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November 17, 2015, 12:28:12 AM
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The most accurate description of Bitcointalk yet. Good read.
somehow missed reading that, glad i caught it now.

that aside, the same people are pulling shit like this, and its actually apalling to me that people around my age (give or take a few) are dumb enough to pull stunts like this, in a library, where people are trying to fucking study.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJAuVQlLxD0

exactly what do these shits think they'll achieve with a stunt like this? get hated by every student in that library for ruining their study time?

Well, so much for keeping my blood pressure in a healthy range today...

These kids are so deluded, I'm really curious to see how they function and integrate themselves into society once they're out of college and not receiving student loan money.
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November 22, 2015, 02:15:07 PM
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After Seven Years, Free Yoga Classes At University Of Ottawa Cancelled For Being “Cultural Appropriation”…






Student leaders have pulled the mat out from 60 University of Ottawa students, ending a free on-campus yoga class over fears the teachings could be seen as a form of “cultural appropriation.”

Jennifer Scharf, who has been offering free weekly yoga instruction to students since 2008, says she was shocked when told in September the program would be suspended, and saddened when she learned of the reasoning.

Staff at the Centre for Students with Disabilities believe that “while yoga is a really great idea and accessible and great for students … there are cultural issues of implication involved in the practice,” according to an email from the centre.

The centre is operated by the university’s Student Federation, which first approached Scharf seven years ago about offering yoga instruction to students both with and without disabilities.

The centre goes on to say, “Yoga has been under a lot of controversy lately due to how it is being practiced,” and which cultures those practices “are being taken from.”

The centre official argues since many of those cultures “have experienced oppression, cultural genocide and diasporas due to colonialism and western supremacy … we need to be mindful of this and how we express ourselves while practising yoga.”

The concept of cultural appropriation is normally applied when a dominant culture borrows symbols of a marginalized culture for dubious reasons — such as the fad of hipsters donning indigenous headdresses as a fashion statement, without any regard to cultural significance or stereotype.

But Scharf, a yoga teacher with the downtown Rama Lotus Centre, said the concept does not apply in this case, arguing the complaint that killed the program came instead from a “social justice warrior” with “fainting heart ideologies” in search of a cause celebre.

“People are just looking for a reason to be offended by anything they can find,” said Scharf.


http://www.ottawasun.com/2015/11/20/free-ottawa-yoga-class-scrapped-over-cultural-issues

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After Seven Years, Free Yoga Classes At University Of Ottawa Cancelled For Being “Cultural Appropriation”…






Student leaders have pulled the mat out from 60 University of Ottawa students, ending a free on-campus yoga class over fears the teachings could be seen as a form of “cultural appropriation.”

Jennifer Scharf, who has been offering free weekly yoga instruction to students since 2008, says she was shocked when told in September the program would be suspended, and saddened when she learned of the reasoning.

Staff at the Centre for Students with Disabilities believe that “while yoga is a really great idea and accessible and great for students … there are cultural issues of implication involved in the practice,” according to an email from the centre.

The centre is operated by the university’s Student Federation, which first approached Scharf seven years ago about offering yoga instruction to students both with and without disabilities.

The centre goes on to say, “Yoga has been under a lot of controversy lately due to how it is being practiced,” and which cultures those practices “are being taken from.”

The centre official argues since many of those cultures “have experienced oppression, cultural genocide and diasporas due to colonialism and western supremacy … we need to be mindful of this and how we express ourselves while practising yoga.”

The concept of cultural appropriation is normally applied when a dominant culture borrows symbols of a marginalized culture for dubious reasons — such as the fad of hipsters donning indigenous headdresses as a fashion statement, without any regard to cultural significance or stereotype.

But Scharf, a yoga teacher with the downtown Rama Lotus Centre, said the concept does not apply in this case, arguing the complaint that killed the program came instead from a “social justice warrior” with “fainting heart ideologies” in search of a cause celebre.

“People are just looking for a reason to be offended by anything they can find,” said Scharf.


http://www.ottawasun.com/2015/11/20/free-ottawa-yoga-class-scrapped-over-cultural-issues



I was born in the early 70s and can remember our world before it crossed-over into this bizarro-reality we are in now - seriously, what the hell happened to this place? This line of thinking is beyond insane.
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November 23, 2015, 05:52:31 PM
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hahah I always knew the evil is found in yoga.

But it is true that people just look for something to bitch about and before you know it a UN commission pops up to tell you stop selling certain pastries because they're racist somehow.

The problem lies in half the planet accepting these thinly veiled attempts to move towards a world where they are on top, because basically that's all it is.

I think it's just a trend because these people have nothing else to do, hipsters grrr! Give em war and they're the first to perish after they poop their panties.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.






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So when do we get to deny women the fruits of men's labors as unfair appropriation of masculine culture? Sorry honey, but that toilet was invented by a man, you will have to go outside... and leave the toilet paper too... you cultural thief!
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November 28, 2015, 01:23:28 AM
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So when do we get to deny women the fruits of men's labors as unfair appropriation of masculine culture? Sorry honey, but that toilet was invented by a man, you will have to go outside... and leave the toilet paper too... you cultural thief!

You can't say that to her: women invented the Patriarchy. You should feel lucky you can still breathe Mother Nature's air...

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December 15, 2015, 05:09:53 PM
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ABC: US deliberately ignoring social-media posts in visa vetting


Want to guess why five government agencies missed Tashfeen Malik’s social-media postings that declared her intent to conduct violent jihad on behalf of radical Islam? It turns out that they didn’t miss it at all. The Department of Homeland Security has a deliberate policy of not checking social media when vetting visa applications, ABC News reported this morning.

Want to guess why that policy exists? Again, three guesses and the first two don’t count:

    Fearing a civil liberties backlash and “bad public relations” for the Obama administration, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson refused in early 2014 to end a secret U.S. policy that prohibited immigration officials from reviewing the social media messages of all foreign citizens applying for U.S. visas, a former senior department official said.

    “During that time period immigration officials were not allowed to use or review social media as part of the screening process,” John Cohen, a former acting under-secretary at DHS for intelligence and analysis. Cohen is now a national security consultant for ABC News.

    One current and one former senior counter-terrorism official confirmed Cohen’s account about the refusal of DHS to change its policy about the public social media posts of all foreign applicants.


While ABC names Johnson as the man who perpetuated this policy, it didn’t start with him, and Malik came in before this decision. The policy in place at that time would have been set by Janet Napolitano, who should not escape scrutiny for this nonsensical approach to national security. This failure might come as a big surprise to Congress, members of which have already begun to ask to expand vetting to social media after the terror attack in San Bernardino:

    Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., demanded Sunday that the U.S. immediately initiate a program that would check the social media sites of those admitted on visas.”

    “Had they checked out Tashfeen Malik,” the senator said, “maybe those people in San Bernardino would be alive.”


Maybe so, but then DHS might have experienced “bad public relations.” When people say that political correctness kills, this is exactly the kind of consequence they mean.

The notion that this would be a civil-liberties issue is equally absurd. The Constitution does not cover visa applications from foreigners; there is no right to a visa. Furthermore, social media statements are public in nature, not private, so reading them and considering them in terms of security concerns for entry into the US has no civil-liberties involvement either. Public declarations of support for jihad should be not just acceptable criteria for vetting, it should be a no-brainer as an automatic denial of the visa application in an age of global Islamist terrorism.

This demonstrates a shocking lack of seriousness about the war on terror by the Obama administration, albeit part of an overall pattern. They are literally more concerned about public relations than security in the visa application process, according to ABC’s report. It comes as Barack Obama and the Democrats have attempted to change the subject to gun control in the wake of the San Bernardino attack, and to climate change when it comes to the spread of ISIS. This administration clearly has its own priorities, and getting serious about national security ranks lower than their need to engage in political correctness.


http://hotair.com/archives/2015/12/14/abc-us-deliberately-ignoring-social-media-posts-in-visa-vetting/

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December 16, 2015, 02:00:01 AM
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I saw a picture on facebook yesterday and damn if I can't find it now, but this large woman (probably just triggered someone to run to their safe-space) had scrawled words across her body to push this idea that if a woman is denied sex presumably due to her not being "attractive", this now should also be considered "rape". This thinking is beyond insane.
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I saw a picture on facebook yesterday and damn if I can't find it now, but this large woman (probably just triggered someone to run to their safe-space) had scrawled words across her body to push this idea that if a woman is denied sex presumably due to her not being "attractive", this now should also be considered "rape". This thinking is beyond insane.
just my thoughts, but i think its a matter of insecurity, compensation for said insecurities, and a ridiculous sense of entitlement. there's a limit to how delusional the common person can be (excluding completely looney outliers), and there's no way all these people completely delude themselves into thinking jelly rolls, cellulite, and really bad body odor are attractive to a normal human being. instead they try to create some sort of widespread case of stockholm syndrome by aggressively forcing their thoughts on others, and sadly, this is working to some degree (nazi feminists being allowed to speak at the UN, really now...). combine that along with this delusional sense of entitlement that festers in the heads of these people and eventually these attention whores get around to actually thinking their delusional beliefs should be the norm for everything else around them.
if that wasnt enough, these people embody the very definition of the lack of self control and determination. lets take the obese feminist in your post as an example. lets take a quick look. said feminist is downright unattractive to say the least. how does said person of a more round shape begin to remedy this? go to the gym or something. but lets face it, going to the gym is some fucking hard work; your body is going to be sore in the morning, lifting is exhausting, fat people dont have stamina, eating right means you don get your 40 boxes of chocolate a day, not to mention the 2 cakes and 3 tubs of ice cream, and the list goes on. instead of taking it upon themselves to improve, they find it easier (necessary, even) to force everyone else to change their way of thinking over changing themselves. these people would rather spend a good portion of their life campaigning for something they know deep inside is complete bullshit rather than go through some physical work. imagine if they put the effort they put into spreading social cancer into actually improving themselves. same goes for the safe space keyboard warriors, they would rather put forth the effort into changing the way an entire society thinks over just dealing with things or ideas they might not like. theyre actively (either knowingly or unknowingly) attempting to remodel society into one where every person must agree with everything completely and at all times. it may be some sort of utopia in their sheltered heads, but any realist knows complete hivemind - level agreement is detrimental to the growth and survival of a society, nothing would ever get accomplished. this post was articulated rather poorly, my bad.

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December 27, 2015, 08:31:37 PM
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Updated: Free speech lawsuit against UNM tossed


ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A University of New Mexico student has lost her lawsuit against the school in which she claimed her professor violated her free speech rights by kicking her out of class for criticizing lesbianism in an essay.

Monica Pompeo and her attorney, Bob Gorence, have filed an appeal to the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver.

Her First Amendment violation lawsuit received national attention when she filed in it 2013.

Based on initial court documents filed in the case, civil rights and free speech advocates slammed UNM’s treatment of the student.

A federal judge initially refused UNM’s request to dismiss the case, further fueling criticism of the university’s free speech practices.

But that same judge, M. Christina Armijo, said in her dismissing order in September that at that time she had not seen Pompeo’s paper or the professors’ responses and that the court “erred” in denying the university’s first request to dismiss the case.

Armijo wrote that the further investigation into the case showed Pompeo’s professors offered her numerous opportunities to rewrite her essay to adhere to academic standards or to take alternative academic routes to achieve her class grade.

The dismissal also says that Pompeo’s professor, Caroline Hinkley, was “personally offended” by Pompeo’s views, but that the law was not clear enough to allow the court to decide if that “subjective hostility to a student’s viewpoint” was within the scope of teaching.

Pompeo originally claimed she had been ostracized, even kicked out of class, after she expressed anti-gay views in an essay about a lesbian film as part of an upper-level film critique class. She claimed the professor refused to grade her paper.

The dismissal order shows Pompeo, Hinkley, and her boss, Susan Dever, went through numerous rounds of emails, meetings and phone calls.

The professors attempted to explain to Pompeo that her assertions in her “critical and analytic paper” needed to be substantiated in accordance with academic standards. Otherwise, they remained opinions, and the assignment was not an opinion paper.

For example, the ruling shows that in Dever’s professional suggestions to Pompeo on rewriting her paper, Dever suggested Pompeo change the word “barren” in her paper to “childless” as Pompeo described the “wombs” of the lesbians in the film.

Dever said “childless” had a less derogatory tone, to which Pompeo replied, “And I will probably use the word ‘BARREN’ it is my choice; I don’t like to be told what words I may and may not use, ever.”

And Hinkley asked Pompeo to back up her statements about homosexuality, writing on the margin on Pompeo’s paper: “Why is attraction to the same sex perverse? This is a strong statement that needs critical backup. Otherwise it’s just inflammatory.”

At one point, Hinkley told Pompeo that some of her language in the paper could be considered hate speech, according to court documents. And Pompeo told Hinkley that some of the films in the class were “unendurable,” to which Hinkley replied there would likely be more such films. Pompeo reported this made her feel she was being pressured out of the class.

Armijo ultimately ruled that the professors’ conduct and attempts to change how Pompeo used her language was, to summarize the ruling, within the scope of teaching and was not a violation of her constitutionally protected right to free speech but noted the law was vague on the issue.

The federal appeal has been filed and is currently in the mediation stage, according to court records. The next hearing in the case is set for January.



http://www.abqjournal.com/696925/news/students-free-speech-lawsuit-dismissed.html


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December 29, 2015, 04:02:09 PM
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Harvard Law School Dean Compares “Microaggressions” To Rape…


In a move that should surprise no one who has been watching the utter meltdown of privileged college students this year, a Harvard Law School dean has compared "microaggressions" to sexual assault and violence.

Dean Martha L. Minow, during her winter commencement speech on injustice, asked her students to keep fighting even after they graduate. She made references to apartheid and segregated schools before making the bizarre analogy.

"Taking even seemingly small acts in one's own school can build the culture that prevents violence, bullying, sexual assault and racial microaggressions," she said.

Get that? Violence, bullying, sexual assault — they're all in the same category as microaggressions. Microaggressions, for those who have been lucky enough to miss the outcries of the past year, are words and phrases that offend someone with delicate sensitivities, even when the speaker meant no harm.

For example, several schools provided lists to students of phrases that are considered microaggressions. At the University of California, the list included such debilitating and hateful phrases as "everyone can succeed in this society, if they work hard enough" and "America is the land of opportunity."

Scholars have for centuries tried to document the number of wars started due to the utterance of those very phrases, but lost count due to continued fainting.

The College Fix likened Minow's comparison to "telling students their 'seemingly small acts' can prevent a spouse's snoring."

"They don't know they snore until you tell them," wrote the Fix's Greg Piper. (Emphasis original)

And Dean Minow knows something about racism and oppression on college campuses. At Harvard this year (and every year), precious students were subjected to college leaders with the title of "master," and a seal dedicated to a family who owned slaves back when it was sort of culturally acceptable. The students were also forced to witness the photos of black Harvard professors with black tape over their faces. It's a wonder these students are still standing.

As for the black tape "incident," the school is investigating it as a hate crime, but at least one black professor isn't convinced. Professor Randall Kennedy isn't jumping on the racism bandwagon, believing there are any number of reasons for the tape — including a "hoax meant to look like a racial insult in order to provoke a crisis."

So while Harvard students try to erase the past because of current sentiments, they have at least one administrator willing to placate their desires (or at least go along with them to avoid a backlash for not being sufficiently supportive).

Does Dean Minow believe microaggressions — which are merely words that are often not intended to harm anyone — are the same as physical violence? Or, and this is my own theory, has violence and sexual assault become so meaningless on campus that they have been devalued?

Stay with me here. We've seen in recent years the devaluing of violence and sexual assault. When words can be "violence," even without any incitement or physical harm, physical violence loses meaning. And when schools adjudicate sexual assault as a disciplinary matter like cheating or plagiarism — and avoid involving trained law professionals at all costs — then sexual assault is no longer the heinous crime it once was.


Either way, Minow's words are troubling and do not bode well for the future of college students and those who will have to work with them.


http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/harvard-law-dean-compares-microaggressions-to-violence-sexual-assault/article/2579153


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February 10, 2016, 01:04:51 AM
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Announcing the Twitter Trust & Safety Council






On Twitter, every voice has the power to shape the world. We see this power every day, from activists who use Twitter to mobilize citizens to content creators who use Twitter to shape opinion.

To ensure people can continue to express themselves freely and safely on Twitter, we must provide more tools and policies. With hundreds of millions of Tweets sent per day, the volume of content on Twitter is massive, which makes it extraordinarily complex to strike the right balance between fighting abuse and speaking truth to power. It requires a multi-layered approach where each of our 320 million users has a part to play, as do the community of experts working for safety and free expression.

That’s why we are announcing the formation of the Twitter Trust & Safety Council, a new and foundational part of our strategy to ensure that people feel safe expressing themselves on Twitter

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We have more than 40 organizations and experts from 13 regions joining as inaugural members of the Council. We are thrilled to work with these organizations to ensure that we are enabling everyone, everywhere to express themselves with confidence on Twitter.

Twitter Trust & Safety Council - Inaugural Members:

    Anti-Bullying Pro
    Anti-Defamation League
    Beyond Blue
    Bravehearts
    Center for Democracy and Technology
    Childnet
    Circle of 6
    ConnectSafely
    Crisis Text Line
    Cyber Civil Rights Initiative
    Cybersmile Foundation
    Dacher Keltner, Professor of Psychology and Faculty Director of UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center
    Dangerous Speech Project
    E-Enfance
    EU Kids Online
    European Schoolnet
    Family Online Safety Institute
    Feminist Frequency
    Fundacion para la Libertad de Prensa
    GLAAD
    Hollaback
    iCanHelp
    ICT Watch
    iKeepSafe
    INACH
    Insafe
    Internet Watch Foundation
    Jugendschutz
    LICRA
    Love 146
    Marc Brackett, Director, Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence
    National Cyber Security Alliance
    National Domestic Violence Hotline
    National Network to End Domestic Violence
    NetSafe
    Pantallas Amigas
    Project Rockit
    Reachout
    Red en Defensa de los Derechos Digitales
    Red Papaz
    Safernet
    Samaritans
    Southwest Grid for Learning
    Spunout
    The Alannah and Madeline Foundation
    The Wahid Institute
    Thorn
    UK Safer Internet Centre
    Without My Consent
    Yakin


https://blog.twitter.com/2016/announcing-the-twitter-trust-safety-council


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I think this council is direct appeasement to the Fascist Frequency crowd after they failed to imprison a Canadian man for daring to have opinions in public that they do not agree with. Hopefully he sues the fuck out of them. Then they can be "feminist" hobos, righting the injustices of the homeless from the streets. It is disgusting that he should have to be imprisoned for months and pay for all these legal costs because some fascist gash was upset with his words. This is moving directly into a female supremacist movement. They have no regards for the freedom of men of any kind, clearly, and have no problem destroying a man's life for daring to speak in opposition of them.

I don't think women understand the implications of starting a generalized war on all men. They will lose, then women will once again be treated like the children they are. Sucks for the actual mature adult women, but hey, you never raised your voices in support of men either, so you can join them just like all men have to join in being guilty for any act any man commits. That is your future ladies. Just like the German people's after the fall of the Nazi party, Nazi or not, you will be forced to bury the bodies your social justice fascist comrades left behind.

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There's no such thing as social justice. Or maybe in a jail. All the inmates have the same rights, they all wear the same clothes, they all eat the same food, and they all live in similar cells. I fail to understand how some people may see this as an ideal. I believe those spending their lives in jails may share my opinion.

i completely agree wit you.. i dont understand our modern justice systemm.. it is so ridiculous..
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At ‘students of color’-only Mizzou activism meeting, white journalists kicked out








A “Concerned Town Hall” meeting advertised to “black students and students of color” at the University of Missouri on Wednesday turned out to be less-than-inclusive to white reporters attempting to cover the event.

The gathering was organized by Concerned Student 1950, which led protests on campus last fall accusing the institution of racism; it describes itself as seeking the “liberation of all BLACK collegiate students” on Twitter.

As the meeting began Wednesday night inside the A. P. Green Chapel at the public university, a student organizer announced: “If there are any reporters in here, can you please exit? That was my nice warning.”

That according to a video of the event taken by Mark Schierbecker, a student at the school and freelance videographer who contributes to The College Fix.

His video shows a white male reporter from the mainstream city newspaper, The Columbia Tribune, introduced himself and say “we will definitely respect your privacy. Just curious, um – why are you guys afr — why are you guys asking us to leave? …”

“Um, just because I asked you to,” came the reply. “We just want to discuss some things.”

“Sure, OK, that’s totally fine,” the reporter replied, handing over his business card before he exited the chapel. Two white females also left the room.

Schierbecker, however, politely declined to leave, repeating “my personal preference is to stay.”

“This is considered a limited public forum,” Schierbecker told his peers. “It’s open to the public, and especially to students of the university. I am here on assignment for a story and it is my personal preference to stay.”

Concerned Student 1950 is a campus activism group that garnered national attention after its protests led to the resignation of top Mizzou leaders last fall. Schierbecker, a former contributor to The Maneater campus newspaper and one of two students who got into a confrontation with Professor Melissa Click during those protests arguing for the rights of student journalists to cover the protesters’ tent city on campus, once again prompted anger and frustration from the group when he would not leave the chapel Wednesday night.

“Cuz this is once again, like, white people being privileged,” one student said to him.

The back and forth between Schierbecker and the group continued, at times getting slightly heated. When one student explained her perspective, another interjected: “You don’t give him any explanation because, like, that’s not necessary.”

In the video, Schierbecker promises to stow his camera if he could be assured that campus police would not intervene, reportedly over talk that officers had been called over a “bias incident.”

“If MUPD [campus police] is not going to be a problem, I will put the camera away,” Schierbecker said.

The town hall ended promptly within minutes of starting when students decided to relocate the forum to a more private location.


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University of Tennessee to students: Diversity means using new made-up pronouns for trans students


Via the Examiner, I’d do what they say. In our alarming new culture of rage against microaggressions, doing otherwise might get you shot.

Rather than make brutish assumptions that someone who looks like a boy is a boy and someone who looks like a girl is a girl, the campus diversity office recommends starting the semester by asking everyone to provide their names “and pronouns.” Or better yet, why not just use new pronouns that are gender-neutral? It’ll spare you an ephemeral awkward moment when you happen to encounter someone from the tiny fraction of the tiny fraction of the population that not only identifies as trans but doesn’t want to be referred to by the pronoun of the gender they physically appear to be.





Not to play this stupid game, but I’m curious: Why does “they/them/their” turn into “xe/xem/xyr” instead of the more logical “zey/zem/zeir”? Also, why isn’t “they/them/their” proper usage for someone who’s trans, whether singular or plural? I mean, purely in terms of how it scans, “xyr” is an abomination.

Also, I’m not sure I grasp the difference between “hir/hirs” and “zir/zirs.” Which one should you use for Caitlyn Jenner? One, I think, is for a man who identifies as a woman and the other for a woman who identifies as a man, but I’ll be damned if I know which terms applies to which. The whole point of this exercise, I thought, was not to make any judgments about gender based on appearance. Doesn’t the need to choose between “hir” and “zir” force you to do that?

Either way, with respect to Caitlyn, looks increasingly like ze’s going to prison.


http://hotair.com/archives/2015/08/28/university-of-tennessee-to-students-diversity-means-using-new-made-up-pronouns-for-trans-students/




Do they really expect people to learn these stupid klingon pronouns? What's the world turning into?

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February 14, 2016, 07:18:45 PM
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There's no such thing as social justice. Or maybe in a jail. All the inmates have the same rights, they all wear the same clothes, they all eat the same food, and they all live in similar cells. I fail to understand how some people may see this as an ideal. I believe those spending their lives in jails may share my opinion.





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February 15, 2016, 09:42:47 PM
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MELISSA CLICK stand-off with officer: "Get your f**king hands off me!"









Published on Feb 13, 2016

Mizzou’s Melissa Click told police ‘get your f**king hand off me’ at previous racial protest
http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/26242/

Newly obtained footage shows MU Communication professor Melissa Click, the professor who grabbed my camera at a Concerned Student protest in November, yelling at and berating police officers at a homecoming parade in October 2015. The narrative advanced by Melissa Click - that she had an otherwise unblemished academic record - is a false one.

Before the new video was released, Click told ABC-17:

“And it’s also a very small moment in my 12 years at the University of Missouri,” Click continued. “I’ve never been involved in anything like this before. And I made a mistake. It’s a mistake I apologized for and I’m happy to continue to apologize for it. I am sorry for how I spoke that day.”








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February 15, 2016, 10:26:27 PM
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It turns somewhat funny to see someone who still lives under the mother skirt way past 40 y.o. calling the others "privileged".
Yes, no doubt those good for nothing are privileged, but they aren't privileged for being white or straight or whatever non-sense reason they came up with; they're privileged for having parents that don't stand up and allow the brat to leech them and grow in to a little dictator.

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