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First of all, I'm down with the workplace shorts. These past few weeks, I have occasionally appeared in school wearing some knee-length shorts. At 29 °C in the classroom, Dimi isn't going to cover up, sweat like a pig and faint.
Here's a PC rant of mine:
Can we please still laugh at stuff?
In my opinion, a society can only be deemed civilised when its tolerance for satire and self-referential humour is absolute. Instead, we are living in an overly sensitive world, where you have to be extra-careful not to upset, insult or mock some so-called oppressed and weak "minority".
So please be careful. Jokes about menstruation will get you labelled a "sexist" and maybe fired. Understand that the first TinTin comic was incredibly rude to black people and truly needed that imposed censorship. Don't joke about a certain prophet lest lynch mobs burn down your embassy. Bear in mind that cartoons are serious material and could, if so desired, warrant a terrorist attack. Don't make fun of the something-something impaired, you monster. See, that's not funny.
So what is? Buster Keaton stumbling and falling? Stan Laurel getting pies thrown in his face? No, unacceptable! They represent the stereotype of the skinny, clumsy white person--wait, no, that's racist; let's call it a "person of heavily reduced skin colour". So laughing at old Buster or Stan is wrong, sir, wrong! We should install the "OPHEARESC activist group": the Oppression of Persons of HEAvily Reduced Skin Colour activist group. We have a lot of 1930s slapstick films to censor and oh boy, censor them, we shall.
The very people who demand equal rights--and righteously so--very often can't take even one iota of race or gender targeted humour. Call centres and websites exist where you can issue a complaint over some joke, cartoon or funny word. And people actually take that matter seriously. The reason often given is as laughable as the jokes themselves: misplaced humour reminds the people of the oppression their ancestors had suffered. Right... Always digging up past issues. I guess I'll just start burning down some Catholic Churches then because of the crimes that particular institute has committed throughout the ages. Priests mock the simple-minded by convincing them there is a god. As a member of a minority (secular atheists), I find myself insulted by all that god mambo jambo. I demand bibles censored (just throw out god and jebus and all that nitwit stuff and keep the good and exciting parts like stoning women to death in the name of justice), I want churches burned down or used as gay bars (wouldn't want the GLBT community to feel left out) and priest or nuns cannot show themselves in "outfit" in public because they remind me and my kind too much of the intellectual oppression our ancestors have suffered.
Let's just not laugh any more, just to make sure. You know what, let's pass a law that keeps the laughter down! It's the only way we can be certain that no-one, absolutely no-one, feels insulted or emotionally hurt. Surely that will make the world a better place.
Except for normal people, like us. But then the PC world isn't for normal people, is it?
When people pick apart the social justice warrior crowd they aren't downplaying the issue of egalitarian concerns across society, they simply take issue with how these people choose to wage their wars. In a fantastic bit of hypocrisy, like the anti-cop factions of the Black Lives Matter troupe who want to burn "pig" policemen and raid their hometowns in some attempt to feel morally upstanding while calling true law enforcers criminals, the SJW crowd fight for an open society while espousing beliefs that push forth censorship.
These safe-space craving loonies want to live in a world that caters to every unsavory anxiety they have until the world is just one special melting pot of hand-holding circles and easy smiles where nobody has to worry about anything bad happening ever to anyone or anything. The issue is that this is a hyper-optimistic ideal and, like most optimism, completely impossible to reach. These people would rather shelter themselves and others from every uncomfortable thought or feeling of another person, making them unprepared to face the tough times in life without eighty packs of bandaids on hand that they can use to heal their emotional wounds when someone calls them an idiot. If people have such thin skin, you really must worry.
We all face some form of judgement, as that's life, but I don't think a solution should be to cower in fear or seek out areas where I won't be challenged or where I won't see the world at its worst so I can learn to appreciate the best of it and understand how to fix the bad patches. I'm not asking for the world to conform to me, or cater to what I'm comfortable with, as that's idiotic. I know that the world will constantly throw bad things at me, but I won't sit in my safe space and complain about it while it all still goes on or seek easy targets to explain all my problems as the radical SJWs do.
These are the kinds of folks who say that I'm not allowed to talk about my problems because I'm a "privileged" white male who has never faced any struggles worth discussing. Who say that I can't comment on the racist actions of people from other races because I'm white and have never been judged or degraded by someone from another walk of life based on my own skin color. Who say I can't debate gender issues because I am part of the male gender that has "oppressed" the female population through that dreaded patriarchy for centuries. The radical SJWs will focus on trivial and idiotic issues, like calling for book burnings when a man wears a t-shirt with a pretty girl in a bikini on it or target video games every time a woman is badly characterized in a new release (while ignoring the male characters who are drawn the same way) instead of standing up to fight things that matter and that can pave the way to true change, like worldwide civil rights issues that oppress actual women and groups of other races.
There's a reason this crowd are the butt of endless jokes. Their overreaction and outrage culture bullshit has made it so that people can't say anything even 1% controversial for fear that they'll get death threats for speaking an opinion by the nutjob followers of this radical belief system. These are the people who have comedians refusing to perform at places like college campuses because they know how much universities are against open expression with their list of "words you can't use" like "lame" and "crazy" (I wish I were joking) because they could offend a person if used.
We're creating a culture where people are already not communicating properly because they just text at each other instead of looking each other in the eyes to have actual conversations. If you add in all the SJW influence that is now making people reticent to say anything about anything because it's just not worth the trouble you get by telling a simple joke or being honest about some observation you see in the world, that we are communicating even worse than ever before. The radical factions of the SJWs, feminists, Black Lives Matter troupe and all the rest of the groups seeking representation at the expense of everyone else are the new villains of our time, and can do damage with just their words and attitudes in a fashion that would make some terrorists jealous.
This is why I hate our current time.
A restaurant worker has claimed she was fired for refusing to wear a bra on her shift.
In a Facebook post, she alleged an "inappropriate sexual remark was made to me" at the Bird and Beer, in Beverley, East Yorkshire.
The post racked up hundreds of shares, comments and likes in a short space of time.
A day after it was uploaded the status had 464 shares and 943 likes - along with 302 comments on the matter, reports Hull Daily Mail.
Her post started with: "So I've just got home after being sacked from my job, for refusing to wear a bra.
"This was said to me in front of three other staff members and customers. Leaving me feeling body shamed and completely shocked that the blame was being put onto me that I had been sexually harassed at work.”
She claimed she was called “stupid and silly” for being upset.
"I am absolutely disgusted, with the unprofessional-ism, and blatant lack of respect for my right as a woman to wear whatever makes me personally comfortable,” she continued.
"Nobody should EVER feel the need to hide themselves in order to stay away from unwanted sexual comments/behaviour.”
The restaurant was forced to turn off the comments section on its Facebook page after the remarks sparked fury on social media.
Some were so outraged they began leaving bad reviews for the establishment on Google.
But the Bird and Beer has denied the claims and said nobody has been sacked from the restaurant.
They released the following statement: "In response to the recent alleged allegations towards Bird and Beer, we wish to make the following statement.
"We can confirm that no employees have been dismissed from the company regarding these allegations.
"We have a duty of care to protect all of our employees from any discrimination or sexual harassment within the work place and we take any comments towards our employees very seriously and act upon them immediately in a professional manner."
He should have been sacked.
The best form of freedom there is. Stuff this nationalistic liberty tripe.
I supported them when they said "burn your bras" too! ;)
I could at least change my avatar, I guess.
Someone once said that “consciousness varies inversely with susceptibility to suggestion”. The PC crowd would seem to hope that everyone will drink their brand of kool-aid, and like it.
A little anecdote. During my junior school days (PC hadn't been invented then, indeed it didn't surface for some decades after) we used to go on a weekly swimming lesson at the local baths. For those - me included - who couldn't swim, we were kept in the shallow end, where we would have to practice with polystyrene boards which you used to hold at arms length while kicking your way across the pool. When you could swim a width unaided you were sent over to the deep end. The bloke in charge looked and acted Like Deryck Guyler (I guess no one will have heard of him, so I've placed a link below). Anyway, still believing himself to be a drill Sergeant, he used to stalk up and down the side of the pool holding a ten foot long pole with a hook on the end. With this device he used to randomly push the unfortunate kids who got within range under the water. If you started to drown - most likely only after coming up for air for the third and final time, He would hook you round the neck and drag you to the side, chastising you for being a weakling. We, the kids, thought nothing of it. It was certainly character building!
I wonder how todays PC/H&S brigade would cope with that sort of thing? All the kids would sue him for a start and would have to call on the services of a councillor to help them come to terms with the trauma of it all.
Oops, I almost forgot the link:
Brilliant post and I agree completely. It's easy to say why can't such and such group take a joke but usually there's a valid reason behind it. I'm black and I'm lucky in the sense that I grew up in a fairly diverse community and even family (me, my brother and sister were raised by two white people). Apart from the odd idiot, I can't say I have experienced much prejudice in my time. But many others from certain minority groups have. It's easy to have a go at someone for not being able to take a joke now but equally you don't know what them or their family have been through. Given how much prejudice there still is in the world, it's more than likely that they had every right to be offended even if it was meant in jest. It is all about understanding the viewpoint of the other person. Equally that goes both ways: ignorance should be challenged but if something is clearly meant as a joke, a quiet word about why you don't find that okay is better than going online and getting a lynch mob together. It is, as you said, all about understanding the viewpoint of the other person. And complaining about PC isn't doing that, and neither is accusing anyone who makes a stupid joke of being an intolerant bigot. Neither extreme is helpful imo.
The full Stewart Lee bit for anyone who's curious. But the key point to take from it is this: "there are problems with it (political correctness), but it's better than what we used to have". It's easy to criticise someone for not being able to take a joke nowadays since society as a whole is fairly peogressive, but as he points out in the video, it wasn't that long ago that things were a lot worse, something that a lot of people within minority groups would remember experiencing firsthand (or have family members who had), which I think should be kept in mind when accusing anyone of being overly sensitive.
This bit never fails to make me laugh.
#ThatImageSoWhite
Of course it's an all white image. You goddamn white supremacist bastard.
My safe space always has a supply of saltines and water on hand, so I'm good. I could use more bandaids though, in case someone stops by my safe space and makes an off color joke at me. I could just cry!
I hope you carry bandaids in all sizes because I want big ones to fit my body image. Regular small ones trigger me and are ableist.
I'd love to say they must be making this up but I've actually got the e-mail from TfL management ordering this latest step deeper into the depressing quagmire of PC totalitarianism.
'Campaigners had said the phrase "ladies and gentleman" - which is commonly used by drivers - was “outdated”.'