Politically Correct or Incorrect Bullshit Of The Day

[Estreeter]

Originally Posted by Decadence

The State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton is now offering a course called “#StopWhitePeople2K16”.......

Great. Let's fight racism by being racist.

2K16 is obviously 2016, but you don't suppose the K is there as a small subtle maybe subliminal reference to the Klan You know, just as a reminder

[Arturo2nd]

Originally Posted by Decadence

It's Sunday morning..

Last night in Milwaukee, police shot and killed a robbery suspect. Even though the suspect's "color" wasn't reported, black lives matter used it as another opportunity to riot, commit assault & battery, and burn businesses to the ground.

Most of the media coverage needed to get half way through their stories to admit the person shot WAS ARMED with a stolen gun and extra ammunition. That fact was omitted from the headlines in nearly every case (police shoot suspect vs. police shoot armed suspect).

No worries, though-- this was justification to block traffic, pull "whites" out of their cars and beat them. A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter was beaten. WTMJ was forced to pull its reporters from the scene as their lives were in danger. A gas station burned to the ground while the mob chants "Black Power". Firefighters cannot move in due to recurring gunfire being heard.

Once again, the PC media tries in vain to word its coverage to justify this barbarian behavior. Before being forced to flee, Channel 4 interviewed a man on the street who had a surprising take: the violence is justified because rich people don't give blacks enough money. The clip is out there.

Regardless of the reason, this violence will again be excused out some fear of being labelled 'racist' for calling it what it is. The people who had nothing to do with this who were beaten are simply collateral damage. Ditto for the businesses that burned to the ground. All because there's some ridiculous premise out there that some people are allowed to act this way because of their perceived circumstances.

And that is your politically correct bullshit of the day, 14 August, 2016.

I lived through the Sixties. The trouble with African American violence is that they are indeed a minority and a minority whose proportionate share of the population is declining. Eventually, the majority (which includes Asians and Latinos) gets tired of the violence and lawlessness and actions are taken against the hoodlums and even more repressive measures are directed against African American communities.

[Decadence]

Free Speech ?

Northwestern State University in Louisiana has a speech code that permits students to express their beliefs freely for two hours per week at three predetermined locations.

The policy requires students to apply 24-48 hours in advance before holding a public demonstration or assembly, and limits such activities to “one, 2-hour time period every 7 days, commencing on Monday.”

I stumbled across this group called FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education) that gives 'free speech ratings' to universities across the country. They're the source of this story you can find here along with a link to the university policy. The group has given this school it's "red light" rating due the university's opinion that the first and fourteenth amendments to our Constitution "are not absolute".

I started my freshman year in college in the fall of 1977. The 60s were still rather recent-- nobody was for anything other than free speech. We had a blast. Everybody did their own thing. More importantly, nobody was trying to tell others not to do their own thing. The parties were great, the drugs were great, the music was (mostly) great. We all graduated and entered the world unscathed by the freedoms we enjoyed as students.

These days, it's seems like the antithesis is true. Everybody's worried about everything, students now need safe zones and whatever else to protect them from the evils of having to encounter others' opinions. Another instance of what I've long called the "pussification of America". Sadly, it's the rule, rather than the exception in our institutions of so-called higher learning.

I fear it's going to be awhile before we run out of these posts for Politically Correct Bullshit of the Day.

[Sir Honkers]

Last night I was watching an old episode of the Two Ronnies where they're done up in 'blackface' and singing in exaggerated Jamaican accents. How could I ever have been so crass and so insensitive as to have found it funny.
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/really...26-gr1qpt.html

[AmateurEmale]

@seany65: I agree with you about Orwell's 1984. The idea of a language that has banned or exorcised certain words from its daily speech was also attempted in Ayn Rand's 1930s novel Anthem. It was a parody of collectivism taken to an extreme; in the Platonic / communistic future, everyone did everything as a group, and the words "I", "me", and "mine" do not exist, until one person who is given a name and a number rebels and starts calling himself "I" [as in "I think, I will"] and rediscovers the sacred word "EGO".

In other words, Rand's philosophy promoted the view of individual rights / Western classical liberalism / ethical egoism by displaying how ludicrous it would be if civilization was totally collectivized. In the novel, no building can be above three stories tall, all occupations and spouses are chosen by the government [because capitalistic careerism and romantic love is selfish to them] and no one is allowed to enter the Forbidden Forest around the city in which the novel takes place. But the hero escapes with his lover, and like the protagonists of Atlas Shrugged, wants to create a new community in the wilderness where the ego is allowed to express itself freely without coercion.

Someone from Europe once commented on Rand's philosophy that the Soviet Union she fled from the 1920s was heavily collectivized, but her philosophy was "the mirror image delusion" that everything can be based on individualism. I still have problems with certain aspects of her philosophy [hatred and confrontation with Iran being one, civil rights laws being another] but I know which side I'm on. If persecuted to the degree that the USSR did it, and if various leftists on campuses had their way, the more individualistic or capitalistic people would disappear.

Then the Left would get what they are really advocating: the death of the business community and freedom of thought in their countries, and eventually the collapse (or utter retardation) of their society itself. "Until the lights of New York go out..."

[seany65]

@AmateurEmale:

Thanks for the reply ad info about those other books.

You make some interesting points.

It ain't just PC lefties who want to control what we think and say and do, and it's not just the stalinists and maoists who want strong, highly centralised countries that we have to look out for, don't forget the far right-wingers, they want the same. Not forgetting those on each wing who aren't as extreme, but who want things that could lead to such a society.

Then there's the 'new world order' politicians, big bankers and 'globalist' business men (and women), who want a 'new world order' in which a single 'globalist elite' rules the earth with all countries split up into regions in which this region of an ex-country is tied in with that region of a different ex-country, all with one world army and police force.

[rlg118]

Washington Examiner:

The Justice Department released a video this week encouraging companies not to terminate immigrants after their employment authorization expires, and indicated that doing so is a form of discrimination.

The video is shot in a dimly lit office, where two actors discuss whether their fictional company should let go of some Salvadoran employees who have failed to provide updated paperwork on their immigration status.

After a discussion about whether retaining the workers would violate the law, a woman says, "I think this is an exception to that rule," and recommends that they contact the the Office of Special Counsel for Immigration Related Unfair Employment Practices before making any decisions.

"We want to follow the rules but we don't want to lose these workers or discriminate against them," she concludes. "They are too valuable."

Stay abreast of the latest developments from nation's capital and beyond with curated News Alerts from the Washington Examiner news desk and delivered to your inbox.

The video then tells viewers that the federal government has extended employment authorization by six months for people from El Salvador with Temporary Protected Status, a benefit designed to help foreign nationals who are considered unable to safely return to their home.

The Justice Department claims requesting additional work-authorization documents from these workers may violate a provision in the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) designed to protect individuals from excessive employer demands based on their nationality.

"The Justice Department is firmly committed to protecting the rights of all work-authorized immigrants and ensuring that employers do not engage in unlawful discrimination," said Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division in a statement upon the video's release on Thursday.

Good message, coming as it does, from the chief law-enforcement agency of the whole friggin' country.

[lothian]

The word Humungous is now sexual harassment .

https://youtu.be/qO8df_72p1U

[AmateurEmale]

@lothian: Humongous ~ "H-u-u-u-u-ge?"

[Estreeter]

Originally Posted by Decadence

"pussification of America".

Have a look at this part of an article titled

IN this era of political correctness and gender fluidity, Mother’s Day is lucky to survive. Under the guidance of the Safe Schools program, it’s only a matter of time before the second Sunday in May becomes an UN-sanctioned International Day For People Who Identify As Being Mothers. It will be open to men and women alike.

This is the logical extension of Leftist identity politics: a belief that capitalist social conditioning has fried our brains so badly that none of us can figure out our true gender role.

I’m a 55-year-old man who has spent the past 40 years admiring attractive women and, along the way, fathering three children.

Ain't far from the truth at all