Some students at a high school in California got in trouble, sort of, for wearing “Anti-Gay” buttons. The buttons showed a rainbow flag with a red-circle-slash superimposed on it. The kids were asked to remove the buttons while school officials tried to decide if they were permissible free speech or not.
I have to wonder if any of these buttons would have caused any controversy at the school.
In an odd way, this brings to mind the controversy about Donald Trump not repudiating White Supremacist organizations that have expressed support for him. Should he denounce those organizations? Yes. And Hillary should denounce the racist hate groups that are supporting her. For example, #BlackLivesMatter and La Raza.
BTW: The Social Justice Left has a new buzzword. “Safe Space” is just, you know, like, “So-o-o-o-o-o 2015.” The new buzzword is “Brave Space.” Which is like a Safe Space, but more aggressively social-justicey.
“Brave space.” I can’t stop laughing!
“Sir Robin bravely ran away….”
Funny thing…David Duke put out a new video saying that he has NOT endorsed Donald Trump.
Which makes you wonder who originated that lie.
And why Donald Trump has to denounce something that did not happen.
This is getting soooo tiring. Really, why should ANY politician have to “renounce” anyone who endorses them?
It would be one thing if they were seem hugging, or if the politican courted that endorsement; but, no one, (not even Trump) asked for that endorsement.
And it is also annoying when the SJW types get their knickers in a bunch if the politician doesn’t denounce it with enough “vigor.” In other words, they expected (and demanded) that Trump should jump up and down screaming what rat bastards those bigots are! Anything less is seem as endorsing them back.
Frankly, I was waiting for the whole renaming of “safe spaces” into something more palatable now that “safe space” has become a joke of a phrase. It kind of reminds me of how “midget” and “dwarf”, two quite clinical names that have taken negative connotation from being used derisively, were changed to the apparently-more-acceptable “little people”, which just sounds like something someone would call their pet; absolutely ridiculous.
PC is based entirely on continuously cycling through various names in the hopes that eventually something will be found that will be universally praised as brave, never used derisively, and constantly champions whichever group it’s applied to. And that’s why there’s so many new names for PC related and “socially approved” concepts; they’re trying to do the impossible.
“Safe space” had to be replaced, just as “liberal” had to be replaced by “progressive” when the original term became an object of ridicule.
Before long, euphemisms become the standard term (or a pejorative) and have to be replaced with something softer. Boneyard becomes graveyard becomes cemetery becomes memorial park. “Idiot” and “moron” become “retarded” becomes “developmentally disabled,” and so on.
So now a hiding place is a “brave space.” Uh, yeah. Sure. Just like the Vietnam-era draft dodgers running away to their “brave space” (Canada) with their tails between their legs were heroes.
And the DOJ has a lawsuit against the city of Ferguson, MO, to make them stop enforcing laws against jaywalking. The laws supposedly have a disparate impact on people who look like they could be Obama’s sons. The suit says that “the people” need an agreement that will “protect their rights and safety.”
Right. Hiding is “brave,” and allowing kids to play in traffic will keep them safe.
And war is peace, slavery is freedom, and and ignorance is strength.
Tom just won this thread, wow! I have nothing to add! 😉
“Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever”
– Gov. George Wallace (D – Alabama) Jan. 14th, 1963
“PC is based entirely on continuously cycling through various names in the hopes that eventually something will be found that will be universally praised as brave, never used derisively, and constantly champions whichever group it’s applied to.”
You are right about the cycling through names, but I am cynical enough to see it as a cycle to enable “gotcha!” moments. “Negro” was accepted – both by negroes and by others for decades. The social justice engineers decided it was now racist, so it became black, then Afro-American, then African-American. Crippled became handicapped became differently-abled became handi-abled. Chinaman became Chinese. Idiots and Morons became retarded became special-needs people.
Note that all of these terms were either descriptive or clinical. None were loaded terms like ch1nk, sl0pe, n1663r, or g1mp. Yet, the old words were deemed offensive by the noise-makers, and society knuckled under.
Friendly Grizzly: I’m not sure you’re correct in assuming that, for example, idiot and moron were only “hijacked” as offensive words AFTER the replacement retarded had come into vogue. My guess is that widespread colloquial misuse had already made these once-neutral clinical terms objectionable well BEFORE anyone began pushing to replace them.
Similarly, some white racists were Accidentally On-Purpose mispronouncing the “neutral term” Negro (in order to make it sound like a word that had been highly pejorative at least since the mid-19th-century), thus allowing them to race-bait while maintaining a pretense of plausible deniability.