# I pit cultural hypersensitivity **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 1, 2013, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-cultural-hypersensitivity/654540 "2013-04-01T16:00:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Scholar\_Beardpig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de053/32.png) [@Scholar\_Beardpig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scholar_Beardpig)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-cultural-hypersensitivity/654540/41 "2013-04-03T07:08:01Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Non-rhetorical question: why would I respect Mr. Gujarat’s right not to have people classified with him beyond his wishes? How is that a meaningful right? You know, I’m gonna pull a volte-face on this one. Having seen your question, and having thought about it, I find myself in agreement with you, and must abandon my former position. In short - y’know, I actually can’t think of any good reasoning to support what I said, and now agree with you. ---
**Author:** ![Doughbag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Doughbag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doughbag)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-cultural-hypersensitivity/654540/42 "2013-04-03T10:26:00Z")
> [@Machine\_Elf](#): > > At the risk of being labeled a racist yet again, I’m here to pit people who are hypersensitive to anything that can possibly be perceived or interpreted as any kind of insult. > > In this case, it’s people who think LEGO’s “Jabba’s Palace” toy is insensitive because it resembles a mosque - inasmuch as it has a main round building and a tower. > > [Here’s the article, with pics of the toy](http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/01/17552848-toy-model-of-jabba-the-hutts-palace-resembles-a-mosque-group-says?lite) and pics of the Hagia Sophia, the particular mosque which it is said to resemble. > > [Here’s a Google-Images](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=active&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1067&bih=822&q=jabba%27s+palace&oq=jabba%27s+palace&gs_l=img.3..0l6j0i5l2j0i24l2.1422.2938.0.3047.14.14.0.0.0.0.156.1592.7j7.14.0...0.0...1ac.1.7.img._X2msxHlHLM) search for “jabba’s palace.” > > I’d say the LEGO toy looks a lot more like Jabba’s palace from ROTJ than it does the Hagia Sophia. The tower doesn’t quite match up to Jabba’s palace, but it doesn’t match the HS either. > > If someone wants to get pissy about it, they ought to be yelling at George Lucas. Or maybe Jabba. Or maybe they should just STFU. I guess, the only way to solve these “insults” is to: [ul]Stop all kind of music – [Rhianna](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e82VE8UtW8A)or [Jay-Z & Kanye West](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG_dA32oH44)…. Then some else does not like [One pound fish](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_miGclPFGs) [/ul] [ul]Stop making movies of any kind - I find “P.S.I Love you” offensive or when I say that the movie is crap, my wife is offended…. Or in other movies there are nude scenes or just straight out Porn[/ul] [ul]No Internet – since there is Porn[/ul] [ul]No TV – it’s just offensive and it has Porn[/ul] [ul]No Paper – there is Porn as well[/ul] [ul]No Cave Drawings – yes, [they already had porn](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2161118/Aboriginal-erotic-rock-art-proves--28-000-years-ago--men-ONE-thing-minds.html) … Ah, crap, it’s also older than 6000 years, so it cannot really exist either, DAMN!:smack:[/ul] Fuck it…. Pretty sad life without offending anyone for whatever reason, I better go to [this](http://www.youporn.com), before someone from the “I’m offended Police” takes it down. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-cultural-hypersensitivity/654540/43 "2013-04-03T10:35:42Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Honest question: do real Indians, i.e., from India, get a say in any of this? Yes. Indian-Americans and American Indians get to discuss amongst each other what form of expression will be mutually acceptable and inoffensive - although they may be of the opinion that you, no less than European-Americans, should go back to your country of origin and leave the American continent to its indigenous inhabitants, and if you’re unwilling to do that then a mere form of words is not much of a consolation prize. As a Brit I’m in a cleft stick as far as my own country is concerned since I’ve no idea whether I should shove off back to Rome, Normandy, Denmark, Norway, Saxony or wherever, and in what proportion, and how much if any of me has a right to be here. But even the Celts were just a bunch of johnny-come-latelys, barging in here some time in the first millennium BC like they owned the place and displacing the previous occupiers. The rest of the world, however, will probably go its own sweet way miscalling ethnicities and mispronouncing countries and cities just like they’ve always done. You can piss into the wind if you like, but you’re unlikely to effect a meaningful change. ---
**Author:** ![VernWinterbottom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c67d28/32.png) [@VernWinterbottom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VernWinterbottom)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-cultural-hypersensitivity/654540/44 "2013-04-03T11:17:54Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > Why don’t you just refer to them as the Wampanoags? Well, I certainly do, of course, but when giving a presentation in public I prefer to mix it up a bit with the words for variety–same as with “the Redcoats,” “Lobsterbacks,” “the enemy.” And I do use the phrase “native people,” too. I don’t think anyone would use the name Wampanoag four or five times in one short paragraph would they? As to **Anaamika** ’s question about Indians from India, it has never come up in the seventeen years I’ve guided tours, while the “Native American” thing was mentioned frequently. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-cultural-hypersensitivity/654540/45 "2013-04-03T11:35:46Z")
[quote=“Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension, post:34, topic:654540”] > [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > [All round buildings are mosques?](http://www.visitingdc.com/images/capitol-building-picture.jpg) I did not know that. :D[/] > > I thought all round buildings were Viking roundhouses. I never realized the Vikings had trains! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-cultural-hypersensitivity/654540/46 "2013-04-03T12:40:29Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > I never realized the Vikings had trains! :smack: Nice kitchen appliances, too. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2013, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-cultural-hypersensitivity/654540/47 "2013-04-04T22:47:51Z")
Yeah, I think the critics claims about the design might have been [a tad bit off…](http://www.co.marin.ca.us/depts/lb/main/crm/PhotoAlbums/flw/flw16.gif) ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2013, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-cultural-hypersensitivity/654540/48 "2013-04-05T00:20:09Z")
**Ranchoth** : Lovely! What is it! [Here’s the Catalina Island Casino at Avalon…](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/Catalina_Island_Casino.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2013, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-cultural-hypersensitivity/654540/49 "2013-04-05T01:27:54Z")
Sure some people may complain that society has become too hyper-sensitive. But why should we care what those people think? ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2013, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-cultural-hypersensitivity/654540/50 "2013-04-05T02:46:46Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > Why don’t you just refer to them as the Wampanoags? How could that be offensive? Check out the Wampanoags on that Native American! I’d like to forcible relocate her if you know what I mean. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2013, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-cultural-hypersensitivity/654540/51 "2013-04-05T02:48:00Z")
> [@Machine\_Elf](#): > > In this case, it’s people who think LEGO’s “Jabba’s Palace” toy is insensitive because it resembles a mosque - inasmuch as it has a main round building and a tower. GGRRRRREEEUUUHHHHUUUHHHHHHHHUUUHHHHHHRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!\* [\*“There is no God but Sarlac, and Jabba is His Caterer!”] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-cultural-hypersensitivity/654540.md?page=2)