Has political correctness actually gone mad?

Wow all women are stupid and evil
 
On March 8th, thousands of feminists in Spain took part in the Women’s March, just one day before Spain went into total lockdown. This is despite the fact that health authorities begged them not to. At the time, Spain had 674 active cases and the 17 deaths from COVID-19.


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Feminists are seen holding up signs like the one above, which says: “Masculinity kills more than coronavirus”

Since then, the death toll in Spain has gone up from 17 to 12,000 people. The number of cases is now at 126,000 in total.



Social justice in action...
And Betis played Real Madrid the following day in front of a 50,000 crowd.

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How dare those women leave the kitchen? Only manly gatherings like football should have been allowed. Damn SJW's causing the destruction of society yet again.

In case you're not immediately aware, this is probably the stupidest post I've seen on here for the year. This is actually worse than the serious posts in the Coronaspiracy thread.
 
How dare those women leave the kitchen? Only manly gatherings like football should have been allowed. Damn SJW's causing the destruction of society yet again.

In case you're not immediately aware, this is probably the stupidest post I've seen on here for the year. This is actually worse than the serious posts in the Coronaspiracy thread.
That’s not the point. The point is that public health should always take priority over activism, or sports.
 
i called the spanish health minister and she told me it's 100% their fault, they would have locked down earlier if it wasn't for social activists who they always listen to
 
I just find the BBC news website absolutely mental. Even in the current situation they still have articles like ‘I haven’t shaved for a month’. How exactly is that empowering women? There is a bizarre article like this everyday on their website.
 
I just find the BBC news website absolutely mental. Even in the current situation they still have articles like ‘I haven’t shaved for a month’. How exactly is that empowering women? There is a bizarre article like this everyday on their website.
Did you read the article ? It might give you the answer.
 
Wow all women are stupid and evil
I never said that, that's just you projecting.

I am pointing out the entitlement and delusion from social justice warriors.

"Masculinity kills more than coronavirus" - that sign hasn't exactly aged well.
 
I just find the BBC news website absolutely mental. Even in the current situation they still have articles like ‘I haven’t shaved for a month’. How exactly is that empowering women? There is a bizarre article like this everyday on their website.
Without reading that specific article, I suspect that the logic is probably something like this:

1. Society tells us that hairless women are more attractive than hairy women
2. Society therefore pressures us women into shaving
3. A woman not shaving is going against societal expectations
4. Therefore a woman not shaving is empowering
 
Without reading that specific article, I suspect that the logic is probably something like this:

1. Society tells us that hairless women are more attractive than hairy women
2. Society therefore pressures us women into shaving
3. A woman not shaving is going against societal expectations
4. Therefore a woman not shaving is empowering
Nah, it was more 'my husband likes sex so he put up with it but then again he wasn't really bothered anyway'. It was very boring and said nothing about anything as far as I could see.
 
I never said that, that's just you projecting.

I am pointing out the entitlement and delusion from social justice warriors.

"Masculinity kills more than coronavirus" - that sign hasn't exactly aged well.
what you're doing is called political correctness and i'm all with you tbh, we should all be doing everything health professionals are telling us right now, annoying landlords and cancelling @Pexbo for using sarcasm
 
Almost all "political correctness" is based in kindness, reducing harm to others and in general people's lives happier. If sometimes people overshoot that isn't really surprising and in no way devalues the laudable intentions of the vast majority. And when you think of things that would previously have been seen as "political correctness gone mad" that are now seen as normal polite behavior you have to suspect that many of the suggestions we now think are going OTT will become the norm.

One example is most of us not using phrases like retard as either a description or an insult whereas it used to be common on here when we first started which isn't that long ago. And race based language has changed significantly as well. Most changes are for the better I'd say.
 





What in the feck is this? Some are trying to compare the name Karen to N word. I'm struggling here.
 
I thought that the OG Karen was the hairstyle and that's how you identified them? Not the colour of the skin. Have I missed something?

I don't know if skin-color was a crucial part of the meme to begin with, but I think most people picture a middle-aged, middle-class(or above), suburban woman when they think about Karen. That's a predominantly white demographic in the US. Also, 'Karen' is a pretty "white" name.
 
I don't know if skin-color was a crucial part of the meme to begin with, but I think most people picture a middle-aged, middle-class, suburban woman when they think about Karen. That's a predominantly white demographic in the US. Also, 'Karen' is a pretty "white" name.

Pretty much


Ah classic Karen
 
I don't know if skin-color was a crucial part of the meme to begin with, but I think most people picture a middle-aged, middle-class(or above), suburban woman when they think about Karen. That's a predominantly white demographic in the US. Also, 'Karen' is a pretty "white" name.

That hairstyle. I agree that this hairstyle is most prevalent amongst white suburban women.
 
Can anyone give evidence for any politically relevant campaign against criticizing wet markets in the name of cultural diversity?

Addressing the apparent wet markets* problem & taking over Trumpian combat terms isn't inseperately connected, as Maher wants to portray it. Or rather: it's not connected at all.


* Edit: those variants linked to epidemics that is, as "wet markets" is a broad umbrella term.
 
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”Well said Bill Maher”. The guy is a joke these days. He‘s always been a contrarian, smug wanker but he’s just slid into the same middle aged “you can’t say anything these days” while literally saying anything on his main stream, establishment, soap box.
 
”Well said Bill Maher”. The guy is a joke these days. He‘s always been a contrarian, smug wanker but he’s just slid into the same middle aged “you can’t say anything these days” while literally saying anything on his main stream, establishment, soap box.

Hm okay. He's the only one of the American late night hosts I genuinely find funny and I generally agree with what he says.
 
”Well said Bill Maher”. The guy is a joke these days. He‘s always been a contrarian, smug wanker but he’s just slid into the same middle aged “you can’t say anything these days” while literally saying anything on his main stream, establishment, soap box.

Maher also fecks up his original point about naming the disease after the location it has come from as he references the Spanish Flu. He then directly tries to pull apart Ted Lieu's comment by saying you could just end up calling it Milan virus when the origins of the name of Spanish Flu is exactly like that. You don't need a history degree to work this shit out.

I personally don't really have much of a problem calling it the Wuhan virus but the Chinese virus is worrying, if only because I know a few good normal minded people who seem more ticked off about China than they do about the government's own response to handling the crisis.