OMG, I'm offended thread
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stui magpie
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I reckon it is. It's not like Ghandi did anything for Ghana that would warrant a statue in the first place. He might have been a hero to Indians but clearly not to black Africans.
There seems to be some evidence that Indians have a racist attitude toward blacks.
http://fotoroom.co/african-portraits-mahesh-shantaram/
https://citizen.co.za/news/south-africa ... bodyguard/
The root of it seems to be in the Indian Caste system, where darker skin is associated with the lowest castes and the wealthier upper castes have the lightest skin.
https://scroll.in/pulse/850030/skin-lig ... al-problem
I reckon it is. It's not like Ghandi did anything for Ghana that would warrant a statue in the first place. He might have been a hero to Indians but clearly not to black Africans.
There seems to be some evidence that Indians have a racist attitude toward blacks.
http://fotoroom.co/african-portraits-mahesh-shantaram/
https://citizen.co.za/news/south-africa ... bodyguard/
The root of it seems to be in the Indian Caste system, where darker skin is associated with the lowest castes and the wealthier upper castes have the lightest skin.
https://scroll.in/pulse/850030/skin-lig ... al-problem
Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down.
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David
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I thought this thread was supposed to be about the phenomenon of people getting excessively offended about things, not embodying it. Nothing quite gets the tabloid crowd's knickers in a twist like sex education classes.
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Tacky sales pitch aside, I fail to see how these figurines are racist, there is absolutely nothing derogatory about them at all. Yet, the SJWs and social media have chalked up another win.
https://www.heraldsun.com.au/business/c ... b6bcfca9da
https://www.heraldsun.com.au/business/c ... b6bcfca9da
How would Siri know when to answer "Hey Siri" unless it is listening in to everything you say?
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Yeah, they're hardly what I'd call derogatory, they look like a reasonable depiction of indigenous people in traditional garb, like you'd see now in a dance.
I guess Neville the concrete Aboriginal wouldn't work these days either.
Yeah, they're hardly what I'd call derogatory, they look like a reasonable depiction of indigenous people in traditional garb, like you'd see now in a dance.
I guess Neville the concrete Aboriginal wouldn't work these days either.
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Saying that boys can have periods is just confusing rubbish though. The OMG I'm offended people are the ones who are putting these ridiculous, pandering statements into sex ed in the first place.David wrote:I thought this thread was supposed to be about the phenomenon of people getting excessively offended about things, not embodying it. Nothing quite gets the tabloid crowd's knickers in a twist like sex education classes.
No, boys and men cannot have periods, or get pregnant no matter how much some people want to believe it.
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Men can get pregnant via anal sex.Wokko wrote:Saying that boys can have periods is just confusing rubbish though. The OMG I'm offended people are the ones who are putting these ridiculous, pandering statements into sex ed in the first place.David wrote:I thought this thread was supposed to be about the phenomenon of people getting excessively offended about things, not embodying it. Nothing quite gets the tabloid crowd's knickers in a twist like sex education classes.
No, boys and men cannot have periods, or get pregnant no matter how much some people want to believe it.
Where do you think carlton supporters come from?
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Disagree. Many schools have one or more transgender students, and children need to learn to interact with each other now, not when they're in university. As I said, there are better and worse ways of handling that, but as neither of us have actually attended the classes or know the precise wording of the lessons (what's quoted in the article is a council directive to the school, not what teachers are actually going to be saying in class), I'm going to lean towards the presumption that they've thought carefully about this and know what they're doing.
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