Have you ever been personally offended by a piece of media so far?

[mrmaczaps]

Originally Posted by Wildcat

I get the cover-up and why it’s used in tv but I have a hard time believing it because every company would have to in on it. I’m sure scams and such happen in someway but not to that scale.

Aside from that like I said Cancer is so extremely intricate nobody can honestly believe it’s that easy to cure and it’s just been kept a secret all this time. That’s beyond cynicism.

There’s things I’m quite cynical about but some of the stuff people say, this and that...I don’t know.

Cancer has a cure. There was a doctor out there that did it & Big Pharma had him killed and his records destroyed.

Its all about the Benjamin's & control. Same as covid. Thats been around longer than just last March.

[Prowler]

I'm not a conspiracy theorist by any means and find most of them ridiculous, even if they have an interesting or logical premise at first, like the 9/11 conspiracies. Sure, there's some stuff unexplained, but the 9/11 conspiracy theorists extrapolate that into the territory of absurdity, which makes it hard to take them seriously.

But the Big Pharma conspiracy theory is one that I'm SOMEWHAT inclined to believe in. Pharmaceutical companies make A LOT of money. And neither dead or healthy people are the ones who are making them rich.

I don't believe cancer is one of those illnesses that they're trying to avoid finding cures for, though. Cancer isn't something you get infected with or something that develops overnight. And there's wha too many different types of cancer and tumours and they often hit people who seemed perfectly healthy and didn't have the genetic history or the lifestyle that would make them statistically likely to get cancer one day. And that includes a lot of rich people, including those who work for Big Pharma.

I can, however, see the Big Pharma not investing as much money or putting as much of an effort in developing vaccines or cures for illnesses that affect mostly people living in 3rd world countries, however. Because those people are often too poor to be able to afford the treatments.

[IMJ]

I was offended at this....

[Last Ronin]

Nope, never have been offended because unlike the mental health weak as fudge snowflakes I can remove myself from watching a show on bloody t.v to real life. Being offended is this generations get out of work free pass. Everything is offensive.

[IMJ]

Originally Posted by Prowler

Cancer isn't something you get infected with

It absolutely is at it's root. It's called HPV. And more and more they are reporting that a lot of cancers are coming from longer term infections that don't clear up from a variety of sources, both viral and bacterial.

[Prowler]

Originally Posted by IMJ

It absolutely is at it's root. It's called HPV. And more and more they are reporting that a lot of cancers are coming from longer term infections that don't clear up from a variety of sources, both viral and bacterial.

You're right. Untreated infections can eventually lead to cancer.

[MsMarvelDuckie]

I tend to only really get offended by blatant cruelty to animals in movies or shows, simply because I'm an animal lover at heart, and it kills me to see stuff like that.

[CyberCubed]

Originally Posted by MsMarvelDuckie

I tend to only really get offended by blatant cruelty to animals in movies or shows, simply because I'm an animal lover at heart, and it kills me to see stuff like that.

At the very least, the animal brutality isn't real and no animals are really harmed in production. A lot of shows/movies always play the "dead dog" thing to play up the heartstrings of the characters or dog lovers in real life.

[Leo656]

Originally Posted by IMJ

I was offended at this....

https://i.imgur.com/Tuxro6Dl.jpg

Yeah, that was pretty ridiculous.

Imagine scripting a scenario where a fictional employee who works for BET or whatever quits to go work for TNT, and gives a speech about how they "want to go work for influential, motivated white guys instead of angry young black people." Huge uproar, show cancelled, right?

But you can be openly racist and ageist against white people (especially men) because "Something Something 'Privilege' Something."

I'm inclined to believe that prejudice and racism is just plain Prejudice and Racism, personally.

I mean if I'm not allowed to lay into fat and ugly people then it shouldn't be okay to sh*t on white people or guys. Fair's fair.

[IMJ]

Originally Posted by Leo656

Yeah, that was pretty ridiculous.

Imagine scripting a scenario where a fictional employee who works for BET or whatever quits to go work for TNT, and gives a speech about how they "want to go work for influential, motivated white guys instead of angry young black people." Huge uproar, show cancelled, right?

But you can be openly racist and ageist against white people (especially men) because "Something Something 'Privilege' Something."

I'm inclined to believe that prejudice and racism is just plain Prejudice and Racism, personally.

I mean if I'm not allowed to lay into fat and ugly people then it shouldn't be okay to sh*t on white people or guys. Fair's fair.

Exactly.

I would never reply to a thread like this with some exaggerated reaction to a non-starter, let alone in real life be opportunistically offended or use "offended" as a manipulation. That kind of behavior is so far removed from who I am - it's not even close. But I would cite something like that Jenna Dewan moment as valid for sure.

Also, when these riots and the "hate for white people" became in vogue, I saw some fat b!()h on T.V. in a car at some kind of riot driving around in circles yelling out the window "kill the white folk! Kill the white folk!" I was pretty offended by that.

[Prowler]

Originally Posted by Leo656

Yeah, that was pretty ridiculous.

Imagine scripting a scenario where a fictional employee who works for BET or whatever quits to go work for TNT, and gives a speech about how they "want to go work for influential, motivated white guys instead of angry young black people." Huge uproar, show cancelled, right?

But you can be openly racist and ageist against white people (especially men) because "Something Something 'Privilege' Something."

I'm inclined to believe that prejudice and racism is just plain Prejudice and Racism, personally.

I mean if I'm not allowed to lay into fat and ugly people then it shouldn't be okay to sh*t on white people or guys. Fair's fair.

I refuse to believe that anyone other than a VERY vocal small group of people actually believes only White people are capable of racism and that they can't be victims of racism.

I don't know what they're teaching kids nowadays, but I've always been taught that racism is simply hating people for being of a different "race". Which is super obvious since, you know, it's in the name. It's pretty self-explanatory I'd say.

Whoever changed the definition to it having to come from a position of power has got some explaining to do. Also, those people only seme to focus on white and black relations. What about, let's say, prejudice between a Chinese and an Indian person? Who has the "Power" in that situation and whose prejudice can be called "racism"? Something tells me they haven't thought about that...

[IMJ]

Originally Posted by Prowler

I refuse to believe that anyone other than a VERY vocal small group of people actually believes only White people are capable of racism and that they can't be victims of racism.

It's only in vogue right now to fling this kind of mentality. Combine that with the generation doing it who have no real information about the past, or a world of racist history from non-whites everywhere and you've got a real set of eggs for the millenial & Gen Y mental souffle.

Which is ironic, because at large it isn't white people keeping racism alive.

[Prowler]

Originally Posted by IMJ

It's only in vogue right now to fling this kind of mentality. Combine that with the generation doing it who have no real information about the past, or a world of racist history from non-whites everywhere and you've got a real set of eggs for the millenial & Gen Y mental souffle.

Which is ironic, because at large it isn't white people keeping racism alive.

It seems to be mostly a thing in New World nations like USA, Canada, Brazil, Australia, etc. Aka countries that had their native populations either slaughtered or oppressed, and in USA's and Brazil's case, the enslavenent of black people brought by Europeans during the transatlantic slave trade.

Thing is, if you go to the Old World, things get muddier and racism is a much more complex thing. While in USA anyone who's white is automatically white and anyone who's black is automatically black to people, in Europe, Asia and Africa people will identify with their nationality or region primarily.

A Polish guy could go The Netherlands and face harsher discrimination than a black Dutch person born in the country because he will be a foreign in the eyes of the native population and him being white won't make him any more relatable. Which is why white privilege as a concept seems laughable and extremely flawed to me.

Hell, Croatians and Serbians have quite similar cultures and nearly speak the same language. And yet, we all know what happened in the Balkans in the 90s, don't we.

People from Sub-Saharan Africa also didn't see the transatlantic slave trade as "black people selling their fellow black people to white people".

Asia? According to my Korean friend, South East Asians such as Filipinos suffer way worse discrimination in Korea than white or black people do.

[Coola Yagami]

Originally Posted by Prowler

It seems to be mostly a thing in New World nations like USA, Canada, Brazil, Australia, etc. Aka countries that had their native populations either slaughtered or oppressed, and in USA's and Brazil's case, the enslavenent of black people brought by Europeans during the transatlantic slave trade.

Thing is, if you go to the Old World, things get muddier and racism is a much more complex thing. While in USA anyone who's white is automatically white and anyone who's black is automatically black to people, in Europe, Asia and Africa people will identify with their nationality or region primarily.

A Polish guy could go The Netherlands and face harsher discrimination than a black Dutch person born in the country because he will be a foreign in the eyes of the native population and him being white won't make him any more relatable. Which is why white privilege as a concept seems laughable and extremely flawed to me.

Hell, Croatians and Serbians have quite similar cultures and nearly speak the same language. And yet, we all know what happened in the Balkans in the 90s, don't we.

People from Sub-Saharan Africa also didn't see the transatlantic slave trade as "black people selling their fellow black people to white people".

Asia? According to my Korean friend, South East Asians such as Filipinos suffer way worse discrimination in Korea than white or black people do.

I think the general (ignorant) mentality is all minorities hate 'the white man' so much they all kinda come together. But you're right, other races can also be racist against black people, and other races that are NOT white or black can still be racist towards each other. But they always want to make it into this black and white thing.

[CyberCubed]

Many Asians seem to be racist against each other too. The Chinese hate the Japanese and vice versa, the Koreans are at odds with them too. Then the Burmese Chinese are prejudice by mainlanders, then you have Taiwan who hates China or the Southeast Asians.

Kinda odd people lump "Asians" all into one pile when in reality there's like 10 different nations and subcultures of Asian people all with their own racism.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

Many Asians seem to be racist against each other too. The Chinese hate the Japanese and vice versa, the Koreans are at odds with them too. Then the Burmese Chinese are prejudice by mainlanders, then you have Taiwan who hates China or the Southeast Asians.

Kinda odd people lump "Asians" all into one pile when in reality there's like 10 different nations and subcultures of Asian people all with their own racism.

A lot of Japanese hate Koreans, yeah. I've seen it firsthand ("disgusting people, they eat with fingers, and all the spitting!" -- an old boss). Also every Laotian I've met seems to despise Hmong people.

[sdp]

It's hilarious to see the original TMNT fans grow up and become Abraham Simpson. I guess it'll happen to me eventually, I'll be that crazy old man with his stories no one takes seriously. I'll try to fight it off as long as I can.

[ZariusTwo]

Originally Posted by sdp

It's hilarious to see the original TMNT fans grow up and become Abraham Simpson. I guess it'll happen to me eventually, I'll be that crazy old man with his stories no one takes seriously. I'll try to fight it off as long as I can.
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That's both a fear and a joy...fear that you'll end up growing old in a world where it's more difficult to be understood, and joy because all the people who want the world to think and act a certain way will themselves find their ideas slowly becoming antiquated and intolerable to a sharper-minded generation coming up, who'll have their own ideas and might not like how things have turned out.

[Leo656]

Originally Posted by sdp

It's hilarious to see the original TMNT fans grow up and become Abraham Simpson. I guess it'll happen to me eventually, I'll be that crazy old man with his stories no one takes seriously. I'll try to fight it off as long as I can.
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You espouse proven nonsense, repeat yourself constantly, and nobody takes you seriously.

...Are you SURE you're not there already?

[Prowler]

Originally Posted by sdp

It's hilarious to see the original TMNT fans grow up and become Abraham Simpson. I guess it'll happen to me eventually, I'll be that crazy old man with his stories no one takes seriously. I'll try to fight it off as long as I can.
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You're turning into a poor man's version of CyberCubed.