The insane social justice thread

[jamil]

They are offering a roadmap on how to shut down any argument they present.

It is kinda entertaining that they can't even argue their points without violating their points.

 

[SEIndSAM]

Wow....."A school official called for compassion for the Ohio State attacker. People are demanding she be fired."


A school official called for compassion for the Ohio State attacker. People are demanding she be fired.

 

[KG1]

SJW gets out-SJW'd.

This is dumb and I mean that in the worst possible way you can ever imagine.

 

[Hoosierkav]

Ableist?

Is is ableist to say that I don't understand a (made up) word that is being said nowadays?

 

[rob63]

Ableist?

Is is ableist to say that I don't understand a (made up) word that is being said nowadays?

Not sure whether we can answer that or not, it might be victim blaming?

 

[Joe G]

I remember when it was the social conservatives who wanted to ban all the books.

Yes, and the MSM attacked it (rightfully so) back then.

Now? MSM embraces it to be "inclusive".

 

[Kutnupe14]

Can he/she/it not say "omg"? It offends both the atheists and the theists.

Cleverly sidestep with a "gosh;" problem solved.

 

[jamil]

Ableist?

Is is ableist to say that I don't understand a (made up) word that is being said nowadays?

Cleverly sidestep with a "gosh;" problem solved.

Nah. My dad wouldn't let me get away with saying "Gosh". He said it was just a technicality so Christians wouldn't feel like they're taking the Lord's name in vain. It would have to be replaced with something obviously not a replacement word. Maybe invoke a little Flo: "Oh My Grits!".

 

[actaeon277]

Nah. My dad wouldn't let me get away with saying "Gosh". He said it was just a technicality so Christians wouldn't feel like they're taking the Lord's name in vain. It would have to be replaced with something obviously not a replacement word. Maybe invoke a little Flo: "Oh My Grits!".

My mom wouldn't let us say "Heck" or "Darn".

 

[Kutnupe14]

Nah. My dad wouldn't let me get away with saying "Gosh". He said it was just a technicality so Christians wouldn't feel like they're taking the Lord's name in vain. It would have to be replaced with something obviously not a replacement word. Maybe invoke a little Flo: "Oh My Grits!".

While I get it, no one can never change the iconic "Kiss my grits."

 

[Kutnupe14]

My mom wouldn't let us say "Heck" or "Darn".

My mom did too. She'd say "you're trying to say 'hell," or 'damn'." I couldn't even whistle in the house.... but "dagnabit," was fine for some reason.

 

[rob63]

Nah. My dad wouldn't let me get away with saying "Gosh". He said it was just a technicality so Christians wouldn't feel like they're taking the Lord's name in vain. It would have to be replaced with something obviously not a replacement word. Maybe invoke a little Flo: "Oh My Grits!".

My mom wouldn't let us say "Heck" or "Darn".

My mom did too. She'd say "you're trying to say 'hell," or 'damn'." I couldn't even whistle in the house.... but "dagnabit," was fine for some reason.

Learning how to be careful about what you say when you were a kid was just good training for when you grew up and got married. It's a wonder any of us can talk at all.

 

[Bill of Rights]

Ableist?

Is is ableist to say that I don't understand a (made up) word that is being said nowadays?

Not sure whether we can answer that or not, it might be victim blaming?

In case the first is not sarcasm, I'll 'splain it... Ableist (able-ist) is kinda like sexist, racist, etc., in saying that you're favoring one of a type over another, in this case, able vs. disabled (or as they call it now, "differently-abled"... I have to say, that's a nice turn of phrase for what it is. Saying someone is disabled means they have no ability. Period. Hell, YOU try riding a wheelie in a wheelchair, if you're not in one most/all of the time!)

Nah. My dad wouldn't let me get away with saying "Gosh". He said it was just a technicality so Christians wouldn't feel like they're taking the Lord's name in vain. It would have to be replaced with something obviously not a replacement word. Maybe invoke a little Flo: "Oh My Grits!".

My mom wouldn't let us say "Heck" or "Darn".

Screw that.

When I was growing up, the actual cuss words were forbidden, but the substitutes were OK. I think "Hell" was acceptable, but it shocked me (briefly) the first time I went to the golf course with my Dad.

When my daughter was growing up, we taught her a couple of phrases she could use and not get in trouble at school. (It's fair to note that this is the child who, having heard me driving and upset at being cut off one time, asked from the back seat, "Can I say this just once?" My wife and I both asked, "What?" (which is automatic permission... duh!)

"He's a m*****f***er."

"No, you can't say that. That's a big people word. When you're a big people, you can say it."

oops)

The phrases we taught her were innocuous expressions, along the lines of, "Oh, that's nice" (no, that was not one of them) that we explained to her she could use to mean something like, "Bite me."

I briefly considered teaching her one in Latin, but decided against it. I have nothing against the horse anyone rode in on.

While I get it, no one can never change the iconic "Kiss my grits."

No one can never? Does that mean we can? I'm so confused.

Sorry Kut... I had to call the double negative.

Blessings,
Bill

 

[cobber]

It is kinda entertaining that they can't even argue their points without violating their points.

That was the whole point of Newspeak in 1984, to reduce language to bare minimum practically incapable of use to express complex or unpleasant thoughts.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

A rare positive article in this thread, from the estimable Christina Hoff Sommers

How to make feminism great again

Perhaps the women’s movement is too elitist and out of touch with ordinary citizens, especially working-class women. That seems right, but I would go one step further. Today’s feminism is not merely out of touch with everyday Americans; it’s out of touch with reality. To survive, it’s going to have to come back to planet Earth.

 

[actaeon277]

A rare positive article in this thread, from the estimable Christina Hoff Sommers

How to make feminism great again

I thought that was a pretty good article.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Heh.

 

[Vigilant]

A rare positive article in this thread, from the estimable Christina Hoff Sommers

How to make feminism great again

**** that, let'em stay wherever, Earth doesn't want them back!

 

[ArcadiaGP]

I bet this one is a bit triggering. Granted, it's unnecessarily perpetuating the misinformation that a gap exists.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

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