You jest, but he was the only poster perceptive enough to discover that everyone on this board is a statist Baby Boomer, no matter what their age or feelings about statism.
That’s just something a statist manufactured vegetable would say. Sooo typical.
Actually, my regards for the OP have jack shit to do with PCness. He comes across as a junior high brat who’s trying to impress the grownups with manly talk. He could have scored more points by leaving out the Netflix drama bullets and calling MrDibs out on the incorrect use of “doxxing.”
Not everything is conservative vs liberal catfighting, as much as you like to think so.
I’m a genuine Boomer, born right smack in the middle of the boom. And I live in CA, a state which I truly love. I guess that makes me statist boomer.
Nobody ever cops to basing their positions on a particular issue on things like PC. Most such people don’t even think that they’re doing it, and in some cases they could even be right.
But you need to look at the bigger picture and the overall dynamic, which is bigger than any one person and presents a more accurate picture. The likelihood of a non-PC poster pitting of a PC poster being successful is probably somewhere between 0% and 1%, especially if the pitting itself is over a PC related issue as is the case here. (I can’t recall any such instances.)
Clarify for me here. When someone says, “Maybe these black Netflix employees are a bunch of whiny bitch-assed pussies who need to toughen the fuck up for their own good?” and others react strongly against it, you view this as a matter of political correctness run amok rather than criticism of a patently offensive statement?
In the menu at lower left do you see “Straightdope v3.7.3” or “SultanBugs stupidest web-programming ever”?
I have Straightdope v3.7.3 set, so need to either pay dues(*), or have that Guest pay his/her dues(!), or spend a couple of extra clicks to read a Guest’s location. It’s hard to believe, but other Dopers are evidently so eager to see Locations that they select SultanBugs. This destroys the CODE tag, among other faults, but I guess for some, as in real estate, “Location is all-important!”
(* - I’d be happy to pay my dues, if they were good for a full 12 months. But my status is “85 and counting” and IIUC there is a No Refunds policy on SDMB Membership dues.)
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I assume you mean Pete Holmes. Or Katie Holmes. Cuz I’m pretty sure he’s not on par with Oliver Wendell, John, or Sherlock.
Not necessarily. But that depends on what “react strongly against it” means.
What I’m saying is that suppose that “react strongly against it” takes the form that the OP is alleging happened here, then the truth of the OP’s allegations won’t matter because most people will feel they “can’t be bothered to look into your complaint because you’re a douchebag” or that these are “some pedantic points that no one else cares about but you”, and those who bother to address the actual points altogether will dismiss them.
And my point is that this is an inevitable consequence of the PC/non-PC divide. The story will always be that these are pedantic points that no one cares about and that the bigger and more important point is that the guy is a douchbag etc.
Seems like you’ve invented your own right-wing version of PC: “You’re not allowed to criticize a guy for making racist statements, because society PC nonsense yadayada!” Way to tut-tut the squelching of debate, because you’re sooooo concerned about protecting debate.
Cool, that’s it, thanks!
And oh my god I’d forgotten how much I hate the Sultantheme. Clicked it on for like ten seconds before switching back.
I can’t help that many have chosen to out themselves as Boomers and statists. If it were up to me, I’d imagine I was carrying on conversations with early millennial callipygian biracial anarchocapitalists.
Instead I am forced to imagine a chorus of Clint Howards in varying states of physical fitness and hairstyle.
And there you are in the back, purple skin sparkling in the sun, thin grey hair blowing wildly in the wind as you laugh and laugh at all the sheeple.
By the way, I’ve forgotten to ask you how your trip to Charlottesville went last year. Did you run into anyone we might know?
You should take this joke formula on the road with Jeff Foxworthy.
Sounds more fun than your road trips with Dockers and tiki torches.
Get a room!
I just realized that what many are demanding is for some conservatives of today to give up things that when dropped will actually boost the self esteem of those conservatives, some are unwillingly or ignorantly supporting racist policies just because the current party in power are letting Trump swallow that self-esteem.
Nah, you and many conservatives decided that it was ok to vote for a dumber Lex Lutor that cuddles “Fine” Nazis and confederates. Remember when some conservatives too warned about the damage Trump would do to the Republican brand? It actually included the danger of giving a troglodyte like Trump the leadership and a megaphone. And the side effect of that is that rank and file Republicans end up defending the damage that Trump is doing. That is what many moderate Republicans were worried about.
Since Reagan removed sanctions to the Apartheid government of South Africa and kept a racist government on life support until congress told Reagan to take a hike, I think Mr. Dibble has some dibs on what to criticize America for.
Intersting to note that many Republicans in congress did go against Reagan and back then Repulicans had a spine and morals. Sadly they do not have them now, they have Trump and support him.
FTR, near as I can tell Dibs has been my pal for years. It ain’t worth much, and many y’all still qualify, but show how you earned it.
Big picture? This is just a pile-on-the-big-mouth-brat thread. Like I said, PCness has jack shit to do with it. Your continued obsession with waving the PC warning flag is irrelevant to this thread.