Has political correctness actually gone mad?

Silva said:
It looks like the main poll they're relying on is massively swung by white kids, which the article itself points out will not be a majority of Gen Z. It also looks like the tried and tested method of asking the same questions, which mean different things to kids as they would to adults. A conservative 14 year old is to the far left of a conservative 70 year old.
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Meh, I hope so. I remember seeing the numbers on Bernie for 16-18 and they weren't good. By contrast, he was dominating 18-29.
 
Part of it is that the younger someone is the more ignorant of history they're going to be. And any grown adult claiming they're more conservative than any generation since WWII is historically ignorant. If we're comparing them to older generations, we're comparing a current 14 year old with little white kids who were smiling at lynchings, we're comparing them with a generation that chemically castrated Alan Turing. It would be incredible if the kids growing up today did something further to the right of that generation.

A conservative child today might grow up to want the NHS to have a little less funding, rather than for it to not exist. Might want the their country not to be peacekeepers on another continent, rather than continue colonising it. Etc. Etc.
 
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Reminds me of the days before the internet was discovered. We would have to take a trip down to the local public toilets and read the political writings daubed on the wall in pen and shit and spunk, if we were to ever gauge the political mood.
 
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Possibly not the right place for this but whatever. This one actually made me laugh.

I mean it's obviously making the face brighter and face/nose thinner, which would make most (white) people a bit more attractive if the Snapchat filters are anything to go by. This app is crap at it anyway.

FaceApp sorry for 'racist' filter that lightens skin to make users 'hot'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/artic...t-filter-that-lightens-skin-to-make-users-hot
 
VeevaVee said:
Possibly not the right place for this but whatever. This one actually made me laugh.

I mean it's obviously making the face brighter and face/nose thinner, which would make most (white) people a bit more attractive if the Snapchat filters are anything to go by. This app is crap at it anyway.

FaceApp sorry for 'racist' filter that lightens skin to make users 'hot'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/artic...t-filter-that-lightens-skin-to-make-users-hot
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:lol:Ouch, that's not too subtle.
 
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/educatio...king-eye-contact-could-guiltyof-racism-oxford
Students who avoid making eye contact could be guilty of racism, Oxford University says

Students who avoid making eye contact with their peers could be guilty of racism, according to Oxford University’s latest guidance.

The university’s Equality and Diversity Unit has advised students that “not speaking directly to people” could be deemed a “racial microaggression” which can lead to “mental ill-health”.
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I must be well racist, bloody anxiety :mad:
 
This whole concept of microaggressions has set the whole political correctness debate into chaos. Anything that doesn't happen as you want it to can be deemed a microaggression.

The cashier at the grocery doesn't greet you with a smile? Microaggression. Never mind it may simply be someone having a bad day, you can deem it some form of -ism. Crazy stuff in my opinion.
 
VeevaVee said:
Possibly not the right place for this but whatever. This one actually made me laugh.

I mean it's obviously making the face brighter and face/nose thinner, which would make most (white) people a bit more attractive if the Snapchat filters are anything to go by. This app is crap at it anyway.

FaceApp sorry for 'racist' filter that lightens skin to make users 'hot'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/artic...t-filter-that-lightens-skin-to-make-users-hot
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I wonder what the people offended by that would make of the 4 billion Asians obsessed with skin whitening products!
 
11101 said:
I wonder what the people offended by that would make of the 4 billion Asians obsessed with skin whitening products!
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Oh, come off it.

There's a small minority of middle class people in Asia with a worrying desire to lighten their skin. That is not 'four billion Asians obsessed' for fecks sake, you dramatic twit.
 
DiseaseOfTheAge said:
Based on what? The ad breaks, or actual statistics?
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Based on living here and meeting people. I dont know if there are any statistics, and I would love it if my tiny sample group were in a small minority.. but I doubt it. There definitely seems to be a preference for fairer skin..

Its also not an overwhelming majority.. but not a small minority either.
 
prateik said:
Based on living here and meeting people. I dont know if there are any statistics, and I would love it if my tiny sample group were in a small minority.. but I doubt it. There definitely seems to be a preference for fairer skin..

Its also not an overwhelming majority.. but not a small minority either.
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Is it fair to assume you are probably socialising in middle class communities, though?
 
DiseaseOfTheAge said:
Is it fair to assume you are probably socialising in middle class communities, though?
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Everyone, except the upper class has an obsession with having fairer skin, to some extent. The younger generation is slowly moving away from this nonsense, but it's not uncommon for your elders or relatives to bring up the topic of an arranged marriage and tell you about all the pretty and fair girls they want you to get married off to.
 
van der star said:
Everyone, except the upper class has an obsession with having fairer skin, to some extent. The younger generation is slowly moving away from this nonsense, but it's not uncommon for your elders or relatives to bring up the topic of an arranged marriage and tell you about all the pretty and fair girls they want you to get married off to.
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If you are going purely by wealth, then I dont think even the upper class is any better. Highly educated, smart people probably are above all this nonsense.. There are a lot of idiots with a lot of money ...
 
Donovan_red7 said:
This whole concept of microaggressions has set the whole political correctness debate into chaos. Anything that doesn't happen as you want it to can be deemed a microaggression.

The cashier at the grocery doesn't greet you with a smile? Microaggression. Never mind it may simply be someone having a bad day, you can deem it some form of -ism. Crazy stuff in my opinion.
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What now?

I understand that as a principle. Makes me glad I relocated to the third world. (New Zealand : Third World country pretending to be a first world country)
 
prateik said:
If you are going purely by wealth, then I dont think even the upper class is any better. Highly educated, smart people probably are above all this nonsense.. There are a lot of idiots with a lot of money ...
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That is true. It's usually people who have actually seen the world and are in the know how of how life is outside of India who aren't susceptible to all this tomfoolery. You could be the smartest kid in school but you will get dragged down by what the majority of the public adheres to, unless you expand your viewpoint to a global scale.
 
van der star said:
That is true. It's usually people who have actually seen the world and are in the know how of how life is outside of India who aren't susceptible to all this tomfoolery. You could be the smartest kid in school but you will get dragged down by what the majority of the public adheres to, unless you expand your viewpoint to a global scale.
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The fairness industry today works it way into society via Bollywood stars - there's nothing at all that suggests that it is less in upper classes.
 
prateik said:
If you are going purely by wealth, then I dont think even the upper class is any better. Highly educated, smart people probably are above all this nonsense.. There are a lot of idiots with a lot of money ...
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van der star said:
That is true. It's usually people who have actually seen the world and are in the know how of how life is outside of India who aren't susceptible to all this tomfoolery. You could be the smartest kid in school but you will get dragged down by what the majority of the public adheres to, unless you expand your viewpoint to a global scale.
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A part of me wants to think it no different to British people wanting to have a good tan but, culturally and historically, it really feels very different.
 
11101 said:
I wonder what the people offended by that would make of the 4 billion Asians obsessed with skin whitening products!
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Black people have racial divides and insults based on light skin / dark skin too.

The app and the article are pathetic. But the skin tone argument is nothing to do with white people. White people desire a tan. Across the board.
 
berbatrick said:
The fairness industry today works it way into society via Bollywood stars - there's nothing at all that suggests that it is less in upper classes.
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Hopefully the lawsuits against these very Bollywood stars for misleading advertisement will make people come to their senses.
 
Is the desire gender neutral? The average advert I get on my cricket streams is aimed at women.
 
DiseaseOfTheAge said:
Oh, come off it.

There's a small minority of middle class people in Asia with a worrying desire to lighten their skin. That is not 'four billion Asians obsessed' for fecks sake, you dramatic twit.
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Walk into almost any pharmacy across the continent and you'll find plenty of skin whitening products. In the poorer places they just keep their skin covered in the sun.

China, Japan, Korea, India etc etc

Have you ever actually been to any of those places?
 
11101 said:
Walk into almost any pharmacy across the continent and you'll find plenty of skin whitening products. In the poorer places they just keep their skin covered in the sun.

China, Japan, Korea, India etc etc

Have you ever actually been to any of those places?
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Four billion.
 
oates said:
When? I want a firm record of being right once.
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Here is the proof.:)

oates said:
Well I'm more than half jesting, honestly but with you going straight to the 'Different' question which @Pogue Mahone picked up too and then ruling it out (The Racial Empathy Gap) I thought it was worth thinking about. On the other hand if you are fully aware that you are a racist as are we all and addressed that within yourself then you are perfectly entitled to scratch it. ;)
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11101 said:
So you haven't been to any of those places then I take it. You'd know how common the desire for whiter skin is otherwise.
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No but I've got friends who grew up in India who I've discussed it with.

Walk in to any corner shop in the UK and you'll find plenty of orange juice. 60 million people, obsessed with orange juice.
 
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