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In Other News... CEPS meme thread v 2020 - new year, new memes

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JGrimez said:
Taking down statues is for communist revolutionaries
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Sure buddy :D
I bet these guys are all communist revolutionaries as well, right?

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mal3volent said:
why is precious leader TRUMP wearing a Kung flu HOAX mask?

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Oh, man, this is too good. He must have been cringing inside every second with the media there. Irrational people never like to admit they're wrong, and this was a big point of contention he had to concede.
 
TheLoveBandit said:
Then how about instead of tearing down and destroying, they add the rest of the story and keep it in view?
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You learn history from books and not from statues. Or at least I do, dunno 'bout u.
Statues are used to honor and praise the people they're dedicated to, and in some cases those people were slave-traders or -owners, colonialists or evil in some other ways.
I know you're probably too insensitive to the whole topic, but imagine you'd encounter a statue dedicated to a man that was responsible for the suffering of your ancestors. Wouldn't you feel it as an insult on a daily basis if you had to endure the public honoring of a person that may have held your great-grandparents as slaves? I sure as hell would.
As I said, it's not about erasing history. It's about correcting how certain groups and individuals were and are portrayed in the public image.
We don't have any Reichsadler (eagle of the 3. Reich) holding swastikas in their claws hanging around in Germany anymore for a reason. I'm not saying that Germany has dealt with it's past properly, but sure as hell better than the US.
 
Neopunk said:
I know you're probably too insensitive to the whole topic,
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Thanks for making assumptions, then judging me based on your assumptions. I love you, too.

I'm actually a lot more open minded than you seem to think I am, but I guess you'd have to get to know me better to grasp that. I'd blame my sense of privacy for not showing more of myself in this regard.
 
JGrimez said:
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lolwut? I hope that's not real. ffs

TheLoveBandit said:
I figured that had to be photoshopped and fake....but, no...

Alyssa Milano hits back over alleged blackface photo



So it's an acceptable blackface in her opinion if she is parodying someone she likes? Or if it is Trump, whom she doesn't like? Nowhere is there denial that she did this. She's an idiot, but we knew that.
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You're familiar with the Jersey Shore, right? They have insanely ridiculous dark fake tans. I don't think that photo of her is supposed to blackface.

JGrimez said:
Conservatives 2017: “Liberals are going to try to normalize pedophilia
Liberals 2017: “stop being ridiculous”
Liberals 2020: “YOU PEDOSEXUALPHOBE!!”


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You can't find one sketchy as fuck post (which of course that is) from one guy who is a liberal and claim liberals are all about pedophilia, that's ridiculous.
 
JGrimez said:
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Xorkoth said:
lolwut? I hope that's not real. ffs
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Ever since I saw it, this has bugged me if true. I wanted to know....and I found this is a real article.

Glass ceilings and phallic towers. Mean streets and dark alleys. Road names and statues of men. From the physical to the metaphorical, the city is filled with reminders of masculine power. And yet we rarely talk of the urban landscape as an active participant in gender inequality. A building, no matter how phallic, isn’t actually misogynist, is it? Surely a skyscraper isn’t responsible for sexual harassment, the wage gap, or even the glass ceiling, whether it has a literal one up top or not?

That said, our built environments can still reflect patterns of gender-based discrimination. To imagine the city and its structures as neutral places where complicated human social relations are staged is to ignore the simple fact that people built these places. As the feminist geographer Jane Darke has said: “Our cities are patriarchy written in stone, brick, glass and concrete.” In other words, cities reflect the norms of the societies that build them. And sexism is a deep-rooted norm.
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It goes on, and it is wholly serious about this assertion. To me, this is the epitome of looking for a problem where none exist. I want to ask what her solution is to fitting large amounts of people into one area, if not to go vertical? I'll concede the author DOES list suggestions to make the cities more feminine, more welcoming and accessible, though no mention of changing from 'phallic' upright buildings. Her ideas are 1) name streets and places after women, not just after men (I didn't realize 87th Ave was a guy, but ok); 2) All essential workers should be paid like our lives depend upon them (um, ok..and this relates to the topic how?); 3) Reinvest in the public realm for shared spaces and transportation that allows ALL citizens to access and share (I can't think of any city, Europe or America, where people cannot go where they wish in public spaces, often via public transport); and 4) "seek out, listen to and employ diverse groups of city-dwellers in all areas of urban design, planning, policy-making, politics and architecture".
 
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