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| magic:
--- Quote from: SerieZ on July 24, 2020, 09:29:00 am ---I am sure a shift of the Overton window is all what it needs to end PC Culture and just like you said what needs to happen is for the average "centrist" to start feeling uncomfortable. --- End quote --- Okay, this is technically a thread about the PC culture, but more generally, I can assure you that even if it disappeared overnight, America wouldn't cease being a shitshow. PC culture is just a symptom of the underlying disease. Their situation is really rather simple: a former little white/christian/libertarian paradise has allowed a politically significant fraction of socialists, anarchists and pretty much literal communists to grow on their soil. This is a big deal because millions of the whites want nothing to do with nonwhites (and surely with certain kinds of them). The libertarians, even if not racist, will not pay for any socialist programs and tell them that the nonwhites should just learn to code. The Christians would be OK with some wealth redistribution, but it would better be volunatry and the recipients would better believe in Jesus, or even not shit on him at least, which might be already too much to ask. You can imagine that American left is deeply unhappy about this situation. Their only long term strategy is forcing further desegregation and wealth redistribution by any random means they get their hands on and bringing nonwhite immigrants to ultimately outvote the old white/christian/libertarian crowd. That's all they talk about and really the only way they can realistically win under the conditions of popular democracy. Meanwhile the white/christian/libertarian are quite happy in their small towns and gentrified suburbs and not much eager to go along with he left's effort, given the decrease in quality of life it would involve. It's a shitshow, it will be a shitshow. Americans have been rioting and killing each other over that issue for decades, we all will expire and they will still be doing it. Death to America, Allah willing, I'm really tired of them. --- Quote from: SerieZ on July 24, 2020, 09:29:00 am ---Hey, even Chomsky came out of his retirement to say that this cancel culture thingy is quite wrong. Makes me wonder if the leftist university elites are starting to realize they pushed a little bit to hard. --- End quote --- No shit, even one Canadian psychologist popped up a few years ago and said that much and found his life's calling in deradicalizing 4chan, only to get mocked by them. :popcorn: --- Quote from: SerieZ on July 24, 2020, 09:29:00 am ---Or maybe I am wrong we are all Doomed. lmao. --- End quote --- Americans are. I'm fine :) --- Quote from: SerieZ on July 24, 2020, 09:29:00 am ---I do apologize for my snarky reply tho, I think my Judgement got clouded by previous posts of yours. :-// --- End quote --- No worries. It's not like I'm not a dick sometimes too :) |
| GlennSprigg:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on July 25, 2020, 12:37:37 am --- --- Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on July 24, 2020, 05:58:09 pm ---Blessed are the Cheese makers. After watching multiple failed attempts through the decades, they finally decided that a brand name (and someone's family name!) of cheese in a bridge too far. And a country town with the same word in it is up for review. Madness. https://www.smh.com.au/business/consumer-affairs/coon-cheese-to-be-retired-after-21-year-fight-to-change-its-name-20200724-p55f71.html --- End quote --- Oh FFS. I thought they had already come out and and publicly said they wouldn't change it? Finally bowed to the pressure of a serial complainers. Sad. --- End quote --- They had. However, it's reared it's ugly head again due to the recent B.L.M. movement. However, some of the biggest stirrers 'this' time have been certain 'prominent' Aboriginals too!! For Christ's sake, 'Coon' cheese has been around since the 1930's in Australia. And to quote just 1 of thousands of records.... "An American, Edward William Coon, patented a unique ripening process that was used to manufacture the original Coon cheese, due to specialized humidity & temperatures" that the 'name' originated from! >:( It has NO derogatory implications in it's naming. Just a totally different 'chance' meaning! I mean, in English, we have a word 'gift'. Meaning a 'present' one would give someone. However, in German, 'gift' means 'Poison' !! Should 'we' not have gift shops any more, (it does confuse Germans!), as we send the wrong message!! :phew: Not trying to be 'dirty' here, but Americans refer to a woman's 'Fanny' as her 'butt' or 'derriere'. Sounds 'funny' to us, as the word means her... (erm) 'pussy'!! And Americans talking about someone having lots of 'spunk', is also funny to us, as here to us the word means (erm) 'ejaculate'. Do we 'ban' all such confusing books/literature ?? ??? Yes... The owners of this cheese style/type have been recently variously misquoted as saying that they 'Will' change the name, but that is CRAP. They are legally fighting it!! The 'News' here did a recent survey too, of about 60,000 people, and found 5% shit-stirrers for the re-naming, and 95% AGAINST it!! Also, one of the so called local Aboriginal stirrers recently said that... "Well, if they can prove that origin of that word is from that guys name, then I will drop my protest/law-suit"... :=\ Too many 'Band-Wagons' on the street now. People getting run over on every street corner!! :palm: |
| Kjelt:
I would call it TyCoon cheese :) End of all that waste of energy and negative publicity. We had the same with some products, cookies, pastries , the names had to be changed. Now I don't even know what they are called :) |
| Ed.Kloonk:
--- Quote from: SerieZ on July 24, 2020, 09:29:00 am --- Hey, even Chomsky came out of his retirement to say that this cancel culture thingy is quite wrong. Makes me wonder if the leftist university elites are starting to realize they pushed a little bit to hard. --- End quote --- I doubt they'll ever change their view, but they are starting to get hit in the pocket. People are getting tired of subsidizing this rubbish. Parents who have worked their guts out to be able to send their kid to uni are winding up with an angry little brat who calls it's parents vile names for doing so. Parents talk to other parents. And they are starting to figure out that the majority of uni courses are dumb and more importantly bad for the kid. |
| coppice:
--- Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on July 25, 2020, 08:53:10 pm ---I doubt they'll ever change their view, but they are starting to get hit in the pocket. People are getting tired of subsidizing this rubbish. Parents who have worked their guts out to be able to send their kid to uni are winding up with an angry little brat who calls it's parents vile names for doing so. Parents talk to other parents. And they are starting to figure out that the majority of uni courses are dumb and more importantly bad for the kid. --- End quote --- People have been talking about this for some years, so if parents are reacting it seems to be very slowly. |
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