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David
I dare you to try
Joined: 27 Jul 2003 Location: Andromeda
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This discussion from a Facebook group devoted to reposting interesting Wikipedia articles:
https://m.facebook.com/groups/441438052640519?view=permalink&id=821698827947771
(By the way, PoC stands for "People of Colour" - i.e. people who aren't white Americans.)
Lauren Bollinger wrote: | Hey I know I'm not a mod but as a general PSA can people (esp white members) stop posting articles about PoC cultures??? I've been seeing too many of them lately and it's actually making me v upset and distrustful of this community. Like I understand these cultures are v new and interesting to you as a member of the dominant culture but it really reeks of eurocentricism, exoticization and the white gaze. Like these components of the culture are not very "cool" or "freaky" to the people who live within them, it's just their way of life.
Not to mention posting stuff like that is extremely ostracizing/erasing for club members from those cultures. Like you're assuming that most/if not all cool freaks would find this information new or interesting, which simply is not the case.
I hope that this page can be one day be a place where me and other PoC don't feel exocitized and we can all enjoy cool and freaky articles together. |
Hmm. Good luck with that, you may say. Never fear, however - the group's moderator has her back!
Erin Kimiko wrote: | For now, anyone can put in their respectful opinion, but calling OP oversensitive here is gonna get you kicked (by me. I'm gonna kick you.) |
Wait a minute, says one member of the group - what is she actually talking about?
Bert Reiheld wrote: | Could you sight some examples? There was the Sentinelese the other week, but other than that, looks like everything else is whiter than swim team. |
No dice.
Kat Danger McLaren wrote: | marginalized people don't like being asked to prove they are being marginalized..... bc that's how privileged ppl gaslight them |
Isn't this all just a little bit ridiculous, asks one group member?
Edward Sumić wrote: | this is facebook, not a classroom, a workplace or a courtroom - if somebody posts something you don't like then leave the group, if somebody posts something that is deemed offensive by the people that run the group then the person will get removed, it's as simple as that. Stop taking it so seriously, maybe go for a walk or something? |
Uh oh. You just crossed the line, boy.
Erin Kimiko wrote: | example of ban worthy comment |
OK, so Eric's gone. But what about all the other perpetrators? Will they get their just deserts?
Erin Kimiko wrote: | My friends, please comment tagging my name under the Bad comments. Help me. |
An efficient system. One member, however, worries that some undesirables may be falling through the cracks.
Simone de Beauvoir wrote: | Can the mods please be sure to ban everyone who is *liking* the shitty comments as well? |
Suzy Q Funk is unimpressed.
Suzy Q Funk wrote: | If something as trivial and ambiguous as a Facebook "like" feels oppressive to you, maybe a public page just isn't for you? Perhaps you'd be more comfortable on a page with only people who are like you? |
I think we've heard enough. Put her in the van!
Simone de Beauvoir wrote: | Erin Kimiko |
So, practically everyone complaining that the original post was too politically correct has been summarily executed. There still remains one line of attack, however: arguing that it wasn't politically correct enough...
Journie Sovanara Ma-Johnson wrote: | I would like to point out that "person of color" is a west centric notion based on whiteness. Like in the US we have a white majority and a culture based on white supremacy so people who aren't white are "of color" but Chinese people living in China aren't "people of color" because they don't have a white supremacist culture so it doesn't make sense to call them that within the context of their own country. Referring to non-western countries/cultures as "people of color countries/cultures" perpetuates western centric ideologies that can't necessarily be applied universally. |
Journie has a further linguistic suggestion for the punters at home.
Journie Sovanara Ma-Johnson wrote: | aside from "people of color countries" being inaccurate, it's also just silly. if you really wanted to use that kind of phrasing, why not say "countries of color? |
What can you say to that?
Marte My wrote: | Wow, this group just reached a whole new level of PC. |
Zach Holbrook wrote: | Erin Kimiko |
Jesse Alvarez wrote: | The operative word in the phrase "politically correct" is "correct", bud |
God bless America. _________________ All watched over by machines of loving grace
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HAL
Please don't shout at me - I can't help it.
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How can I help you? |
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Dark Beanie
Joined: 06 Feb 2004 Location: A galaxy far, far away.
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Wokko
Come and take it.
Joined: 04 Oct 2005
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David, you've just seriously triggered me. I demand you ban yourself immediately.
Seriously though, THAT is the kind of shit I'm on about all the time. I just hope like 90s PC that the conservatives win this culture war 2.0, because it's even more Orwellian this time around. |
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David
I dare you to try
Joined: 27 Jul 2003 Location: Andromeda
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Conservatives? The Susie O'Briens of the world? Heavens above, no; they're just as bad. Better still if the culture warriors on both sides lose interest and the war fizzles out. _________________ All watched over by machines of loving grace |
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Tannin
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Joined: 06 Aug 2006 Location: Huon Valley Tasmania
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Wokko. 'Coz he thinks LBJ was a communist. _________________ �Let's eat Grandma.� Commas save lives! |
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Wokko
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Tannin wrote: | Wokko. 'Coz he thinks LBJ was a communist. |
I have nfi what you're on about. |
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think positive
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Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Location: somewhere
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Surfing the net (ok shopping, but I really needed another dress, I'm sure someone will get married again soon) had a couple of reds waiting for my eldest to come home after a weekend at bernies (I think his names Michael actually) haven't had a drink for a while, (well not more than 1 maybe 2 anyway). Tripped up the stairs, (god I'm clumbsy😦) and tried to sneak in the bedroom without waking hubby. Kicked the bucket (ok rubbish bin, but who put it there) fell over my boots, and desperate to save my last drop or red in my vintage plastic Halloween glass I got from a little town outside of Yosemite (place name dropping for Stui) one rainy day, I dropped firstly, my heartsick old dog, then my other boots, then my iPhone! And then I giggled . A lot. And that, well THAT made ME laugh!
If you ever heard my laughter, well, it can shatter glass at 50 paces!
Hubby didn't laugh. Seems a tad grumpy! _________________ You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either! |
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David
I dare you to try
Joined: 27 Jul 2003 Location: Andromeda
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King Monkey
Joined: 15 Apr 2009 Location: On a journey to seek the scriptures of enlightenment....
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think positive wrote: | Surfing the net (ok shopping, but I really needed another dress, I'm sure someone will get married again soon) had a couple of reds waiting for my eldest to come home after a weekend at bernies (I think his names Michael actually) haven't had a drink for a while, (well not more than 1 maybe 2 anyway). Tripped up the stairs, (god I'm clumbsy😦) and tried to sneak in the bedroom without waking hubby. Kicked the bucket (ok rubbish bin, but who put it there) fell over my boots, and desperate to save my last drop or red in my vintage plastic Halloween glass I got from a little town outside of Yosemite (place name dropping for Stui) one rainy day, I dropped firstly, my heartsick old dog, then my other boots, then my iPhone! And then I giggled . A lot. And that, well THAT made ME laugh!
If you ever heard my laughter, well, it can shatter glass at 50 paces!
Hubby didn't laugh. Seems a tad grumpy! |
That made me laugh!!
(And I feel your hubby's pain, that's our place most weeknights......) _________________ "I am a great sage, equal of heaven.
Grow stick, grow.
Fly cloud, fly.
Oh you are a dee-mon, I love to fiiight." |
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think positive
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Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Location: somewhere
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King Monkey wrote: | think positive wrote: | Surfing the net (ok shopping, but I really needed another dress, I'm sure someone will get married again soon) had a couple of reds waiting for my eldest to come home after a weekend at bernies (I think his names Michael actually) haven't had a drink for a while, (well not more than 1 maybe 2 anyway). Tripped up the stairs, (god I'm clumbsy😦) and tried to sneak in the bedroom without waking hubby. Kicked the bucket (ok rubbish bin, but who put it there) fell over my boots, and desperate to save my last drop or red in my vintage plastic Halloween glass I got from a little town outside of Yosemite (place name dropping for Stui) one rainy day, I dropped firstly, my heartsick old dog, then my other boots, then my iPhone! And then I giggled . A lot. And that, well THAT made ME laugh!
If you ever heard my laughter, well, it can shatter glass at 50 paces!
Hubby didn't laugh. Seems a tad grumpy! |
That made me laugh!!
(And I feel your hubby's pain, that's our place most weeknights......) |
I think I'll have to take your missus out on the town! _________________ You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either! |
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stui magpie
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
Joined: 03 May 2005 Location: In flagrante delicto
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Careful there Jo, she can fire up. Eh so I'm told
Couple of things made me laugh in the last few days.
1 is the African American male dress sense. They like to coordinate colours. Saw one bloke wearing a shirt that looked like he chopped up a table cloth and the pants were the same material, another bloke stalking thru the casino was wearing fire engine red shorts, t shirt, and shoes. He was a big unit so my laughing was all on the inside.
The other was at maccas. I was feeling a little dazes and confused one morning so decided maccas was required. They take your order, give you a receipt with a number on it and call that number when the food's ready. So they had 2 trays full of stuff and called out for ticket two forteen. No response. Tried it 3 times and I looked around and the only ones waiting was a muslim family of 5. So I said to the bloke, you got ticket two forteen?, He looks at hisbticket and says no, I have two one four. _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
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Jezza
2023 PREMIERS!
Joined: 06 Sep 2010 Location: Ponsford End
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stui magpie wrote: | The other was at maccas. I was feeling a little dazes and confused one morning so decided maccas was required. They take your order, give you a receipt with a number on it and call that number when the food's ready. So they had 2 trays full of stuff and called out for ticket two forteen. No response. Tried it 3 times and I looked around and the only ones waiting was a muslim family of 5. So I said to the bloke, you got ticket two forteen?, He looks at hisbticket and says no, I have two one four. |
That's priceless! _________________ | 1902 | 1903 | 1910 | 1917 | 1919 | 1927 | 1928 | 1929 | 1930 | 1935 | 1936 | 1953 | 1958 | 1990 | 2010 | 2023 | |
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stui magpie wrote: | Careful there Jo, she can fire up. Eh so I'm told
Couple of things made me laugh in the last few days.
1 is the African American male dress sense. They like to coordinate colours. Saw one bloke wearing a shirt that looked like he chopped up a table cloth and the pants were the same material, another bloke stalking thru the casino was wearing fire engine red shorts, t shirt, and shoes. He was a big unit so my laughing was all on the inside.
The other was at maccas. I was feeling a little dazes and confused one morning so decided maccas was required. They take your order, give you a receipt with a number on it and call that number when the food's ready. So they had 2 trays full of stuff and called out for ticket two forteen. No response. Tried it 3 times and I looked around and the only ones waiting was a muslim family of 5. So I said to the bloke, you got ticket two forteen?, He looks at hisbticket and says no, I have two one four. |
lucky they don't do the raffle ticket system, if that bloke had ticket C4 - your day could have been different.
Do they still have the Cookie Mc Biscuit there - two chocolate chip cookies for the buns, egg, bacon sausage and cheese. (like a mc muffin with extra heart attack) |
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John Wren
"Look after the game. It means so much to so many."
Joined: 15 Jul 2007
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#borderfarce _________________ Purveyor of sanctimonious twaddle. |
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