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Originally Posted by Baltimore Jones
lol at white males terrified about how bad things are getting with all this "political correctness"
It is the shutting down of conversation that frightens me. It doesn't matter what term you want to use.
We've already seen so many instances of blatant lies being used to push agendas and smear people. We aren't even able to point out the lies without getting ourselves hurt, losing our jobs, or possibly getting our GitHub repos nuked. Don't you see how this is a problem? What does race and gender have to do with any of this, outside of bowing before extremists?
The first real incident I was exposed to was Donglegate:
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events...adria-richards
The problem was someone may have said something Adria found offensive (I don't know if it was or not; I wasn't there). She didn't open her mouth at the moment, but didn't have any issues making a world-wide fuss over the situation, causing people to lose their jobs.
At the same time, she felt she was allowed to make sexual commentary and that was okay because... she's a woman and a feminist?
In Adria's world, and many others, we should live in a world where it is okay for one group of people to say the exact same things as other groups of people are forbidden to ever say, and even if what the former says is far more offensive, they should be forgiven.
So, we have people like Adria walking the world, who is being promoted by people who believe in what she says and all of this is getting egged on by internet trolls.
Well, I should be careful, my GitHub repo might be next if I keep talking like this.