Everyone is so offended.

[poo at Paul's]

BlackLabel said:

poo at Paul's said:

Well probably with some justification, the City hates the Sun. But it would seem to have been a little "crass" to morph the players face onto a Gorilla when he is "mixed race", if indeed they did, as the article says it has been removed. Presumably as they didn't check his family background.
I'm not too sure where you are leaning on this, but they're hardly paragons of journalism, are they?

Fair point, and MacKenzie has history too but the player doesn't even look black - it's ridiculous to refer this to the police. The piece in question was perhaps crass and distasteful but was it really racist?

I can certainly see that he may well be mixed race. IIRC the guy who starred in Prison Break is mixed race and many may not know that. Sid James was "technically" a black man too wasn't he?

The fact they took it down suggests they know they have fked up a bit!

[Yipper]

Faux-offence and virtue-signalling are getting ridiculous. Everyone lining up to be more offended than the next person and feel better about themselves.

There was a ~10min segment on CNN last night, where a senior commentator had compared Trump's crisis strategy to Martin Luther King's crisis strategy... Cue several minutes of two other commentators shouting about how despicable such theoretical comparisons were, which literally ended with one person going "yeah, but my dad marched with MLK" and the other going "yeah, but my dad fired a racist in Washington in the 1960s", and so on. It was rather pathetic.

[smn159]

Yipper said:

Faux-offence and virtue-signalling are getting ridiculous. Everyone lining up to be more offended than the next person and feel better about themselves.

It really isn't and no, they aren't, unless you actively seek this stuff out in order to be 'outraged' by it and reinforce your own world view.

Anyway, posts like this as a form of virtue signalling as well. "Look at me, and how much I dislike liberals..."

[Yipper]

smn159 said:

Yipper said:

Faux-offence and virtue-signalling are getting ridiculous. Everyone lining up to be more offended than the next person and feel better about themselves.

It really isn't and no, they aren't, unless you actively seek this stuff out in order to be 'outraged' by it and reinforce your own world view.

Anyway, posts like this as a form of virtue signalling as well. "Look at me, and how much I dislike liberals..."

Nah, it is ridiculous. Liberal extremists endlessly trawling the Web fabricating outrage, so they can get to feel important for a bit.

[Lance Catamaran]

The Ross Barkley saga

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39601728

What they wrote was completely out of order, but reported to the police as a racist hate crime? Really?

[irocfan]

as he is mixed race (I'd not have known until I'd read it) to compare him to a gorilla is crass beyond belief and someone deserves to get their botty smacked for that... all the other comments though? Meh.

[AW111]

smn159 said:

Yipper said:

Faux-offence and virtue-signalling are getting ridiculous. Everyone lining up to be more offended than the next person and feel better about themselves.

It really isn't and no, they aren't, unless you actively seek this stuff out in order to be 'outraged' by it and reinforce your own world view.

Anyway, posts like this as a form of virtue signalling as well. "Look at me, and how much I dislike liberals..."

Agreed. There's more virtue signalling on PH than even the Guardian's comments.

[Smollet]

Lance Catamaran said:

The Ross Barkley saga

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39601728

What they wrote was completely out of order, but reported to the police as a racist hate crime? Really?

Yes I agree. An article in poor taste but racist? His comments about the only other people to earn as much footballers were drug dealers. He may or may not have a point but I always thought Scousers were proud of their sense of self deprecating humour and weren't prone to snowflake syndrome.

[PH XKR]

Offended for sake of offence.

[ZedLeg]

Yipper said:

smn159 said:

Yipper said:

Faux-offence and virtue-signalling are getting ridiculous. Everyone lining up to be more offended than the next person and feel better about themselves.

It really isn't and no, they aren't, unless you actively seek this stuff out in order to be 'outraged' by it and reinforce your own world view.

Anyway, posts like this as a form of virtue signalling as well. "Look at me, and how much I dislike liberals..."

Nah, it is ridiculous. Liberal extremists endlessly trawling the Web fabricating outrage, so they can get to feel important for a bit.

The irony of someone posting about liberals trawling the internet looking for outrage on this forum is hilarious .

[poo at Paul's]

McKenzie suspended by the Sun.



oh dear, How sad!

[zygalski]

I'm also deeply offended at those offended by such trivial matters. And I'm also not a hypocrite.

[BlackLabel]

Saw this written elsewhere - sums up the situation well imo.

some bloke on the internet said:

MacKenzie is a scumbag who deserves any pain, humiliation and misery life can possibly throw at him. That said, trying to mark this as a racist incident is utter nonsense that cheapens actual racism. It was a spiteful, malicious column for sure but racist? What a joke.

[ChemicalChaos]

Expecting people to show up on time is now offensive if they are of a different race:

http://www.dailywire.com/news/15383/apparently-its...

[limpsfield]

ChemicalChaos said:

Expecting people to show up on time is now offensive if they are of a different race:

http://www.dailywire.com/news/15383/apparently-its...

Where do you find this st?

Actually ChemicalChaos your posting history on here would suggest you are frequently offended. People should stay away from the daily mail.

[bitchstewie]

ChemicalChaos said:

Expecting people to show up on time is now offensive if they are of a different race:

http://www.dailywire.com/news/15383/apparently-its...

Do you go looking for this stuff?

EDIT Beaten to it

[Trabi601]

ChemicalChaos said:

Expecting people to show up on time is now offensive if they are of a different race:

http://www.dailywire.com/news/15383/apparently-its...

You really should broaden your horizons beyond the Alt-Right nonsense you appear to be addicted to right now.

[ChemicalChaos]

Show me an article refuting, with evidence, any of the claims in that article and I'll stop using them as a news source

[anonymous-user]

Be fair to him, to be champion helmet polisher you need to do a lot of research.

[Trabi601]

ChemicalChaos said:

Show me an article refuting, with evidence, any of the claims in that article and I'll stop using them as a news source

Well, it would appear that only right wing / alt-right media has published it. All coming from the same source (articles appear to be copy and pasted from the original source)... so I'm going to say it's very likely to be completely made up to outrage the hard of thinking.