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Thursday, November 12. 2015

Deadly Sins: A reader survey

The social justice warriors (known now as SJW) have a big problem with how you think and how you talk. Even one or two of them can express "outrage" or feign feeling traumatized, and then you become controversial in the press.


It should all be funny, but it's not funny because you could lose your job. Freedom of speech does not protect your job - even in academia. People tiptoe around the office as if in an Orwellian world, and nobody says what they really think.


So my query to readers is this: What are the thought crimes today which could get you in trouble?



Posted by The Barrister in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 13:54 | Comments (13) | Trackbacks (0)

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What are the thought crimes today which could get you in trouble?

Thought is now a crime.
#1 mudbug on 2015-11-12 13:56 (Reply)
HAHA! Mudbug is correct.

Whatever I'm thinking of now is considered offensive to someone, somewhere and is therefore not allowed.
#2 Bulldog on 2015-11-12 14:08 (Reply)
Even more than that, the SJW fights to disallow thought beyond the approved ideas.
#2.1 mudbug on 2015-11-12 15:46 (Reply)
Reading Maggiesfarm?
#3 Marshall on 2015-11-12 14:23 (Reply)
Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance.
William Paley

1. Questioning the party line on "global warming".
The Great Global Warming Swindle: YouTube

2. Questioning the "official story" of 911. Where to start? YouTube
Building 7 fell at 5:20 in the evening at virtually free fall speed. Wasn't hit by a plane. Looks like a controlled demolition from every angle. Jane Stanley from the BBC announced it's collapse at 5 p.m. Yet you can see the building still standing behind her.

Thats where I started and the rest is easy to find.
#4 Bodie on 2015-11-12 14:40 (Reply)
Relying on facts or logic. Statistical literacy.
#5 Empricist on 2015-11-12 14:44 (Reply)
Who wants to know?
#6 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2015-11-12 16:24 (Reply)
Most of my life is offensive to the SJWs.

I'm a middle/upper-middle class white male who's wife stays home to homeschool (well, technically these days we both stay home since I'm a telecommuter).

I have a safe full of guns behind me. Well, not full, but it's got 6 rifles and a BB gun in it. There's about that many pistols around the house too.

I don't CARE what folks do with their Tab A or Slot A or B. Don't *CARE*. If I can tell your preferences by anything other than you holding hands as you walk down the street you're doing it wrong.

I don't believe that "Anthropogenic CO2" is a primary climate forcer.

I don't care what the color of your skin is. You either do the job, or not. If not, well, that's where it matters. See, I can bounce a white guy out of his job no problem. But a black lesbian? Good luck.

Gender is not a social construct, Society is a construct built from the choices of it's members over 10s of generations. There might be some folks who, for a few documentable reasons have brain structures that make their identity a little more flexible than other folks, but why should 10000 people make changes in their lives because 1 person's choices are a little harder than others?

Oh, and your race/religion is NOT a reason for other people to walk on egg shells around you. Be polite, yes. Be respectful, maybe. But worry about every word that comes out of their mouth? Grow up.

Oh, and that said, I like my broads with tits and a smile. But if they don't have tits, the smile is fine.
#7 William O. B'Livion on 2015-11-12 18:45 (Reply)
I toast you with a chat peg of Cutty 100. I only wish i could be so eloquent.
#7.1 tennesseered on 2015-11-13 18:47 (Reply)
1) saying that Muslims (or at least of the Wahaabi/ Salafist wing) are subhuman barbarians who should be carpet bombed all the way to hell.

2) Believing that men sodomizing each other is nasty, perverse, depraved behavior.

3) feminism is a deranged ideology perpetrated by fat, ugly, demented lesbians

4) a whole lot of the underclass in America is made up of career criminals without a shred of conscience and human decency. They warrant incarceration or the morgue.

5) liberals have destroyed the black family, turned popular culture into an open sewer, ruined the economy, deballed the military and pimped deviancy for decades.

6) Obama is far and away the worst president ever.

7) bleeding heart idiots have perpetuated poverty, left my grandchildren with crushing debt and enabled slothful low rent losers to live off the government teat while they help crash the economy

I can come up with more but that's where I'm at , fed up to the yin/yang with the a**holocracy running my nation into the ground.
#8 bill on 2015-11-12 20:24 (Reply)
I toast you also with a chota peg of Cutty Sark 100 proof. The shit has not hit the fan here yet but Hitler asked, "Is Paris burning?" And today, sadly, it is.

Let us have another drink, gird up our loins and be ready because the world is a crazy place, and now it is also upside down.
#8.1 tennesseered on 2015-11-13 18:52 (Reply)
You have to fight the SJWs and the Seven Deadly Sins with the Seven Cardinal Virtues:

- Courage
- Wisdom
- Justice
- Temperance
- Faith
- Hope
- Charity
#9 Whitehall on 2015-11-12 21:09 (Reply)
Well said, Whitehall
#9.1 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2015-11-13 16:20 (Reply)

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