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Things that trigger the right?

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  • #62
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users Posts: 8,155 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    people in this thread so far on the left they seem to be living in the US...


  • #63
    Cody montana
    Registered Users Posts: 5,233 ✭✭✭Cody montana


    Birneybau wrote: »
    Wow, good steal from Twitter

    Huh?


  • #64
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,065 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    I see sheep wrote: »
    Black/Asian people in historical shows/movies.

    "Why is this thrown in our faces"
    Meh I don't mind it. I mean you have to suspend disbelief going into any drama, but when it's too obvious a "progressive" casting decision with a side order of lecturing it can be irritating. Though this kinda thing has been happening in different forms throughout the history of 20th century drama. If the preamble to the flic comes out with "based on a true story/history" then my nitpicking can come out. This also goes for when Hollywood whitewashes a part. Which used to be far worse to be fair. John Wayne playing Genghis Khan one of the lowlights.

    Where I would go "ah here FFS" is when documentaries claiming to be factual do that kinda thing in reenactments.
    Quantum Erasure wrote: »
    people in this thread so far on the left they seem to be living in the US...
    Eh... the American Left outside of a minority in US universities would be very much centre, if not centre right here.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



  • #65
    artanevilla
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 10,250 Mod ✭✭✭✭artanevilla


    Bohs jersey launches.


  • #66
    Say Your Number
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 10,734 Mod ✭✭✭✭Say Your Number


    The mere suggestion of a homophobic slur being bleeped out of a song had a lot of people jumping up and down in rage, heard a song that had the word wanker bleeped out a while ago and no one gave a sh1te about that, oddly enough.


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  • #67
    Arghus
    Registered Users Posts: 14,320 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    This thread, soon enough. They're already getting uppity.


  • #68
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users Posts: 8,155 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    Ipso wrote: »
    Eh... the American Left outside of a minority in US universities would be very much centre, if not centre right here.

    on a map, i mean. why are we fighting american culture wars on Boards.ie,




    fúck Trump, Bernie 2020,


  • #69
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,065 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Quantum Erasure wrote: »
    on a map, i mean. why are we fighting american culture wars on Boards.ie,
    True that.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



  • #70
    Better Than Christ
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,135 ✭✭✭Better Than Christ


    I see sheep wrote: »
    Black/Asian people in historical shows/movies.

    "Why is this thrown in our faces"

    They did that to great effect with Armando Iannucci's recent adaptation of David Copperfield - genuinely colour-blind casting, to the extent of having characters who were related to each other played by actors of totally different racial backgrounds. Even Mr Micawber's wife was Bernie from the Commitments.

    Of course, when Charles Dickens wrote the original movie, back in Dickensian times, other races hadn't yet been invented.


  • #71
    Robsweezie
    Registered Users Posts: 3,434 ✭✭✭Robsweezie


    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/13/opinion/sunday/marriage-housework-gender-happiness.html?smtyp=cur&smid=fb-nytimes&fbclid=IwAR0DlHwiyGcgWTCY7_GUvJgkC8mP8Qa2WUbfi0oWq0AdY6Rd7Z9VIrwed_M


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  • #72
    TuringBot47
    Registered Users Posts: 991 ✭✭✭TuringBot47


    Better Than Christ wrote: »
    The idea that never having found yourself unemployed is down to anything other than good fortune.

    Yeah, it's fortunate that I've a good work ethic.


  • #73
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,065 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Better Than Christ wrote: »
    They did that to great effect with Armando Iannucci's recent adaptation of David Copperfield - genuinely colour-blind casting, to the extent of having characters who were related to each other played by actors of totally different racial backgrounds.
    A good example of stunt casting and a reflection of the times, like whitewashing was before it. Drama always reflects the times to some degree. Hell, in the 60's you had war, westerns and science fiction dramas that featured hippies. So today it's let's make James Bond a mixed race Black Asian Lesbian woman in a wheelchair. With Aspergers. As sure as the world turns it'll change again. Mostly when something stops making money. It's always about the money.

    I do wonder though would you be so cool, holier than thou and "colour blind" about such things if someone adapted the story of say Shaka Zulu using a mostly European and Asian cast, or casting Brad Pitt as Genghis Khan, or Adam Driver as Othello? BTW I'd also consider all of the above daft and stunt casting. Seeing Olivier in blackface doing Othello is cringe inducing.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



  • #74
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,065 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    TuringBot47 wrote: »
    Yeah, it's fortunate that I've a good work ethic.
    Arguably it is indeed fortunate TB. Like any personality trait a work ethic is deeply rooted in biology, psychology, background and culture and different people have different traits and different focuses.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



  • #75
    Salary Negotiator
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,148 ✭✭✭Salary Negotiator


    Evidence lead decision making.


  • #76
    Geuze
    Registered Users Posts: 13,047 ✭✭✭✭Geuze


    Cody montana wrote: »
    Greta Thunberg.

    I consider myself centre-right (ish), and I applaud this girl's work to highlight climate change.


  • #77
    Geuze
    Registered Users Posts: 13,047 ✭✭✭✭Geuze


    Assetbacked wrote: »
    Property taxes.

    Most sensible people agree with property taxes, as they are the best type of tax.


  • #78
    Hoop66
    Registered Users Posts: 2,287 ✭✭✭Hoop66


    The consequences of their actions


  • #79
    Zebra3
    Registered Users Posts: 13,846 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    Challenging the US (and Britain's) self-proclaim right to bomb dark skinned people.

    As David Lloyd George said: We insisted on reserving the right to bomb ****.

    Any mention of the term war crimes usually sends the right off into having a collective shyte hemorrhage.


  • #80
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,065 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Geuze wrote: »
    Most sensible people agree with property taxes, as they are the best type of tax.
    I'm generally highly suspicious of what "sensible people" agree with, as what is considered "sensible" can be as variable as the wind.

    I also don't see how property taxes are the best kind of tax. They're more out of the control of the individual. If someone wants to pay less income tax they can choose to earn less income. If someone wants to pay less VAT they can choose to buy fewer things that attract VAT. If someone wants to pay less road tax they can choose to buy a car that attracts less road tax. And so forth. Housing and I'm speaking of primary homes, not extra properties(I'd tax them alright), is different in a few ways. It's far more permanent, often for a lifetime. Property tax based on value has issues. Someone buys a house in an area that was cheap that then becomes gentrified twenty years on and values soar. Or property becomes an investment bubble. That is out of the control of the homeowner. Oh sure they could "downsize" but it's not like swapping out a 3 litre Merc for a Prius. Never mind that large chunk of tax they've already paid on their decades long mortgage.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



  • #81
    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Things that trigger the right?
    Antifa beating the living daylights out of people.


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  • #82
    hetuzozaho
    Registered Users Posts: 2,840 ✭✭✭hetuzozaho


    Oohh looks like this thread might be one too ha


  • #83
    jimgoose
    Registered Users Posts: 20,174 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Zebra3 wrote: »
    Challenging the US (and Britain's) self-proclaim right to bomb dark skinned people.

    As David Lloyd George said: We insisted on reserving the right to bomb ****.

    Any mention of the term war crimes usually sends the right off into having a collective shyte hemorrhage.

    So I’ll meet ’im later on
    At the place where ’e is gone—
    Where it’s always double drill and no canteen.
    ’E’ll be squattin’ on the coals
    Givin’ drink to poor damned souls,
    An’ I’ll get a swig in hell from Gunga Din!
    Yes, Din! Din! Din!
    You Lazarushian-leather Gunga Din!
    Though I’ve belted you and flayed you,
    By the livin’ Gawd that made you,
    You’re a better man than I am, Gunga Din!


  • #84
    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Things that trigger the right?
    Gang rapes going without action because PC folks are more worried about their reputation rather than children's suffering.


  • #85
    RobbingBandit
    Registered Users Posts: 18,073 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    Collective bargaining

    Pure Bolshevism


  • #86
    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Things that trigger the right?
    Mayonnaise with cheese on toast


  • #87
    Raconteuse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Raconteuse


    RobbingBandit wrote: »
    Collective bargaining

    Pure Bolshevism
    Let me be blunt: is there a labour crisis in America today?


  • #88
    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Things that trigger the right?
    When the price of soap goes up.


  • #89
    Tacitus Kilgore
    Registered Users Posts: 2,128 ✭✭✭Tacitus Kilgore


    biko wrote: »
    Things that trigger the right?
    Gang rapes going without action because PC folks are more worried about their reputation rather than children's suffering.

    Personal computer folks?


  • #90
    Snickers Man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,301 ✭✭✭Snickers Man


    George Soros.

    (Is he even a real person? Or just a political "Big Foot"?)


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  • #91
    gerrybbadd
    Registered Users Posts: 10,301 ✭✭✭✭gerrybbadd


    Pride events.

    Hate speech legislation


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