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Re: Cancel Culture is Getting Ridiculous
« Reply #275 on: March 10, 2021, 08:56:34 AM »
Newton who?

Apparently some prep schools are renaming basic laws of physics to eliminate references to white men who discovered them.

https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2021/03/09/bari-weiss-writes-about-affluent-parents-organizing-in-secret-against-elite-prep-schools-going-anti-racist/
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Re: Cancel Culture is Getting Ridiculous
« Reply #276 on: March 11, 2021, 11:54:33 PM »
https://youtu.be/N3gUemPbYi0?t=10912

C&Rsenal did a recent Q&A video.  At about the 3:02 mark, a question comes up about them including their pronouns when they do introductions.  It is just funny to listen to.  You can tell they don't deal with that stuff much.   =)
Also, this is part 2 of the Q&A so this is 6 hours or more into Q&A questions.
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Re: Cancel Culture is Getting Ridiculous
« Reply #277 on: March 12, 2021, 06:41:34 AM »
https://youtu.be/N3gUemPbYi0?t=10912

C&Rsenal did a recent Q&A video.  At about the 3:02 mark, a question comes up about them including their pronouns when they do introductions.  It is just funny to listen to.  You can tell they don't deal with that stuff much.   =)
Also, this is part 2 of the Q&A so this is 6 hours or more into Q&A questions.

LOL, I hadn't gotten that far yet
One has a beard the other huuuuge......tracks of land. Figure it out.
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Re: Cancel Culture is Getting Ridiculous
« Reply #278 on: March 12, 2021, 09:00:04 AM »
LOL, I hadn't gotten that far yet
One has a beard the other huuuuge......tracks of land. Figure it out.
I cheated.  I saw reference to it elsewhere and had to go find that part of the video.  I just love her initial response.  "....for the guns?...."

I make it through Drachinifel's Q&A videos so I figure I can handle theirs. 
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Re: Cancel Culture is Getting Ridiculous
« Reply #279 on: March 12, 2021, 09:03:05 AM »
I cheated.  I saw reference to it elsewhere and had to go find that part of the video.  I just love her initial response.  "....for the guns?...."

I make it through Drachinifel's Q&A videos so I figure I can handle theirs.

Drach puts an hour + long Q&A out every week sometimes twice a/week if you count the live ones. Some are over 3 to 5 hours long
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Re: Cancel Culture is Getting Ridiculous
« Reply #280 on: March 21, 2021, 09:57:37 AM »
Cigna Healthcare's critical race theory class. I don't get some of these. Articulate? Peanut gallery?

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Re: Cancel Culture is Getting Ridiculous
« Reply #281 on: March 21, 2021, 10:03:11 AM »
Just saw that on twitchy
Try this photo from that story on for size

https://twitter.com/SaysSimonson/status/1373016839064842241/photo/1
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Re: Cancel Culture is Getting Ridiculous
« Reply #282 on: March 21, 2021, 01:16:56 PM »
So much for Monopoly:

https://twitchy.com/brads-313037/2021/03/21/from-monopoly-to-woke-opoly-game-maker-hasbro-wants-to-change-the-popular-game-with-more-socially-conscious-elements/

It's frustrating enough when companies cave to the SJW whiners, but even moreso when the companies cave all on their own.
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Re: Cancel Culture is Getting Ridiculous
« Reply #283 on: March 21, 2021, 02:36:23 PM »
So much for Monopoly:

https://twitchy.com/brads-313037/2021/03/21/from-monopoly-to-woke-opoly-game-maker-hasbro-wants-to-change-the-popular-game-with-more-socially-conscious-elements/

It's frustrating enough when companies cave to the SJW whiners, but even moreso when the companies cave all on their own.

Back in  the early 2000s I bought my daughter the Game of Life. Upon opening it I started read the board and noticed compare to The Game Life we had when I was a kid there were no hard decisions or bad consequences to anything in the game. It was all peaches and cream for every player  with no real winners or losers no matter how you played. Was temped to ordered an older one off ebay but the prices were nuts because apparently a lot of people had the same idea I had.
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Re: Cancel Culture is Getting Ridiculous
« Reply #284 on: March 21, 2021, 03:08:34 PM »
Cigna Healthcare's critical race theory class. I don't get some of these. Articulate? Peanut gallery?


Just ask crazy uncle Joe.
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Re: Cancel Culture is Getting Ridiculous
« Reply #285 on: March 26, 2021, 11:35:32 AM »
And now a woke theater director has decided Cinderella is too white so the whole thing was scrapped while we sort out our feelings and re-examine our diversity in hiring.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/minnesota-theater-cancels-its-own-cinderella-production-because-cast-was-too-white

Does this mean Song of the South will be making a resurgence?  ;)

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Re: Cancel Culture is Getting Ridiculous
« Reply #286 on: March 26, 2021, 12:01:40 PM »
And now a woke theater director has decided Cinderella is too white so the whole thing was scrapped while we sort out our feelings and re-examine our diversity in hiring.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/minnesota-theater-cancels-its-own-cinderella-production-because-cast-was-too-white

Does this mean Song of the South will be making a resurgence?  ;)

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Shocker that a story that takes place in Europe is all white
The Lion King stage play is 100% black so are they going to cancel it for being too black? Mulan for being too Asian? Of course not.
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Re: Cancel Culture is Getting Ridiculous
« Reply #287 on: April 01, 2021, 10:14:20 AM »
Now SpongeBob

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In the episode, a health inspector comes to the Krusty Krab and finds a case of the "Clam Flu" in the restaurant. Upon this discovery, the health inspector quarantines the patrons, and the characters grow anxious. Those who are assumed to have the virus are shunned and tossed in a freezer.

The removal of the "Kwarantined Crab" comes during a time of increased anti-Asian violence in the United States. The episode's storyline reflects feelings of increased isolation and hatred that many Asian communities have experienced since the COVID-19 pandemic began.
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Another episode called "Mid-Life Crustacean" has been out of rotation since 2018. In it, SpongeBob, Patrick and Mr. Krabs break into a woman's house and steal her underwear.

Two SpongeBob episodes get pulled by streaming services
https://www.wlky.com/article/2-spongebob-episodes-get-pulled-by-streaming-services/35983994
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Re: Cancel Culture is Getting Ridiculous
« Reply #289 on: April 03, 2021, 02:08:53 PM »
Newton who?

Apparently some prep schools are renaming basic laws of physics to eliminate references to white men who discovered them.

https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2021/03/09/bari-weiss-writes-about-affluent-parents-organizing-in-secret-against-elite-prep-schools-going-anti-racist/
Oh, for crying out loud - just be sure to name the basic laws of physics (or any other science) discovered by POC's after the POCs who discovered them.
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Re: Cancel Culture is Getting Ridiculous
« Reply #290 on: April 03, 2021, 02:15:14 PM »
Cigna Healthcare's critical race theory class. I don't get some of these. Articulate? Peanut gallery?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ew3wfbIWYAAR3eM?format=jpg&name=large

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Re: Cancel Culture is Getting Ridiculous
« Reply #291 on: April 03, 2021, 02:19:08 PM »
According to my employer's mandatory "anti-racism" training, saying "All Lives Matter" is a micro-aggression.

How about saying "No Lives Matter"?
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Re: Cancel Culture is Getting Ridiculous
« Reply #292 on: April 13, 2021, 05:11:16 PM »
There's a few other words I could mention that we could use instead but this is a family* forum


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AP Stylebook says the term ‘mistress’ is no longer appropriate
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2021/04/13/ap-stylebook-says-the-term-mistress-is-no-longer-appropriate/

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Re: Cancel Culture is Getting Ridiculous
« Reply #293 on: April 13, 2021, 07:10:44 PM »
Ok,  vice presidential candidate it is then.
AKA Navy Joe   

I'm so contrarian that I didn't respond to the thread.

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Re: Cancel Culture is Getting Ridiculous
« Reply #294 on: April 13, 2021, 07:20:33 PM »
There's a few other words I could mention that we could use instead but this is a family* forum


AP Stylebook says the term ‘mistress’ is no longer appropriate
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2021/04/13/ap-stylebook-says-the-term-mistress-is-no-longer-appropriate/

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Is "concubine" no longer in fashion?
How about."side chick"?
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Re: Cancel Culture is Getting Ridiculous
« Reply #295 on: April 14, 2021, 06:15:04 PM »
Ok,  vice presidential candidate it is then.

Pithy.  I like it.
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Re: Cancel Culture is Getting Ridiculous
« Reply #296 on: April 15, 2021, 12:34:13 AM »
There's a few other words I could mention that we could use instead but this is a family* forum


AP Stylebook says the term ‘mistress’ is no longer appropriate
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2021/04/13/ap-stylebook-says-the-term-mistress-is-no-longer-appropriate/

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How about "paramour"?  =|
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Re: Cancel Culture is Getting Ridiculous
« Reply #297 on: April 21, 2021, 02:01:19 PM »
Well that was quick...sent email on Sunday, gone on Wednesday.

Philip Berk, a former president and longtime member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the organization that governs and votes for the annual Golden Globes, has been ousted from the group's board after sending an email that called Black Lives Matter a "hate movement."
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Re: Cancel Culture is Getting Ridiculous
« Reply #298 on: May 02, 2021, 08:42:16 AM »
This Nick Fuentes guy is getting the treatment. I don't know much about him really but here we go with the no-fly list being used to harass the lefts enemies.   

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But Fuentes never got off the ground, because two airlines and Joe Biden’s TSA informed him that he didn’t have “clearance” to fly. He has been charged with no crimes and was blocked from exercising his First Amendment rights to free speech and peaceable assembly.

“The United States is now a country that persecutes its own citizens for political dissent. My placement on the no-fly list constitutes a grave escalation by the federal government against American conservatives,” Fuentes told me. It’s “all the more reason why our Republican representatives in state and federal government must get serious and pass strong legislation that protects the civil liberties of the 75 million people that voted for Donald Trump.”

The article is actually about Desantis and his push to rein in social media censorship.

https://www.unz.com/mmalkin/anti-censorship-legislation-get-it-right/
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Re: Cancel Culture is Getting Ridiculous
« Reply #299 on: May 02, 2021, 10:11:32 AM »
The fun part is that they won't even tell you, in most cases, why you got zucked.
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