The PC and Perpetually Offended Brigade

[astfgyl]

Actually I was doing the inclusivity learning at work today (because we have to be told to be sound these days apparently) but one of the main points was not to focus on minorities but only to treat them the same as everyone else. So if lads are constantly roaring about how straight they are for example I can throw them into the same bucket as lads who can't stop banging on about being queer and folks who can't stop banging on about being trans.

Just grow a personality lads

[Ollkiller]

I've only met a handful as well and haven't given them any shit whatsoever but by god does it dominate the online world of late.

Fair point about the gay support but again in speaking to the brother in law about any of it he just laughs and says ignore that shit. The only two aspects of the life that he seems to be into is the bumming and the hard drugs. Other than that you wouldn't know. Refreshing to meet lads that are defined by their personalities rather than simply their sexual preferences and tbf most gay lads I know are like that.

Hard for the trans to not be defined by the fact they're trans though I guess

It does dominate online. And like most online things I ignore it. It's not representative of the real world imo. Just various gobshytes trying to sound whatever.

I'd say for gay people it did define them for years because of abuse they would have got so they'd band together and own it. Or something. Thankfully that has mostly changed. And there is a cohort that loved their hard drugs lol.

[astfgyl]

Yeah the general oppression certainly brought them together but now they're mostly back mingling because no-one cares about it. Good, I'm glad to see it. Haven't cared if someone was or wasn't since my school days and yeah tbf it was me who had to grow up on that one. Most of the time.

I have a train of thought a lot of the time that the worst thing we could do for the trans crowd would be give them total acceptance and their own sports category.

What the fuck would they be railing against then?

[Caomhaoin]

The hierarchy of victimhood would shift you'd imagine.

Like most lads, I couldn't give a fuck if people want to 'identify' as whatever they want. The other 99.999% of the population shouldn't be forced to adopt or abandon speech or behaviours as a result. These activist cunts want to enforce tyranny. A mild form of tyranny, not like a Stalinist job, but tyranny nonetheless.

The inevitable response to tyranny is resistance which is now cleverly countered as being 'hate'.

That's another thing, the word 'hate'. Hate is a very strong word. I can't think of anyone off the top of my head that I hate. Can yous? Yet any form of resistence to leftist social issues is 'hate' or 'hate speech' or worse, 'violence' without hater and hatee ever coming into physical contact.

[hellfire]

They've taken so many words and repurposed them. Violence is another one. An act of "actual violence" can mean upsetting someone on Twitter.

[Mower Liberation Front]

They've taken so many words and repurposed them. Violence is another one. An act of "actual violence" can mean upsetting someone on Twitter.

I've seen more than one idiot claim that "silence is violence", and then later claim "words are violence".
So what qualifies as non-violence? A unintelligible murmuring?

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

They are merely prolonging a fine tradition of language abuse as a means of wresting power which is eons old and which, until recently, they were more victims than perpetrators of. It's like you have to laugh when Douglas Murray condescendingly said of the BLM riots, "Where are the adults?" And then you recall that just a few short decades ago the people he considers "adults" were passing off mythology for fact and killing, imprisoning, castrating, etc., fuckers for it. Small change if some cunt on Twitter is told he's committing an act of violence; for many people still today, if you stick the wrong lump of flesh in your mouth, you're committing violence against god and/or nature.

[Caomhaoin]

for many people still today, if you stick the wrong lump of flesh in your mouth, you're committing violence against god and/or nature.

Muslims, for the most part. Not sure if you mean halal or mickeys but both are pertinent.

[astfgyl]

 

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Muslims, yes, and the vast majority of bible belt evangelicals, Mormons, orthodox Jews, etc. "For the most part" will very much depend on where you are. In the US, "for the most part" is not Muslims, for example. Stick a gay character in a TV show unexpectedly, "for the most part" it won't be Muslims crying "Woke!"

[Caomhaoin]

Yeah because they'd be saying 'faggot' or worse.

[astfgyl]

Muslims, yes, and the vast majority of bible belt evangelicals, Mormons, orthodox Jews, etc. "For the most part" will very much depend on where you are. In the US, "for the most part" is not Muslims, for example. Stick a gay character in a TV show unexpectedly, "for the most part" it won't be Muslims crying "Woke!"

What happens when they're on the telly in Saudi Arabia though?

[astfgyl]

https://nypost.com/2023/04/13/conservative-dad-has-ultra-right-beer-amid-bud-light-dylan-mulvaney/

Values?

Capitalism.

[Carnage]

Re: The Dalai Lama thing: an alternative perspective presenting it as cultural/linguistic confusion:

https://www.elephantjournal.com/2023/04/the-tibetan-meaning-of-eat-my-tongue-dalai-lama/

(Full disclosure: I haven't watched the video - I'm too tired/pissed at present to take it in properly.)

[astfgyl]

https://reports.hrc.org/corporate-equality-index-2022?_ga=2.209484306.1654585067.1680806838-1276787822.1680719476#equality-fortune-companies

Here's that index thing I was on about