PC Principal thread

[Headspace]

It still astounds me that we live in a world where people are dying from starvation and lack of access to clean water, and we (most of us here) live in a country where there are people living in terrible poverty, occasionally dying in the streets, but "cultural appropriation" is the shit these fucking morons are concerned with. Jesus I wish they'd grow up and realize that there are way, waaaaaaaay more important things happening to care about first.

I'm not a scientist but I think the brain can handle being concerned with many different issues concurrently.

Maybe. I don't know. I'm not an expert.

[Blubbartron]

I'm not a scientist but I think the brain can handle being concerned with many different issues concurrently.

Maybe. I don't know. I'm not an expert.

Except that these people very clearly aren't writing up massive shit articles about other things. But more than that, it's not about which things they care about, it's about their ability to prioritize rationally. Take a person who's overweight, extremely dehydrated, and bleeding because he was just shot. Are you going to tell him about how badly he needs to lose weight, give him a glass of water, or are you going to call 911 so someone can treat his bullet wound? Whining about cultural appropriation is like trying to take attention away from someone bleeding out on the ground so that you can give it to your friend who has a fucking hangnail. The only correct response is tell both the person with the hangnail and the person who isn't even affected that cares so much about it to go eat a bag of dicks.

[TheDirtyHobo]

Call an ambulance, get him a glass of water while waiting for it to show up, and complain about how hard it is to get his fat ass on a gurney. Because one bad thing does not preclude another.

Cultural appropriation is stupid not because there are bigger problems, but because it's not even a problem, period. It's pretending something is a problem so that you can whine about it.

[dasva]

Well if it was a real problem people might expect someone that "cares" so much to actually do something besides whine...

[dasva]

So WoTC posted an article yesterday that had a funny little comic tying in the current gothic/horror/mystery theme in the current set/storyline with various things that have happened in rl gaming community recently particularly a player that has been doing really well for a long time. Houston got mentioned in it because he won a grand prix there in feb. Anyways thing was only up for a couple of hours before it got taken down apparently so not to be "insensitive" to the people currently facing the crap in Houston.... actual comic for reference

[GoggleHead]

Where was the objectionable part? I feel like I'm missing some context.

[Yuri-G]

Where was the objectionable part? I feel like I'm missing some context.

there is no objectionable part, which I believe is the point

[zoobernut]

I may be wrong but the objectionable part is that Texas is experiencing flooding or some other natural disaster and though this is unrelated to that people were thinking it made light of the natural disasters that are happening in Texas right now.

But who knows, it is more likely that there is no objectionable part people will dig for anything to complain about.

Or it could be related to the two lawsuits against WoTC that were brought up recently. The first I am not sure what it is about but the second is a labor lawsuit brought on by Magic Judges who are saying they are treated like employees at large tournaments but get none of the benefits, pay, or protections and face often very difficult conditions.

[Koul]

Melissa "Gimme Muscle" Click 2.0. Milo Yiannopoulos is on a speaking Tour. Students protest it. This faculty member tries to control what journalists can/cannot do. Gets mad when she finds out she's being recorded

[Blubbartron]

Kinda wish more of the conversation was recorded. Not much there to react to, other than the being disgruntled about getting recorded and saying she was gonna call the cops.

[GoggleHead]

"I'm browsing twitter".

[dasva]

I may be wrong but the objectionable part is that Texas is experiencing flooding or some other natural disaster and though this is unrelated to that people were thinking it made light of the natural disasters that are happening in Texas right now.

But who knows, it is more likely that there is no objectionable part people will dig for anything to complain about.

Or it could be related to the two lawsuits against WoTC that were brought up recently. The first I am not sure what it is about but the second is a labor lawsuit brought on by Magic Judges who are saying they are treated like employees at large tournaments but get none of the benefits, pay, or protections and face often very difficult conditions.

Yeah basically it. Wreckage of Houston might trigger people in the midst of shit right now or some crap. It's a stretch but most PC stuff is.

I believe both lawsuits are for the same thing but being filed separately (the pr response by wizards kind of makes it sound like that). Either way I don't see those ending well for either side regardless and still not understanding why they aren't suing the TO's but oh well. And yeah it might be part of the reason the comic was taken down. Can't appear to be too insensitive at a time like this

[Tarage]

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...ssouri-profes/

Melissa Click, the former University of Missouri assistant professor who was fired after she tried to block a student journalist from covering a campus protest, suggested in a recent interview that her public termination was a matter of “racial politics.”

“This is all about racial politics,” she told The Chronicle of Higher Education in an interview published Sunday. “I’m a white lady. I’m an easy target.”

She's playing the race card... the wrong race card...

[Blubbartron]

Well, she's not wrong. Nobody cares if some middle-aged white lady gets fired. There will be no public outcry, unless she tries to spin it as being targeted for being a feminist (a la the Nintendo whore).

[NynJa]

That white privilege though...

[Koul]

Is this real life:



and the triggering in it's entirety:

[Blubbartron]

That little panel they did was honestly hilarious. Crowder had so many good lines, it was amazing. Milo can get a bit irritating when he strays from the specifics of the issues into "everything the right does is awesome" nonsense, but otherwise very entertaining. It's a shame that these people value freedom so little that they couldn't keep their fucking mouths shut for a mere hour to listen to the presentation, or simply choose to do something else with their time.

[Ragnus]

That was hard to watch.

[Zetanio]

Man, people are pretty stupid.

[TheDirtyHobo]

Freedom of speech is the clickbait of constitutional amendments. So many people fundamentally don't understand what it says that I almost wish it were never made.