The Mizzou/Yale/PC/Free Speech Topic

[IDBillzFan]

Snowflakes now have a problem with the lack of consent in the song "Baby, It's Cold Outside."

 

I literally want to go to Minnesota, find these pathetic idiots and burn their phucking piano. Who the hell finds these nutbags?

 

"I've always had a big problem with the song. It's so aggressive and inappropriate," said Lemanski, 25.

 

Liza, 22, said she felt the same way as her boyfriend.

 

"We started thinking of the open-ended questions that song has," she said. "You never figure out if she gets to go home. You never figure out if there was something in her drink. It just leaves you with a bad taste in your mouth."

 

 

[LA Grant]

The Right has its own version of political correctness and now it has a term. Great piece from Washington Post here:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/12/07/the-right-has-its-own-version-of-political-correctness-its-just-as-stifling/

President-elect Donald Trump has not been shy about the “big problem in this country”: political correctness. Trump has blamed PC for the attack at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando (“They have put political correctness above common sense, above your safety and above all else,” he tweeted) and the rise of the militant group Islamic State. His voters agreed (indeed, it might even have been the reason for his victory).

It’s not just him. Political correctness has become a major bugaboo of the right in the past decade, a rallying cry against all that has gone wrong with liberalism and America. Conservative writers fill volumes complaining how political correctness stifles free expression and promotes bunk social theories about “power structures” based on patriarchy, race and mass victimhood. Forbes charged that it “stifles freedom of speech.” The Daily Caller has gone so far as to claim that political correctness “kills Americans.”

But conservatives have their own, nationalist version of PC, their own set of rules regulating speech, behavior and acceptable opinions. I call it “patriotic correctness.” It’s a full-throated, un-nuanced, uncompromising defense of American nationalism, history and cherry-picked ideals. Central to its thesis is the belief that nothing in America can’t be fixed by more patriotism enforced by public shaming, boycotts and policies to cut out foreign and non-American influences.

Insufficient displays of patriotism among the patriotically correct can result in exclusion from public life and ruined careers. It also restricts honest criticism of failed public policies, diverting blame for things like the war in Iraq to those Americans who didn’t support the war effort enough.

For example, in the aftermath of 9/11 and the run-up to the Iraq War, David Frum labeled dissenters as anti-American. Jonah Goldberg wrote that opponents of the war “can only get passionate about the perfidy of our own president.” Conservative gadfly Robert “Buzz” Patterson went further, calling much of the Democratic Party, Hollywood, big media, college campuses and many other organizations “traitors.” The French government’s opposition to the invasion of Iraq prompted Congress to rename French fries as “freedom fries” in congressional cafeterias, a 21st-century liberty cabbage. When the Dixie Chicks opposed the Iraq War, many stations pulled the group’s music from the air so as not to “trigger” listeners. Fans destroyed Dixie Chicks albums in grotesque public demonstrations. The radio became a safe space.

More recently, 49er quarterback Colin Kaepernick sat and then knelt for the national anthem to protest police brutality. Tomi Lahren, host of “Final Thoughts,” gave an incoherent rant about soldiers dying for Kaepernick’s right to speak so, therefore, he should shut up and stand for the national anthem. Some fans even burned their Kaepernick jerseys in protest. Others said Kaepernick should “get the hell out” if he doesn’t love America. Myths of an NFL rule mandating standing for the anthem, even though no such rule actually exists, were spread to justify the outrage and point to a double standard of enforcement whereby the NFL condones protests against America but players get fined if they wear different-color shoelaces. In such a narrative, patriots are the victims of an elite liberal power structure.

Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.) tweeted that “Kaepernick should think about the service members risking their lives to protect his freedom to be both rich and unpatriotic.” Kaepernick’s microaggression even offended liberal Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who said the protest was “dumb and disrespectful,” words she later retracted.

Believing in American exceptionalism means that anything less than chest-thumping jingoism is capitulation. Unionized public employees who can’t be fired are bad at their jobs and are more interested in increasing their own power than fulfilling their public duties — except if they are police or Border Patrol officers, who are unselfishly devoted to their jobs. The crime rate is high and rising, so when facts show that criminality has declined substantially over the decades, the patriotically correct respond with appeals to the bubbled feelings of the common man.

One of the biggest critics of patriotic correctness is National Review writer Jim Geraghty. He responded to outrage over Jeb Bush and his wife, Columba, speaking Spanish at home by writing, “What business is it of yours?” and said there is “something bafflingly insecure about our culture if we genuinely feel threatened by foreign languages spoken in the private sphere of the family home.”

Complaining about political correctness is patriotically correct. The patriotically correct must use the non-word “illegals,” or “illegal immigrant” or “illegal alien” to describe foreigners who broke our immigration laws. Dissenters support “open borders” or “shamnesty” for 30 million illegal alien invaders. The punishment is deportation because “we’re a nation of laws” and they didn’t “get in line,” even though no such line actually exists. Just remember that they are never anti-immigration, only anti-illegal immigration, even when they want to cut legal immigration.

Black Lives Matter is racist because it implies that black lives are more important than other lives, but Blue Lives Matter doesn’t imply that cops’ lives are more important than the rest of ours. Banning Islam or Muslim immigration is a necessary security measure, but homosexuals should not be allowed to get married because it infringes on religious liberty. Transgender people could access women’s restrooms for perverted purposes, but Donald Trump walking in on nude underage girls in dressing rooms before a beauty pageant is just “media bias.”

Terrorism is an “existential threat,” even though the chance of being killed in a terrorist attack is about 1 in 3.2 million a year. Saying the words “radical Islam” when describing terrorism is an important incantation necessary to defeat that threat. When Chobani yogurt founder Hamdi Ulukaya decides to employ refugees in his factories, it’s because of his ties to “globalist corporate figures.” Waving a Mexican flag on U.S. soil means you hate America, but waving a Confederate flag just means you’re proud of your heritage. The phrase “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas” needs a trigger warning.

Blaming the liberal or mainstream media and “media bias” is the patriotically correct version of blaming the corporations or capitalism. The patriotically correct notion that they “would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the Boston telephone directory than by the 2,000 people on the faculty of Harvard University” because the former have “common sense” and the “intellectual elites” don’t know anything, despite all the evidence to the contrary, can be sustained only in a total bubble. Poor white Americans are the victims of economic dislocation and globalization beyond their control, while poor blacks and Hispanics are poor because of their failed cultures. The patriotically correct are triggered when they hear strangers speaking in a language other than English. Does that remind you of the PC duty to publicly shame those who use unacceptable language to describe race, gender or whatever other identity is the victim du jour?

The patriotically correct rightly ridicule PC “safe spaces” but promptly retreat to Breitbart or talk radio, where they can have mutually reinforcing homogeneous temper tantrums while complaining about the lack of intellectual diversity on the left. There is no such thing as too much national security, but it’s liberals who want to coddle Americans with a “nanny state.” Those who disagree with the patriotically correct are animated by anti-Americanism, are post-American, or deserve any other of a long list of clunky and vague labels that signal virtue to other members of the patriotic in-group.

Every group has implicit rules against certain opinions, actions and language as well as enforcement mechanisms — and the patriotically correct are no exception. But they are different because they are near-uniformly unaware of how they are hewing to a code of speech and conduct similar to the PC lefties they claim to oppose. The modern form of political correctness on college campuses and the media is social tyranny with manners, while patriotic correctness is tyranny without the manners, and its adherents do not hesitate to use the law to advance their goals. If we have a term to describe this new phenomenon — I nominate patriotic correctness.

 

Sorry if I'm interrupting your safe space here, I know how you special snowflakes react to different opinions.

[DC Tom]

 

The Right has its own version of political correctness and now it has a term. Great piece from Washington Post here:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/12/07/the-right-has-its-own-version-of-political-correctness-its-just-as-stifling/

Sorry if I'm interrupting your safe space here, I know how you special snowflakes react to different opinions.

 

 

You're an idiot.

 

Created by DC Tom-bot, beta version 0.1.

[boyst]

Snowflakes now have a problem with the lack of consent in the song "Baby, It's Cold Outside."

 

I literally want to go to Minnesota, find these pathetic idiots and burn their phucking piano. Who the hell finds these nutbags?

 

 

I've always had a problem with that song. Its creepy as hell. And for me to have that opinion is ridiculous. I'm a depraved and darkly twisted kinda guy... but that song is just wrong.

[Deranged Rhino]

 

The Right has its own version of political correctness and now it has a term. Great piece from Washington Post here:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/12/07/the-right-has-its-own-version-of-political-correctness-its-just-as-stifling/

Sorry if I'm interrupting your safe space here, I know how you special snowflakes react to different opinions.

 

 

Striving for civility between people is something to be lauded.

 

Attempting to force civility between people by outlawing certain language is a slippery slope which ultimately ends in censorship and the obliteration of our freedom of speech...

 

Look at the other articles being pumped out by WashPo and you'll see the end game clearly.

[DC Tom]

I've always had a problem with that song. Its creepy as hell. And for me to have that opinion is ridiculous. I'm a depraved and darkly twisted kinda guy... but that song is just wrong.

 

What, you have an issue with lines like "Say, what's in this drink?"

 

Striving for civility between people is something to be lauded.

 

Attempting to force civility between people by outlawing certain language is a slippery slope which ultimately ends in censorship and the obliteration of our freedom of speech...

 

And linking to articles, and then posting them in their entirety, in oversized font, is !@#$ing obnoxious.

[grinreaper]

 

The Right has its own version of political correctness and now it has a term. Great piece from Washington Post here:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/12/07/the-right-has-its-own-version-of-political-correctness-its-just-as-stifling/

Sorry if I'm interrupting your safe space here, I know how you special snowflakes react to different opinions.

 

Gee, at least OC breaks up his novel with emoticons.

[boyst]

The Right has its own version of political correctness and now it has a term. Great piece from Washington Post here:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/12/07/the-right-has-its-own-version-of-political-correctness-its-just-as-stifling/

 

Sorry if I'm interrupting your safe space here, I know how you special snowflakes react to different opinions.

I skimmed your nonsense retarded take on what wapo, a joke of major proportions weighed in on...

 

I've been to a Dickie chicks concert. This is why I know why fans destroyed their albums. They sold themselves as country to break in. They came out as country as can be and you went to the concert and it was like a seminar on how bad men are, love and tolerance for gays and lesbians, all of this. Even back in the 90's when Fly came out. When fans came to their shows they were not that type. They didn't want that ****. And I love Natalie. She's hilarious. But this is part of how I know the wapo doesn't get it.

And the spin on kaepernick is not worth the obvious hypocritical bigot fake ass douchebag approach.

And mentioning WMD is pandering to the left wanting to swallow gallons of democrat knuckled pumped juice.

This entire article. ... just hysterically written is why everyone is done with the real media and so blindly follows what people call fake news. When this is a representative of real news how can you tell what is fake news? The poor simple country trump voting folks can't tell the difference...

Ya know, cuz they don't like the Dixie chicks message and think kaepernick is a retard...why would they buy in to any of this bull ****?

 

Of course, you worshipped every ounce of it pumped in to you. Don't forget to clean your chin off

[Deranged Rhino]

 

And linking to articles, and then posting them in their entirety, in oversized font, is !@#$ing obnoxious.

 

The obnoxious factor is kind of a perk...

 

(but again, not posting them in full and do try to make the fonts small, I'm just terrible at it)

[DC Tom]

 

The obnoxious factor is kind of a perk...

 

(but again, not posting them in full and do try to make the fonts small, I'm just terrible at it)

 

I'm not talking about you, I'm talking about LA Shitbird up a few posts. Obnoxiously and ignorantly copy an entire, poorly written article to demonstrate the hypocrisy of a group of people who would agree with the article more than not.

 

And you know what happens next...he accuses me of trying to abridge his freedom of speech, because he can't understand it's not his opinion I have a problem with, it's the dumbass way he ignorantly forms it and complete lack of anything resembling a thought, original or otherwise, that goes in to it.

[Deranged Rhino]

 

I'm not talking about you, I'm talking about LA Shitbird up a few posts. Obnoxiously and ignorantly copy an entire, poorly written article to demonstrate the hypocrisy of a group of people who would agree with the article more than not.

 

And you know what happens next...he accuses me of trying to abridge his freedom of speech, because he can't understand it's not his opinion I have a problem with, it's the dumbass way he ignorantly forms it and complete lack of anything resembling a thought, original or otherwise, that goes in to it.

 

I have a guilty conscious because I do try to keep my cut and pastes short and know I fail more often than I get it right.

 

And for the second bit.

[Pine Barrens Mafia]

 

We may just do that. We have our sites on Palm Springs for a couple reasons. We love the desert heat. We know the area real well and we have tons of friends in that area. But I can get my music fix at Stubb's.

I bet you're excited you old bastard get yer golf cart ready xD

[TakeYouToTasker]

 

The Right has its own version of political correctness and now it has a term. Great piece from Washington Post here:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/12/07/the-right-has-its-own-version-of-political-correctness-its-just-as-stifling/

Sorry if I'm interrupting your safe space here, I know how you special snowflakes react to different opinions.

 

If you, or any other liberal, actually believes any of that, you're even dopier than I thought you were.

[boyst]

What, you have an issue with lines like "Say, what's in this drink?"

 

And linking to articles, and then posting them in their entirety, in oversized font, is !@#$ing obnoxious.

yes! Its !@#$ing amateur. It shouldn't be detrctedable. Chloroform is easy as !@#$ to make

[Azalin]

 

The Right has its own version of political correctness and now it has a term. Great piece from Washington Post here:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/12/07/the-right-has-its-own-version-of-political-correctness-its-just-as-stifling/

Sorry if I'm interrupting your safe space here, I know how you special snowflakes react to different opinions.

 

 

The left has been in the business of creating labels for people for decades. This is just another one. It's nothing new, and it's exactly what I'd expect from them.

[4merper4mer]

yes! Its !@#$ing amateur. It shouldn't be detrctedable. Chloroform is easy as !@#$ to make

Aaaaaaaaand now we know that Boyst's boasts about how many women he sleeps with are true. And we know why.

[DC Tom]

Aaaaaaaaand now we know that Boyst's boasts about how many women he sleeps with are true. And we know why.

 

You don't know that. He might use it on the cows.

[boyst]

Aaaaaaaaand now we know that Boyst's boasts about how many women he sleeps with are true. And we know why.

hahaha. I've never drugged a woman and won't even go near a drunk one.

[grinreaper]

hahaha. I've never drugged a woman and won't even go near a drunk one.

Have you ever drugged a cow? Just answer the question, yes or no.

[IDBillzFan]

 

What, you have an issue with lines like "Say, what's in this drink?"

 

Believing that a song from 1944 uses that line to suggest the male slipped a date rape drug in the female's drink is to believe that the male is also a cannibal because of the lyrics "Gee, your lips look delicious."

 

And for the record, quite possibly the best recording of this song is from Zooey Deschanel and Leon Redbone.