So do you have anything to actually say about this? These links without opinions aren’t helping anyone. You don’t even seem to want to participate in any discussion when it pops up.
These college students aren’t wrong. The routine has the same stereotypical portrayal that would be frowned upon for Asians, black people, etc. It does hint at the same problems with blackface portrayals. It even has that faux Egyptian theme, akin to that faux Oriental theme. And, while I can’t be sure, it appears that at least some of the background actors are in brownface–wearing makeup to change their race.
There’s a reason why you don’t see this sort of comedy anymore. You won’t see people dressed up in stereotypical versions of any culture.
That these kids, without the baggage of having seen this back when it aired, would find the stereotypes offensive is not surprising in the slightest. What is somewhat surprising is that there are people so out of touch that this wouldn’t seem obvious.
I mean, try to think of something that came out today that has those elements. The best I can come up with is Jeff Dunham, and that’s because he just repeats tired old material. Even South Park has laid off those types of jokes.
I thought that with a name like Bath Spa University, they couldn’t afford to deal with a shit sprinkle, let alone a storm. But according to wikipedia, they’re the UK’s sixth biggest provider of Teacher Education. I’m also seeing Art and Design, Humanities and Cultural Industries, Music and the Performing Arts, Society, Enterprise and Environment. I’m not sure why Mr. Caspian decided to take his research to their Institute of Education, and it doesn’t look like a particularly science heavy university, but it looks like they’re well enough established to weather storms.
I don’t think it is. The issue is that there is a publication that judges books based on a specifically progressive criteria. An reviewer failed in that regard, as determined by the company, so their review was changed based on what people thought.
Those who use the organization count on it to have a particular point of view, and they are adhering to that point of view. They are behaving entirely within the guidelines they have made public.
Ultimately it does just reduce down to a review organization having an opinion about a book, and some people not liking that opinion.
Yes, how dare a small group of college kids express an opinion about a 40 year old comedy routine. Where would we be without people like you expressing the opinion that their opinion is bad and wrong somehow?
So…A student group at a small, presumably decent but otherwise non-prestigious college has an opinion on a decades old Steve Martin routine? No disruption to class, no change in curricula, no nothing.
Good for them and a complete non-story outside of that particular campus, if not the classroom in question.
Of course, the usual purveyors of right-wing manufactured outrage are carrying this.
This is weak, even by the standards of this thread.
If you’re responding to **BIGT’**s comment that he is struggling to think of “something that came out today that has those elements”, White Girls was released 13 years ago.
I’ll leave it to others with the inclination and patience to explain why your comparison, in any case, is invalid.
If you read the original article at The Atlantic (purveyors of right-wing manufactured outrage?) you’ll see that the Tut opinions are just one of the more silly aspects of an attempted Reign of Terror.
The “Tut opinions” were only mentioned in the first two paragraphs of the rather extensive The Atlantic article and is certainly not the focus of the article. But you knew this, which is why you linked to a silly blog post and not this far more intelligent article. As I said previously, its a non-story to get the righty troglodytes frothing at the mouth.
And even against the background of more serious actions, the “Tut opinions” remain just that: an opinion. There’s absolutely no suggestion that showing the video led to anything more than a spirited discussion, which I’m sure was the whole purpose of showing a video in a goddamn Humanities class in the first place. Its not even clear that the objections were driven by RAR.
Will you be posting links here everytime a college student says something you don’t agree with?
Yes. That’s kinda the whole fucking point of this thread. Posting stupid things said/done by liberals. Just as there are threads for posting stupid things said/done by conservatives. But feel free to continue to “no true Scotsman” everything anybody posts. It is such a sad thing that someone is holding you at gunpoint and making you read a thread that doesn’t interest you.
I wasn’t aware that “SJW” was a synonym for liberal. But that’s to be expected, as the term really is just a nebulous insult used to dismiss any vaguely left of centre actions or opinions.
I assume you mean the "Stupid Republican Idea of the Day ". thread, as I don’t recall any other similar threads that have been active for at least the past year. I note that the “Stupid Republicans” in that thread are senators, congressman, influential Republican party members, influential media personalities, etc right up to the USA president.
The “stupid SJWs” on this thread consist largely of shit said by random college students and nobodies on Twitter, and a not insignificant number of hoaxes. And a lot are not nearly as stupid when the RW spin is removed. I’d hate to think how much longer the “Stupid Republican…” thread would be if the same standard were adopted there.
I’d like to hear your reasoning for why you think trivial statements by college nobodies is worthy of posting on this message board.
In respect of the “SJW” term that is a meaningless insult, which has nowhere near an agreed upon working definition in this thread or elsewhere and which you now consider to be the same as liberals?
Questioning the frequent nonsense posted here is not the same as a lack of interest.
And I’d like to hear your reasoning for why anything is worthy of posting on this message board other than people with free time on their hands posting and talking about stuff that catches their eye.
I’m sorry that my posts do not meet your standards for being worthy, Mr. Junior Mod.
You will note that I’m not the one who started this thread, nor gave it the title. The term used for “thin-skinned, authoritarian thought police” is irrelevant. Don’t like them being called SJWs? Fine, make up whatever other term you want from them. Idiots. Morons. Pathetic losers. A turd by any other name will still stink. And no, I do not conciser them to represent all liberals–just that these are liberals saying stupid things. There are liberals that aren’t saying stupid things–this thread isn’t about them. There is a gigantic difference between someone who says “let’s please treat each other equally” and someone who says that “someone who is supposed to be a mummy in a sarcophagus who has his face painted gold to represent an ancient Egyptian death mask is blackface.” The second type of person deserves all the pointing and laughing that they get.
Buddy, if the standard in the SRIOTD thread was “anything any republican said anywhere”, they’d need a new database server just for the thread. It’s actually pretty straightforward to find stupid or offensive things said by random idiots if you’re allowed to pick from “literally anyone anywhere at any time”. Nutpicking is unbecoming and tasteless, and it’s a phenomenally weak argument of any type. But by all means, keep pointing out that people on college campuses sometimes do or say stupid things. Maybe for a followup you can make a “Stupid 4Chan /b/ post of the day” thread.
Insofar as my standards may mean anything to you or anything else, I don’t have a problem with your post in general. You’re one of the more prolific posters here and your posts are often entertaining or informative.
But fuck it man, your links in this thread are just inane, on a par with those posted by some of the conservative chewtoys here.
That may be the definition you are using. It’s hardly universal.
“Thin-skinned authoritarian thought police” also sounds like a fairly accurate description of Trump and some his more fervent supporters, who may be called a number of things but “SJW” is not one of them.
No. In this case they are just kids, probably averaging about 20. Young adults saying and doing stupid thing, particularly of a political bent and particularity at college has been ongoing for decades. This is nothing new; the only change is that the Pepe generation made up a new phrase to replace the “pinko commies” of their grandparents and the “politically correct” of their parents.
The problem with many of these “SJW ideas” is that a quote or incident is misrepresented or cherry picked in order to dismiss valid concerns by RW whiners. The Reed college incident is a perfect example of this.
They aren’t wearing brownface, you retard. Their faces are painted gold, you know, like statues? Unless goldface is now a thing. Can’t be racist against those statues! :rolleyes:
The whole point of the song is to mock the commercialization of Egyptian history and culture. It’s not to mock Egypt itself. Good god, you’re insufferable.
Also, according to the article in The Atlantic, members of RAR got together and harassed one of the professors to the point of tears over her claims of PTSD.
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These people aren’t fighting racism. They’re college students behaving like schoolyard bullies. They might as well demand everyone hand over their lunch money.