Politically Correct OTD
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- dorfsman0
https://www.acast.com/talkingpol…
“Can 'identity politics' really make sense of everything from populism to #MeToo? Why are liberal democracies struggling to meet their citizens' desire for recognition?”
- imbecile0
Tennessee pulled pronoun list from site
›› Fear of New Pronouns
https://www.insidehighered.com/n…—
›› Ohio U Preferred Pronouns Faculty FAQ
https://www.ohio.edu/lgbt/pronou…›› Ohio U Preferred Names
https://www.ohio.edu/registrar/n…›› Harvard Will Let Students Select Pronouns
https://www.insidehighered.com/q…
- MrT0
How animators responded to the (TIL) Hays Code that censored early Hollywood. The old clips are cool if nowt else.
- PonyBoy0
Pepe Le Pew Will Be Absent From 'Space Jam 2'
https://www.hollywoodreporter.co…
"In the Times opinion piece, Charles M. Blow said Pepé Le Pew "normalized rape culture.""
- drgs0
https://compactmag.com/article/w…
Zizek to give depth to all of this"Psychoanalysis has a clear answer to this paradox: the notion of superego. Superego is a cruel and insatiable agency that bombards me with impossible demands and mocks my failed attempts to meet them. It is the agency in the eyes of which I am all the more guilty, the more I try to suppress my “sinful” strivings. The old cynical Stalinist motto about the accused at the show trials who professed their innocence—“The more they are innocent, the more they deserve to be shot”—is superego at its purest.
And did McWhorter in the quoted passage not reproduce the exact structure of the superego paradox? “You must strive eternally to understand the experiences of black people / You can never understand what it is to be black, and if you think you do, you’re a racist.” In short, you must but you can’t, because you shouldn’t—the greatest sin is to do what you should strive for... This convoluted structure of an injunction, which is fulfilled when we fail to meet it, accounts for the paradox of superego. As Freud noted, the more we obey the superego commandment, the guiltier we feel. The paradox also holds in the Lacanian reading of the superego as an injunction to enjoy: Enjoyment is an impossible-real, we can’t ever fully attain it, and this failure makes us feel guilty.
A series of situations that characterize today’s society exemplify perfectly this type of superego pressure, like the endless PC self-examination: Was my glance at the flight attendant too intrusive and sexually offensive? Did I use any words with a possible sexist undertone while addressing her? And so on and so on. The pleasure, thrill even, provided by such self-probing is evident.
This superego structure, then, explains how and why, in the Telluride case, the majority and the institutional big Other were both terrorized by the woke minority. All of them were exposed to a superego pressure that is far from an authentic call to justice. The black woke elite is fully aware it won’t achieve its declared goal of diminishing black oppression—and it doesn’t even want that. What they really want is what they are achieving: a position of moral authority from which they may terrorize all others, without effectively changing social relations of domination.
The situation of those terrorized by the woke elite is more complex, but still clear: They submit to woke demands because most of them really are guilty of participating in social domination, but submitting to woke demands offers them an easy way out—you gladly assume your guilt insofar as this enables you to go on living the way you did. It’s the old Protestant logic: “Do whatever you want, just feel guilty for it.”"
The same is true for all divisions of wokeness. Vegans, for example, latently understand there is little they can do about animal suffering.
What they want is a title to prove their moral purity, and they protect it by all means. When another vegan wears wool clothes or does something impermissible under vegan canons, they will trash that person, but are completely indifferent to non-vegans doing the same.Fantastic magazine, btw
https://compactmag.comDiscuss
And drops of Aryan sun will quiver on our eyelashes™
- BustySaintClaire-2
Following San Francisco's change of “convicted felon” to “justice-involved person” the state of California will now refer to “at-risk youth” instead as “at-promise youth.”
Don't be an influencer, be an involver.
- isleptwithsirenstonight-3
- here it goes, the serial downvoter strikes againisleptwithsirenstonight
- awesome -- droogie dipping.Gnash
- fooler-1
Restaurant changing name of Crack Fries, CEO says crack epidemic was never funny...
- Boz-6
- did he speak to any men? why don't we see that? she agreed with him that men / women / everyone is different and only disagreed with his use ofFax_Benson
- 'strong' because she didn't want to imply that women can't be physically strong. I don't know why she cried but probably has something to do with beingFax_Benson
- targeted by a prick with a camera and an agenda.Fax_Benson
- He did speak to men:
https://www.qbn.com/…soundofreason - It is precisely because she considers strong an "bad word" that this belongs in the the Politically Correct OTD.soundofreason
- I don't think she was "targeted" but I do he think he is a prick with a camera and an agenda.soundofreason
- while he may have a point, she doesn't need to be shamed on youtube over her use of a word in an unplanned interview (unplanned by her)Fax_Benson
- she didn't even say anything very silly. And he still needs a little end scene where he gets to play the victim, despite this being a massive power trip for himFax_Benson
- you can point out the absurdity of extreme PC culture without being a cunt. Well, you should be able to. She is not the problem.Fax_Benson
- He covers his tracks, so he can act like he's just a reasonable guy.soundofreason
- Who we really should be looking at is the public that follows him. They're like the guys laughing too hard at racial jokes.soundofreason
- indeed. it's all a distraction from the real issues at hand.fadein11
- She is the Cathy Newman to his Jordan Peterson. She took the bait and made a fool of herself. Boz is the Proud Boy jerking off to the video.soundofreason
- Did she though? She didn't say anything that bad, looked more lacking in confidence at being aware how the vid may be used than anything else.fadein11
- https://youtu.be/312…
That's when she made his point.
I'm not saying I agree with his views. She got played because she accepted to play the game.soundofreason - @fadein11. What are the issues at hand?Morning_star
- Her: "I'm questioning if there is another word"
Him: "What's another good word for strong"?
Her: "I don't know, that's what I'm proposing"soundofreason - We're talking about practice!
Not the game. Not the game.
We're tallking about practice!soundofreason - Fair enough, I've seen far worse examples of OC fanatics than her though, she looked drained before the convo even started, perhaps she had been up all nightfadein11
- partying, or split from her boyfriend lol. Now she's prob gone viral, crazy.
PC*fadein11 - @morning, I can think of many more issues more important than trying to make young, naive people look stupid on Youtube. What does it prove?fadein11
- For one thing it's indicative of a generation that is becoming so coddled it can't even acknowledge differences between genders. These types of subjects...Morning_star
- ...are increasingly becoming categorised as taboo. As soon as the conversation becomes difficult or runs contrary to popular myth than its becomes an...Morning_star
- ..oppressive or dismissive or a myriad other distracting reasons not to talk. Difficult conversations need to be had. If you can't defend your own beliefs...Morning_star
- ...the you (one) should be unmasked for the sheep you are.Morning_star
- This didn't come across as difficult though, I just don't think she was in the right frame of mind to chat, hence why she cried. She didn't cry at anything saidfadein11
- *...myth then it's...Morning_star
- I must move in very different circles as the young people I know through work wouldn't bat an eyelid at these discussions. It does seem to be more of a US issuefadein11
- Agreed.Morning_star
- The type of conversations those types of video are not at all DIFFICULT, they are actually very PETTY. It's not hard to read between the lines.soundofreason
- he set her up and then milked it on his youtube channel.Nothing 'difficult' or challenging about it. He didn't want a conversation. He wanted an easy 'win'Fax_Benson
- @soundofreason What do take from reading between the lines?Morning_star
- @fax Why was it so difficult for the girl to admit that men are physically stronger?Morning_star
- @Morning_star
That lizard people are using PC culture to emasculate us and take our women as sex slaves for future earth domination.
# wake up sheeplesoundofreason - fuck knows. I'd guess because she didn't want to imply that women can't be physically strong too. Why does he need to do that to her to make his point?Fax_Benson
- creepy, unnecessary and plays up to the misogynists who hang out in youtube comments who like to see girls get taken down in the name of 'common sense'Fax_Benson
- Are girls not able to reason and argue effectively?Morning_star
- @soundofreason. ahhh, the Ike gambit.Morning_star
- yes, obviously. And no doubt all the better when as prepared to do so as the guy planning the impromptu 'debate' .Fax_Benson
- No. It was nothing to do with unpreparedness. Besides, I thought you said it wasn't a difficult subject.Morning_star
- of course it was.Fax_Benson
- How prepared do you need to be to answer that easy question ?Morning_star
- just went on his channel and browsed old videos. The guy's a fame whore and a complete tool._niko
- pango-4
- ben_-1
- Projectile-2
Man considering legal action after Starbucks employee labels drink 'Isis'
- The whole article misses the major important question whether or not he asked the employee about it in person and if they made an honest mistake and apologized.omahadesigns
- drgs-3
SWJ explained:
https://static.theintercept.com/…
I was reading this funny story about Alex Morse, a progressive, openly gay American politician, youngest mayor of Holyoke at age 22. He was teaching some course at University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he also was having sex with his students (whom he met on Grindr, not in his classroom, and the sex was fully consensual).The sex itself was not a problem, he was fired for the following reason: When these students, after having received a diploma, may want a career in politics in the future, and therefore they could not take a decision to refuse him, because their career prospects depend on it.
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/th…
The New Puritans
"This is not a sexual harassment issue in the classic sense of someone who actually has power over someone else, for instance in the workplace or in a classroom. The concept here is that students who might “wish to enter progressive politics” will feel uncomfortable refusing, or even just not answering, so mighty a personage as the Mayor of Holyoke, Massachusetts, for fear of what that might do to their job prospects someday, in a field they have not even chosen yet.Therefore, just as a child or, say, a St. Bernard cannot consent to sex, neither apparently can an adult college student with an uncertain job future.
But the most grotesque part of the story is the obsessive/delusional misunderstanding of “power,” which after years of intersectional propaganda has become the primary lens through which young progressives see the world. Constant preaching that all human interactions are political contests, with one side always getting the better of the other, has made a whole generation phobic about adulthood."
SWJ and the new left-winged puritanism explained in one sentence: fear of adulthood, fear of being free and fear of being responsible for your own decisions
http://www.uncarved.org/pol/irat…
"The formation of the authoritarian structure takes place through the anchoring of sexual inhibition and sexual anxiety. (...) The result of this process is fear of freedom and a conservative, reactionary mentality. Sexual repression aids political reaction not only through this process which makes the mass individual passive and unpolitical but also by creating in his structure an interest in actively supporting the authoritarian order. The suppression of natural sexual gratification leads to various kinds of substitute gratifications. Natural aggression, for example, becomes brutal sadism which then is an essential mass-psychological factor in imperialistic wars."http://www.notbored.org/reich.ht…
America is a truly sick country - by all parameters. Burn the whole continent with napalm and sow it with one meter thick layer of salt, so that no life ever grows out again or spreads to anywhere else.™
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- lemmy_k-1
This generation wouldn't survive during my generation. I grew up with songs like Kinko the Clown. Not much offends me after that shit.