Kulturkampf

[HaughtyFrank]

In some cases, photos seemed to be flagged for removal simply because their file included the word ”gay,” including service members with that last name and an image of the B-29 aircraft Enola Gay, which dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II.

https://apnews.com/article/dei-purge-images-pentagon-diversity-women-black-8efcfaec909954f4a24bad0d49c78074

[Uncle]

in the interests of preserving culturally important imagery, rather than remove these pictures we should edit them with a font-matching overlay to more sensitive phrasings like the Enola Homosexual

[Eric Cartman]

It's blatant fair use.

as parody?

so you could post a copy of any music you like as long as you act like a clown in a relevant parodic way alongside it? sounds like a great exploit to get some free albums out there

from what I understand, fair use is never an obvious, open-and-shut case

I graduated from one of Canada's top business schools with really good grades and its completely okay if its a parody

[HaughtyFrank]

Just days ago people were mad at Rowling for not respecting the difference between sex and gender identity and yet here we see an example of how someone trans mixes the two at random as well.

Then I remember there being a Resetera thread where they were they suddenly declared that treating sex and gender expression separately is actually transphobic

[Polident]

[Eric Cartman]

I cant be arsed to workshop the joke about armie hammer loves eating meat but has changed his preference from ribs to sausages, but its pretty much right there

[Alpacx]

Just days ago people were mad at Rowling for not respecting the difference between sex and gender identity and yet here we see an example of how someone trans mixes the two at random as well.

Then I remember there being a Resetera thread where they were they suddenly declared that treating sex and gender expression separately is actually transphobic

Sex and gender is the same or is different depending on what will win the argument they're having right now.

[HaughtyFrank]

[killamajig]

This guy?



Did they blow the budget on Lithgow?

[Uncle]

they NEVER think about these things

the idea that everyone just innately sees him as halfway to villain (just by looking at him? is it because he's black??), the fact that he actually WAS a villain (death eater) at one point, that he wants to teach a class about the dark arts, that he was chasing after a white woman and all the baggage that goes with that...

like there's also that leaked live action powerpuff girls trailer that warner brothers is copyright striking wherever it crops up and I can't be arsed to find you all a copy right now...the professor is now black, and apparently he manufactured 2 little white girls and a black girl as his daughters. why would you do this?! you don't have to do this!

[killamajig]

I'm not real familiar with the Harry Potter lore, but I was actually thinking I don't care if they race swept Severus because I don't really know the story. But as you pointed out, sometimes it does make things really really weird.

[Besticus Maximus]

He was in Utopia, which was a fucking great tv show

[Uncle]

like, really easy layup character to race swap, if you must: Professor McGonagall

it would be perfect, she's heroic, strict but soft inside and occasionally quippy, I can picture all of her lines and characterization fitting perfectly

[Potato]

Are y'all ready for Asian Harry Potter?

[Uncle]

pursuing Cho Chang the hispanic 

[Potato]

Indian Ron Weasley, but still a ginger

[killamajig]

https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5182892-columbia-university-antisemitism-probe/

The federal government canceled $400 million in grants to Columbia University amid its antisemitism probe into the school, the Justice Department’s Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism announced Friday. 

FAFO

[Alpacx]

The two genders:
With Phallus
Phallus-free

Sucks for the owners and workers of Archimedes Banya.

[DavidCroquet]

The two genders:
With Phallus
Phallus-free

Sucks for the owners and workers of Archimedes Banya.

It reads like a troll post at the end.

"Trans women, trans men, and non binary individuals are welcome--every other day of the month."

[Uncle]

remember when you could open a place of business and people just went there, used spaces appropriate to themselves without even needing to be asked, and then they left when they were done

[HaughtyFrank]

The two genders:
With Phallus
Phallus-free
Sucks for the owners and workers of Archimedes Banya.

I like how they invented ladies night. Again.

[Potato]

https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5182892-columbia-university-antisemitism-probe/

The federal government canceled $400 million in grants to Columbia University amid its antisemitism probe into the school, the Justice Department’s Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism announced Friday. 

FAFO

Now THAT is some vindictive Trump admin shit I can get behind.

[DavidCroquet]

https://bsky.app/profile/jbenmenachem.com/post/3ljt3bqelsk2d

someone help me embed bluesky bleets, my family is dying i want to make fun of this guy.

[benji]

I should probably make a guide for that beyond my post in trash bin thread wherever it is, you click the dots then "embed post" and you have to pluck a weird url from the mess it gives you:

[Polident]

remember when you could open a place of business and people just went there, used spaces appropriate to themselves without even needing to be asked, and then they left when they were done

Relatedly unrelated about gendered services. 

Something I always find amusing around here is restaurants where there’s an all you can eat option, like a Brazilian steakhouse, will deduct the equivalent of $10 for women. Or charge men $10 more, depending on your views on misandry. If you bring it up to anybody, the response is always blunt “Makes sense. Men eat more.”

[Eric Cartman]

Because bitches always be stealing half your food off of your plate, amirite fellas?

[DavidCroquet]

I should probably make a guide for that beyond my post in trash bin thread wherever it is, you click the dots then "embed post" and you have to pluck a weird url from the mess it gives you:

Thanks benji. 

I enjoyed the opportunity to read “no amount of serious action to combat anti-semitism […] will satisfy the nazis” just as much the second time around.

[HaughtyFrank]

Even now some people seem unwilling to acknowledge what a shit show it was when the presidents of the universities couldn't answer the most basic questions about anti semitic chants at that congress hearing

[Potato]

[Uncle]

I read the comments and they're all like "eat them energy" "big bacon energy lol"

and I thought about her reading them and being like oh no they called me fat, this is so hurtful

but then I was thinking...do these people even get their feelings hurt? it feels like they're so far removed from the normal human experience, normal responses, the ability to feel shame

they would just relish it as an opportunity to play another card in the giant game they're playing, "omg fat shaming, what if I killed myself after seeing that, I'm so victimized"