Political Correctness

sturg33 said:
Liberalism bans factual language

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The term owner is not banned by the NBA. They use the term governor instead, but Silver has specified it’s simply terminology the league uses and prefers, not something that’s mandated.
 
mqt said:
The term owner is not banned by the NBA. They use the term governor instead, but Silver has specified it’s simply terminology the league uses and prefers, not something that’s mandated.
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I wish James Dolan would get impeached then
 
Just to remind younger hand-wringers in here, when this person was shot on May 4, 1970, it wasn't over the recall of sneakers. When the bullets start flying, I'll start taking the current discussion of political correctness seriously.

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if only a liberal state would have banned the name i guess it would have made it here

or if liberals were angry about a mermaid being portrayed by a black actor got them upset

it might have made it here
 
striker42 said:
Lincoln was a racist who suspended the writ of habeus corpus, one of the most evil acts ever done by a president. Yet no one ever talks about that.

I find the selective treatment of history kind of ridiculous.
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Well that's the most blatant act of cherry picking I've ever seen. Maybe being in a civil war had something to do with it, a war where if he lost his head would end up on a stake. Turns out, victory gave him a similar fate.
 
goldfly said:
if only a liberal state would have banned the name i guess it would have made it here

or if liberals were angry about a mermaid being portrayed by a black actor got them upset

it might have made it here
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Dude nobody gives a **** about little mermaid. The left always does this, they find like 3 random twitter accounts of a complaint then they say the GOP is outraged. Its absurd.

With regards to the burger, I understand the logic. Like, for example, I can't sell sugar pills and label them as cancer curing pills"

I'm not sure if I agree with the government regulating it, but you can extend the logic elsewhere where it makes total sense.
 
sturg33 said:
Dude nobody gives a **** about little mermaid. The left always does this, they find like 3 random twitter accounts of a complaint then they say the GOP is outraged. Its absurd.

With regards to the burger, I understand the logic. Like, for example, I can't sell sugar pills and label them as cancer curing pills"

I'm not sure if I agree with the government regulating it, but you can extend the logic elsewhere where it makes total sense.
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I’m not sure I follow. I can see why you can’t call veggie protein “beef,” but I don’t see why you can’t call it a burger. It seems to get to some abstruse metaphysical pondering about what a burger or a hot dog is. I mean, a hot dog isn’t a dog, is it? The example you’re using is not a good analogy, as it’s making an unsubstantiated claim about health benefits, which is clearly a no-no.

I’d also think this was a pretty clear call from a libertarian perspective, and it’s obviously speech policing—and, unlike almost everything else in this thread, it’s being done by the government.
 
sturg33 said:
Dude nobody gives a **** about little mermaid. The left always does this, they find like 3 random twitter accounts of a complaint then they say the GOP is outraged. Its absurd.

With regards to the burger, I understand the logic. Like, for example, I can't sell sugar pills and label them as cancer curing pills"

I'm not sure if I agree with the government regulating it, but you can extend the logic elsewhere where it makes total sense.
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This is pretty much exactly what you do.
 
sturg33 said:
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Apparently the festival scrapped the pricing structure and is instead encouraging white customers to make donations in excess of the ticket price. Of course rather than just admit they were wrong, the organizers are saying they’re changing the policy in response of threats from white supremacists. One biracial performer pulled out of the event over the absurdity of it all, so at least there was one voice of reason...
 
Julio3000 said:
I’m not sure I follow. I can see why you can’t call veggie protein “beef,” but I don’t see why you can’t call it a burger. It seems to get to some abstruse metaphysical pondering about what a burger or a hot dog is. I mean, a hot dog isn’t a dog, is it? The example you’re using is not a good analogy, as it’s making an unsubstantiated claim about health benefits, which is clearly a no-no.

I’d also think this was a pretty clear call from a libertarian perspective, and it’s obviously speech policing—and, unlike almost everything else in this thread, it’s being done by the government.
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yep

he can't admit wrong
 
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