Example:
Innocent children's cartoon, where complaint(s) were about some moving visuals where they claimed it was religious/sacred writings. Despite the author(s) or similar, saying it was just random text. They were forced to pull the entire program.
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/controversy-erupts-over-fireman-sam-scene-where-characters-trips-quran-881440811
Huh. I didn't know Dave created children's television shows too... Where does he find the time?MQuoteFireman Sam creator David Jones has previously found himself under fire after he was held for questioning for asking why a veiled woman was allowed through airport security without being checked.
Dave has had quite a career:
Singer/Pop Icon (People say he monkeys around...)
TV Show Creator/Producer
Electronics Engineer
Writer
Internet Dating Expert
and Closet Racist!
When I read through your post, I could NOT understand it. I assumed I had messed up, or you were joking or something.
I actually read through that part, and did NOT notice he was called "David Jones", wow!
I was reading very quickly, I guess.
Except that "Jones" is a very common surname in the UK (especial Wales I believe).
Well spotted!
You had me fooled for a while. I thought you were mixed up and thought I was talking about an EEVblog video
XD
Yes, David Jones seems to be quite a common name. I see it all over the place!
(Hence my list above, combining Davy Jones from the 1960's band The Monkees, David Jones the "racist, Fireman Sam" creator and our David L. Jones, Engineer/Internet Dating Expert!)
Of course they have universities in Africa.
Seems like, your sarcasm detector is broken.
I read scientific papers, so far none of which I can remember came from africa. Also, when I'm thinking about Cape town, I'm thinking about highest murder rates, not "hmm... I wonder what universities they have there". So they have some PR to do. This video is surely not helping that.
Oh, nice. I'll tell you who the hypocrite is here. You attack me instead of the argument you
Spare me you were condescending and elitist in your reply.
What do you mean when you say we brought them here? Are you 400 years old? I never brought anyone here, people who lived here 3-400 years ago did, I didn’t.
Yes I place a monetary value on it, grow up everything is about money it’s how you feed and clothe yourself. Money is also what the people who are screaming racism and discrimination also want.
Did you also read in the article that slavery crossed all races and that in fact the Africans were doing it amongst themselves? Did you also read that it was the west that eventually took a stand against slavery? You do also know slavery still goes on, in Africa especially?
What I never understood, there is equality, right? Every color is equal.
Legally there is equality, yes. That's about it. But when you look around there, you see every kind of job, or region has a fixed color. (Except for the little initiatives to create equality in practice.)
I think many of you have allowed yourselves to fall into a trap. A very common tactic of those seeking power and/or your money is to create a problem and get everyone whipped up into a furor over said made up problem. Of course the same people who fabricated the problem also have a solution to sell you. Stating that 'western' science is racist is the fabricated problem, arguing over the sins of our fathers is a distraction.
Note that I think there is no difference here between the people who are leading this saying "It's all the White's fault" and the people in other places (and also, but not necessarily, other times) who say that is it all the fault of the immigrants/Jews/blacks/Moslems/intellectuals/commies/liberals/SJWs. As long as there is an easily identifiable group to blame you don't have to take responsibility for your own shortfalls or inability to actually get on and do something about the substantive problems.
At what point do these identifiable groups then have to "own their own shit"
You can point at 1950's America and say there was enough cultural white racism to deny common rights to blacks,
just as we can point to Islamic countries and peoples for aiding or passively supporting ISIS and the jihadist mentality, or #BLM for ignoring black on black violence.
I'm not quite sure what your point is? It would appear that you are saying that the groups that get picked as scapegoats are at least partly culpable. That is not the dynamic of what happens here. They can be every shade of culpable for their own failings (from blameless to steeped in sin as black as a lawyer's heart) and it is irrelevant, because they are being used as scapegoats.
Which group is using which as a scrape goat?
did people miss their flight because all white people are racist or that #BLM thought it would be useful to their culturally blind agenda to close down an airport.
When is it legitimate to say my reaction to your action is legitimate.
What I never understood, there is equality, right? Every color is equal.
Legally there is equality, yes. That's about it. But when you look around there, you see every kind of job, or region has a fixed color. (Except for the little initiatives to create equality in practice.)
when you go beyond legal equality you quickly move towards a "equality of outcome" vs. "equality of opportunity"
I don't think you're quite following this. It's an attempt to do some reasoned thinking about why these people (specifically these South African students) are acting like this, not a attempt to provide you with a hook on which to hang on your, what appears rather confused, thoughts about who is to blame. To blame, apparently, for missing a flight, which I can't see has anything to do with a bunch of South African students making outrageous claims about 'white' science for apparently political reasons. Your train of thought is a little, how can I put it, divergent, or as someone once described it to me "knight's move thinking" - it shoots off at right angles.
Well there's clarifying a debate point and there's being a pompous dick about it,
thanks for clearing that up for me.
U of Chicago's Dean send incoming freshman (this year) a letter on U of Chicago's position on safe space and so called "trigger warnings":
"Our commitment to academic freedom means that we do not support so-called 'trigger warnings,' we do not cancel invited speakers because their topics might prove controversial, and we do not condone the creation of intellectual 'safe spaces' where individuals can retreat from ideas and perspectives at odds with their own, ..."
That is the exact opposite of what the idea seems to have evolved into which would appear to be some form or pre-censure of unpopular or "unthinkable" ideas.
That is the exact opposite of what the idea seems to have evolved into which would appear to be some form or pre-censure of unpopular or "unthinkable" ideas.
I think what you meant to say was that you got a different set of bigots taking advantage to the ones you were expecting.
The new seems to be about actively avoiding new ideas which seems futile.
Passed it up to a mod, not willing to engage with someone like you
When I originally encountered the idea of "safe space" in academic argument the idea was one of an environment where one could express any idea without fear of censure for exploring unpopular or "unthinkable" ideas. That is the exact opposite of what the idea seems to have evolved into which would appear to be some form or pre-censure of unpopular or "unthinkable" ideas. Academia ought to present you with ideas that you fear, dislike or are opposed to in an environment that fosters civil, polite discussion of those ideas. I find this being turned on its head perverse.
Passed it up to a mod, not willing to engage with someone like you
Seriously people
You don't report things because it's something you don't like and you want it removed so you aren't tempted to reply.
Just don't reply!
As for this thread, either keep it civil and on topic or it gets locked.
I think this all boils down to a lack of understanding of exactly what science is and a failure of schooling.
but I think if we have a catastrophe of some sort these sorts of people probably wont last too long.
Just don't reply!
Although I must grant the social justice types that they are quite apt at coming up with new ideas, it's far easier when they don't have to make sense.