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  • Re: Breaking: Emily Blunt apologizes for her insensitive and hurtful co

    From Sawfish@21:1/5 to All on Sat Oct 21 18:14:35 2023
    On 10/21/23 5:34 PM, TT wrote:
    "Emily Blunt has apologised for referring to a restaurant worker as “enormous” on a chatshow that aired 11 years ago."

    https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/oct/21/emily-blunt-actor-apologises-restaurant-worker-jonathan-ross-interview


    Wow. That's heavy.

    BBC front page news, too.

    This is called "mining for victimhood".

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  • From The Iceberg@21:1/5 to Sawfish on Sun Oct 22 02:19:59 2023
    On Sunday, 22 October 2023 at 02:14:44 UTC+1, Sawfish wrote:
    On 10/21/23 5:34 PM, TT wrote:
    "Emily Blunt has apologised for referring to a restaurant worker as “enormous” on a chatshow that aired 11 years ago."

    https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/oct/21/emily-blunt-actor-apologises-restaurant-worker-jonathan-ross-interview


    Wow. That's heavy.

    BBC front page news, too.
    This is called "mining for victimhood".

    we mustn't hurt anyone by anything we say nor are we allowed to call Hamas "TERRORISTS"(that's banned at the BBC) or condemn them as that is not a helpful! meanwhile it's fine to hate and use the worst possible words for Israel and Trump.

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  • From TT@21:1/5 to All on Sun Oct 22 13:03:40 2023
    The Iceberg kirjoitti 22.10.2023 klo 12.19:
    On Sunday, 22 October 2023 at 02:14:44 UTC+1, Sawfish wrote:
    On 10/21/23 5:34 PM, TT wrote:
    "Emily Blunt has apologised for referring to a restaurant worker as
    “enormous” on a chatshow that aired 11 years ago."

    https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/oct/21/emily-blunt-actor-apologises-restaurant-worker-jonathan-ross-interview


    Wow. That's heavy.

    BBC front page news, too.
    This is called "mining for victimhood".

    we mustn't hurt anyone by anything we say nor are we allowed to call Hamas "TERRORISTS"(that's banned at the BBC) or condemn them as that is not a helpful! meanwhile it's fine to hate and use the worst possible words for Israel and Trump.

    Calling some unnamed waitress "enormous" 11 years ago and now having to profusely apologize for that goes to Orwellian levels of thought
    control. Or just the normal woke left agenda nowadays.

    And having such ridiculous news making BBC front page too, without any criticism of the "news". This is how woke left normalizes their absurd
    agendas.

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  • From Gracchus@21:1/5 to All on Sun Oct 22 08:24:30 2023
    On Sunday, October 22, 2023 at 3:03:44 AM UTC-7, TT wrote:
    The Iceberg kirjoitti 22.10.2023 klo 12.19:
    On Sunday, 22 October 2023 at 02:14:44 UTC+1, Sawfish wrote:
    On 10/21/23 5:34 PM, TT wrote:
    "Emily Blunt has apologised for referring to a restaurant worker as
    “enormous” on a chatshow that aired 11 years ago."

    https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/oct/21/emily-blunt-actor-apologises-restaurant-worker-jonathan-ross-interview


    Wow. That's heavy.

    BBC front page news, too.
    This is called "mining for victimhood".

    we mustn't hurt anyone by anything we say nor are we allowed to call Hamas "TERRORISTS"(that's banned at the BBC) or condemn them as that is not a helpful! meanwhile it's fine to hate and use the worst possible words for Israel and Trump.
    Calling some unnamed waitress "enormous" 11 years ago and now having to profusely apologize for that goes to Orwellian levels of thought
    control. Or just the normal woke left agenda nowadays.

    And having such ridiculous news making BBC front page too, without any criticism of the "news". This is how woke left normalizes their absurd agendas.

    The BBC does the same with news as they do with the rest of their programming. Yes, it is absurd to go back decades over people's lives in the search for stray remarks to pillory them for. Even sadder how most of those targeted play the game and
    apologize profusely in carefully prepared statements for fear it will snowball and bury their lives and careers.

    Living outside the US, you may have missed this one from 2021. I knew then we were headed for cultural insanity.

    https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/jeopardy-kelly-donohue-white-power-hand-sign-apology-1234963169/#!

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  • From Sawfish@21:1/5 to The Iceberg on Sun Oct 22 10:17:19 2023
    On 10/22/23 2:19 AM, The Iceberg wrote:
    On Sunday, 22 October 2023 at 02:14:44 UTC+1, Sawfish wrote:
    On 10/21/23 5:34 PM, TT wrote:
    "Emily Blunt has apologised for referring to a restaurant worker as
    “enormous” on a chatshow that aired 11 years ago."

    https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/oct/21/emily-blunt-actor-apologises-restaurant-worker-jonathan-ross-interview


    Wow. That's heavy.

    BBC front page news, too.
    This is called "mining for victimhood".
    we mustn't hurt anyone by anything we say nor are we allowed to call Hamas "TERRORISTS"(that's banned at the BBC) or condemn them as that is not a helpful! meanwhile it's fine to hate and use the worst possible words for Israel and Trump.

    Ice, an important thing to realize when debating wokesters is that the
    meaning of the work "hypocrisy" is unknown to them, mostly. When it's
    explained to them, they see nothing unusual or wrong in it. Just another
    tool to be used to get their way.

    So yep: their universe is by definition a multiple standards universe.
    Each identity group has a different standard of acceptable behavior and
    social responsibility. And the woke are the ones to define these standards.

    ..and these standards change according to whim.

    It's like living with the Red Queen.

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