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Wokeism of the day *Revised Mod Note in OP and threadbanned users*

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    #692
    Gervais08
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,612 ✭✭✭Gervais08


    iebamm2580 wrote: »
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8841637/Merriam-Webster-changes-sexual-preference-offensive-term-following-SCOTUS-hearing.html

    Now the liberals are saying preference is offensive, how do these people go about their day.

    The word choice there IS offensive, gay people have spent decades fighting against the crap that they “choose” to be gay and along come the gender morons with their “identifying as a lesbian” and “female penis” bull****.


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    #693
    Cordell
    Registered Users Posts: 5,787 ✭✭✭Cordell


    begbysback wrote: »
    So you are saying that in prison there is no gay for the stay?

    No, you can't unsuck that coc. If you were so inclined to do it while locked up, you had it in you all along.


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    #694
    Gervais08
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,612 ✭✭✭Gervais08


    Cordell wrote: »
    No, you can't unsuck that coc. If you were so inclined to do it while locked up, you had it in you all along.

    I really want to go full on Kenneth Williams at that!!!


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    #695
    [Deleted User]
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    Gervais08 wrote: »
    The word choice there IS offensive, gay people have spent decades fighting against the crap that they “choose” to be gay and along come the gender morons with their “identifying as a lesbian” and “female penis” bull****.

    Perhaps, but speak to most Bisexuals and they would defend the use of the term, sexual preference, because there are preferences involved. The attraction and desire is there for both genders, but it's rare that it's completely equal. Usually, there's some preference for one or the other. Right now, I'd be considered heterosexual since I've got my attention firmly fixed on women, but I often swing the other way too... it's based on attraction, but there is a conscious decision too. A sexual preference.

    The problem with these movements to shut down words, is that they seek to remove nuance from language. Context is key. The manner in which people structure their statements. People should be responsible for how they choose to structure their sentences, and the choices they make with picking certain words... this movement to remove or vilify words dumbs down the language so much.


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    #696
    Biker79
    Closed Accounts Posts: 794 ✭✭✭Biker79


    The problem is they have a fundamental misunderstanding of language and how it communicates ideas.

    They continually redefine words rather than engage with the accepted sense of the word.

    Like so many other things, they are cancelling the meaning of words so they can ignore ideas, or recreate those words to their own liking.

    The obvious problem with this is, once you set a precedent, then anyone can come along and say what they like and expect it to be held as true. Just because it is their truth.

    Its like dealing with children.


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    #697
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Biker79 wrote: »
    Its like dealing with children.

    To be fair, Children have more sense...


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    #698
    iebamm2580
    Registered Users Posts: 1,610 ✭✭✭iebamm2580


    im tall can i be offended if somebody calls me tall? i didnt choose my height


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    #699
    Cordell
    Registered Users Posts: 5,787 ✭✭✭Cordell


    Yes, there was just as much choice on that too ;)


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    #700
    wassie
    Registered Users Posts: 3,270 ✭✭✭wassie


    iebamm2580 wrote: »
    im tall can i be offended if somebody calls me tall? i didnt choose my height

    Maybe you should stop talking down to them. :rolleyes:


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    #701
    IAMAMORON
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    sbsquarepants wrote: »
    Preference doesn't imply conscious choice, it just means you like one thing more than another thing. It makes no assumption as to why.

    Polygender prerogative.


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    #702
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Gervais08 wrote: »
    The word choice there IS offensive, gay people have spent decades fighting against the crap that they “choose” to be gay and along come the gender morons with their “identifying as a lesbian” and “female penis” bull****.


    I didn't choose to prefer beer to wine. That doesn't mean i don't prefer it. I didn't choose to prefer football to rugby, dogs to cats, red to blue. We all have hundreds of preferences we didn't choose. Preference doesn't imply choice.

    You either prefer having sex with men or women - it's as simple as that.

    If you're offended by your own preference you're a fúcking bell end!

    IAMAMORON wrote: »
    Polygender prerogative.


    I like their first couple of albums, went downhill after that though:D


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    #703
    IAMAMORON
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    sbsquarepants wrote: »

    You either prefer having sex with men or women - it's as simple as that.


    Or both..... ?


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    #704
    TheAsYLuMkeY
    Registered Users Posts: 634 ✭✭✭TheAsYLuMkeY


    sbsquarepants wrote: »

    If you're offended by your own preference you're a fúcking bell end!

    icon14.png.


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    #705
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    IAMAMORON wrote: »
    Or both..... ?


    You can have sex with both, but you can only prefer 1.


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    #706
    IAMAMORON
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    sbsquarepants wrote: »
    You can have sex with both, but you can only prefer 1.

    Polarised tainted discrimination of sexual prerogative.


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    #707
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    IAMAMORON wrote: »
    Polarised tainted discrimination of sexual prerogative.


    I have to hand it to you, you know your 80's synth pop bands;)


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    #708
    iebamm2580
    Registered Users Posts: 1,610 ✭✭✭iebamm2580


    wassie wrote: »
    Maybe you should stop talking down to them. :rolleyes:

    ah no its just my preferred way of talking to people.


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    #709
    IAMAMORON
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    sbsquarepants wrote: »
    I have to hand it to you, you know your 80's synth pop bands;)

    Passive aggressive stereotyping of musical preference disparity.

    Punitive social categorization.


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    #710
    Tired Gardener
    Closed Accounts Posts: 456 ✭✭Tired Gardener


    A lot if this I think is due to the algorithm on social media platforms. They have allowed people to cultivate their own echo chamber and news feed, thus they get manipulated view of things. Which is furtile ground for radicalism to flourish. It essentially has created a very polarised view of the world and continues to reinforce that view. If we just got rod of these social media platforms, it would be a great step at getting us back to a place where we find commonality, a ficus more on what unites us than what divides us.

    Note that social media platforms that don't have things like the algorithm and a news feed are less prone to this, for example forums, which while 'old, I think are the future.


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    #711
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,099 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    sbsquarepants wrote: »
    Preference doesn't imply conscious choice, it just means you like one thing more than another thing. It makes no assumption as to why.

    It's the opposite of choice, really. Choice means deciding between two things on their merits, a preference will make that choice for you.


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    #712
    Biker79
    Closed Accounts Posts: 794 ✭✭✭Biker79


    Tired Gardener wrote: »
    A lot if this I think is due to the algorithm on social media platforms. They have allowed people to cultivate their own echo chamber and news feed, thus they get manipulated view of things. Which is furtile ground for radicalism to flourish. It essentially has created a very polarised view of the world and continues to reinforce that view. If we just got rod of these social media platforms, it would be a great step at getting us back to a place where we find commonality, a ficus more on what unites us than what divides us.

    Note that social media platforms that don't have things like the algorithm and a news feed are less prone to this, for example forums, which while 'old, I think are the future.

    If regulators forced a primary business model of subscription-based services, rather than free with data sold on to advertisers....this would make all the difference.


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    #713
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    pickarooney wrote: »
    It's the opposite of choice, really. Choice means deciding between two things on their merits, a preference will make that choice for you.

    Nah. There's still choice involved. You might rely completely on subconscious decision making, in which case, there is little choice involved (dependent on your past experience and the habit pathways you've encouraged to be established), but any degree of conscious thought about the decision will give you the steering wheel.

    A preference simply says that this is preferable... that it's better than that. You can still choose the former rather than the latter, although your instincts will continue to influence you towards the latter.


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    #714
    Pixel Eater
    Registered Users Posts: 486 ✭✭Pixel Eater


    Does this count?

    https://www.theguardian.com/food/2020/oct/13/ive-always-loved-fried-chicken-but-the-racism-surrounding-it-shamed-me


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    #715
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Ah FFS!! Is nothing sacred:mad:




    Although that colonel fella does have the look of a plantation owner off him, now that you mention it:D


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    #716
    lawrencesummers
    Registered Users Posts: 8,479 ✭✭✭lawrencesummers


    Pixel Eater wrote: »
    Does this count?

    https://www.theguardian.com/food/2020/oct/13/ive-always-loved-fried-chicken-but-the-racism-surrounding-it-shamed-me

    I got to the part about new found chicken shops lacking soul. As if to say KFC had it in the first place.


    That piece should be rewritten about potatoes and Ireland instead of Jamaican. Or snails and France instead of Jamaican


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    #717
    Cordell
    Registered Users Posts: 5,787 ✭✭✭Cordell


    Don't really get it, should I stop eating KFC because it's racist to do so, or should I stop eating what the n word people eat?


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    #718
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,454 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    Pixel Eater wrote: »
    Does this count?

    https://www.theguardian.com/food/2020/oct/13/ive-always-loved-fried-chicken-but-the-racism-surrounding-it-shamed-me

    The fried chicken reminded me of an Ice-T track from an album I bought in the early 90s. The first 7 seconds were a favourite of my brother, who was in his very early teens at the time...:D

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DcRvwitAdM


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    #719
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,454 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    (I'm probably doing this woke-ism thing wrong...)


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    #720
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Me too - i'm thinking KFC for lunch;)


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    #721
    Biker79
    Closed Accounts Posts: 794 ✭✭✭Biker79


    There's always the WokeCup Cafe. Grab a coffee and be assimilated into the collective...


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