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I think we have a winner.
New York Times editor, Mara Gay was “disturbed” to see “dozens of American flags” during a weekend trip to Long Island, New York. Was also distressed to see anti-Biden slogans on sides of trucks, apparently.
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@victor-meldrew said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
I think we have a winner.
New York Times editor, Mara Gay was “disturbed” to see “dozens of American flags” during a weekend trip to Long Island, New York. Was also distressed to see anti-Biden slogans on sides of trucks, apparently.
She's got a point. At no point did any Democrat try and act / suggest that Trump wasn't their president. No point at all.
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Beyond bonkers...
Research Article in Medical Journal Describes Whiteness as 'Malignant, Parasitic-Like Condition
A research article published last month in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association called whiteness "a malignant, parasitic-like condition." That description, along with other language in the article, has caused public anger, and the backlash against the author was evident on social media. The article, titled On Having Whiteness, was written by Dr. Donald Moss, a white man who is a faculty member of both the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. In the article, Moss wrote that "'white' people have a particular susceptibility" to the "parasitic" condition, which he claims "renders its hosts' appetites voracious, insatiable, and perverse." He explained he believed whiteness establishes "entitled dominion" that enables the "host" to have "power without limit, force without restriction, violence without mercy," and increases one's drive to "terrorize."
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@victor-meldrew dehumanising a group of people is step one in beginning violence against them.
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@kirwan hate to say it but violence is nigh on inevitable to redress the nonsense that passes for sense making in western civilisation over the last decade or so. The only question is when and how much.
Reality is too distorted and history has illustrated this "remedy" time and time again.
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You're lucky enough to witness the end of Western civilization. The beginning of our end
Sadly there are people like the author of that ridiculous paper who think acting like that will save him.
We're simply too comfortable and as such become weak as we've attempted to provide equality and justice. All the important battles have been won so the latest generation, mired in ignorance from a failing education system, embrace failed belief structures to fight ideological battles such as the right if mentally ill men to pretend they're women.
Meanwhile real theats are materialising but we're distracted, fighting amongst ourselves.
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@antipodean said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
You're lucky enough to witness the end of Western civilization
Not too sure about that - but we are looking at the end of a period of unquestioning belief in basic western values.
We're simply too comfortable and as such become weak as we've attempted to provide equality and justice.
I actually think promoting equality and justice makes us stronger. Getting opportunities to people in the lower parts of society makes sense economically and benefits society as a whole. The trick is to get the better-off part of society to see the benefits of doing this and doing it wisely.
Sadly, I think the likes of the loon who wrote the article, and the likes of BLM are more interested in their own egos, careers and wallet size than providing the opportunities for the poorest in society to improve their lives or increase their wealth.
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Want to avoid violence as it's just causes more problems.
I've thought for some time the West needed to have a fully left-wing woke government in power so people could see the actual consequences of abandoning common sense and implementing policies based primarily on skin-colour and culture. We've seen some of those consequences in the UK and it's caused a big change for the better when people have woken up to reality.
Biden's Democrats are the nearest to it at the moment with the fixation on Trans people in sport and the push to give welfare and grants to business based on race and historical wrongs.
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Now it's racist to report rape apparently - but only if you are a white woman
Oxfam training guide blames ‘privileged white women’ over root causes of sexual violence
An Oxfam staff training document says “privileged white women” are supporting the root causes of sexual violence by wanting "bad men" imprisoned. In the wake of sex scandals that have rocked the charity, Oxfam has produced guidance which states that: “Mainstream feminism centres on privileged white women and demands that ‘bad men’ be fired or imprisoned”. Accompanied by a cartoon of a crying white woman, it adds that this “legitimises criminal punishment, harming black and other marginalised people”. It advises staff to read a controversial book which concludes: “Mainstream feminism is supporting, not undoing, the root causes of sexual violence.” Summarising the book’s central premise, the Oxfam document says white feminists need to ask themselves whether they are causing harm when they fight sexual violence. It then links to Prof Phipps’s Twitter account and a thread which summarises the main themes of the book, including: “White feminist tears deploy white woundedness, and the sympathy it generates, to hide the harms we perpetuate through white supremacy.”
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@victor-meldrew WTAF did I just read.
It feels like Borat's humour (pushing existing beliefs to a logical conclusion) is no longer satire but real. Just astonishing.
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@nzzp said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
@victor-meldrew WTAF did I just read.
It feels like Borat's humour (pushing existing beliefs to a logical conclusion) is no longer satire but real. Just astonishing.
Ramblings of children who have been indulged too much
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@victor-meldrew said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
@antipodean said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
You're lucky enough to witness the end of Western civilization
Not too sure about that - but we are looking at the end of a period of unquestioning belief in basic western values.
I see it much stronger than that. Decline in liberalism and public education standards, less people believe in science, widening partisan divide, social media echo chambers, decline in USA soft and hard power, increasing ability to purchase political power and reduce income mobility. You can't be the top dog forever, it happens to all civilisations and in the modern age the rate of change is accelerated. The best that can be hoped for is a gradual, relatively peaceful decline.
We're simply too comfortable and as such become weak as we've attempted to provide equality and justice.
I actually think promoting equality and justice makes us stronger.
I agree but perhaps I didn't make myself clear. In the pursuit there's less battles that need to be fought. The real differences are socioeconomic, not racial.
Getting opportunities to people in the lower parts of society makes sense economically and benefits society as a whole. The trick is to get the better-off part of society to see the benefits of doing this and doing it wisely.
Random fact: Half of Australians pay no net tax...
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@victor-meldrew said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
more interested in their own egos, careers and wallet size
of course they are! That's the human condition!! 99.9% of people, not matter what they say, or delude themselves in to thinking, are guided by self interest. When push comes to shove, people always do what's best for them and theirs.
And fundamentally i do not have a problem with that. Anyone disadvantaged by it would do the exact same thing if the roles were reversed.
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@victor-meldrew said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
Now it's racist to report rape apparently - but only if you are a white woman
Oxfam training guide blames ‘privileged white women’ over root causes of sexual violence
That is fucking awesome.
My rarely seen optimistic side suggests that maybe we actually give MORE oxygen to the absolute nutters like this, as it looks like they're just going to turn on each other.
Also - this provides material for sending to that super-precious "white feminist" who also thinks she's "woke" that we all know.(Saying that as somebody who doesn't think "Social Justice" is a bad word... but that there's, as demonstrated, "taking it too far")
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@mariner4life said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
of course they are! That's the human condition!! 99.9% of people, not matter what they say, or delude themselves in to thinking, are guided by self interest. When push comes to shove, people always do what's best for them and theirs.
Bastard. You've shattered my illusions that these are pious, caring, humble people who have given up the opportunity to earn megabucks in business in order to dedicate their lives to improving the lot of the oppressed minorities in society who are incapable of helping themselves....
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@kruse said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
(Saying that as somebody who doesn't think "Social Justice" is a bad word... but that there's, as demonstrated, "taking it too far")
The fact you have to write that explanation is an indicator of how screwed up things are becoming. There is such a polarisation that if you're not 100% aligned, you're clearly in opposition. Shades of grey? Forget it.
You can think that black lives matter, without thinking Black Lives Matter is a healthy organisation. I'd go on, but you get the idea. Lots of self censorship going on in the modern world, people can't be bothered with the grief
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F off with the damn PC Brigade