The PC and Perpetually Offended Brigade

[astfgyl]

Pepper's having a bad week. Ye may have seen the video going around of him tripping over his words and getting lost during his time at a DCC meeting there a few weeks ago, now this:
https://www.rte.ie/news/regional/2024/1016/1475883-dublin-councillor-complaint/

These lads are so bad that I'm going to end up voting for anything bar them. We have the weakest right wing in the whole of Europe surely?

Anyway speaking of being offended has anyone noticed the hate speech laws that the government said were mothballed are actually going full steam ahead through the seanad? Well they are anyway so nobody can ever be offended again

[Caomhaoin]

Was chatting about it with my GCSE young lads last week, what's worse, getting the jail for putting anti-war stickers over the prices of items in the supermarket (as happened in Russia) or getting dragged through courts for saying 'Allah, Allah, who the fuck is Allah' to a polisman.

Quare auld world.

[mickO)))]

Anyway speaking of being offended has anyone noticed the hate speech laws that the government said were mothballed are actually going full steam ahead through the seanad? Well they are anyway so nobody can ever be offended again

Where did you see this? Not surprisingly I can't find anything about it on any of the MSM sites.

I did see about a week after they said it was being scrapped that the EU sent a letter to the Irish Government saying the laws we currently have in place are not in line with hate speech laws for Europe so they need to be changed (great again having people we never voted for telling us what to do).

My guess was the Government knew this letter was coming or already had it so they announced scrapping the laws knowing they would still go ahead then they could say we didn't want to do it but the EU forced us.

[astfgyl]

Couple of senators had it on their twitter feed and it was published in the dàil schedule for yesterday. The government are trying to ram it through before an election the snakey bastards

[mickO)))]

Video going around from yesterday of them all having a great laugh and sharing sweets in the Seanad while signing the Hate Speech bill. McEntees deal with UAE will be rammed down everyones throats now over the next few weeks as a major achievement and will be the reason she should be kept in Government when this election ends up happening next month. While conveniently forgetting all the damage she has done to the country over the last few years.

[Caomhaoin]

Saw that one of McDowell going on about 'rabid antisemitism' as the reason the internet needs to be policed.

The justification being the cross party consensus is bullshit considering they all fell over themselves for the family bill. I've heard various politicians say things like 'jokes lead to violent attacks', 'you can be arrested for perceived offences' and 'we are restricting freedom for the common good, which is like any other law if you think about it'. Amazing.

As for O'Gorman and McEntee, words fail me. How a lucid human being could vote for either of them is baffling.

Did they not pay attention to what happened in Scotland? Complete farce over there.

[astfgyl]

Saw that one of McDowell going on about 'rabid antisemitism' as the reason the internet needs to be policed.

The justification being the cross party consensus is bullshit considering they all fell over themselves for the family bill. I've heard various politicians say things like 'jokes lead to violent attacks', 'you can be arrested for perceived offences' and 'we are restricting freedom for the common good, which is like any other law if you think about it'. Amazing.

As for O'Gorman and McEntee, words fail me. How a lucid human being could vote for either of them is baffling.

Did they not pay attention to what happened in Scotland? Complete farce over there.

How anyone can be voting for any of the shit we have in this country is beyond me. You'd think it would be the best and brightest would rise up to represent the country but instead it's our most brazenly corrupt and compromised and lobbied beyond any shred of integrity that get picked for the job. Every time.

A lot of this, of course, is that the opposition to that lot we have are actually more visibly retarded with no coherent anything to offer.

So we will get the same again. How depressing.

[astfgyl]

There's a big hullabaloo about this Christmas song being banned by certain radio stations. This is only the latest in a very, very long list of things that are/have been censored.  Is it partly due to me being an old grumpy fucker or has the world finally gone mad? Historical statues being knocked, , certain movies not being screened any more, fear of even speaking out with any sort of more traditional opinions.... Where does it end?

Any of this overly PC nonsense boil yer bloods or is it just me?

https://x.com/TheMonologist/status/1847346477925871850?t=uPBE1xd-9odictkTMOY_Gw&s=09

Just came across this and found it funny and relevant to the thread

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There's a big hullabaloo about this Christmas song being banned by certain radio stations. This is only the latest in a very, very long list of things that are/have been censored.  Is it partly due to me being an old grumpy fucker or has the world finally gone mad? Historical statues being knocked, , certain movies not being screened any more, fear of even speaking out with any sort of more traditional opinions.... Where does it end?

Any of this overly PC nonsense boil yer bloods or is it just me?

https://x.com/TheMonologist/status/1847346477925871850?t=uPBE1xd-9odictkTMOY_Gw&s=09

Just came across this and found it funny and relevant to the thread

Got the work email invite to the 'End of Year Celebrations' night out.  It hasn't been called the Christmas party for the last 2 years.  Fuckin drips

[Emphyrio]

https://x.com/TheMonologist/status/1847346477925871850?t=uPBE1xd-9odictkTMOY_Gw&s=09

Just came across this and found it funny and relevant to the thread

 

[astfgyl]

https://www.vice.com/en/article/how-to-be-a-white-ally-to-people-of-color/

Here's another awfully racist article from a few years back that highlights the stupidity that has taken over the world. If you think it's not racist, just flip the colour of people in the headline and think again. I actually can't believe how far we've gone backwards in terms of the whole racist thing since about the 2000s and it's all tied to American identity politics shit. Sad really to think about how we imported that shit to Europe as well. Anyway the article is 5 years old so it's nothing new or anything I just thought it odd that stuff like that can be published and thought of as anti racist rather than the horribly divisive shit it is. I'm hoping the pendulum swings back again sooner rather than later

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

That is shocking. I found especially racist the one that said, "Crackers are poisoning the genes of our people!"

[astfgyl]

The fact that black supremacy shit can be headlined and white supremacy shit can't is entirely the fault of the crackers

[Caomhaoin]

The Dáil held a minutes silence for George Floyd sure. Such cringeworthy bullshit, but it did set Mattie McGrath off which of course is always an event in itself.

'Showboating! Nothing to do with us! Load of nonsense':)

[astfgyl]

Mattie's question about missing money to Martin this week, and Martin's subsequent refusal to answer says a lot about the state of politics in this country. Place is a shithole in political terms.

Actually, on a bit of a tangent, but why have over half of Fine Gael incumbents declared that they won't run this time? It's absolutely unprecedented but is getting little attention on the whole. It's very odd, unless taken in the context that they know they will be crucified by the populace that they purport to represent but have not represented at all.