Very quietly, "journalism" morphed into being about the reporter, not the subject. You are supposed to think a certain way, Comrade.

@Radwaste - Hunter Thompson lead the charge to make the change, and there was nothing quiet or subtle about “Fear and Loathing”.

@Radwaste - Hunter Thompson lead the charge to make the change, and there was nothing quiet or subtle about “Fear and Loathing”.

> Straighten me out: Is it racist to like and use
> black characters...or racist not to?

Both. We're all racists now.

You should try to communicate more concisely; you're all over the place.

What's that under there?

Under where?

Ha ha, I made you say underwear!

Yep, it checks out. Even a 10 year old's sense of humor shows signs of violence and control. Forcing someone to say underwear. Tisk Tisk.

Any Humor More Controversial Than A Preschooler's Knock-Knock Joke Is Now Probably A Thought Crime

Knock-knock jokes are ableist because they discriminate against the deaf people.

Straighten me out: Is it racist to like and use black characters...or racist not to? (The standard seems to change by the article or post -- and even by the tweet.)

Homophobe!

Also, Schrödinger's cat called to say that this is exactly the paradox she's in: it's at once racist to use black characters and also racist to NOT use black characters.

Basically, if you're from the tribe of Wite-out, you're a racist. You probably should report to the nearest re-education camp. The doughnut munchers at the TSA hate having to chase people down.

> Basically, if you're from the tribe of Wite-out,
> you're a racist

✔

What passes for "jounalism" today has as it's main job pushing the "I'm more of a victim than you are" narrative.

If the media had advance notice that the world would end on Monday then Sunday's headlines would scream: "World ends tomorrow, women and minorities most affected."

I responded and made a point of saying that I would now be using gifs of black women in response to my posts as often as possible.

He's capitulating to professional victims who literally stay up nights inventing reasons to be offended.

Anything that permits them to declare you to be privileged and therefore punished is bad - it can be X today and Not X today at the same time, because our modern Maoists who police these things only want your submission or your death - and it's OK if that's death by starvation because you can't get a job.

Anything that permits them to declare you to be privileged and therefore punished is bad - it can be X today and Not X today at the same time, because our modern Maoists who police these things only want your submission or your death - and it's OK if that's death by starvation because you can't get a job. ~ El Verde Loco at March 27, 2018 11:07 AM

It's about control over you, judicial or extra-judicial. If you don't know what is and is not acceptable, you have no claim to being in the right, you're always wrong and always punishable. As Amy calls it, unearned power over others.

"The job of the newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable."

Propaganda? They used to think they were supposed give you factual information about things that happen. Now you can't believe a word they say. They have a political agenda and no integrity.

@Radwaste - Hunter Thompson lead the charge to make the change, and there was nothing quiet or subtle about “Fear and Loathing”.

HST was part of the "new journalism" movement in the '60. Here's a link to his gonzo training ground with 15 articles of his:

http://www.openculture.com/2015/06/read-18-lost-stories-from-hunter-s-thompsons-forgotten-stint-as-a-foreign-correspondent.html

"At 24, some five years before publishing his breakout book, Hell’s Angels, and nearly a decade before branding himself a “gonzo journalist,” the young Hunter S. Thompson was an anonymous freelancer looking to make a name for himself. The year was 1962. Fidel Castro had marched into Havana three years earlier, and the story of the decade — the expanding frontier of the Cold War — was playing out in Latin America. It occurred to Thompson that a hungry cub reporter could build a reputation covering it.

Thompson’s epiphany coincided with the launch of the National Observer, a mildly experimental weekly newspaper published by the Dow Jones Company. Thompson sent a letter introducing himself, said he was headed to South America, and got an invite to submit any stories he wrote along the way. He arrived in Colombia in May of 1962 and, over the course of the next year, traveled through Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil. The Observer published some 20 of his stories from or about South America, most of which focused on the continent’s culture and politics, and on how these were affected by a Cold War–era U.S. foreign policy centered around aid and containment."

Snoopy at March 27, 2018 7:34 AM:

Why must you steal my formatting for your trite inanities?

If you develop your own clear patterns of expression, you might therewith become equipped to develop your own beliefs as well, rather than internalizing the Ugg!-like marketing catchphrases of dropout cable TV producers...

No promises though. It would require seeking information from a diversity of sources, and you might just not be up to it. You've already been bought and sold.

That is the FORMAT for “trite inanities“. Featuring, of course, the incontrovertible references of Twitter.

I do not think that word means what you think it means.

(Nor does your CAPITALIZATION.)

"BREAKING:"

I am going to write a white paper on black holes, just to piss everyone off.

We had that issue in Dallas, Conan.

a-This department is a complete black hole.

b-You racist. They aren't black holes. You are a white hole!

a-Umm... Thank you?