Political Correctness thread

[wizards8507]

Do they want more Trump? Because this is how you get more Trump.

 

[ACamp1900]

You want to know how we know when we’ve reached a point where we really don’t have any real troubles as a society? When we start arguing over Disney princess story arc’s and how fans from across the country act differently..... that’s how we know.

 

[Irish#1]

Do they want more Trump? Because this is how you get more Trump.

Never cared for her and care less now.

If you're really concerned about our young ladies, go volunteer to work with them on a regular basis, so they can have a role model. It's Disney for God's sake, they're not propaganda films.

 

[ACamp1900]

Never cared for her and care less now.

If you're really concerned about our young ladies, go volunteer to work with them on a regular basis, so they can have a role model. It's Disney for God's sake, they're not propaganda films.

She wouldn't get married until gay marriage was legal... once it was she proposed to her now husband on twitter for the whole world to see and they had this whole 'private/not private' exchange that was clearly just a press op. She may not even process it within her little bubble, but she's your typical grandstanding, virtue signaling, Hollywood attention whore.

 

[greyhammer90]

You guys are acting like this same point wasn't made in the late nineties. Its an old take, and it's not extreme in the slightest. Wait till you guys hear the cutting edge concern that some females have with princesses being the prize you win at the end of video games. It'll blow your minds.

 

[greyhammer90]

Americans Strongly Dislike PC Culture
Youth isn’t a good proxy for support of political correctness, and race isn’t either - The Atlantic

It's almost like the media creates fake controversies so that they can profit on constant outrage from both sides. It's not like moderates make up the vast majority of both sides and both sides get off on feeling smugly superior to the "crazies" that make up the other side. *Looks back at entire thread*

 

[wizards8507]

You guys are acting like this same point wasn't made in the late nineties. Its an old take, and it's not extreme in the slightest. Wait till you guys hear the cutting edge concern that some females have with princesses being the prize you win at the end of video games. It'll blow your minds.

I'm falling in love with Princess Zelda a little bit the more I play BOTW. The way they revealed the story through flashbacks was really well done.

 

[ulukinatme]

You guys are acting like this same point wasn't made in the late nineties. Its an old take, and it's not extreme in the slightest. Wait till you guys hear the cutting edge concern that some females have with princesses being the prize you win at the end of video games. It'll blow your minds.

Are we talking Anita Sarkeesian? Cause that lady is the extreme, she's been way off her rocker for awhile now. When she started ranting about Legos being misogynist, I was done. She wants this society where everything is gender neutral, it's kind of ridiculous.

 

[greyhammer90]

Are we talking Anita Sarkeesian? Cause that lady is the extreme, she's been way off her rocker for awhile now. When she started ranting about Legos being misogynist, I was done. She wants this society where everything is gender neutral, it's kind of ridiculous.

Anita is not the first person to ever have that opinion. It's extremely old, and like most stuff put forward by moderates that has been polluted to the point of parody these days, is actually true to a point. The issue is the people who make money off clicks.

 

[IrishLax]

Americans Strongly Dislike PC Culture
Youth isn’t a good proxy for support of political correctness, and race isn’t either - The Atlantic

Thank you for sharing that article from The Atlantic. That basically validates my long held beliefs on this subject, and why I loathe political correctness in the age of social media.

I've always said that like 80% of people are basically reasonable, and that it's the 10% on each extreme end that causes the shit show we see in the media. The article says it's more like 70%, but the point still holds... most people you encounter on a day-to-day basis don't fall into any kind of "team" and you wouldn't know their politics without specifically getting on that topic. The culture of shaming for "incorrect" language is toxic, and nobody likes it except for a very small and vocal group.

 

[Wild Bill]

Thank you for sharing that article from The Atlantic. That basically validates my long held beliefs on this subject, and why I loathe political correctness in the age of social media.

I've always said that like 80% of people are basically reasonable, and that it's the 10% on each extreme end that causes the shit show we see in the media. The article says it's more like 70%, but the point still holds... most people you encounter on a day-to-day basis don't fall into any kind of "team" and you wouldn't know their politics without specifically getting on that topic. The culture of shaming for "incorrect" language is toxic, and nobody likes it except for a very small and vocal group.

The fringe who seeks to censor and shame others for their opinions controls culture, so the 80% who are reasonable are largely irrelevant. The 10% fringe who ideologically oppose them have been unsuccessful as well, in large part, b/c they refused to reject liberalism. It feels like that's changing right now. Liberalism is being rejected, and the opposition is becoming more revolutionary than reactionary. The key going forward is whether or not they can gain enough support from the 80%, which will be difficult.

 

[connor_in]

Do they want more Trump? Because this is how you get more Trump.

4 Problematic And Offensive Disney Films That No Child Should Ever Be Allowed To Watch

Two Hollywood actresses have come out this week to explain why they will not permit their daughters to watch a number of classic Disney animated films. Kristen Bell correctly pointed out that Snow White is kissed non-consensually by a necrophilic prince who sexually assaults a corpse. Keira Knightly took issue with "Cinderella" and "The Little Mermaid," complaining that both stories reinforce the sexist "damsel in distress" theme.

I applaud both women for protecting their children from this highly-objectionable material. I only fear that our conversation about problematic cartoons has not gone far enough. There are several other Disney films that should be thrown on the ash heap of history alongside the ones mentioned by Bell and Knightly. Indeed, I would argue that it is actual child abuse to let your son or daughter watch any of the following:

1) "Pocahontas"

I cannot for the life of me understand why "Pocahontas" hasn't been banned and all of the people involved in its production sent to prison camps. The film was terribly offensive well before President Trump used it as a racist taunt against Native American Senator Elizabeth Warren. "Pocahontas" features extremely harmful and retrograde Native American stereotypes and a deeply troubling White Savior storyline. The character Pocahontas is not only sexualized and objectified but reduced to an outdated caricature of an Indian woman who sings about the wind and talks to trees. This is not historically accurate, despite what they may teach in schools. Instead of letting your child watch "Pocahontas," why not cut to the chase and just enlist him in the Nazi Party? It will have the same result either way.

2) "Aladdin"

Where to begin? Shall we discuss the Middle Eastern stereotypes, the eroticized female character, or the titular Arabic boy who looks and sounds suspiciously white? My three-year-old son saw "Aladdin" at a friend's house and came home in tears. "It was Euro-colonialist propaganda that utterly trivialized and finally erased the lived experience of actual Arabs," he cried. He was right, but I had to scold him sharply for failing to notice the troubling and blatantly speciesist ways that the film treats its animal characters. And of course this is all to say nothing of the Genie, a person of color who is caged in a lamp and forced to serve Aladdin as a literal slave. Euro-colonialist, indeed.

3) "Pinocchio"

"Pinocchio" is a transphobic river of bigoted filth gushing down a mountain of sexism and racism. My daughter watched "Pinocchio" and I immediately disowned her. The damage was done. There was nothing I could do. Notice how Pinocchio spends the whole film pining to become "a real boy." A more progressive and enlightened movie would send Pinocchio out on a quest to become a polyamorous lesbian or an androgynous genderqueer asexual. Instead, Pinocchio is assigned his gender by his deranged puppet master and he never once questions it or even considers whether the very idea of "real boyhood" might in fact be a primitive philosophical artifact of a backward and binary age. The film skips that question entirely, and yet we are supposed to let our children watch it? I would rather die.

4) "The Lion King"

Set in Africa yet almost all of the characters are voiced by white actors. One of the only black characters in the whole film is Mufasa, and guess what happens to him? He's trampled to death by wildebeests in one of the most racist moments in Hollywood history. Notice that the wildebeests are also black, which is a not-so-subtle reference to the bigoted "black on black crime" motif. I watched "The Lion King" once when I was a child and I felt like I was at a Klan rally in Alabama in the 1930's. Oh, but there is one other prominent black actor in the film. Whoopie Goldberg voices a hyena who acts a servant to Scar, played by a white British actor. My hands shake with rage even as I type these words. The movie should be rated X for xenophobic.

I could continue this list but it is causing me to relive the trauma I experienced when I first saw these movies. Certainly, "Winnie the Pooh" is out because of its harmful portrayal of overweight people and its pseudoscientific insistence that obesity is linked to sugar consumption. "Toy Story" is problematic because the boy only owns gender-typical toys. "Peter Pan" and "Dumbo" and "The Jungle Book" are notoriously racist. "Lady and the Tramp" makes light of sexual assault when the boy dog non-consensually kisses the girl dog as they share a plate of spaghetti. "Bambi" sends a troubling message about animal rights. "The Sword in the Stone" is 90 minutes of toxic masculinity. "Tarzan" features a man who thinks he's a monkey, which is clearly meant to mock and trivialize body dysmorphia.

Perhaps the only acceptable and even halfway progressive Disney movie is "The Hunchback of Notre Dame." The straight white male is a hideous, deformed virgin beast rightly exiled from polite society. This, indeed, is how all white men ought to be portrayed. If only they could all be locked in a bell tower and forgotten. Then perhaps the rest of us could finally live in peace.

 

[Irish#1]

4 Problematic And Offensive Disney Films That No Child Should Ever Be Allowed To Watch

brilliant!

 

[Bishop2b5]

brilliant!

It was, but it was so close to what the nuts actually say, that I didn't realize it was a parody at first. Let's be honest, we've heard wackier from them.

 

[NorthDakota]

Has anyone been tracking the NPC memes?

 

[Irish YJ]

It was, but it was so close to what the nuts actually say, that I didn't realize it was a parody at first. Let's be honest, we've heard wackier from them.

It's funny/sad that some parody is hard to distinguish anymore lol.

Has anyone been tracking the NPC memes?

Not following closely, but some are funny AF.. I know they're getting banned from Twitter left and right. Shocked!

 

[Wild Bill]

Has anyone been tracking the NPC memes?

Yes. Hit a nerve, didn't it?

 

[Irish YJ]

can't even say mansize anymore.

Kleenex forced to rebrand 'Mansize' tissues after sexist complaints
https://www.foxbusiness.com/features/kleenex-forced-to-rebrand-its-mansize-tissues-after-sexist-complaints

 

[Irish#1]

can't even say mansize anymore.

Kleenex forced to rebrand 'Mansize' tissues after sexist complaints
https://www.foxbusiness.com/features/kleenex-forced-to-rebrand-its-mansize-tissues-after-sexist-complaints

Heard that yesterday. Companies are so scared of being labeled sexist/racists and losing business they're making these stupid decisions.

The term "man" and "mankind" have been used forever to describe everyone on this planet. I.E. "Man has been on this planet for XXX years". I wonder how long it will be before one of these nut jobs realizes this and starts a push to eliminate the use of this word?

 

[ulukinatme]

It was, but it was so close to what the nuts actually say, that I didn't realize it was a parody at first. Let's be honest, we've heard wackier from them.

That was my immediate thought. "Extremists are reading this and getting triggered."

 

[connor_in]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Chuck Schumer, on MoJoe now: “I think there’s too much political correctness in this country.”</p>— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) <a href="https://twitter.com/HotlineJosh/status/1053242355157950464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 19, 2018</a></blockquote>
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[ulukinatme]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Chuck Schumer, on MoJoe now: “I think there’s too much political correctness in this country.”</p>— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) <a href="https://twitter.com/HotlineJosh/status/1053242355157950464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 19, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Schumer planning on throwing his hat into the next Presidential race? Maybe he's trying to start winning over Moderates now. I'm shocked too.

 

[ACamp1900]

So what is all this NPC stuff?? Anyone care to give me the dime tour??

 

[IrishSteelhead]

So what is all this NPC stuff?? Anyone care to give me the dime tour??

A meme that absolutely cuts SJWs to their core, and makes them very angry. I find them funny AF.


It basically makes fun of their inability to listen to a differing opinion, or respond to legitimate, reasonable questions.

Example:

*NPC is obviously short for NON-PLAYER CHARACTER, and as you know, are characters in the background of video games that utter the same lines over and over, and are incapable of independent thought


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[ACamp1900]

Thanks, looked around...this one made me laugh:

 

[IrishSteelhead]

Thanks, looked around...this one made me laugh:

Yeah dude. There are tons of hilarious ones.


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[Wild Bill]

A meme that absolutely cuts SJWs to their core, and makes them very angry. I find them funny AF.

It basically makes fun of their inability to listen to a differing opinion, or respond to legitimate, reasonable questions.

Example:

*NPC is obviously short for NON-PLAYER CHARACTER, and as you know, are characters in the background of video games that utter the same lines over and over, and are incapable of independent thought

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I don't disagree with any of this but I believe there are other aspects to the meme. It obviously mocks SJWs but if they were the sole target nobody would care. They are always mocked. It goes further to mock a variety of different leftists most notably news anchors, celebrities and our treasured blue checks on Twitter.

It brilliantly highlights the fact that many people have no capacity to think for themselves. They are biological robots with no agency who just repeat whatever it is they're told by google, the media, news, and the deep thinkers in your state university social science department. Just compare the core values of google, a company that controls and disseminates information on an unprecedented level, to the views of a very basic leftist we're all friends with on Facebook. They're almost identical. They're conformists, which is something they hate and makes this meme very triggering.

The meme also strikes at the level of programming we are exposed to via gov't, media, education, social media, etc. I believe the programming is lost on some people, and those who are aware, may underestimate the scope and depth. This meme, IMO, suggests the the depths and scope of the social programming/engineering we're exposed to is greater than most of us can even imagine, myself included. And it does so in an entertaining and convincing manner. I mean, how else can you explain the world view some of these people hold? How can a human lack the capacity to recognize patterns, something that comes very natural to most living things? How do you explain their reactions to "wrong think". When you begin to consider the behavior we see and compare it to the filth being shoved down our throats, it becomes obvious, at least for some, there is something not quite right going on here.

And all this gives us a likely explanation as to why NPCs are so triggered and why the programmers are running around like their hair is on fire banning a fucking meme and writing articles about them in the NYT.

 

[IrishSteelhead]

I don't disagree with any of this but I believe there are other aspects to the meme. It obviously mocks SJWs but if they were the sole target nobody would care. They are always mocked. It goes further to mock a variety of different leftists most notably news anchors, celebrities and our treasured blue checks on Twitter.

It brilliantly highlights the fact that many people have no capacity to think for themselves. They are biological robots with no agency who just repeat whatever it is they're told by google, the media, news, and the deep thinkers in your state university social science department. Just compare the core values of google, a company that controls and disseminates information on an unprecedented level, to the views of a very basic leftist we're all friends with on Facebook. They're almost identical. They're conformists, which is something they hate and makes this meme very triggering.

The meme also strikes at the level of programming we are exposed to via gov't, media, education, social media, etc. I believe the programming is lost on some people, and those who are aware, may underestimate the scope and depth. This meme, IMO, suggests the the depths and scope of the social programming/engineering we're exposed to is greater than most of us can even imagine, myself included. And it does so in an entertaining and convincing manner. I mean, how else can you explain the world view some of these people hold? How can a human lack the capacity to recognize patterns, something that comes very natural to most living things? How do you explain their reactions to "wrong think". When you begin to consider the behavior we see and compare it to the filth being shoved down our throats, it becomes obvious, at least for some, there is something not quite right going on here.

And all this gives us a likely explanation as to why NPCs are so triggered and why the programmers are running around like their hair is on fire banning a fucking meme and writing articles about them in the NYT.

Im sure it strikes a deeper chord with NPCs knowing the meme was created by their mortal enemy who has openly mocked/exposed them for years, 4chan.

*when 4chan isnt too busy running Hitler youth camp, they are responsible for some of the best memes on the internet


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[Irish YJ]

Heard that yesterday. Companies are so scared of being labeled sexist/racists and losing business they're making these stupid decisions.

The term "man" and "mankind" have been used forever to describe everyone on this planet. I.E. "Man has been on this planet for XXX years". I wonder how long it will be before one of these nut jobs realizes this and starts a push to eliminate the use of this word?

They should call the big ones, big dumb man size. And the small ones, smart equal woman size .

 

[ickythump1225]

The NPC meme also strike a chord because it exposes the vast majority of Leftists for what they truly are: utter conformists. Most Leftists believe themselves to be "free thinkers" and free of superstitious dogmas unlike the pleb right wingers. The NPC meme brings them face to face with the truth: their whole worldview is a prepackaged dime store ideology they mindlessly spout off because literally everyone from their elementary school teacher to Eminem tells them to.