Has political correctness actually gone mad?

The Lion Sleeps Tonight should be banned for misinformation!

Lions DO NOT sleep in the the fecking jungle!
 
No song can compare to Kiss' 'Christine, Sixteen' in the creepyness stakes, even if it was purposely risque.
 
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Pogue Mahone said:
Hmmm... So it's an issue for you now but didn't bother you when - for example - James Gunn got fired because of ancient tweets which were in bad taste?

I think it's obvious why you see the two scenarios very differently but I don't think that's reasonable. It's wrong for someone to have a great opportunity in their career sabotaged - because of self-righteous arseholes mining old tweets - whether or not the person affected belongs to a minority group, surely?
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No, that's not true at all. The difference between this incident and the James Gunn incident was that Kevin Hart has already been called into question for those same tweets, and his previous stand-up content. He apologised then, and since then he hasn't resorted to homophobia again - which suggests that he's learned his lesson.
Therefore you need to ask the question - why is this being brought up again, for what purpose especially given the timing.
As far as i'm aware, James Gunn apologised for his tweets after he was called out on them - and the only thing I said in that situation was that Disney were well within their rights to part ways with him, which is true.

I don't think I actually talked about my personal feelings on mining old tweets, because frankly, there's no blanket rule here.
 
villain said:
As far as i'm aware, James Gunn apologised for his tweets after he was called out on them - and the only thing I said in that situation was that Disney were well within their rights to part ways with him, which is true.
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I was going to say that James Gunn had a apologized for those tweets years ago, but after a search it turns out it was some other sexist and homophobic writings he had to apologize for back then.
 
I feel the current era of ridiculous political correctness is the worst thing to come out if the internet. Before social media you always had weird l people, if you saw them up town spouting nonsense about what pisses them off you'd ignore them and rightly so.

Now every Tom, Dick and Harry has a voice on the internet. If their rant is seen or shared by a lot of people it gets noticed. A long with every second fecker trying to be an internet warrior/activist it starts a trend no matter how ridiculous it is.

Last year was the feminist trend. I'm all for women's rights but if you're offended by Yorkies or Man Sized tissues then you're the problem.

Also Pita can feck right off with their animal alternative sayings. It's like say who ever uses the words also practices the action. "Oi Harry, two birds with one stone and all that" - *picks up a rock and splits a bird in two to reinforce his point*. feck off.

Now in Ireland the HSE (Ireland's NHS) are banning all staff from using the words lads, love, darling, kid.. etc.

Rant over :lol:
 
Trizy said:
I feel the current era of ridiculous political correctness is the worst thing to come out if the internet. Before social media... SNIP!

....Rant over :lol:
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Looks at the rise of the far right via gamergate, and the dark web, etc... Hmmm. Yes PC is the worst thing to come from the internet. Y'all have no perspective....
 
afrocentricity said:
Looks at the rise of the far right via gamergate, and the dark web, etc... Hmmm. Yes PC is the worst thing to come from the internet. Y'all have no perspective....
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Gamergate didn't have anything to do with any right-wing outlet at the beginning. It just eventually became, because the right-wing intervened and supported the original movement while all left-wing outlets tried to play the corruption within the press down. I followed it from the very start and while I don't agree with all of it, to say it is inherently a far-right movement is plain wrong.
 
Atze-Peng said:
Gamergate didn't have anything to do with any right-wing outlet at the beginning. It just eventually became, because the right-wing intervened and supported the original movement while all left-wing outlets tried to play the corruption within the press down. I followed it from the very start and while I don't agree with all of it, to say it is inherently a far-right movement is plain wrong.
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You seem to have missed the point, and responded to something I didn't say or claim.
 
Atze-Peng said:
Gamergate didn't have anything to do with any right-wing outlet at the beginning. It just eventually became, because the right-wing intervened and supported the original movement while all left-wing outlets tried to play the corruption within the press down. I followed it from the very start and while I don't agree with all of it, to say it is inherently a far-right movement is plain wrong.
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:lol: I don't think they gave much of a shit about this so-called "corruption", one way or another. It was the rampant misogyny and rape threats that they took exception to.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
:lol: I don't think they gave much of a shit about this so-called "corruption", one way or another. It was the rampant misogyny and rape threats that they took exception to.
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I think you give them too much credit - I doubt they cared much about that and it was more tribalistically wanting to 'win' as it became a massive flame war- which they did by coordinating and winning the 'PR battle'.

Was fascinating to watch at the time.
 
Atze-Peng said:
Gamergate didn't have anything to do with any right-wing outlet at the beginning. It just eventually became, because the right-wing intervened and supported the original movement while all left-wing outlets tried to play the corruption within the press down. I followed it from the very start and while I don't agree with all of it, to say it is inherently a far-right movement is plain wrong.
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a thing that was sparked by an arsehole trying to ruin his ex girlfriend that immediately started targeting women with blogs through a coordinated campaign from 4chan was completely normal and apolitical, sure
 
Atze-Peng said:
Gamergate didn't have anything to do with any right-wing outlet at the beginning. It just eventually became, because the right-wing intervened and supported the original movement while all left-wing outlets tried to play the corruption within the press down. I followed it from the very start and while I don't agree with all of it, to say it is inherently a far-right movement is plain wrong.
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What @Silva said. The idea that it was about ethics in games journalism was tacked on in a vain attempt to make it seem like it wasn't just purestrain misogyny.
 
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