Has political correctness actually gone mad?

I'd be successful if only I had a name like Floppy Kazoo-Courgette.
*moans*
 
Yeah that is definitely a made up person for an ad campaign, this is on her website (created this month):

"Hi guys!

I’m Figgy P-to-the-R and this is my website!"

Sherlocked.
 
"Hi guys!

I’m Figgy P-to-the-R and this is my website!"
Reminds me of the (very real) Scouse 'fashionista' Amanda Harrington, star of the Liverpool Echo. Her regular column (no sniggering back there) always ended with this kind of thing:

This week I'm loving: Little Mix, me fab hols in Ibiza, and Max Factor Arriviste!
This week I'm hating: Ladders in me best tights, famine and ebola.
 
It's a parody, but she's the epitome of the type of person who's given multiple tv series.
 
Interesting case here. Obviously the man is pond scum. But 5 years in jail for stuff posted on social media? Almost seems as though he's being locked up to prevent him committing a crime. Which is a little bit Minority Report, when you think about it.
Tbf, he does incite violence (which is a crime) rather than simply spew hatred (which is not).
 
Tbf, he does incite violence (which is a crime) rather than simply spew hatred (which is not).

This is true. Although I'd say the line between the two can be a little blurry. Which is interesting when you consider that this line can be the difference between 5 years in jail or not committing a crime at all.
 
Interesting case here. Obviously the man is pond scum. But 5 years in jail for stuff posted on social media? Almost seems as though he's being locked up to prevent him committing a crime. Which is a little bit Minority Report, when you think about it.

That's literally been the FBI's tactics to catch domestic Muslim potential terrorists for a decade. I'm too lazy right now but Glenn Greenwald/others at the Intercept have many stories.
 
If found this article a really fascinating read, for anyone who is curious about the origin story behind the online element of the alt-right.

@Adebesi

Not sure I can buy it. I don't know that they like Trump because of failure-in-success thing, or that they celebrate anything other than success. The reason they latched onto Trump's success (rather than, say, Bill Gates) was because it was far more subversive to the mainstream narrative to say that you support Trump than to support Gates' supposed war on poverty (apart from agreeing with him about Muslims and agreeing with his subtext about women).
 
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Identity politics.
 
Use of the word "goyim" makes me think that was done by the alt right.

Possibly, and the Jewish part (not the white part) fits in well with their worldview, but it does highlight the danger of purely race-based messages. There seems to be a significant minority campaigning for things like hostel segregation based on minority rights, and it scares me.
 
44% of Jewish Americans are in the top 1%?

What definition of Jewish is this?
 
The desire to tie in the anti-establishment movement with antisemitism seems familiar.
 
German newspaper backtracks after listing Netanyahu as a ‘crazy world leader’

A German newspaper was forced to remove the name of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from a list of the world’s craziest leaders following diplomatic pressure.

Hamburger Morgenpost had included Netanyahu in a list of “The Seven Craziest Leaders in the World” because he promotes settlement policies and because he tried to convince former US President Barack Obama to attack Iran.

As a result, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent a complaint to the German government and the Israeli embassy in Berlin criticised the newspaper and said in a statement that this is an “anti-Semitic” act.

“The fact that they put an elected prime minister of a democratic Western country… alongside some of the worst dictators in the world, reveals more than anything the newspaper’s level of understanding of what is happening today in the world,” the embassy said in a statement, according to Israel’s Ynet News.

The newspaper was then forced to remove Netanyahu from the list and apologised for including him.

“It was wrong to make @netanyahu part of this list. We apologise,” the newspaper announced.


Crazy leaders
  • Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei
  • North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un
  • Philippines’ President Rodrigo Duterte
  • Russian President Vladimir Putin
  • Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad
  • Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe

 


Lol, I tried and failed to find a better pic.
It's T_D quoting some 4chan guy talking about how leftists thrive only in censored spaces.
And then the rest of the pic is all the deleted replies in the T_D thread.