“Woke”

[wareyin]

The claims made in The Independent seemed to align with those from the student paper. Not that I expect you to address any of them, but it might be fun for a change.

1st: The claims made by the Independent and the Gettysburgian are at odds with Stout's sources. Yet you can't understand the need to vet your sources.

2nd:State your claims, and I'll address them.

 

[Stout]

The stories in both The Daily Mail and The Independant were pretty much the same with the big takeaway being there's racist sexist fascist cisphobic scum haunting the sewers of Gettysburg College.

Sure, whining about the source may work as a coping method when comforted with distressing information and serve as a way to push that information away, like you did with the vegetables on your plate when you were a child.

Plus the Daily Mail had pictures of drag queens and everybody loves pictures of drag queens, right?

 

[theprestige]

The benefit of an opposition press is they will report facts that the mainstream press ignores.

 

[d4m10n]

2nd:State your claims, and I'll address them.

Here you go:

Personally, I don't think the faculty or administration ought to have intervened in this instance unless there were already clear policies in place outlining what sorts of speech will not be tolerated, which does not appear to have been the case here.

 

[Susheel]

The general argument here seems to be that unless one is putting one self in danger and is risking violence or death when he/she backs a cause, it is all just "wokeness". Lucky you guys are not living in Iran or Saudi Arabia or even India. Terll me, are those people in Iran facing possibly death for refusing to cow down to religious fundamentalism (after all, how much trouble is putting on a hijab?) "woke"?

 

[wareyin]

Here you go:

That's a whole bunch of weasel words all mushed together. Do you have an actual claim?

 

[wareyin]

The benefit of an opposition press is they will report facts that the mainstream press ignores.

And the worldwide coverage of a tiny private college taking down a couple of posters a student put up to invite others to draw with them was a benefit for...who? The conservative who graduated from that college but no longer attends and didn't see the poster in question in person that got to be interviewed?

Have any of you ever been near a college before? Students put up and have posters taken down all the time, and have since students could easily make posters. This isn't news, and the pathetic attempts by the right wing media to make it a controversy (as well as the gullible marks who eat that up and then spread it more themselves) are...well, typical for the right wing media and their consumers.

 

[d4m10n]

That's a whole bunch of weasel words all mushed together.

If that's all you're seeing, there isn't anything more I can do to help. I've stated my position on the cancellation of the (racist & sexist) artistic workshop; we've yet to hear yours.

 

[catsmate]

When the source of the story is known for fabrication and misleading slants, addressing the source of the story is a good idea. Well, if you want to play a gullible rube on the net, then it's probably better for you to swallow the story whole without considering the source at all.

Indeed, especially given how often our resident "conservatives", "free speech advocates" and "anti-woke activists" have fallen for outright faked stories.

Had you read your link and Stout's link, you would have swiftly come to the conclusion that the source of the story matters greatly to the accuracy of claims made. The fact that you're still feigning confusion about the source of a story mattering demonstrates that you have not actually read the links. As usual.

Nah, that'd be too much like work, rather than puerile point-scoring against "liberals".

 

[catsmate]

The stories in both The Daily Mail and The Independant [sic]were pretty much the same with the big takeaway being there's racist sexist fascist cisphobic scum haunting the sewers of Gettysburg College.
<gibber ship>

Oh look, wallpaper words.

 

[wareyin]

If that's all you're seeing, there isn't anything more I can do to help. I've stated my position on the cancellation of the (racist & sexist) artistic workshop; we've yet to hear yours.

Your position is that you don't think...unless...which doesn't appear...

That's not saying anything, that's mealymouthed weasel words.

 

[smartcooky]

If that's all you're seeing, there isn't anything more I can do to help.

Well, you won't be able to help me either.

 

[dudalb]

Because USAian style economics and its supporting political theory is based on a sociopathic disdain for others.

Well, we have removed all doubts you just plain do not like Americans.
I have noted the a vast majority of people who use USAian do not like Americans very much.

 

[dudalb]

And the worldwide coverage of a tiny private college taking down a couple of posters a student put up to invite others to draw with them was a benefit for...who? The conservative who graduated from that college but no longer attends and didn't see the poster in question in person that got to be interviewed?

Have any of you ever been near a college before? Students put up and have posters taken down all the time, and have since students could easily make posters. This isn't news, and the pathetic attempts by the right wing media to make it a controversy (as well as the gullible marks who eat that up and then spread it more themselves) are...well, typical for the right wing media and their consumers.

I suggest that this was Gettysburg college had something to do with the attention.
The college was fought over in the battle of Gettysburg and was used by both sides as headquarters. It;s part of the standard tour of the battlefield, and some of the older buildings still have bullet holes from the battle.

 

[smartcooky]

Well, we have removed all doubts you just plain do not like Americans.
I have noted the a vast majority of people who use USAian do not like Americans very much.

To be fair, I don't much like "America" but I am OK with most Americans I have met.

 

[arthwollipot]

Well, we have removed all doubts you just plain do not like Americans.
I have noted the a vast majority of people who use USAian do not like Americans very much.

We used to have a poster who got very angry whenever anyone used that term. As a result and out of respect for their wishes I stopped using it.

I guess that's "woke" now too.

 

[wareyin]

Well, we have removed all doubts you just plain do not like Americans.
I have noted the a vast majority of people who use USAian do not like Americans very much.

Eh, I'm an American and I use USAian. The post you quoted removed all doubts that they don't like our economic system, but our economic system =/= our country.

I've worked with enough people who got sick (cancer), couldn't continue to work due to that sickness, then lost their job and because of that their insurance/ability to pay for medical care to survive that sickness, that I agree a large part of our economy is sociopathic disdain for others.

 

[smartcooky]

Eh, I'm an American and I use USAian. The post you quoted removed all doubts that they don't like our economic system, but our economic system =/= our country.

I've worked with enough people who got sick (cancer), couldn't continue to work due to that sickness, then lost their job and because of that their insurance/ability to pay for medical care to survive that sickness, that I agree a large part of our economy is sociopathic disdain for others.

Yup, that's my chief problem with America - or more with Republican influenced side of America

- The utter disregard for the oppressed and downtrodden
- The systemic racism
- The interest only in tax-cuts for rich donors at the expense of the poor
- The frenetic appointment right-wing judges to keep power when in opposition
- Guns

The you have scumbag senators like Rick Scott who wants all Healthcare and Social Welfare legislation to sunset five years after it is passed, so that when Democrats pass such legislation while they are in power, Republicans don't even have to argue to overturn it when they get power, they can just let it all lapse and thereby avoid having to deal with all those pesky obstacles like the courts and people's constitutional rights.

 

[Stout]

OMG!...England!. Didn't you learn anything when that guy got reported for singing Kung Fu Fighting?

'Cultural insensitivity' is the Wishy Washy reason that charity Aladdin panto got the Chop Chop

I suppose these cast members should consider themselves lucky their rehearsals didn't get taken out by a SWAT team.

 

[smartcooky]

OMG!...England!. Didn't you learn anything when that guy got reported for singing Kung Fu Fighting?

'Cultural insensitivity' is the Wishy Washy reason that charity Aladdin panto got the Chop Chop

I suppose these cast members should consider themselves lucky their rehearsals didn't get taken out by a SWAT team.

It will be Punch and Judy next...