Dumb Political Correctness

Discussion in 'West Mall' started by Mr. Deez, Feb 8, 2012.

  1. Mr. Deez

    Mr. Deez Beer Prophet

    I still don't understand how this sort of thing becomes relevant in a workplace setting. Needless to say, I'm not bisexual, but not one of my past employers knows that, and most of them have no idea whether I'm gay or straight. How exactly does this come up???
     
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  2. Mr. Deez

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    I'm speechless on this one.
     
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  3. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    I guess when Frank started wearing a dress and heals to work?
     
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  4. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    Student government leaders at Loyola University Maryland faced a barrage of pressure from the university administration to change the theme of a senior class party described as “very alienating, divisive and harmful” and against the university’s “core values,” according to emails provided to The Daily Caller.

    The theme? America.

    http://dailycaller.com/2016/11/21/u...ica-themed-parties-are-harmful-and-offensive/
     
  5. Seattle Husker

    Seattle Husker 10,000+ Posts

    On the WestCoast, the LGBT community is a little more open. I haven't seen this gap though. In fact, from my anecdotal experience, 2 gay men households generally do very well financially.
     
  6. Seattle Husker

    Seattle Husker 10,000+ Posts

    I'm not sure if this would fall into the category of "Dumb Political Correctness"...

    My wife is a middle school teacher of Debate and Social Studies. She teaches mostly 8th graders. In the debate class she lets the kids choose their own debate topics. One group decided to debate whether Santa was real. This was a group of 7 kids that chose to debate this. Over the weekend she received an email from a parent of a girl within the group asking my wife to change the debate topic because their 8th grade daughter apparently still believes that Santa exists and they want to keep the charade up as long as possible. My wife was dumbfounded since this girl was part of the choice of topic. She offers the kids a lot of independence thus she will not influence the topic choice and urged the parents to get the daughter to advocate to the group a change in topic.
     
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  7. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    A Louisiana state legislator smashed her fellow lawmaker’s birthday cake, also complaining on Twitter that the bikini theme was sexist and offensive.

     
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  9. Mr. Deez

    Mr. Deez Beer Prophet

    Most gay men I've known made good money, whether they were a couple or not. Nevertheless, I don't see it as a matter of openness as much as a matter of relevance. If the boss and the employee are both doing their jobs, the employee's sex life shouldn't come up.
     
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  10. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    It would appear that our college snowflakes now think making fun of them is a hate crime

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  11. Htown77

    Htown77 5,000+ Posts

    Democracies get the government they deserve. If we have kids going through 8th grade still believing in Santa, I am not sure how many people will be around to stand up to alt righter neo nazis or crazy pc police in the future. :facepalm:
     
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  12. Seattle Husker

    Seattle Husker 10,000+ Posts

    That's my fear. Too much protection of our kids. It's not just the kids though but also adults. This is also in the same vein of fake news. Nobody questions what they are hearing or seeing anymore which allows a group like the alt-right to take root.
     
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  13. Htown77

    Htown77 5,000+ Posts

    I am seeing a lot of this on both sides. SNL had a funny sketch called "the bubble" about it last Saturday. It seems to be worse with Trump supporters, but it is definitely happening with all sides. I do not get what it causing Americans to go full bubble and just accept news they want to hear.
     
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  14. Seattle Husker

    Seattle Husker 10,000+ Posts

    Yep, we like to rail on the MSM as biased but it's the personalized news for each of us that is driving the bubble, IMHO. Whether it be news with a severe slant by places like Brietbart or DailyKos or simply the Facebook algorithms pushing news to us that is "like" other stuff we've consumed in the interest of stickiness to the platform, this may be the undoing of our democracy, IMHO. Before someone jumps at me for being against alternative views, I'm not at all. It is easier to create a factless alternate reality and live in that bubble now more than ever, regardless of where one sits on the political spectrum.
     
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  15. Seattle Husker

    Seattle Husker 10,000+ Posts

    The bubble:
     
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  16. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

  17. iatrogenic

    iatrogenic 2,500+ Posts

    That is funny. I can forgive the magazine editor for their failed attempt at blatant racism because the model "passes".
     
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  18. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    Politically Correct Thanksgiving Pageant (per Himmy Kimmel)

    it's pretty funny

     
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  19. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

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  22. Joe Fan

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  24. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    never-ending source of humor

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  25. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    Which pipeline are we protesting again?
    I forgot which one

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  26. NJlonghorn

    NJlonghorn 2,500+ Posts

    We'd be much better off if all that O&G was transported by truck. :rolleyes1:

    I'm all for doing our level-best to develop new sources of energy. But until they become more economical, O&G are going to be in our lives.
     
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  27. Clean

    Clean 5,000+ Posts

    If you want Dumb PC just go to BuzzFeed.com anytime, day or night.

    At the moment, they're trying to stir up **** because popular HGTV personalities Chip and Jonanna Gaines go to a Christian church that preaches that marriage is between one man and one woman. Therefore their show "Fixer Upper" is anti-gay, racist, you name it.

    Here's one example, a "listicle" from Buzzfeed (whatever the hell that is) called "19 power point demostrations that don't give a f**k". Mostly it's black people hurling racists insults at white people.
    https://www.buzzfeed.com/hattiesoyk...o-fucks?bffbuk&utm_term=.aym2vW4m1#.xmlpwkQgj
     
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  28. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

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  29. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    Keep it classy Cosmo

    nasty
     
  30. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

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