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

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  • #2702
    Rothko
    Registered Users Posts: 12,905 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    pickarooney wrote: »
    What's the woke angle?

    There isn't any.


  • #2703
    Tony EH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,549 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    It's just looking for something to be upset over.


  • #2704
    IAMAMORON
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    Cordell wrote: »
    Unless I'm missing something, that's the decent thing to do and not woke in the slightest.

    It is.

    But it would worry me more that the club has to come out and govern their supporters over what they say and do? I have not read the comments but if they were about how crap the level of play was it would not surprise me. Women's soccer is appalling, however I am not that appalled or bothered to go online and share my discontent.

    However, if they were commenting on the size of the left back's knockers we are crossing into levels of crassness which only a soccer fan could understand? I have been to Upton Park, I have heard what those animals chant.

    What was said exactly and why do the Hoops feel the need to micromanage their fans?

    I interpreted the article as saying " oh look, something bad happened and people said bad things and then ShamRovs came out and said that was bad" ... I mean how phucking dull can you get? It is woke insofar as the article is saying something wrong happened but it is not saying what?

    But eitherway I am not surprised that u17 females soccer is getting bad press, it is probably shight for starters.

    Is there a link to the tweets, I fancy reading them for a giggle?


  • #2705
    46 Long
    Closed Accounts Posts: 355 ✭✭46 Long


    Nothing is sacred anymore

    santa-gay-tweet.jpg


  • #2706
    Sonics2k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,253 ✭✭✭Sonics2k


    46 Long wrote: »
    Nothing is sacred anymore

    santa-gay-tweet.jpg

    It's funny, because:

    1/ The tweet is from 2017
    2/ It fails to highlight it's actually a fiction book by Daniel Kibblesmith, taking a slight jab at the often sold and told stories of Mr and Mrs Claus going on summer holiday and stuff.


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  • #2707
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,497 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    IAMAMORON wrote: »
    It is.

    But it would worry me more that the club has to come out and govern their supporters over what they say and do? I have not read the comments but if they were about how crap the level of play was it would not surprise me. Women's soccer is appalling, however I am not that appalled or bothered to go online and share my discontent.

    However, if they were commenting on the size of the left back's knockers we are crossing into levels of crassness which only a soccer fan could understand? I have been to Upton Park, I have heard what those animals chant.

    What was said exactly and why do the Hoops feel the need to micromanage their fans?

    I interpreted the article as saying " oh look, something bad happened and people said bad things and then ShamRovs came out and said that was bad" ... I mean how phucking dull can you get? It is woke insofar as the article is saying something wrong happened but it is not saying what?

    But eitherway I am not surprised that u17 females soccer is getting bad press, it is probably shight for starters.

    Is there a link to the tweets, I fancy reading them for a giggle?

    There was a page full of tweets in the article when I opened it and it was mostly comments on the player's bodies.


  • #2708
    IAMAMORON
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    pickarooney wrote: »
    There was a page full of tweets in the article when I opened it and it was mostly comments on the player's bodies.

    Yeah, I probably won't bother looking at them now ,the comments that is, I am quite confident that I could arrested for hanging around a soccer pitch leering at 17 year old girls making a wholly show of themselves as well if I was bothered.

    It is sad that women's soccer gets online notoriety for the talent on the pitch as opposed to the actual talent being displayed.

    Read into that what you will, it certainly want stop me watching Wimbledon either.


  • #2709
    Morathi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 291 ✭✭Morathi


    pickarooney wrote: »
    There was a page full of tweets in the article when I opened it and it was mostly comments on the player's bodies.

    Aye, it was disgusting tbh.

    I'll generally mock anyone objectifying male of female athletes (in a faux outrage tone), but these are kids, not fully formed adults.

    Zero defense imo.


  • #2710
    Junkyard Tom
    Registered Users Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    Tony EH wrote: »
    you and others go around seeking out this rubbish and then spreading it

    The outrage industrial complex, very little of this shit affects the broflakes in their real lives.


  • #2711
    Rothko
    Registered Users Posts: 12,905 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    Junkyard Tom wrote: »
    The outrage industrial complex, very little of this shit affects the broflakes in their real lives.

    brokflakes?


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  • #2712
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,024 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Rothko wrote: »
    brokflakes?

    Surprised you don’t know this one, R.

    From UrbanDictionary:

    A commonly seen stereotype of the quintessentially conservative, heterosexual, white male, who despite all his privileges and advantages in life, is easily sensitive to any criticism or mockery.
    Unable to see outside of his own perspective, and takes everything personally, even when it's not about him specifically. Fragile like a snowflake, but with the mentality of a "bro."
    Usually denies or ignores reality and the very real struggles of other genders, races, sexual identities, etc.
    Represents those afflicted with the "fragile male ego" and is the opposite of "woke."

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • #2713
    gozunda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    Surprised you don’t know this one, R.

    From UrbanDictionary:

    A commonly seen stereotype of the quintessentially conservative, heterosexual, white male, who despite all his privileges and advantages in life, is easily sensitive to any criticism or mockery.
    Unable to see outside of his own perspective, and takes everything personally, even when it's not about him specifically. Fragile like a snowflake, but with the mentality of a "bro."
    Usually denies or ignores reality and the very real struggles of other genders, races, sexual identities, etc.
    Represents those afflicted with the "fragile male ego" and is the opposite of "woke."

    Ah yes the old privileged white male shtick - very woke indeed ...



    Also from the UrbanDictionary
    Privilege

    The belief that members of particular groups, sexualities, genders, sexes, races, etc. are afforded advantages in society for being a member of said group.

    The term was popularized by the regressive left and is generally used as an easy button to shut down discussions/arguments and blame others for one's own shortcomings. Achievements earned by others through hard work are dismissed as just further evidence of their privilege...


  • #2714
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,202 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    IAMAMORON wrote: »
    What was said exactly and why do the Hoops feel the need to micromanage their fans?


    I can't speak to this particular occasion.


    But i know there was a link to soccer and thuggery in the UK for a very long time. Facist riots anytime the UK played on the continent. It was embarrassing.

    It was due to the fact that such attitudes were left to dwell. They hardened and certain violent groups were formed with links to even more dangerous groups.

    So that might be why.

    You let it fester ...you end up with groups of violent skinheads rioting at every match....because it is where they feel accepted.

    That is what happened with soccer in many countries. Sadly.


    British soccer fans even rioted in landsdown road once i seem to recall. Something like smash the ira etc etc. It was then reported they had connections to several facist groups the in the UK and in NI.

    The fear is if you tolerate racism it snowballs and then you have skinheads on your lawn. Its why you avoid racists they bring the skinheads.


  • #2715
    99nsr125
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,195 ✭✭✭99nsr125


    ILoveYourVibes wrote: »
    I can't speak to this particular occasion.


    But i know there was a link to soccer and thuggery in the UK for a very long time. Facist riots anytime the UK played on the continent. It was embarrassing.

    It was due to the fact that such attitudes were left to dwell. They hardened and certain violent groups were formed with links to even more dangerous groups.

    So that might be why.

    You let it fester ...you end up with groups of violent skinheads rioting at every match....because it is where they feel accepted.

    That is what happened with soccer in many countries. Sadly.


    British soccer fans even rioted in landsdown road once i seem to recall. Something like smash the ira etc etc. It was then reported they had connections to several facist groups the in the UK and in NI.

    The fear is if you tolerate racism it snowballs and then you have skinheads on your lawn. Its why you avoid racists they bring the skinheads.

    Jesus, how did you get to

    Racist, fascists ripping up a stadium

    From something akin to
    Nice kegs on number 9 and this game is şhitê



    Seriously context like.

    The game was a pile of stinkkng diarrhea so the commentary turns to everything else.

    Instead of acknowledging the crapness of the game, apologising, saying it's not fit for broadcast it's been decided to play the man (commentary) and not the ball (quality of play)

    Players are commented on all the time but if they are playing well that's all that anyone notices.


  • #2716
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,202 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    99nsr125 wrote: »
    Jesus, how did you get to

    Racist, fascists ripping up a stadium

    From something akin to
    Nice kegs on number 9 and this game is şhitê



    Seriously context like.

    The game was a pile of stinkkng diarrhea so the commentary turns to everything else.

    Instead of acknowledging the crapness of the game, apologising, saying it's not fit for broadcast it's been decided to play the man (commentary) and not the ball (quality of play)

    Players are commented on all the time but if they are playing well that's all that anyone notices.
    I don't know why you are hysterical.

    All I am saying is you can't have racists or sexists as neighbors. You will end up with skinheads on the lawn.

    Every sport that has tolerated mild level racist behavior ...ends up with harder style content down the line.

    That is why they now like to get tough with it.

    Its bad for the image. And image is money.

    The game is crap ??? So ....nobody cares.

    People don't owe an apology to anyone.

    There is lots of ****e on TV. No one ever apologizes. No one is entitled to an apology. Come on!

    Football clubs don't want to be associated with this.

    It ruins sponsorship.

    I am sorry women's soccer is ****e. I am sorry you were forced to watch it. There happy? lol

    Its not like i care if it is on tv or not??


  • #2717
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,104 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    IAMAMORON wrote: »
    It is.

    But it would worry me more that the club has to come out and govern their supporters over what they say and do? I have not read the comments but if they were about how crap the level of play was it would not surprise me. Women's soccer is appalling, however I am not that appalled or bothered to go online and share my discontent.

    However, if they were commenting on the size of the left back's knockers we are crossing into levels of crassness which only a soccer fan could understand? I have been to Upton Park, I have heard what those animals chant.

    What was said exactly and why do the Hoops feel the need to micromanage their fans?

    I interpreted the article as saying " oh look, something bad happened and people said bad things and then ShamRovs came out and said that was bad" ... I mean how phucking dull can you get? It is woke insofar as the article is saying something wrong happened but it is not saying what?

    But eitherway I am not surprised that u17 females soccer is getting bad press, it is probably shight for starters.

    Is there a link to the tweets, I fancy reading them for a giggle?


    https://twitter.com/JessStapleton_/status/1341878669241925632?s=20

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #2718
    Mic 1972
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,213 ✭✭✭Mic 1972


    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    Surprised you don’t know this one, R.

    From UrbanDictionary:

    A commonly seen stereotype of the quintessentially conservative, heterosexual, white male, who despite all his privileges and advantages in life, is easily sensitive to any criticism or mockery.
    Unable to see outside of his own perspective, and takes everything personally, even when it's not about him specifically. Fragile like a snowflake, but with the mentality of a "bro."
    Usually denies or ignores reality and the very real struggles of other genders, races, sexual identities, etc.
    Represents those afflicted with the "fragile male ego" and is the opposite of "woke."


    woke people and their love for inventing new terms LOL

    This one in particular is rooted in racism against white people and hate for hetero men, and it contradicts itself by patronizing white/hetero/male and then accusing them of ignore the reality of other races/genders.


  • #2719
    Sir Oxman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    https://twitter.com/cartoonnetwork/status/1338539346530537475?s=20


  • #2720
    Kivaro
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,105 ✭✭✭Kivaro


    Sir Oxman wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/cartoonnetwork/status/1338539346530537475?s=20

    Spot the white male kid in that snapshot from the Cartoon Network.
    This woke world is very odd.


  • #2721
    IAMAMORON
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    Joeytheparrot wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/JessStapleton_/status/1341878669241925632?s=20

    I thought as much.

    Locker room talk and in fairness I did the exact same thing watching hockey when I was 17. True Story and I am not a bad person, the only difference was we had no phones and the girls wore mini skirts - much sexier than shorts.

    The Hoops were worse for commenting and all Jessie Stapleton ( any relation to Frank ? ) has done is published private wassap messages to a public forum?


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  • #2722
    Omackeral
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    “My pronouns are....”

    And I’m out.


  • #2723
    IAMAMORON
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    Omackeral wrote: »
    “My pronouns are....”

    And I’m out.

    Don't be such a Broflake.


  • #2724
    Dyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    "cArToOnS HaVe aLwAyS BeEn pOlItIcAl"

    I love watching old cartoons, they're damn funny but these days they're a reminder that what was until recently normal seems shocking and transgressive in an era when entertainment is run by weirdos


  • #2725
    ExMachina1000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,748 ✭✭✭ExMachina1000


    IAMAMORON wrote: »
    Don't be such a Broflake.

    Remember to be nice to everyone and respect their views and opinions. Unless its people you dont deem "progressive" enough. Say what ever you like to them

    Wokeism is brain damage


  • #2726
    Daragh1980
    Closed Accounts Posts: 118 ✭✭Daragh1980


    ExMachina1000 wrote: »
    Remember to be nice to everyone and respect their views and opinions. Unless its people you dont deem "progressive" enough. Say what ever you like to them

    Wokeism is brain damage

    IAMAMORON, Spiceland and Joey The Parrot are three of the most right-on people here


  • #2727
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,024 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Daragh1980 wrote: »
    IAMAMORON, Spiceland and Joey The Parrot are three of the most right-on people here

    Such esteemed company, thank you.

    But didn’t you call me a “libtard” in the ‘Etiquette’ thread yesterday? Very “uncivil”.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • #2728
    Daragh1980
    Closed Accounts Posts: 118 ✭✭Daragh1980


    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    Such esteemed company, thank you.

    But didn’t you call me a “libtard” in the ‘Etiquette’ thread yesterday? Very “uncivil”.

    Probably “handicapped b*stard” would have been better?


  • #2729
    IAMAMORON
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    Daragh1980 wrote: »
    Probably “handicapped b*stard” would have been better?

    just throw a fáda on the a, it looks better.

    bástard - see much easier.

    or just bazza works just as well.

    Do you think they should ban the streaming of teenagers playing soccer online - or should they ban people commenting on them - or should they just ban them playing altogether - ??

    Or should they be forced to play in mini skirts like Tennis players and Hockey players do?


  • #2730
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,170 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Omackeral wrote: »
    “My pronouns are....”

    And I’m out.
    "I feel seen". Wut?

    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.



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  • #2731
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,024 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Daragh1980 wrote: »
    Probably “handicapped b*stard” would have been better?

    While, certainly, being incorrect it would, most definitely, still fall under “personal abuse” and a disgusting example of such.

    I’d “recommend” that you change your tact, both in content and in language, if you don’t want to suffer any “attention” from the moderators.

    Although, this thread seems to get a “blind eye” turned to it so maybe if you kept it “as is” in here as well as over in CA you could be alright.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • #2732
    Gruffalux
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,023 ✭✭✭Gruffalux


    Maybe it has already been mentioned but the UN have this tweet and image a day or two ago for a Utopian vision for a place they call Equiterra. Among all the positive street names they have a building called Toxic Masculinity Recycling Centre. I find that very insulting on behalf of my lovely sons and their friends and all the men I know who are really good people doing good things. What a kick in the balls. If a global NGO had a campaign that centred Female Bitch Recycling I would feel horrified on behalf of my daughters and all the good women I know If it is really Equiterra and everything is equal and there must be a toxic masculinity centre than have a Toxic Feminity Recycling Centre too. I really find this casual, pervasive and NGO approved misandry to be disgusting.


    https://twitter.com/UN_Women/status/1343294346590904322?s=19


  • #2733
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    ^^Women shur.. bloody typical..

    But seriously, what is more worrying that anything about this sort of craic is how stupid it is, and that it's becoming so pervasive..

    Infantilisation..


  • #2734
    Gruffalux
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,023 ✭✭✭Gruffalux


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    ^^Women shur.. bloody typical..

    But seriously, what is more worrying that anything about this sort of craic is how stupid it is, and that it's becoming so pervasive..

    Infantilisation..

    I do not believe it is typical of women. Or maybe I have self selected a circle of women who are not nasty. But it has certainly become pervasive in the media or activism or whatever this astro turfed atnosphere qualifies as being. I would hate my lads to see that image. Although they are tough and would rip the p1ss out of it. Though at this stage in a kind of jaded cynical way that has its own poignancy. It is embarrassing.


  • #2735
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Gruffalux wrote: »
    I do not believe it is typical of women. Or maybe I have self selected a circle of women who are not nasty.

    It's not typical of women. It's typical of the men and women who champion women's rights, and need men to be the enemy. A lot of people have been conditioned to believe these things, or have chosen to believe them. Thank you, America.
    But it has certainly become pervasive in the media or activism or whatever this astro turfed atnosphere qualifies as being. I would hate my lads to see that image. Although they are tough and would rip the p1ss out of it. Though at this stage in a kind of jaded cynical way that has its own poignancy. It is embarrassing.

    It's dangerous, because it's becoming accepted in organisations who have the ability to teach/promote it to others, including the uneducated in many countries. Imagine if the UN decided to teach the belief in Toxic Masculinity, as considered by feminists, in all their educational/support facilities worldwide? We'll help develop your community, provide food and medicine, but you should accept what we say is true....


  • #2736
    DrPhilG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,453 ✭✭✭✭DrPhilG


    Just had to listen to a colleague ranting about how it's a man's world, based on her reading a story about a woman escaping an abusive husband and then the husband only getting a 4 year sentence.

    She went on to moan about how it's always men abusing women and not the other way, no matter what people say. (That was a dig at me as I've given her stats before about how men are approaching 40% in terms of victims of reported domestic abuse).

    Also 4 years was far too lenient (probably true) and the light sentence was because he was a man. I could have pointed out that statistically men are both more likely to be convicted and also receive a higher sentence than a woman convicted of the same crime. But why bother, its in one ear and out the other (as there's damn all in between) and I'd only end up being reported for being a misogynistic bastard.

    It's a man's world after all. Even though men make up the majority of workplace deaths, suicides and the homeless population. If its a man's world we seem to be doing it wrong.


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  • #2737
    1800_Ladladlad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,394 ✭✭✭1800_Ladladlad


    Gruffalux wrote: »

    https://twitter.com/UN_Women/status/1343294346590904322?s=19

    Not enough trans disabled sex workers


  • #2738
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,024 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/28/us/andre-hill-adam-coy-fired/index.html

    “Adam Coy, the Columbus, Ohio, police officer who shot and killed Andre Hill, was fired Monday, according to a statement from Public Safety Director Ned Pettus Jr.

    Coy's termination follows a disciplinary hearing held earlier in the day. The local chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police represented him at the hearing.”

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • #2739
    Morathi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 291 ✭✭Morathi


    Where's the "woke" in that article, Emmet?


  • #2740
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,024 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Morathi wrote: »
    Where's the "woke" in that article, Emmet?

    Sorry, M, I should have copied in more of the article. The cop who was fired shot, and killed, a man of colour who was holding a mobile phone.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • #2741
    gw80
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,040 ✭✭✭gw80


    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    Sorry, M, I should have copied in more of the article. The cop who was fired shot, and killed, a man of colour who was holding a mobile phone.
    Where's the woke?


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  • #2742
    Strumms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,808 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    In my job my department hired both men and women who lets say, didn’t work out.

    The job we are talking about is about 60% - 70% behind a PC, 30-40% manual physical work.

    Female #1... , hard worker, did her share of everything, never complained, no issues, a can do lady.

    Female #2... 5’0... so slight you’d be worried the wind would blow her over... a tryer certainly, no lack of application and a good person full of effort but didn’t have the physicality for the work, struggling majorly... which in fairness was predicted...

    The manager confided that is was simply a tick box hiring as he needed to be seen to be hiring females into a department that was historically 100% male dominated due to probably the physical nature of some of the work, forklifting driving, use of pallet trucks in addition to the office etc.... his solution...she ended up just being given the office work all day, every day, while the rest of just had to do her share of physical and labour intensive work.. going home on a Friday cream crackered... when it was queried..we were told that he was playing to her strengths as was a legitimate option, this despite the fact she was on the mobile every 5 minutes to one of us looking to help with A, B and C...she didn’t have strengths, just lesser weaknesses.

    She lasted about a year, a suitable candidate was hired to replace her.

    Our manager apologized, he’d taken a wrong tact... one he didn’t repeat, lesson learned..hire the best, forget the rest, regardless of age, race, gender or any other woke tick box bôllocks... all male team ? all female team ? As long as they are the best team, go right ahead.


  • #2743
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    Sorry, M, I should have copied in more of the article. The cop who was fired shot, and killed, a man of colour who was holding a mobile phone.

    Seems to be only the emoyers disciplinary aspect. Criminal charges pending?


  • #2744
    Danzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,133 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    Sorry, M, I should have copied in more of the article. The cop who was fired shot, and killed, a man of colour who was holding a mobile phone.

    Tragic. Given how armed and violent American society is, it's incredible that so few innocents are shot each year by police.


  • #2745
    Rothko
    Registered Users Posts: 12,905 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    gw80 wrote: »
    Where's the woke?

    There isn't any.


  • #2746
    Tony EH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,549 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/28/us/andre-hill-adam-coy-fired/index.html

    “Adam Coy, the Columbus, Ohio, police officer who shot and killed Andre Hill, was fired Monday, according to a statement from Public Safety Director Ned Pettus Jr.

    Coy's termination follows a disciplinary hearing held earlier in the day. The local chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police represented him at the hearing.”

    You're trying too hard.


  • #2747
    Tony EH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,549 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    Gruffalux wrote: »

    https://twitter.com/UN_Women/status/1343294346590904322?s=19

    :pac:

    They spelt "representation" wrong.


  • #2748
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,753 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    Sorry, M, I should have copied in more of the article. The cop who was fired shot, and killed, a man of colour who was holding a mobile phone.
    #StayWoke


  • #2749
    Gruffalux
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,023 ✭✭✭Gruffalux


    Tony EH wrote: »
    :pac:

    They spelt "representation" wrong.

    Two possible reasons -
    1) They know in their heart they are taking the p-
    2) The spell-checker was too busy making sure each coupling was suitably diverse.


  • #2750
    Omackeral
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    I see Frankie Boyle is giving out to Ricky Gervais for his lack of respect towards trans people. This is the same Frankie Boyle who spent so much time making fun of a child with special needs, even incorporating incestual rape into it.


  • #2751
    Gruffalux
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,023 ✭✭✭Gruffalux


    Omackeral wrote: »
    I see Frankie Boyle is giving out to Ricky Gervais for his lack of respect towards trans people. This is the same Frankie Boyle who spent so much time making fun of a child with special needs, even incorporating incestual rape into it.

    ''Venus Williams has brought something different to the women’s game – male genitalia.'' ~ Frankie Boyle.

    The internet never forgets.


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