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07 Aug 2017, 12:05 pm

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SJW idea is not just a campus phenomenon anymore. It is becoming mainstream cooperate America.

‘You are not going to let that word hurt you’: Procter & Gamble ad taking on racism is met with praise — and outrage

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A new ad to be released next week by one of America’s biggest household products companies has drawn outrage — and praise — for addressing racial bias.

“The Talk,” a two-minute video by Procter & Gamble, depicts black mothers of different generations, talking to their children about racism.

“It’s an ugly, nasty word, and you are going to hear it, nothing I can do about that,” a mother tells her young son in an apparent reference to a racial slur. “But you are not going to let that word hurt you, you hear me?”

“Now, when you get pulled over …” another mother tells her teenage daughter.

“Ma, I’m a good driver don’t worry, okay?” the daughter answers.

“Baby, this is not about you getting a ticket. This is about you not coming home.”

The new ad builds on the company’s 10-year-old “My Black is Beautiful” campaign, which has produced audio interviews about bias. The company, which makes a wide array of products from laundry detergent to tampons to cough drops, says the stories they tell are meant to reflect the real-world experiences of many of their customers. It has also produced videos about gender bias, such as the Always #LikeAGirl and Ariel #ShareTheLoad ads.

“The Talk,” which appeared online two weeks ago, sparked a heated public reaction on social media, with some commending the company for addressing a difficult topic, and others accusing it of race-baiting and vowing to stop buying their products.


I'm not sure this is a new development, Dove and other brands that sell toiletries and beauty products have been incorporating being socially conscious into their marketing for over a decade. Oh well, maybe this will just inspire the reactionaries who feel triggered to start their own brands - Aryan Pure facial cream - Because White Is Right is the perfect gift for the little Ann or Tomi on your Christmas list.


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17 Oct 2017, 12:22 pm

'Anne Frank' children's costume sparks controversy

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Online retailers are removing a children's costume from websites after facing a backlash over its portrayal of teenage Holocaust victim Anne Frank.

Several sites have ceased selling the outfit, while others continue to market it as a "World War Two evacuee girl".
The costume - a green beret, blue dress and brown satchel - has been criticised on social media for being insensitive.
Anne Frank's famous diary tells of her life as a German Jew in hiding in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam in World War Two.
Its account of the two years her family spent living in a secret annexe of her father's business premises have made her a household name around the world, and she has come to symbolise courage, optimism and determination.
The Franks were eventually betrayed, arrested and transported to the Auschwitz camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.

Anne and her sister Margot were later taken by train to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in northern Germany in early 1945. They died just months later.

Images shared on social media show the costume was initially advertised on sites such as HalloweenCostumes.com - which uses the Twitter handle @funcostumes - as a "WW2 Anne Frank Girls Costume".
"Now your child can play the role of a World War Two hero," the original description reads. "It comes with a blue button-up dress, reminiscent of the kind of clothing that might be worn by a young girl" at the time, it adds.
Carlos Galindo-Elvira, Arizona regional director of the Anti-Defamation League, tweeted that there were better ways to commemorate Anne Frank.

Halloweencostumes.com later removed the outfit and a spokesman for the retailer, Ross Walker Smith, apologised for "any offence it may have caused".

"We sell costumes... for many uses outside of the Halloween season," Mr Walker Smith wrote, adding that user feedback had been "passed along".

The product has also disappeared from the Walmart website.
However the costume is still available on sites such as Amazon, where it is described by the seller as "perfect for carnivals, theme parties and Halloween".


Education is not the reason this costume was thought of money was, but a positive by-product could have been educating young girls about a person who could be a role model for them. Instead, they are taught again to "shut down" anything that offends them.

I posted about this on my Facebook page and it has by far created the largest and most intense reaction of any Facebook post of mine.


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17 Oct 2017, 6:43 pm

The thing about it: is that Anne Frank WAS a hero/heroine.



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18 Oct 2017, 1:13 am

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The thing about it: is that Anne Frank WAS a hero/heroine.


Dressing up or admiring Anne Frank would have been an improvement over what we have now which dressing up like and admiring the Miley Cyrus's and Kim Kardashian's of this world.


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16 Nov 2017, 7:34 pm

Dartmouth professor: Antifa makes free speech more 'fair'

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According to a Dartmouth history professor, America needs antifa to level out the playing field of free speech.

Mark Bray, author of "Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook," addressed a standing room only crowd of University of California, Berkeley, students on Monday about the virtues of antifa and its importance to modern society. The former Occupy Wall Street organizer and antifa apologist defended the group’s violent tactics and shamed the media for portraying them as renegades set on destruction.

“Anti-fascism is a very informed historical tradition,” he said, suggesting that the longevity of the movement somehow justifies the violent behavior of its protesters.

According to Bray, antifa demonstrators see violence as a tool to stop the spread of totalitarian and racist ideas, and defend potential victims.

Bray contended that anti-fascists “seek to make free speech more fundamentally fair” by fostering a situation where all individuals “feel comfortable participating equally in the public discourse.” Anti-fascists believe that the “liberal state” is restricted by capitalism.

In other words, by punching “fascists” and destroying property, antifa is helping the victims of fascism speak their mind in a society where the First Amendment is unable to function on its own. Violence is the only solution.

Bray believes so strongly in the movement that he plans to donate half of the proceeds from his book to an unnamed fund that helps support the legal, medical, and personal expenses of antifa activists.


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16 Nov 2017, 7:54 pm

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Dartmouth professor: Antifa makes free speech more 'fair'

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According to a Dartmouth history professor, America needs antifa to level out the playing field of free speech.

Mark Bray, author of "Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook," addressed a standing room only crowd of University of California, Berkeley, students on Monday about the virtues of antifa and its importance to modern society. The former Occupy Wall Street organizer and antifa apologist defended the group’s violent tactics and shamed the media for portraying them as renegades set on destruction.

“Anti-fascism is a very informed historical tradition,” he said, suggesting that the longevity of the movement somehow justifies the violent behavior of its protesters.

According to Bray, antifa demonstrators see violence as a tool to stop the spread of totalitarian and racist ideas, and defend potential victims.

Bray contended that anti-fascists “seek to make free speech more fundamentally fair” by fostering a situation where all individuals “feel comfortable participating equally in the public discourse.” Anti-fascists believe that the “liberal state” is restricted by capitalism.

In other words, by punching “fascists” and destroying property, antifa is helping the victims of fascism speak their mind in a society where the First Amendment is unable to function on its own. Violence is the only solution.

Bray believes so strongly in the movement that he plans to donate half of the proceeds from his book to an unnamed fund that helps support the legal, medical, and personal expenses of antifa activists.


That's guy's been making the rounds for a while now.

It's perhaps good to remind people at this point that Josef Goebbels had a Ph.D., too. :-)


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16 Nov 2017, 10:25 pm

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Dartmouth professor: Antifa makes free speech more 'fair'

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According to a Dartmouth history professor, America needs antifa to level out the playing field of free speech.

Mark Bray, author of "Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook," addressed a standing room only crowd of University of California, Berkeley, students on Monday about the virtues of antifa and its importance to modern society. The former Occupy Wall Street organizer and antifa apologist defended the group’s violent tactics and shamed the media for portraying them as renegades set on destruction.

“Anti-fascism is a very informed historical tradition,” he said, suggesting that the longevity of the movement somehow justifies the violent behavior of its protesters.

According to Bray, antifa demonstrators see violence as a tool to stop the spread of totalitarian and racist ideas, and defend potential victims.

Bray contended that anti-fascists “seek to make free speech more fundamentally fair” by fostering a situation where all individuals “feel comfortable participating equally in the public discourse.” Anti-fascists believe that the “liberal state” is restricted by capitalism.

In other words, by punching “fascists” and destroying property, antifa is helping the victims of fascism speak their mind in a society where the First Amendment is unable to function on its own. Violence is the only solution.

Bray believes so strongly in the movement that he plans to donate half of the proceeds from his book to an unnamed fund that helps support the legal, medical, and personal expenses of antifa activists.


I think he makes a mistake in conflating the fascist - punching wing and the property - destroying wing.


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20 Nov 2017, 12:31 pm

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Dartmouth professor: Antifa makes free speech more 'fair'

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According to a Dartmouth history professor, America needs antifa to level out the playing field of free speech.

Mark Bray, author of "Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook," addressed a standing room only crowd of University of California, Berkeley, students on Monday about the virtues of antifa and its importance to modern society. The former Occupy Wall Street organizer and antifa apologist defended the group’s violent tactics and shamed the media for portraying them as renegades set on destruction.

“Anti-fascism is a very informed historical tradition,” he said, suggesting that the longevity of the movement somehow justifies the violent behavior of its protesters.

According to Bray, antifa demonstrators see violence as a tool to stop the spread of totalitarian and racist ideas, and defend potential victims.

Bray contended that anti-fascists “seek to make free speech more fundamentally fair” by fostering a situation where all individuals “feel comfortable participating equally in the public discourse.” Anti-fascists believe that the “liberal state” is restricted by capitalism.

In other words, by punching “fascists” and destroying property, antifa is helping the victims of fascism speak their mind in a society where the First Amendment is unable to function on its own. Violence is the only solution.

Bray believes so strongly in the movement that he plans to donate half of the proceeds from his book to an unnamed fund that helps support the legal, medical, and personal expenses of antifa activists.


It's scary how many of these morons who advocate violence hold teaching positions. To think that this man has been tasked with educating and shaping young minds... Christ.

Antifa violence hasn't stopped anything. All they've done is generate publicity and sympathy for those they've struck out against.



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14 Dec 2017, 3:16 pm

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Anti-fascists believe that the “liberal state” is restricted by capitalism.

And here it comes. We'd better remember very well that ultra-leftists murdered much more people than even Nazis did.



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14 Dec 2017, 7:46 pm

It doesn't matter if the "ultra leftists" killed more people than the Nazis. Both killed many millions of people.



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14 Dec 2017, 8:29 pm

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It doesn't matter if the "ultra leftists" killed more people than the Nazis. Both killed many millions of people.

Oh wow. How can it not matter?



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14 Dec 2017, 9:25 pm

Both ideologies have produced many murders.....

That's my point----we should hate all radicalism, whether from Nazism, or from Stalinism.

Regardless of whether it's "left" or it's "right."



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14 Dec 2017, 11:04 pm

Too bad that the radicals are always the most vocal.


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14 Dec 2017, 11:40 pm

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That's my point----we should hate all radicalism, whether from Nazism, or from Stalinism.

Should we equally hate a guy who killed 1 person and a guy who killed 10?

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Regardless of whether it's "left" or it's "right."

Hitler had some 15 million bodies on his account. Stalin - about 25. Mao Zedong - from 45 to 80 millions, by different estimations.
There is quite a significant difference here, isn't it? Nazis are bad and Socialists are far, far worse.



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15 Dec 2017, 1:16 am

One is too many.



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15 Dec 2017, 1:22 am

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kraftiekortie wrote:
It doesn't matter if the "ultra leftists" killed more people than the Nazis. Both killed many millions of people.

Oh wow. How can it not matter?


whataboutism is a fallacy for a reason.


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