TGWTG Tony Goldmark / "Some Jerk with A Camera" - Some Jerk with a Trust Fund

Pointless Pedant said:
Calling a civil war the next Holocaust is absurdly hyperbolic. The Congo War of 1996-2003 killed 10 times as many people as the Syrian conflict, and even that isn't of the same magnitude.
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Irrelevant. It's a high-profile foreign war which provides a lot of vivid images of children dying. People like Tony see these pictures then demand "somone" do something about it.

Trump does something about it--the exact same thing the person Tony voted for said she would do about it--and Tony is now freaking out over it.
 
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BrunoMattei said:
Calling an SJW an SJW is like being called nigger to these people.
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Of course it is. The most fundamental tactic they use -- and the philosophical stance from which most of their crap flows -- is an obdurate refusal to call anything by its real name. Describing something accurately almost always sets them off.
 
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Mola Ram said:
Of course it is. The most fundamental tactic they use -- and the philosophical stance from which most of their crap flows -- is an obdurate refusal to call anything by its real name. Describing something accurately almost always sets them off.
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George Carlin hated political correctness because to him it made simple phrases overly complicated and less precise, like how the simple, punchy "shellshock" became the drawn out "post-traumatic stress disorder" or how "poor" became "economically disadvantaged."

I bring this up because you're definitely right about how SJWs never call stuff by their real name. They like using the drawn out phrases because the phrases are so obtuse they don't really mean anything and thus will not offend anyone. It's funny to me how George Carlin basically predicted how bad this sort of thing would get decades before it crossed anybody's mind.
 
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Baldur's Gait said:
I bring this up because you're definitely right about how SJWs never call stuff by their real name. They like using the drawn out phrases because the phrases are so obtuse they don't really mean anything and thus will not offend anyone. It's funny to me how George Carlin basically predicted how bad this sort of thing would get decades before it crossed anybody's mind.
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That's a great point. Carlin was brilliant at pointing out the absurdity of it all, but he was more concerned with how obscurity of language revealed a certain cowardice and refusal to acknowledge certain truths, and there's a lot of that going on with SJWs (and probably where it all started, very innocently and with relatively good intentions), but we're at the point now where it's also an Orwellian method of control: we control the debate, we decide what words you can and cannot use, and every year we strip more words from you so can't even think evil thoughts.
 
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Replicant Sasquatch said:
Irrelevant. It's a high-profile foreign war which provides a lot of vivid images of children dying. People like Tony see these pictures then demand "somone" do something about it.

Trump does something about it--the exact same thing the person Tony voted for said she would do about it--and Tony is now freaking out over it.
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I'm betting that right now, Tony's regretting on his decision to back Hillary, given how she supported that bombing and all. Makes me wonder if he's just going to start slamming everything regarding to politics at this point.

It's nothing but down from this point on for him, so why not just alienate everyone?
 
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Baldur's Gait said:
George Carlin hated political correctness because to him it made simple phrases overly complicated and less precise, like how the simple, punchy "shellshock" became the drawn out "post-traumatic stress disorder" or how "poor" became "economically disadvantaged."

I bring this up because you're definitely right about how SJWs never call stuff by their real name. They like using the drawn out phrases because the phrases are so obtuse they don't really mean anything and thus will not offend anyone. It's funny to me how George Carlin basically predicted how bad this sort of thing would get decades before it crossed anybody's mind.
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The softening of language goes back a long way. The so-called "euphemism treadmill" applies to words for mental disability, for example. Originally doctors called people cretins, then idiots, then re-tards, and now it's mentally disabled. A similar thing happens in Japan, where words like "kichigai" (exceptional), originally not obscene, have become too rude to be used formally.
 
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Baldur's Gait said:
George Carlin hated political correctness because to him it made simple phrases overly complicated and less precise, like how the simple, punchy "shellshock" became the drawn out "post-traumatic stress disorder" or how "poor" became "economically disadvantaged."

I bring this up because you're definitely right about how SJWs never call stuff by their real name. They like using the drawn out phrases because the phrases are so obtuse they don't really mean anything and thus will not offend anyone. It's funny to me how George Carlin basically predicted how bad this sort of thing would get decades before it crossed anybody's mind.
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Now, to be fair, "shellshock" may be simple and punchy, but it is also imprecise - it's not a condition specifically caused by artillery shelling (although the amount of artillery fired in WW I made the problem apparent for the first time in history). Of course, faggots around the internet made PTSD into a fucking joke, so the word is basically useless nowdays.
 
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