Has political correctness actually gone mad?

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The Corinthian said:
The fact that a woman saying ‘I love being a woman’ could offend anyone (on Twitter or otherwise) is mind bogglingly stupid.
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I think they took offence at her comments being interpreted as a criticism of the awards being gender neutral for the first time.

No idea who “they” are, mind you. As @Tarrou said, probably just a few knobheads on Twitter. Although that seems to be all it takes to generate a load of headlines these days.
 

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Fair dos.
Pogue Mahone said:
I think they took offence at her comments being interpreted as a criticism of the awards being gender neutral for the first time.

No idea who “they” are, mind you. As @Tarrou said, probably just a few knobheads on Twitter. Although that seems to be all it takes to generate a load of headlines these days.
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Yea there’s always going to be some weirdo on Twitter or online somewhere taking an issue with innocuous things (although it looks like this isn’t the case here going by entropy’s tweet).
 

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Pogue Mahone said:
I think they took offence at her comments being interpreted as a criticism of the awards being gender neutral for the first time.

No idea who “they” are, mind you. As @Tarrou said, probably just a few knobheads on Twitter. Although that seems to be all it takes to generate a load of headlines these days.
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I think the point is 'they' are almost entirely nobody. She said a thing. Nobody really minded.
 

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Whilst we're on 'pretending something is a thing for the sake of a story' (by which I mean, whilst we're in this thread, I guess) I have been led to believe that the 'some academics argue' article cites one.

I also imagine we could find quite a few that would argue choosing the white ones could make us look a bit sus, as I would.
 

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Yellow is the default hand colour on most messaging apps. Which is a good thing because nobody's skin is actually that hue. That makes it a bit of a leveller between different people.

So if a white guy went out of his way to deliberately pick a white skin hand to represent him, I think I'd probably be a bit afraid.

White people might have a lot of privelege. But giving me a white power thumbs up won't do anything to address that situation.
 

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Dante said:
Yellow is the default hand colour on most messaging apps. Which is a good thing because nobody's skin is actually that hue. That makes it a bit of a leveller between different people.

So if a white guy went out of his way to deliberately pick a white skin hand to represent him, I think I'd probably be a bit afraid.

White people might have a lot of privelege. But giving me a white power thumbs up won't do anything to address that situation.
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:lol:
 

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Pogue Mahone said:
Who is the hand just to the right of the white one supposed to represent?
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I was contemplating which one I was meant to use as that one is probably the closest to my skin colour but am I claiming a multi-racial identity that I have no evidence for if I do?
 

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Just found this absolutely terrifying mock up of racialised heart eyes emojis.

 

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I was contemplating which one I was meant to use as that one is probably the closest to my skin colour but am I claiming a multi-racial identity that I have no evidence for if I do?
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Careful now. I’ll cancel you so damn quick…

It’s a tough choice for me too. My maternal grandfather is unknown ethnicity and my skin tone is a good bit darker than the average white Irish man (my mum’s is even more so). Reckon bottom left would be closest.
 

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Yea half of the time its right wing accounts creating fake outrage and Fox News outraging on the outrage.
 

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Anustart89 said:
feck me, what’s the world gone to :lol:

“Everyone should be able to identify as whatever they’re comfortable with and we need to be tolerant of that!!”
“I love being female”
”feck off!!”
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The right wing press is salivating by the thought of you right now. One single person, self described as an attention seeker, and you're in here talking about political correctness gone mad and what has the world gone to.

It's so so easy to sell a lie.
 

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Anustart89 said:
feck me, what’s the world gone to :lol:

“Everyone should be able to identify as whatever they’re comfortable with and we need to be tolerant of that!!”
“I love being female”
”feck off!!”
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The article is specifically about (conservative) media trying to manufacture controversy based on a few tweets, and you still swallowed it hook, line and sinker.
 

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Saw this on twitter the other day just to show how far we have come, seems unbelievable right :lol:
 

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I cannot put the video but was that a nazi salute or just a wave? You cannot even put your hand up these days even in an apology without people saying it is a nazi salute. Look at MEP Dzhambazki
 

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Can't just about any theory be contested? Does that mean schools can't teach the Earth is round because flat Earthers contest that? Political correctness gone mad...
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People will contest the theory of evolution on the basis that it's "just a theory" so yeah.
 

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That'sHernandez said:
Can't just about any theory be contested? Does that mean schools can't teach the Earth is round because flat Earthers contest that? Political correctness gone mad...
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Surely that isn’t a theory though? It’s an objective fact, and anyone saying otherwise is a lunatic.
 

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2 man midfield said:
Surely that isn’t a theory though? It’s an objective fact, and anyone saying otherwise is a lunatic.
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Indeed, I think we really need to start clamping down on misinformation. We shouldn't have to waste time in schools anymore teaching kids lies about the earth being round.
 

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2 man midfield said:
Surely that isn’t a theory though? It’s an objective fact, and anyone saying otherwise is a lunatic.
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Sensible people would think so, as do these politicians who are spouting this shite.

But as soon as you tell someone that their theory is BS, it now suddenly becomes an attack on their free speech.

I fecking despair!
 
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