The PC and Perpetually Offended Brigade

[astfgyl]

He's like meatloaf in fight club at this stage

[Circlepit]

https://www.lambgoat.com/news/37929/against-mes-laura-jane-grace-and-life-of-agonys-mina-caputo-get-heated-over-social-media-post/

Enoch is needed to settle this.

[astfgyl]

This sort of gender critical rhetoric has come under fire from large numbers of the transgender community and its allies

Translation: this sort of calling a spade a spade is upsetting people who can't accept that they are in fact a spade because being a spade is not really in vogue at the minute because spades are not special.

Anyone ever read The Sneetches?

[Circlepit]

Dr Seuss to the rescue.
My kids love that book.

[astfgyl]

Dr Seuss to the rescue.
My kids love that book.

It's brilliant though admittedly I often fall on the message myself

[Caomhaoin]

Ah here

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-64488231.amp

[hellfire]

Ah here

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-64488231.amp

I thought banning Amhrán na bhFiann was worse. Can't abide that Ireland's Call shite. Banning the Tom Jones song is fairly stupid as well. It hasnt caused any issues whatsoever. As the meme goes "1984 was not intended to be an instruction manual"

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Re that last point, yes, stuff like banning a song like Delilah has tones of 1984 to it, but I'm much more taken with parallels to Brave New World, in which humanity is lulled into non-resistance via pleasant distraction. I guess it's also cos that's where I feel more anesthetized myself. Guess we're more like somewhere between the two. Stuff is censored à la 1984, yet only in the most superficial sense, because you can gain access to almost anything via giant corporations who pipe it straight to your computer or mobile phone screen, in a colourful, neurally rewarding package, and all for an affordable monthly fee.

[Caomhaoin]

Re that last point, yes, stuff like banning a song like Delilah has tones of 1984 to it, but I'm much more taken with parallels to Brave New World, in which humanity is lulled into non-resistance via pleasant distraction. I guess it's also cos that's where I feel more anesthetized myself. Guess we're more like somewhere between the two. Stuff is censored à la 1984, yet only in the most superficial sense, because you can gain access to almost anything via giant corporations who pipe it straight to your computer or mobile phone screen, in a colourful, neurally rewarding package, and all for an affordable monthly fee.

Great point.

[Eoin McLove]

I never knew the song was about murder. I never paid any attention to it. It's funny to me that it became a terrace anthem with that in mind, but yeah, I wonder who complained about it. Probably some doughy 20 year old non-binary whose hobby is having things banned in areas s/he otherwise would have no interest or involvement in*

* pure speculation but not far off the mark, I would wager **

** there will be no payout when Chris proves me wrong.

[hellfire]

I never read Brave New World. I might take a look. In a lot of these cases people and organisations are practising self censorship. The orders don't need to come from the state, complaint or an NGO anymore. It's a race to see who can be the most virtuous and cleanest in the hope that a random Twitter post doesn't take your business right out.

[Eoin McLove]

There a neurotic blue haired gender bender pulling the strings somewhere. I just know there is.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Haven't read Brave New World in a very long time myself. Someone mentioned something fairly key from it a couple of weeks ago, something about negative conditioning, and it didn't ring any bells at all.

[hellfire]

As an aside. The government and media seem happy enough to smear any protest against a lunatic immigration policy that has failed everywhere else as far right. I'm sure there are some people at the protests with shitty political opinions, but there are an awful lot of working class people at them who just want the basics of life such as accommodation. How dare the filthy working class untermenschen disagree with the educated. They've even tried to play up the attendance of some criminal elements at them. They are all far right criminals who would do well to educate themselves.

[Ollkiller]

As an aside. The government and media seem happy enough to smear any protest against a lunatic immigration policy that has failed everywhere else as far right. I'm sure there are some people at the protests with shitty political opinions, but there are an awful lot of working class people at them who just want the basics of life such as accommodation. How dare the filthy working class untermenschen disagree with the educated. They've even tried to play up the attendance of some criminal elements at them. They are all far right criminals who would do well to educate themselves.

I have no problem with protests but having them outside where asylum seekers are staying I do have a problem with. The asylum seekers didnt create the issue. Successive governments with terrible policies created this housing crisis. Protest the fuckers who caused it.