Cancel Culture is Getting Ridiculous

[Hawkmoon]

Man, am I glad I left Cali. Goodbye John Wayne (airport):

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/california-democrats-resolution-john-wayne-airport-renamed

You beat me to it.

https://news.yahoo.com/orange-county-democrats-condemn-racist-130011889.html

[JN01]

Just had a thought
Greta Thunberg Airport

Need a drink

Maybe two

Only gliders will be able to land there.

[Hawkmoon]

Only gliders will be able to land there.

Only gliders that have been towed aloft by carbon-neutral tow aircraft.

[WLJ]

Apparently the term "master bedroom" is offensive

[just Warren]

That's what my wife thinks, but when I told her I wanted a mistress bedroom she got all upset at that too!

[Ben]

This might be my favorite example of cancel culture karma.

I watched this woman's video yesterday where she threatened to slash people's throats if the said something she didn't like (All lives matter). Now she's crying that her potential employer won't hire her because she said something they didn't like. Also for someone with a Harvard graduate degree, she speaks with the vocabulary of a moron.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/harvard-grad-blames-trump-supporters-after-stab-video-costs-her-deloitte-job

[MechAg94]

Only gliders that have been towed aloft by carbon-neutral tow aircraft.

Or fuel guzzling private jets of woke people who say good things about climate change.

[MechAg94]

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/airplane-5-facts-you-dindt-about-the-comedy-230538825.html
I am not sure if this means the leftist jerks are going after Airplane! now or not. 

Zucker, though, stands by it four decades later. “It’s evenly laughing at Black people and white people. Everything is so sensitive nowadays, but when we show the movie, it still gets a laugh. People get it. It cuts through all the sensitivity, because in humor, you can’t be that sensitive.” On the other hand, Zucker notes that ZAZ made a point of road-testing all of their movies in front of preview audiences in order to spot jokes that crossed the line into meanness. “Sometimes stuff just isn’t funny, and that’s our fault. If the audience doesn’t get it, we haven’t done our job and we cut it out.”

Decent answer at least.

[Ben]

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/airplane-5-facts-you-dindt-about-the-comedy-230538825.html
I am not sure if this means the leftist jerks are going after Airplane! now or not. 

If they do, this might be the very last straw. 

[WLJ]

Is "Fat Drunk and Stupid" okay?
Excuse me, I'm be in the next room weeping for our country

On Wednesday the charter school organization The Knowledge is Power Program, commonly know as KIPP, announced that it will be retiring the slogan "Work hard. Be Nice." as school officials believe the phrase is counterproductive to abolishing systematic racism.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/alexcorey/2020/07/03/california-charter-school-system-to-remove-work-hard-be-niceas-its-official-slogan-n2571784

   A few weeks ago, Dave sent a letter to all KIPP alumni, and I shared my thoughts with all KIPP staff; both acknowledged the ways in which the school and organizational culture we built and how some of our practices perpetuated white supremacy and anti-Blackness. pic.twitter.com/UsgWn5AW7R
    — KIPP Schools (@KIPP) July 1, 2020

"In recent years, I have come face to face with the understanding that white supremacy doesn’t just mean the public and hateful displays of racism; it applies to all aspects of the world that are set up for the benefit of and perpetuation of power for white people at the expense of Black, Latinx, and other People of Color.

"Work Hard. Be Nice." certainly has the outward appearance of promoting values that would make life better for every person who chose to espouse them. But to Barth, the idea of being nice and working hard offered too narrow of a future for children who might want to be lazy and mean in order to get what they want.  

[WLJ]

Looks like the Redskins may be giving up on the name fight

Washington Redskins to have ‘thorough review’ and consider changing team’s name (and they’re getting plenty of suggestions)
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2020/07/03/washington-redskins-to-have-thorough-review-and-consider-changing-teams-name-and-theyre-getting-plenty-of-suggestions/

[RoadKingLarry]

Looks like the Redskins may be giving up on the name fight

Washington Redskins to have ‘thorough review’ and consider changing team’s name (and they’re getting plenty of suggestions)
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2020/07/03/washington-redskins-to-have-thorough-review-and-consider-changing-teams-name-and-theyre-getting-plenty-of-suggestions/

Lets offer them a few suggestions that don't involve cultural appropriation:

Washington Wimps
Washington Milque Toasts
Washington Cow Tows
Washington Suck Ups
Washington Doosh Nozzels
Washington Enema Bags
Washington Jack Wagons
Washington Submissives
 

[Jim147]

Isn't the Washington part racist also?

[Perd Hapley]

Washington Skins of Color.

I should trademark that and sell it to them.

[Ben]

Here we have cancel culture canceling cancel culture. Or something like that. It's all very confusing, other than the one commenter who said that when these jackasses start their civil war against us, they are so delicate that things will be over in a weekend. We probably won't even need to fire a shot. We'll just need to make fun of their shoes.


https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2020/07/07/ironic-names-are-dropping-off-letter-decrying-an-intolerance-of-opposing-views-because-of-opposing-views/

[Hawkmoon]

Or fuel guzzling private jets of woke people who say good things about climate change.

Or, I suppose, people who buy "carbon credits." I forgot about "carbon credits."

[Hawkmoon]

Lets offer them a few suggestions that don't involve cultural appropriation:

Washington Wimps
Washington Milque Toasts
Washington Cow Tows
Washington Suck Ups
Washington Doosh Nozzels
Washington Enema Bags
Washington Jack Wagons
Washington Submissives
 

Washington Doormats
Washington Waffles
Washington Whatevers

[just Warren]

Washington Continuing Disappointments
Washington Three-and-Outs
Washington Punters
Washington Swamp Things

[MechAg94]

University Administrator Forced To Resign Over Study Finding No Racial Bias In Police Shootings
https://bluelivesmatter.blue/university-administrator-forced-to-resign-over-study-finding-no-racial-bias-in-police-shootings/

East Lansing, MI – Physicist Stephen Hsu has been forced out of his role as vice president of Research and Innovation at Michigan State University (MSU) after he promoted 2019 study that found there to be no racial bias in incidents of officer-involved shootings.

“The [Graduate Employees Union] alleged that I am a racist because I interviewed MSU Psychology professor Joe Cesario, who studies police shootings,” Hsu wrote in a blog post on Saturday. “But Cesario’s work…is essential to understanding deadly force and how to improve policing.”

Critics took particular exception to a line Hsu quoted from the study when discussing it in his blog.

“We found that the race of the officer doesn’t matter when it comes to predicting whether black or white citizens are shot,” the study concluded, according to The College Fix.

Cesario’s work argued that “contrary to activist claims and media reports, there is no widespread racial bias in police shootings,” Hsu wrote in his blog.

When they said "forced out of his role...", I am not sure if that means he was just kicked out of his leadership role or fired completely.

[JN01]

You can't argue against science. Unless it's an inconvenient truth.  Or something.

[WLJ]

The truth must be defended against the evils of facts at all costs.

[MechAg94]

You can't argue against science. Unless it's an inconvenient truth.  Or something.

You also can't really say they are trying to "argue" against science.  Mobs don't really do that. 

That said, "science" is fundamentally argument and debate.  Take that away and it isn't science anymore. 

[RoadKingLarry]

Science is racist. It must be torn down.

[French G.]

They are running wild in Virginia since, as goes without saying, our governor is an idiot. Statues coming down in Richmond. Washington and LEE university faculty voted to remove Lee from the name, still has to go to board of visitors or whatever their oversight structure is. Nevermind he is the father of the modern university system due to how he ran the college. Or that he is buried there. Lee Chapel changed its name awhile ago just because. More locally the knives are once again out for Turner Ashby high school. They already got Lee High last year. JMU changed some building names this week because "confederate."

So, I think change JMU's name too, he owned slaves. While we're at it get Washington off of Washington and Lee University, slave owner. Change every place name in the country that references Washington, Jefferson or Madison. Tear TJs statue down from in front of the building he built at the university he founded. Get those nasty Lewis and Clark statues in town too, they were just looking for new people of color to oppress. Rename America, named for some Italian oppressor who was also seeking POC to kill and displace. Let's go whole hog and delete anything that offends anybody. Clowns.

Oh yeah, Liz, rename your cat, I'm offended. 

[zxcvbob]

Oh yeah, Liz, rename your cat, I'm offended. 

Wait... What??  (I must have missed something)  Is the cat named "Blackie", or maybe "Thomas" (after Jefferson, obviously) or something?