Charlie Brown, you dirty racist, you.

[highland145]

Let me find a reason to be offended.


https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/charlie-brown-thanksgiving-criticized-as-racist


I'd take that lawn chair over the straight backs any day.

ID10Ts

Moved from OT.

Perknose
Forum Director

 

[lxskllr]

People are idiots. Self important twats that make noise for "karma points" cause it's easy. Doing something of value takes work, and most of the time gets little recognition.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Wow, it's ridiculous how far the SJW movement is going, and it's ruining everything. What pisses me off is that because they make the most noise, they actually get listened to and sometimes ridiculous laws get passed because of them.

It's kinda how some religions get all sorts of special treatment that other religions don't, such as not having to wear a helmet when riding a motorcycle. Anybody else would get charged.

 

[IronWing]

People tweeting stupid shit (other than Trump) is now national news?

 

[IronWing]

Wow, it's ridiculous how far the SJW movement is going, and it's ruining everything. What pisses me off is that because they make the most noise, they actually get listened to and sometimes ridiculous laws get passed because of them.

It's kinda how Muslims get all sorts of special treatment that other religions don't, such as not having to wear a helmet when riding a motorcycle. Anybody else would get charged.

^ Full of stupid. Seriously, if you believe any of this crap, time to get out and see the world beyond the snowbanks.

 

[highland145]

^ Full of stupid. Seriously, if you believe any of this crap, time to get out and see the world beyond the snowbanks.

Sorry, OTDC lock 'em up.

@esquared
@ElFenix

If a poster wishes to alert the moderator staff about some forum business, they should use the convo system or reported posts, not here in open forum. Next poster who does this in such a situation gets point dinged.

Perknose
Forum Director

 

[BarkingGhostar]

Its funny because South Park refers to its one-off as Token. How is that not racist? BTW, Wall-E was a stalker. No ifs, ands or buts about it.

 

[highland145]

Its funny because South Park refers to its one-off as Token. How is that not racist? BTW, Wall-E was a stalker. No ifs, ands or buts about it.

If he was a stalker..butts. Just sayin.'

 

[Iron Woode]

just wait until they watch A Charlie Brown Kwanza.

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

News is slow during the holidays. Try not to take it too seriously.

Critics are slamming ABC’s “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” for seating its only black character, Franklin, alone on one side of the holiday table — in a rickety old lawn chair.

A person on Twitter is the source of this story? LOL

 

[pmv]

It's kinda how Muslims get all sorts of special treatment that other religions don't, such as not having to wear a helmet when riding a motorcycle. Anybody else would get charged.

I'm tempted to upvote this post on the assumption that it's clever satire of the idiocy of the right. But not sure if serious.

 

[MTDEW]

Ever think that maybe it was Franklin who didnt want to sit on the crowded side next to all those Crackers!
And he was also smart enough to bring a reclining chair so he could take a nap after overeating.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

Its funny because South Park refers to its one-off as Token. How is that not racist? BTW, Wall-E was a stalker. No ifs, ands or buts about it.

The better question is how IS that racist?

You seem like a perfect example of someone that defines the destination (racist) without a path as to how that actually is indeed racist. Is it not at all plausible for a small town to have a minority of a race (be it white, black, asian, etc)? That doesn't make it racist, that's just a fact of life - it happens?

Also Token isn't the only black character - obviously starting with Chef Link

 

[VirtualLarry]

“Seriously please get some historical context. Charles M. Schultz was a trailblazer and bucked racism in those days by adding Franklin to reflect the issue… and challenging what was then going on in society,” tweeted California radio show host Mark Larson.

 

[pcgeek11]

Maybe there is some hidden meaning to Charlie Brown always wanting to kick that brown ball?

 

[snoopy7548]

If he put Snoopy on the same side as Franklin, people would still find it racist as if they were comparing black people to dogs; if one of the girls was put there, it would be racist and sexist. I think people with racist tendencies always find racism everywhere they look.

 

[zinfamous]

So Fox has trouble disseminating sarcasm and jokes from people on Twitter, and determines that "critics are now calling it actually Racist"

....and says this is news? wtf people.

The linked "collection of text" is essentially "what a guy at my table said this week." I mean, seriously "Twitter user blablahMcGee claims: "stuff that is important."

You realize this has nothing to do with anyone really claiming anything, about anything. You and I could have joked about this among ourselves, 15 years ago, and it would be just as irrelevant. Now, by virtue of it being on Twitter, and some ignorant sockpuppet grabs it and tries to report it as representative of anyone, is suddenly real?

Stop reading Fox, OP, it is rotting what is left of your brain.

 

[zinfamous]

Wow, it's ridiculous how far the SJW movement is going, and it's ruining everything. What pisses me off is that because they make the most noise, they actually get listened to and sometimes ridiculous laws get passed because of them.

It's kinda how Muslims get all sorts of special treatment that other religions don't, such as not having to wear a helmet when riding a motorcycle. Anybody else would get charged.

lol

 

[Jon-T]

So Fox has trouble disseminating sarcasm and jokes from people on Twitter, and determines that "critics are now calling it actually Racist"

....and says this is news? wtf people.

The linked "collection of text" is essentially "what a guy at my table said this week." I mean, seriously "Twitter user blablahMcGee claims: "stuff that is important."

You realize this has nothing to do with anyone really claiming anything, about anything. You and I could have joked about this among ourselves, 15 years ago, and it would be just as irrelevant. Now, by virtue of it being on Twitter, and some ignorant sockpuppet grabs it and tries to report it as representative of anyone, is suddenly real?

Stop reading Fox, OP, it is rotting what is left of your brain.

The story ran on the liberal leaning The Hill almost 10 hours BEFORE Fox news picked up the New York Post story and repeated it. (notice how the story has the byline of New York Post)
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/...ng-accused-of-racism-over-seating-of-franklin

Not sure what you intend to accomplish by claiming this story is fabricated by Fox news.

 

[Red Squirrel]

^ Full of stupid. Seriously, if you believe any of this crap, time to get out and see the world beyond the snowbanks.

Huh? It can't really be denied. We see this stuff everywhere all the time now.

I'm tempted to upvote this post on the assumption that it's clever satire of the idiocy of the right. But not sure if serious.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=turban+motorcycle+helmet&t=h_&ia=web

I was mistaken it's sikhs, but either way it's ridiculous that certain groups get special treatment. See it all the time now because everybody thinks they are a special snowflake and deserve different treatment.

 

[IronWing]

Huh? It can't really be denied. We see this stuff everywhere all the time now.


https://duckduckgo.com/?q=turban+motorcycle+helmet&t=h_&ia=web

I was mistaken it's sikhs, but either way it's ridiculous that certain groups get special treatment. See it all the time now because everybody thinks they are a special snowflake and deserve different treatment.

Damn straight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_Twenty-nine_of_the_Canadian_Charter_of_Rights_and_Freedoms

 

[zinfamous]

The story ran on the liberal leaning The Hill almost 10 hours BEFORE Fox news picked up the New York Post story and repeated it. (notice how the story has the byline of New York Post)
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/...ng-accused-of-racism-over-seating-of-franklin

Not sure what you intend to accomplish by claiming this story is fabricated by Fox news.

I didn't say it was fabricated. I said it wasn't a story to begin with. So the Hill is equally as culpable in glaring stupidity.

"Some dudes said some things" is not a fucking story.

It's a problem with a lot of cable, network and of course online media. "Let's go to our "social media correspondent" and see what some meaningless random idiots are saying about this stupid bullshit!" That crap was never a story. Stop eating it up.

 

[pmv]

Huh? It can't really be denied. We see this stuff everywhere all the time now.


https://duckduckgo.com/?q=turban+motorcycle+helmet&t=h_&ia=web

I was mistaken it's sikhs, but either way it's ridiculous that certain groups get special treatment. See it all the time now because everybody thinks they are a special snowflake and deserve different treatment.

The idea that Americans are so shockingly ignorant about the world beyond white Christians they confuse Sikhs with Muslims is a bit of a common stereotype, so I thought for a moment you were satirizing it.

 

[pmv]

Huh? It can't really be denied. We see this stuff everywhere all the time now.


https://duckduckgo.com/?q=turban+motorcycle+helmet&t=h_&ia=web

I was mistaken it's sikhs, but either way it's ridiculous that certain groups get special treatment. See it all the time now because everybody thinks they are a special snowflake and deserve different treatment.

I could argue the specific point about motorcycle helmets but this isn't P&N. But, really, does the turban exemption actually make any difference to your life? (There _are_ possible situations where I'd object to special rules for the religious - this isn't one of them, it's inconcequential).

Edit - ha, as this now _is_ in P&N, I'll expand on the point. The motorbike helmet law is a law intended to protect people from their own behaviour, by limiting their freedom to take risks. As such its a much more tricky-to-justify law than one that is to prevent people harming others. And so it depends far more on consent. Such laws only really work if those subject to them are already half-inclined to undertake the mandated action (because they know it's for their own good, ultimately).

So it's a law that is likely to have problems if it comes up against a deeply-held religious belief.

I'm actually not that bothered about that particular law either way. Just as I don't care that much about compulsory seat-belt use by drivers.

But it's very different from giving religous-based exemptions to laws that are not about benefiting the very people whose freedom the law is reducing. I don't think religious beliefs should give you special rights to do things that directly affect others.

 

[Sgt. York]

Red Squirrel is Canadian.