correspond to reality. maybe they read it on twitter that it actually happened, therefore they kicked him out of school.

twitter > reality

 

[IrishLax]

I'm not a lawyer, but it feels like there's a 5th Amendment case to be made here.

Think it's more of a 14th Amendment case, but honestly I can think of like 10 different laws where even though USC, etc. are private institutions there is no way they can do what they did unless the girl is 100% lying and they have irrefutable proof.

 

[ulukinatme]

True Story:

In college, my girlfriend (now wife) and I were roughhousing in her living room. Standard play-fight stuff. At one point, she tried to tackle me and ended up blasting her thigh on the corner of the coffee table, and ended up with an awesome bruise.

She went to her friend's house across the street the next day to hang out for a minute while I was still at her house chilling, playing playstation or something.

To set the tone properly, the friend she went to visit has a mom that is just the WORST type of lady - Standard middle class but acts like an uppity snob; gets offended if you aren't overly-polite when talking to her, but won't offer any type of respect herself; makes her husband buy her a new car whenever someone in the neighborhood gets one newer than hers; etc.

My wife comes back from her friend's house looking super upset and pissed, and as soon as she walks in, the phone starts ringing. She picks up, and it's her friends mom. I can hear her mom yelling on the phone, "IF HE ISN'T OUT OF YOUR HOUSE IN FIVE MINUTES, I'M CALLING THE POLICE. HE SHOULD NOT BE HITTING YOU."

My wife got all upset and pissed and started crying, then her dad got involved and went and told the lady to fuck off when he got home from work.

To this day, this lady thinks I'm abusive towards my wife, and won't hear anything different.

I can tell it really chaps her ass when I'm in the neighborhood for a party with all the neighbors, and they treat me like the non-abusive, totally normal guy that I am lol.

"Roughhousing," suuuuure. In my day we called it S&M!

Sounds like the kind of lady that could use some fresh eggs on her windows and door. Maybe paintball the house for good measure.

 

[IrishLion]

"Roughhousing," suuuuure. In my day we called it S&M!

Sounds like the kind of lady that could use some fresh eggs on her windows and door. Maybe paintball the house for good measure.

I keep telling my wife that the next time we're drinking at my in-laws', I'm gonna walk next door and poop in that lady's pool.

But her husband is a really awesome dude, and I wouldn't want to put him out, so it remains a social Cold War for now.

 

[Irish#1]

I keep telling my wife that the next time we're drinking at my in-laws', I'm gonna walk next door and poop in that lady's pool.

But her husband is a really awesome dude, and I wouldn't want to put him out, so it remains a social Cold War for now.

And how long has this been going on?

 

[Meatloaf]

Got some lulz out of this one:

 

[MNIrishman]

How about this bullshit?

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4176712/men-tax-pay-more-melbourne-cafe/

 

[IrishLax]

How about this bullshit?

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4176712/men-tax-pay-more-melbourne-cafe/

That would literally be illegal in the United States, and that place won't be in business long.

 

[IrishLion]

And how long has this been going on?

Probably 7 or 8 years since the original ordeal.

She mainly just ignores me, and talks up all the other guys near my age that are connected to the neighborhood friends and their families.

 

[BGIF]

And how long has this been going on?

Probably 7 or 8 years since the original ordeal.

...

So, you STILL beat your wife?

 

[IrishLax]

https://www.wired.com/story/google-manifesto-puts-executives-in-a-bind/

Dunno if anyone has been following this, but basically a dude at Google called bullshit on the idea that the only reason Google is predominantly Asian/white/male is "bias" and "oppression." As expected, a lot of SJWs inside and outside the company got pissed off and he's now been terminated. The irony is that the primary thesis of his memo was that "you can't have these discussions anymore without fear of retaliation"... and he was summarily fired.

It's interesting because it's partially common sense... at every level, more boys than girls like computers and video games. Full stop. There are many female dominated industries (chief of which may be teaching, event planning, and marketing off the top of my head) and no one complains that the reason you don't have more male elementary school teachers is "bias" and "oppression"... maybe (for whatever reason) people can be wired differently and gravitate towards different things. Across many species there are differences in the ways females/males function physically and there have been many sociological/psychological studies that show women and men do not function the exact same in everything from communication to approaches to problem solving. He has some reasonable things to say about how addressing diversity issues can most effectively be done way before someone is applying for a job. On the other hand, like the other half of his stuff is pretty clearly sexist and not making good points at all and that's going to get you fired. It would probably get you fired at my engineering firm, too.

This is almost surely going to end in a settlement, as the man has already said he's suing. It's also worth noting that Google is saying parts of the memo violated their code of conduct, and if I was in Google's shoes I would've fired him too.

EDIT: For the conservative opinion on it -- A Google Employee’s Awesome ‘Anti-Diversity Screed’ | National Review

 

[ulukinatme]

People discussing this today have pointed out that males overly dominate software engineering positions...and for good reason. There really aren't that many women that are interested in it. Coding follows a very logical path. Women are emotional creatures who, quite frankly, don't always excel in logic. That may be sexist to say, and there are good women coders out there, but they're few and far between. Anytime I was in a software class in college the number of women in the class were slim to none, and they got fewer as the semester/years went on. It's just one of those fields that will probably always be dominated by males, we're just wired differently. If our company tried to employ a female for every male software engineer, we'd never fill our positions. It's just the way things are, people need to wake up.

 

[BGIF]

People discussing this today have pointed out that males overly dominate software engineering positions...and for good reason. There really aren't that many women that are interested in it. Coding follows a very logical path. Women are emotional creatures who, quite frankly, don't always excel in logic. That may be sexist to say, and there are good women coders out there, but they're few and far between. Anytime I was in a software class in college the number of women in the class were slim to none, and they got fewer as the semester/years went on. It's just one of those fields that will probably always be dominated by males, we're just wired differently. If our company tried to employ a female for every male software engineer, we'd never fill our positions. It's just the way things are, people need to wake up.

So, did you enjoy your time at Google?


BTW, "male software engineer" is redundant.