Has political correctness actually gone mad?
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you're appealing to the time immemorial argument which is incredibly stupid, especially in language
Yes, the blackface thread has made me realise that people cannot critically think about the actions of another anymore.
Instead they jump on bandwagons and cease discussion via moral outrage.
Instead they jump on bandwagons and cease discussion via moral outrage.
Was that the thread where people also discussed whether it was acceptable for a Brit to wear a sombrero?
The fact there's a debate to be had about that shows there is an issue.
The fact there's a debate to be had about that shows there is an issue.
Tbh the 'PC gone mad movement' (/Raoul) is nonsense I can't get behind. It's usually just a bunch of people moaning about relatively benign shit, while missing the bigger picture (the fcukery going on that @Muffled funk alluded to). While sometimes I may agree with them, I find myself being repelled by some of the other shite they have said/done or go onto say/do. For example the post @Silva highlighted.
Didn't realise that thread is still going. Thought everything that needed to be said had been said.
Where does that post originate from?
FFS.
It was originally me ranting in the nazi pug thread (think it was that one, I've had a few rants lately).
I think this is the only way forward. MF ain't gonna stop until it catches on.Oh snap
I'm going to use it too when I get chance. Let's memefy it.
What did he say?
"I'm not going to stop until it catches on."
Wait, a man discovered vaginas? What were women doing until that point?
They might as well cancel the entire show then since no one cares anything other than the swimsuit competition.
Inner beauty is probably more subjective than bikini body beauty. The faux outrage is good tho.
Is this a Dido lyric ?
Can't an inner beauty pageant coexist with a beauty pageant. Why is it so wrong to judge people on the way they look SOME TIMES. It's not like we think the way we look is irrelevant. There's a reason the diet section of a bookstore is as big as it is. Tonnes of people go to the gym weekly to look the way they do. What about people with a relatively low IQ and no real achievements to speak of. Are they not allowed to feel good about themselves for being beautiful?
Also having a contest that's about brains and inner beauty is fine, but does it ever occur to anyone ever that some women actually enjoy competing in a beauty pageant and are proud to be named the most beautiful? Is there anyone in the world who, when called handsome, pretty or good looking, gets mad and tells someone to feck off? (honest question, I wouldn't know)
Also having a contest that's about brains and inner beauty is fine, but does it ever occur to anyone ever that some women actually enjoy competing in a beauty pageant and are proud to be named the most beautiful? Is there anyone in the world who, when called handsome, pretty or good looking, gets mad and tells someone to feck off? (honest question, I wouldn't know)
Hello, the Internet is there for those of you who want to look at beautiful women. 
Who gives a feck? They can do what they want.
Who gives a feck? They can do what they want.
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They can, but don't you think also having a beauty competition is fine? Don't think it has to be mutually exclusive.Hello, the Internet is there for those of you who want to look at beautiful women.
Who gives a feck? They can do what they want.
People just dont have enough respect for the ancient tradition of pageantry.
There are loads of beauty contests aren't there?
I'm baffled why your average guy would give a feck.
I don't honestly, I've never watched a beauty pageant in my life.
It's just this, "you can't judge people on the way they look" shtick that bothers me. People really really care about the way they look. The "the way we look" industry makes billions of dollars. 8 out of 10 commercials are probably somehow tied to something that improves the way we look. Can't we just own up to the fact that we judge people on the way we look.
Also, I'm a contrarian dickhead who likes to rant about things
I've never watched a beauty pageant. I wonder if most of the viewers aren't female actually. If you look at women's magazines most of the pictures in them are of women, so it might be the same with beauty contests as well.
I don't care about beauty pageants any more than I will about 'inner beauty' pageants... But this concept of 'inner beauty' is pure bullshxt. As if anyone could measure and put a score to someone else's morals, conduct and thoughts.
It's going to be one huge exercise in hypocrisy, even more so then the botox/surgeon festivals they replace.
It's going to be one huge exercise in hypocrisy, even more so then the botox/surgeon festivals they replace.
Those beauty pageants with toddlers and the like are just creepy.
Ive been thinking about that episode since the pageantry issue first came up, but when @Jippy made it not just about pageants, but kids pageants, I could no longer resist.
Do not diddle kids, it's no good diddling kids!
I wouldn't do it with anyone younger than my daughter
I wouldn't do it with anyone younger than my daughter
check out this dickhead
I missed the 'thou shalt not call someone by their preferred name' commandment.
his head is also oddly shaped
It's funny they always have a middle aged man on the judges panel. And it's often them and others who fund the comps. If costs to enter but they hand out plastic trophies.
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Those always seem super-camp though. Spray-tanning kids and the like is plain weird. I think Louis Theroux did a programme on it and the scarily pushy mums behind the girls.
Not as bad as James Damore to be fair.
That's what they want you to think.