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Fried Chicken posted:Get ready to change the thread title again yeah, while how he phrased it was lovely, he was just saying that the terror attacks making Americans focus on national security was a good thing.
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quote:Meanwhile, things are not peachy on the campus of SUNY/Albany. The university wanted to honour baseball legend Jackie Robinson by having a picnic. But the university's equity office said this must not occur because the word "picnic" referred originally to gatherings held to lynch Blacks. In fact, as one of their own English professors (rather less committed to historical revisionism than RMC's Dr. Robinson) pointed out, the word "picnic" actually comes from a 17th-century French word that denotes a party at which everyone brings food. But Zaheer Mustafa, the equity officer, nevertheless decreed that "picnic" not be used because "the point is — the word offends." So the university decided to call it an "outing." Then, homosexual students took objection to that, and SUNY decided to publicize the event without using any noun to describe it.
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# ? Nov 22, 2015 22:56 |
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What is the thread title from?
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# ? Nov 22, 2015 23:00 |
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Tiler Kiwi posted:People thinking "call a spade a spade" is racist is at least not as weird as when people started thinking "picnic" was. jimmies
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Silver Nitrate posted:What is the thread title from? Rubio deciding he doesn't want to be president.
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# ? Nov 22, 2015 23:03 |
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I refuse to believe that happened as written. That quote belongs in an email prefixed by FW: FW: FW: POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD!!!. ...Apparently Snopes is quoting from a National Post article? Is that, like, Canada's equivalent to the Daily Mail or something?
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# ? Nov 22, 2015 23:06 |
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Fantastic_Mr_Fox posted:yeah, while how he phrased it was lovely, he was just saying that the terror attacks making Americans focus on national security was a good thing. I know right. We should totally cut him some slack here. I mean they cut John kerry slack after his little phrasing misstep.
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# ? Nov 22, 2015 23:07 |
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No one should cut him any slack and they should just take that clip on repeat and run ads on it.
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# ? Nov 22, 2015 23:15 |
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Alien Arcana posted:I refuse to believe that happened as written. That quote belongs in an email prefixed by FW: FW: FW: POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD!!!. There's a New York Post story. I found the story they're referrign to in the Albany Times Union archive (result 8 of 13): quote:DESCRIBING THIS EVENT IS NO WALK IN THE PARK
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# ? Nov 22, 2015 23:18 |
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When we talk about "The Media" not working properly, are we just talking about television news? There's lots of media out there in print or online. There's even some television that has varying degrees of reasonable coverage.
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# ? Nov 22, 2015 23:22 |
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Hellblazer187 posted:When we talk about "The Media" not working properly, are we just talking about television news? There's lots of media out there in print or online. There's even some television that has varying degrees of reasonable coverage. It means whatever you want it to mean. There was someone complaining that "the media" was going to paint Syrian refugees bad because one guy faked being a refugee when there was a giant banner on CNN.com saying "Terrorist faked being refugee".
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# ? Nov 22, 2015 23:24 |
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ErichZahn posted:I am actually surprised they have 18-59 as a group, like, that's real interesting. I mean, obv they didn't make it for our political arguments, but holy poo poo that's It makes sense to me from a level of care perspective - people from 18-59 don't require schooling or supervision with daily activities - give them some money and they can probably dress and feed themselves. They're also likely to be able-bodied workers. By contrast, under 18 and 60+ need more care and/or supervision, and probably can't easily join the workforce.
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Alien Arcana posted:I refuse to believe that happened as written. That quote belongs in an email prefixed by FW: FW: FW: POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD!!!. It's not too unbelievable that it happened like that, but it's also the opposite of a problem. If you look past the rhetoric, all that happened is that an official announcement had to change its wording twice. I work at a university. Everyx public announcement I make goes through at least four revisions, it's really not a big deal.
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# ? Nov 22, 2015 23:29 |
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botany posted:It's not too unbelievable that it happened like that, but it's also the opposite of a problem. If you look past the rhetoric, all that happened is that an official announcement had to change its wording twice. I work at a university. Everyx public announcement I make goes through at least four revisions, it's really not a big deal. It's still stupid that it had to be changed in the first place and doesn't really reflect well on the maturity of the university's students back in 2000
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# ? Nov 22, 2015 23:38 |
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Dr. Tough posted:It's still stupid that it had to be changed in the first place and doesn't really reflect well on the maturity of the university's students back in 2000 No it's actually a very clear case of Who Gives A poo poo. You're doing somebody a favour in rephrasing something because they didn't like it. That's all it is. Stop being a little whiny poo poo.
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# ? Nov 22, 2015 23:39 |
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Like, I don't think you people realize how many times you have to rephrase poo poo because somebody high up has weird preferences. I've had to rephrase things because the person it was directed at didn't like being questioned, so we had to make it sound like what we proposed to do was his idea from the start. That's normal, albeit annoying. Changing a word because it reminds black students about the time they were literally property isn't even close to that.
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# ? Nov 22, 2015 23:42 |
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botany posted:No it's actually a very clear case of Who Gives A poo poo. You're doing somebody a favour in rephrasing something because they didn't like it. That's all it is. Stop being a little whiny poo poo. lol what? I'm not the guy that thought that "picnic" was a reference to lynching, or the person that said calling something an "outing" was insulting to gay people. Thinking that those people are idiots is the opposite of being "a little whiny poo poo"
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Dr. Tough posted:lol what? I'm not the guy that thought that "picnic" was a reference to lynching, or the person that said calling something an "outing" was insulting to gay people. Thinking that those people are idiots is the opposite of being "a little whiny poo poo" No it seems to me that's exactly what it is actually
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# ? Nov 22, 2015 23:48 |
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Boy that class of 2000 was just not a good year, man, I tell ya.
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SedanChair posted:Percent of what? 98% from Concentrated Racism. Teriyaki Koinku fucked around with this message at 00:00 on Nov 23, 2015 |
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ohgodwhat posted:Boy that class of 2000 was just not a good year, man, I tell ya. I'm sure things only went up from then on for them.
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# ? Nov 22, 2015 23:58 |
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english is a language of racist slaveowners and imperialists and MGSV taught me that words kill, please rephrase your posts in esperanto
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duz posted:I'm sure things only went up from then on for them. I was able to get a pretty sweet temp job working with thermite.
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Boon posted:Pathetic little tramp is probably just being There is never a time I am not.
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Mulva posted:There's nothing wrong with partisan media as long as they tell the truth. No one will deny that Rachel Maddow is a huge liberal, but if what she says is true who cares? because framing is a thing and it is very easy to mislead while never saying a word that is false. "Estimates for Bernie Sander's health care proposal put the cost at a whopping $15 trillion" is completely true. But it neglects the fact that the existing system costs $30 trillion. Thus a massive savings of 15 trillion is framed as an expenditure of 15 trillion instead. Fried Chicken fucked around with this message at 00:17 on Nov 23, 2015 |
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Fantastic_Mr_Fox posted:yeah, while how he phrased it was lovely, he was just saying that the terror attacks making Americans focus on national security was a good thing. no, he was just saying that the terror attacks making Americans focus on national security was a good thing because it gives him a political advantage.
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# ? Nov 23, 2015 00:17 |
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botany posted:No it's actually a very clear case of Who Gives A poo poo. You're doing somebody a favour in rephrasing something because they didn't like it. That's all it is. Stop being a little whiny poo poo. Please use the American spelling of favor as favour offends me due to the baleful legacy of British imperialism in North America.
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Tiler Kiwi posted:english is a language of racist slaveowners and imperialists and MGSV taught me that words kill, please rephrase your posts in esperanto Esperanto is also insufficiently pure for some people because it's only based on Indo-European characteristics. You need Lojban! quote:The North Wind and the Sun were disputing which was the stronger, when a traveler came along wrapped in a warm cloak. quote:la berti brife jo'u la solri
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Luigi Thirty posted:Esperanto is also insufficiently pure for some people because it's only based on Indo-European characteristics. You need Lojban! What is this fresh hell I've discovered?
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Luigi Thirty posted:Esperanto is also insufficiently pure for some people because it's only based on Indo-European characteristics. You need Lojban! Yes, but Lobjan still uses Latin script!
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Mulva posted:There's nothing wrong with partisan media as long as they tell the truth. No one will deny that Rachel Maddow is a huge liberal, but if what she says is true who cares?
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# ? Nov 23, 2015 00:43 |
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So... I feel that the bill in Congress prohibiting terror watch list individuals from purchasing firearms should be a slam dunk. Nope! Apparently the NRA is all about terrorist suspects legally purchasing firearms because due process!
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Tiler Kiwi posted:People thinking "call a spade a spade" is racist is at least not as weird as when people started thinking "picnic" was. To be fair racists love deliberately making poo poo like this complicated with arbitrary code words. The current hotness is calling black people 'Canadians' iirc
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Dr. Tough posted:Yes, but Lobjan still uses Latin script! Y'all muthafuckers just learn korean and get this poo poo over with http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/opinion/sunday/who-turned-my-blue-state-red.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share&_r=0 A sobering article that points out that as inequality increases so does the self-loathing of the poor. quote:
The thesis is that the poorer people get, the less likely they are to vote and the more likely they are to believe that their neighbour is the real poor guy and to distrust everyone on social welfare. Anyone who thinks the GOP is done as a party is getting hoodwinked into seeing their presidential disastericity as the whole story when in fact they're stronger than ever at the state and local level because they've been planning for this for years.
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Necc0 posted:To be fair racists love deliberately making poo poo like this complicated with arbitrary code words. The current hotness is calling black people 'Canadians' iirc Really puts a wierd spin on O' Canada. quote:O Canada! Our home and native land!
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Boon posted:So... I feel that the bill in Congress prohibiting terror watch list individuals from purchasing firearms should be a slam dunk. Isn't the terrorist watch list awful garbage though?
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Necc0 posted:To be fair racists love deliberately making poo poo like this complicated with arbitrary code words. The current hotness is calling black people 'Canadians' iirc Who says this?
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Mr Hootington posted:Who says this? It's sort of an urban legend thing that purportedly started in the food service industry. Right? BonoMan fucked around with this message at 01:15 on Nov 23, 2015 |
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I knew some people who preferred to use Mondays or Celebrities as their totally not racist euphemism for blacks.
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