Originally posted by @Barry-Sanchez
Originally posted by @areloa-grandee
Originally posted by @Barry-Sanchez
Originally posted by @KRG
Originally posted by @areloa-grandee
Originally posted by @Barry-Sanchez
It was wrong and poorly thought out but the mock shock indignation tribe will be loving it.
Of course Barry… its all mock shock indignation from me without any real application of thought. All for effect.
It’s interesting, because I genuinely see more people of the “PC gone mad” brigade being outraged than those they are supposedly rallying against.
It was poorly done but jumping to World War II comparisons is cheap point scoring and in poor taste, more so than the initial idea.
‘cheap point scoring’ - why is it that this is so often associated with ‘PC gone mad’ screamers? the fact is ‘marking a social group’ within a society for whatever reasons good or bad, does inevitably lead to comparisons with historic precedents, whatever the intention. Ignoring that is to be at best insensitive, at worst ignorant.
The question should NOT be about whether its good or bad to draw such parallels, but whether it should be relevent to making such decisions today or not… that is a fair question.
Given the rare, but nonetheless shameful incidents of abuse directed at those so marked, suggests its not a good idea.
There are no parallels as on one hand you had people being tattooed and being taken away to be exterminated and on the other people have been given refuge from slaughter and have a wristband to have access to food, on a HUMAN point of view it is poor and should have been thought about better.sit
Barry , the parallels were with the Yellow star sewn onto clothing - not extermination. But thank you for making the point - the reason why some express a certain sensitivity is preciy because if such a barbaric historic precedents.