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Re: Cancel Culture is Getting Ridiculous
« Reply #200 on: July 30, 2020, 07:26:42 PM »
Other national flags displayed by racist Nazi confederates:


The Nazi Eagle category















And these are obviously really swastikas.





And a wannabe confederate flag, here, of course.


And only a racist would fly this flag.


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Re: Cancel Culture is Getting Ridiculous
« Reply #201 on: August 05, 2020, 06:05:11 PM »
I think I'll take a trip to Trader Joe's next week and pick up one of every "ethnically named" item they sell. A normal person might think naming tortilla chips "Trader Jose's" is recognizing and complimenting that culture. I bet real money that 99.9% of the whiners are Prius driving honkeys.

https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2020/08/05/la-times-concerned-that-trader-joes-standing-by-their-problematic-branding-feels-like-a-betrayal-to-young-sjws/
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Re: Cancel Culture is Getting Ridiculous
« Reply #202 on: August 05, 2020, 06:29:45 PM »
Bosses wife back in the mid 90's hated when her dad stopped by. He would yell "Hosie".
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Re: Cancel Culture is Getting Ridiculous
« Reply #203 on: September 05, 2020, 01:44:54 PM »
They hit the rock

Plymouth Rock vandalized with white paint
https://www.wave3.com/2020/09/05/plymouth-rock-vandalized-with-white-paint/
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Re: Cancel Culture is Getting Ridiculous
« Reply #204 on: September 05, 2020, 08:28:27 PM »

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Re: Cancel Culture is Getting Ridiculous
« Reply #205 on: September 15, 2020, 04:45:21 PM »
Well, Beethoven is on the outs now.

So I guess I'm now only supposed to listen to music involving trash cans?

https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2020/09/15/vox-beethovens-fifth-symphony-is-a-symbol-of-exclusion-and-elitism-to-women-lgbtq-people-and-people-of-color/
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Re: Cancel Culture is Getting Ridiculous
« Reply #206 on: September 15, 2020, 04:48:48 PM »
Will whoever keeps asking "how stupid can they get?" please stop. They're taking that as a challenge
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Re: Cancel Culture is Getting Ridiculous
« Reply #207 on: September 15, 2020, 06:49:45 PM »
Well, Beethoven is on the outs now.

So I guess I'm now only supposed to listen to music involving trash cans?

https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2020/09/15/vox-beethovens-fifth-symphony-is-a-symbol-of-exclusion-and-elitism-to-women-lgbtq-people-and-people-of-color/
Maybe we should light a candle for all the non-rich white people who were excluded from the Symphony all those years.  Remember what they did to Shawshank when he tried to play classical music to the prisoners. 
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Re: Cancel Culture is Getting Ridiculous
« Reply #208 on: October 01, 2020, 08:19:46 AM »
Geez, all this guy did is basically say he was unfollowing someone who told him to unfollow her because of his beliefs. He did as she asked, and he was kicked off the American cycling team because it "outed" him as a Trump supporter.

Even the woman who said she didn't want any Trump supporters following her felt bad about it. Apparently the entire US organized sports industry has completely lost its mind.

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/american-cyclist-suspended-tweet-supporting-trump
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Re: Cancel Culture is Getting Ridiculous
« Reply #209 on: October 01, 2020, 08:26:23 AM »
It's almost like they don't look at average folks on the right as people they just disagree with, but as mortal enemies.

You don't have to hate anybody, but you better identify who hates you.

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Re: Cancel Culture is Getting Ridiculous
« Reply #210 on: October 01, 2020, 09:06:31 AM »
I'm all in favor of looking at history and the actions of peoples without rose colored glasses.

Man's inhumanity to man is something we shouldn't hide or glamorize.

Mankind's history is drowning in blood and there is hardly an empire, nation, race, ethnicity, ideology or tribe that can be found who's hands aren't dripping in blood.

What I'm not in favor of is only applying that painful and brutal process of acknowledging reality to one group of humans while romanticizing and mythologizing another group of humans.

Tearing down a civilization without a proven functional plan B has got to be the stupidest idea ever. 


 
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Re: Cancel Culture is Getting Ridiculous
« Reply #211 on: October 01, 2020, 10:40:04 AM »
. . .  So I guess I'm now only supposed to listen to music involving trash cans? . . .
You could do worse - at least it's not rap.

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Re: Cancel Culture is Getting Ridiculous
« Reply #212 on: October 01, 2020, 10:54:32 AM »
Geez, all this guy did is basically say he was unfollowing someone who told him to unfollow her because of his beliefs. He did as she asked, and he was kicked off the American cycling team because it "outed" him as a Trump supporter.

Even the woman who said she didn't want any Trump supporters following her felt bad about it. Apparently the entire US organized sports industry has completely lost its mind.

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/american-cyclist-suspended-tweet-supporting-trump

It seems to me he is losing some money and reputation over this.  IMO, there is some liability.  I don't care what their policies are.  Looking at the link, he didn't say anything and supporting a major party political candidate should not be "divisive" or controversial. 
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Re: Cancel Culture is Getting Ridiculous
« Reply #213 on: October 01, 2020, 11:10:07 AM »
Now the spin is that he is a racist.  He apparently waved with a black-handed emoji, and he himself is not black.
Note that I do not know for sure what color emoji he used as I have not looked at the tweets in question.  And it really should not matter what he used.
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Re: Cancel Culture is Getting Ridiculous
« Reply #214 on: October 01, 2020, 11:14:24 AM »
It seems to me he is losing some money and reputation over this.  IMO, there is some liability.  I don't care what their policies are.  Looking at the link, he didn't say anything and supporting a major party political candidate should not be "divisive" or controversial. 

It's a private racing team owned by two bicycle companies, one of which is Italian.  Trump may very well be divisive to a large segment of Trek-Segafredo customers.  Jamis notwithstanding, I remember most of the mountain biking world being pretty liberal when I raced 20 years ago.  I could see them being pretty SJW these days.

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Re: Cancel Culture is Getting Ridiculous
« Reply #215 on: October 01, 2020, 11:15:55 AM »
Now the spin is that he is a racist.  He apparently waved with a black-handed emoji, and he himself is not black.
Note that I do not know for sure what color emoji he used as I have not looked at the tweets in question.  And it really should not matter what he used.

Didn't some of these social media asshat companies just add a bunch of "emojis of color" because the complaint was that "white" emojis are racist? I see "people of color" still using white emojis all the time instead of their assigned color. Seems like a hate crime to me...
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Re: Cancel Culture is Getting Ridiculous
« Reply #216 on: October 01, 2020, 04:37:26 PM »
It's a private racing team owned by two bicycle companies, one of which is Italian.  Trump may very well be divisive to a large segment of Trek-Segafredo customers.  Jamis notwithstanding, I remember most of the mountain biking world being pretty liberal when I raced 20 years ago.  I could see them being pretty SJW these days.
They may be able to fire him for any reason, but I hate to just accept that crap.  Since he really didn't do anything, I think he should push back. 
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Re: Cancel Culture is Getting Ridiculous
« Reply #217 on: October 01, 2020, 05:19:37 PM »
Didn't some of these social media asshat companies just add a bunch of "emojis of color" because the complaint was that "white" emojis are racist? I see "people of color" still using white emojis all the time instead of their assigned color. Seems like a hate crime to me...

Cultural appropriation at the very least.
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Re: Cancel Culture is Getting Ridiculous
« Reply #218 on: November 13, 2020, 09:30:26 PM »
I found this interesting:

https://www.foxnews.com/us/airbnb-proud-boys-member-million-maga-march

A member of the Proud Boys posts to social media (I can't tell if to Twitter or elsewhere and then someone else posted on Twitter) that he had his Airbnb booked for a Trump rally in DC. Some rando then contacts Airbnb and tells them a Proud Boy has a reservation through them. Airbnb cancels the reservation and bans the guy from Airbnb.

I'm not sure how Airbnb works, but shouldn't the landlord of the property have a say once the reservation was made? Also, will Airbnb ban any antifa members using their site for the inevitable counter-protest in DC?
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Re: Cancel Culture is Getting Ridiculous
« Reply #219 on: December 15, 2020, 05:30:27 PM »
Looks like Old Abe Lincoln is on the SJW must go list

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   A San Francisco district is planning to rename a school named after Abraham Lincoln because the former president did not demonstrate that ‘black lives mattered to him’.

    The president, who is often held up as an American hero for abolishing slavery, is just one of 44 historical figures soon to have their names scratched off schools within the San Francisco Unified School District.

Wait … WUT?! San Francisco to rename Abraham Lincoln High School because he didn’t ‘demonstrate that black lives mattered to him’
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2020/12/15/wait-wut-san-francisco-to-rename-abraham-lincoln-high-school-because-he-didnt-demonstrate-that-black-lives-mattered-to-him/
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Re: Cancel Culture is Getting Ridiculous
« Reply #220 on: December 15, 2020, 10:24:17 PM »
I found this interesting:

https://www.foxnews.com/us/airbnb-proud-boys-member-million-maga-march

A member of the Proud Boys posts to social media (I can't tell if to Twitter or elsewhere and then someone else posted on Twitter) that he had his Airbnb booked for a Trump rally in DC. Some rando then contacts Airbnb and tells them a Proud Boy has a reservation through them. Airbnb cancels the reservation and bans the guy from Airbnb.

I'm not sure how Airbnb works, but shouldn't the landlord of the property have a say once the reservation was made? Also, will Airbnb ban any antifa members using their site for the inevitable counter-protest in DC?

Airbnb has gone full woke,  I got an email this past summer re affirming their goodboy status.  Think it was around Fathers Day ( The unofficial homo holiday).
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Re: Cancel Culture is Getting Ridiculous
« Reply #221 on: December 17, 2020, 03:50:51 PM »
Anne Boleyn, 2nd wife of Henry VIII is now black
Can we please stop rewriting history?

TUDOR FURY Jodie Turner Smith pictured as Anne Boleyn for the first time after new Channel 5 drama sparked race row
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tv/13481909/jodie-turner-smith-anne-boleyn-pictured-channel-5/

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Re: Cancel Culture is Getting Ridiculous
« Reply #222 on: December 17, 2020, 04:02:51 PM »
Anne Boleyn, 2nd wife of Henry VIII is now black
Can we please stop rewriting history?

TUDOR FURY Jodie Turner Smith pictured as Anne Boleyn for the first time after new Channel 5 drama sparked race row
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tv/13481909/jodie-turner-smith-anne-boleyn-pictured-channel-5/
Does she lead the Cyborg Army to victory?

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Re: Cancel Culture is Getting Ridiculous
« Reply #223 on: December 17, 2020, 08:40:48 PM »
Anne Boleyn, 2nd wife of Henry VIII is now black
Can we please stop rewriting history?

TUDOR FURY Jodie Turner Smith pictured as Anne Boleyn for the first time after new Channel 5 drama sparked race row
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tv/13481909/jodie-turner-smith-anne-boleyn-pictured-channel-5/



Shakespeare is now black too, why shouldn't boleyn turn out to be a secret queen?  

The whole thing is funny,  but this guy here is a riot

https://youtu.be/WDzPwnctqLM?t=577
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Re: Cancel Culture is Getting Ridiculous
« Reply #224 on: December 17, 2020, 08:46:26 PM »
Does she lead the Cyborg Army to victory?

She nearly did, but some guy with a blue police box and a mechanical dog showed up and ruined the party.

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