Dumb Political Correctness

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

  1. LongestHorn

    LongestHorn 2,500+ Posts

  2. mchammer

    mchammer 10,000+ Posts

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  3. Horn2RunAgain

    Horn2RunAgain 2,500+ Posts

    Just looked it up. On November 2 2016 Quinnipiac had Clinton winning in Florida, Ohio, North Carolina and Pennsylvania. Odd that longest horn would buy into quinnipiac for accurate information .

    'Trump is a racist.... If you voted for trump, you're a racist....If you are thinking of voting for trump in 2020 given the economic turn around (whether you think he created, or simply sustained it) then you too could possibly be a racist'. .....Hard to take him seriously. Now he's "clinging to" his Quinnipiac polling, as inaccurate as it may be.
     
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  4. Mr. Deez

    Mr. Deez Beer Prophet

    I'm sympathetic to this argument and generally agree. However, there's more to it. I don't think the people generally want big deficits. However, they are woefully uneducated and mal-educated about the budget. Nobody explains it to them comprehensively. The media and pundits should be doing this, but the information they provide is scattered, inconsistent, and out of context to such a degree that it is deceptive even if it isn't always blatantly false. And of course, this is intentional and agenda-driven.

    So I understand the idea of blaming the people, but it's a little like blaming a 3 year old for finding a container of pills, eating them, and getting sick. Yes, he is doing something stupid, but his parents are supposed to be teaching him not to do that and keeping dangerous things away from him. Well, most voters are about as informed about the budget as a 3 year old is about drug toxicity and overdose.
     
  5. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

  6. Monahorns

    Monahorns 5,000+ Posts

    Just imagine. A society where the government teaches your kids to think what they want them to think. Then private news media operate as a wing of 1 political party for decades all the while claiming independence. What would that political system look like? What kind of people would be elected by that society? What would those who are elected do?

    Deez, your 3 year old analogy is appropriate. But it doesn't go far enough. I think it is more like telling your 7 year old that the pills are stomach medicine and that if there stomach is ever a little upset to take as much as it takes to help you. Of course the pills make you throw up.

    Ignorance is actually better than miseducation.
     
  7. Phil Elliott

    Phil Elliott 2,500+ Posts

    So you want the media to be our parents in this scenario? Did you mean to say that?
     
  8. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    Go figure


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  9. Monahorns

    Monahorns 5,000+ Posts

    Kathy Griffin's entertainment value was on a steep decline even before her brush with ISIS ideology.
     
  10. Monahorns

    Monahorns 5,000+ Posts

    I don't think he meant that. But the media is supposed to inform the public what the truth is.
     
  11. Statalyzer

    Statalyzer 10,000+ Posts

    Maybe, but only in the sense that a guy sitting on the couch all day eating a bag potato chips and drinking a 60 oz coke doesn't want to be out of shape.

    That was an odd response. Did you read my post as saying "That means the label must be right sometimes"?
     
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  12. LongestHorn

    LongestHorn 2,500+ Posts

  13. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

     
  14. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    Do we know which of his houses it was?
    Was it his listed home address in his home district that he does not actually live in?
    Or, was it the fancy hotel he actually does live in?
    Or, was it one of his vacation homes?
    I'm just askin.
     
  15. LongestHorn

    LongestHorn 2,500+ Posts

  16. LongestHorn

    LongestHorn 2,500+ Posts

  17. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    Is #MeToo a two-way street?

     
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  18. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    Now robots are racist
     
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  19. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    These are some of the folks who decide who and what gets banned on Facebook

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  20. LongestHorn

    LongestHorn 2,500+ Posts

    GOP tells us interracial marriage has caused spiritual AIDS. That’s not racism, right Hornfans?

     
  21. Monahorns

    Monahorns 5,000+ Posts

    That's racist.
     
  22. Horn6721

    Horn6721 10,000+ Posts

    No the GOP did not say that.
    A stupid jerk did.
     
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  23. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    Everything's racist

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  24. nashhorn

    nashhorn 5,000+ Posts

    GOP? Give me a break!
     
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  25. mchammer

    mchammer 10,000+ Posts

    Moronic first and foremost because he confuses interracial marriages with multiculturalism.
     
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  26. mchammer

    mchammer 10,000+ Posts

    Wouldn’t interracial marriages reduce multiculturalism? Isolationism is the hallmark of multiculturalism. The guy is a dumb ***.
     
  27. Mr. Deez

    Mr. Deez Beer Prophet

    It's racist. Of course, I have no idea who the hell this guy is or when the GOP endorsed his comments.
     
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  28. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

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  29. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts


    Deep Thoughts (maybe) by Jack Handy
    (who is also probably a racist)
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  30. UTChE96

    UTChE96 2,500+ Posts

    If its on the internet then it must be true.

    Signed,
    Jussie Smollett
     
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