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What a crock of shit - the oppression olympics thread

Post by The Reboot » Sat Feb 01, 2020 2:26 pm

Every day I watch or read the news, I come across the most ridiculous ideas, all of which have one common denominator - oppression olympics. Leftist "activists" and "academics" that pretend to be qualified and high and mighty as they parrot the ideas that anybody that is not "straight, white, male" must pay for the crimes of humanity.

In fact, there's a new "snap-word". It's called "woke", and it's becoming more irritating than say, "bigotry" or "denigration". People clearly have no minds of their own.

Speaking of which, you would think that the art of mathematics would be free of the subjective mind-fuckery that is "identity politics". Mathematics can not be denied or debated, it simply is.

And yet, these snot-nosed SJW fools have managed to taint it with their disease.

Read on:
Woke Math Aims to Teach Seattle Kids That ‘Western’ Math Is Racist

The culture war is coming for you, whether you like it or not.

It’s no secret that American history is under attack. The ethos of leftist historian Howard Zinn has made inroads into classrooms across the country, as I explain in my book “The War on History: The Conspiracy to Rewrite America’s Past.”

But, lest you think you can escape the social justice dogmatism infecting the liberal arts, a story out of Seattle shows how social justice warriors will leave no stone unturned in their effort to fundamentally transform America.

Seattle Public Schools recently proposed adding ethnic studies into K-12 math curriculum.

That’s right—we’ve gone straight past “new math” and right to “woke math.”

The framework for this new curriculum exposes just how absurd woke math will be.

Among other things, it states that “Western” mathematics as “the only legitimate expression of mathematical identity and intelligence,” whatever that means, has been used to “disenfranchise people and communities of color.”

Robby Soave at Reason pointed out how empty and hollow the guidelines are:

It’s chock full of social justice jargon that sounds smart but is actually vapid. What does it mean to decode mathematical ‘beauty’ or ‘identify how the development of mathematics has been erased from learning in school?’ (Has it been erased? That seems like a problem for history class.)

The guidance says it will ‘re-humanize mathematics through experiential learning’ and facilitate learning ‘independently and interdependently.’ That’s a fancy way of saying almost nothing at all.

Of course, while this sort of curriculum will leave students with little actual knowledge or understanding of how to do math, it certainly serves a purpose: to radicalize young people with tales of oppression and groom them to be future social justice warriors themselves.

Among the many other lessons that the guidelines suggest are to “explain how math dictates economic oppression,” “identify economic movements that have led to liberation,” and ask the question, “How can we change mathematics from individualistic to collectivist thinking?”

Notice a pattern?

The message is that empowerment comes not from cultivating useful knowledge and abilities, but through social protest and community organizing.

Woke math is simply the latest and perhaps silliest expression of a larger agenda to turn young Americans against their country and fellow citizens, to fill them with grievance, and convince them that their key to a perfect future is through socialism.

Of course, it may be a challenge to build a green socialist utopia of high-speed rail without basic math or engineering skills, but those are mere details.

Regardless of the problems with woke math, the situation in Seattle shows why policies like school choice are so important. Parents need tools to pressure their local public schools if they are failing, or worse, trying to indoctrinate their children with ideas they oppose.

Undeniably, many of America’s institutions, starting with higher education but now trickling down through K-12, are being used to un-assimilate Americans, to boil down every issue in life to cleavages in ethnic identity rather than differences of opinion in a complex world.

It’s a sign of our times that even math is getting swept up in the larger cultural moment, but it’s also a warning: There is no escape, even behind the hard realities of numbers and science.

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Re: What a crock of shit - the oppression olympics thread

Post by brian ross » Sat Feb 01, 2020 4:45 pm

The Reboot wrote:
Sat Feb 01, 2020 2:26 pm
Notice a pattern?
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Sure do. Appears a lot of hurt RWW are upset 'cause alternative means of doing maths and history that doesn't rely on only telling the European, White way is on it's way to correct things... :roll
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Re: What a crock of shit - the oppression olympics thread

Post by The Reboot » Sun Feb 02, 2020 1:38 am

brian ross wrote:
Sat Feb 01, 2020 4:45 pm
The Reboot wrote:
Sat Feb 01, 2020 2:26 pm
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Sure do. Appears a lot of hurt RWW are upset 'cause alternative means of doing maths and history that doesn't rely on only telling the European, White way is on it's way to correct things... :roll
And as usual, you miss the bigger picture.

Mathematics is the "universal" language of humanity. It is indifferent to race, colour, religion, sex and all of those things you and those like you obsess about every day of the week :roll: the difference between numbers and the written word is, you cannot fool mathematics. It is infallible. In the written word, however, you can twist it to manipulate others to your way of thinking, if compelling and influential enough.

Now the left want to bring up yet again how poor and oppressed peoples of colour are, and how evil whitey hijacked mathematics and "culturally appropriated" it, amongst the numbers and equations. This is not education, it is brainwashing. Drumming a one-sided social/political issue and opinion into fertile, susceptible minds. You people often scream about the Nazis and how oppressed the Jews were under their rule (except, of course, when Jews are in conflict with Muslims. But that is another story!) and yet have no qualms about adopting their methods in grooming loyal, obedient servants.

There's a time and place for political discourse, and that is not a maths class. It never has been, but the leftists want their twisted ideologies tainting every aspect of daily life. Forget the Coronavirus, this is the disease we should worry about :roll:

Still, I'm not surprised that you've jumped on this thread with a useless one-liner that reeks of hypocrisy. After all, wasn't it you who once stated that "race is a social construct"?

And yet you support a twisted, reverse-Nazi ideology in a maths class. You also feel that you're accountable, and you should atone for the sins of white European settlers years ago. You have this same expectation of the rest of white Australia, that we should all willingly throw our wallets at the coons living today, who were not around at the time of the massacres and invasions, and bend over for them despite the fact that we are already "paying the rent" with our tax dollars. If we don't agree with your sickening, masochistic white guilt, we must be "racist".

You want to talk about "hurt", it's the pathetic left-wingers who keep going on and on and on and on about black/gay/trans/women's rights when each "group" already has the same rights and opportunities the "cis-white". Difference of opinion is what "hurts" you and your ilk, hence your tantrums/hissy-fits/attempts to discredit opponents, etc.

You can indulge in your white guilt all you like, Brian. I couldn't care less, just don't expect myself or anybody else to join you in your foolish endeavours. Tsk tsk. :roll: :roll:

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Post by sprintcyclist » Sun Feb 02, 2020 12:32 pm

I though mathematics was just mathematics.

Then, I also thought men were men and women were women
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Post by The Reboot » Sun Feb 02, 2020 1:11 pm

sprintcyclist wrote:
Sun Feb 02, 2020 12:32 pm
I though mathematics was just mathematics.

Then, I also thought men were men and women were women
"Woke math" = the ability to count the 72 genders. :lol:

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Post by The Reboot » Mon Feb 03, 2020 12:55 pm

Remember this imbecile?

ABC Journo who 'criticised' and 'fled' Australia is 'not above' taking taxpayer's money

Sky News host Chris Kenny says although former ABC broadcaster Yassmin Abdel-Magied has “criticized Australia and fled the country,” she is not “above taking money” from Australian taxpayers.

Mr Kenny said he “would never condone” the way Ms Abdel-Magied was treated online for her “provocative” views on Anzac day and Australia’s border protection policies which ultimately led her to leave the country.

Ms Abdel-Magied is “not above taking money from Australia,” Mr Kenny said as she has recently accepted a $20,000 arts grant from the commonwealth to “help her out” with her writing during a six-month residency in Paris.

Taking to twitter, Ms Abdel-Magied thanked "Allah" and many people on twitter, but Mr Kenny said perhaps she should have thanked “the good taxpayers of Australia” who are “stumping up again” to assist her career.

“There are lot of citizens of this country who are often highly critical of so much about our past, our institutions or our policies, but it never seems to prevent them accepting our largesse,” he said.

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If we are going to throw away money for this moron, can we at least use it to pay for a flight to drop her off in the middle-east? Preferably in a war zone. :roll:

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Re: What a crock of shit - the oppression olympics thread

Post by Black Orchid » Mon Feb 03, 2020 1:00 pm

The only money she should be paid is to stay the heck out of Australia for good.

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Re: What a crock of shit - the oppression olympics thread

Post by The Reboot » Thu Feb 06, 2020 1:06 pm

Margot Robbie soars in Birds of Prey, a chaotic romp that gives Joaquin Phoenix's Joker a run for his money

argot Robbie is certainly having a moment. Fresh off her Oscar-nominated performance in Bombshell and a soulful turn at the heart of Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood, the Australian star is back to reprise trickster anti-hero Harley Quinn in Birds of Prey, DC's chaotic, candy-coloured companion to the twisted man angst of last year's Joker.

The comparison is fitting, as Cathy Yan's poppy, punchy film opens with Harley — or Harleen Quinzel, per the backstory-hopping opening animation — kicking Gotham's Clown Prince of Crime to the curb and going solo, giving shape to the newfound freedom implied in the movie's full title, The Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn.

Not that we ever see the ex. Spare a thought, or not, for Jared Leto, whose infamously dedicated performance as the Jester of Genocide in Suicide Squad (2016) has become a footnote in the subsequent praise for Joaquin Phoenix.

As a character quips at one point here: "He sounds like a dick."

After blowing her and the Joker's beloved ACE chemical plant sky-high, Harley settles into the classic newly single routine of binge-drinking, roller-derbying and sucking Cheese Whiz direct from the can, feeling alternately empowered and sorry for herself to the stomp of — of course — Joan Jett's I Hate Myself For Loving You. (She also takes in a pet hyena — as one does — that she affectionately names Bruce, after the alter ego of her Caped Crusader adversary.)

"She just publicly updated her relationship status," observes veteran Gotham police detective Renee Montoya (Rosie Perez), and pretty soon every goon in Gotham with a grievance — which turns out to be almost everyone — wants a piece of Harley.

Montoya, who, like Harley, first appeared in TV's much-loved Batman: The Animated Series (1992), is trying to crack a case involving a missing mob diamond, while having her chops busted by her DA ex-girlfriend (Ali Wong), and her precinct captain, played by Steven Williams — the 21 Jump Street veteran playing off an amusing running gag about Montoya's obsession with 80s cop clichés.

The diamond is coveted by Gotham godfather Roman Sionis (aka Batman's brutal mob enemy, Black Mask), who's played by an outsized Ewan McGregor — clearly camping it up as a petulant man-child who gets chauffeured around in a Rolls, sports a series of slimy Miami Vice suits, an erratic accent, and a love for peeling his enemies' faces clean off.

Also on the scent are Sionis' fiery nightclub singer-turned-driver Black Canary (Jurnee Smollett-Bell), whose origins go back to DC's 60s comics, and the self-styled, crossbow-wielding Huntress (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), with a backstory drawing on her 80s comic roots as a mob daughter out for vengeance in the wake of her family's massacre.

When the jewel literally falls into the hands, and stomach, of teenage pickpocket (and, in some DC comic iterations, potential Batgirl) Cassandra Cain (Ella Jay Basco), Sionis gives Harley an ultimatum to find her — and the psychotic livewire and the adolescent runaway find themselves thrown together in the mayhem.

Birds of Prey is DC's ninth comic book film since launching its extended universe back in 2013, and standalone Joker aside, it's easily the most successful — vibrantly characterised, cartoonishly violent and sufficiently dark, but also plenty tongue-in-cheek — and not in that tiresomely smug way that can sometimes befall the Marvel films.

Between this and Joker, Warner Bros seem to be finding a groove in taking a chance on their wildcard filmmakers, and Birds of Prey offers hope, perhaps, that younger, relatively untested directors can bring flair and personality to a property.

Directing only her second feature, after the Jia Zhangke-produced Dead Pigs (2018), Chinese-American filmmaker Cathy Yan lends a sense of fringes-of-the-city community to Christina Hodson's (Bumblebee) sisterhood-themed script, while keeping the action and performances humming along at an agreeable clip.

Birds of Prey is also strikingly shot, with Matthew Libatique's (Black Swan, A Star is Born) smoky, colourful cinematography — especially vivid during a sequence in which Harley marches into a police station and picks off officers with her confetti cannon — giving the film an eye-popping, kaleidoscopic texture (not to mention a generous serve of good old-fashioned bisexual lighting). He and Yan even get to have fun with a musical sequence set to Megan Thee Stallion's Diamonds, in which a concussed Harley slips into a reverie to imagine herself as Marilyn Monroe in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953).

And K.K. Barrett's (Marie Antoinette, Where the Wild Things Are) production design is a standout, with a climactic duel set in a fantasy Coney Island that evokes Batman Returns-era Tim Burton, all impractical civic statues and icy expressionist shadows. (Harley's apartment, too, with its pastel wallpaper and tutu-wearing beaver taxidermy, offers shades of Michelle Pfeiffer's Catwoman.)

It's here, among the always-reliable visuals of the funhouse, that the film's girl gang — inevitably drawn together to battle the villain — make their stand against what Sionis dubs his "men of Gotham", who assemble in tribal masks for a moment that almost serves as a parody of the riot sequence in Joker.

he ensuing girls-versus-bad-men melee works as a satisfyingly noisy outlet for the movie's female rage, but Yan and Hodson also take time to sketch out moments of sisterhood — like a sweet hangout between Harley and Cass — that give the mayhem some form of emotional anchor.

But the star, of course, is Robbie, who galvanises the comic-book action and tonal whiplash with the force of magnetic screen presence — whether dispensing eye-rolling one-liners, savouring a hangover-battling egg sandwich, or simply lighting up otherwise routine skirmishes with her wide, megawatt grin.

She pivots here from baseball-bat beatings to big sister asides on the importance of stealing and not paying your income tax, to sudden bursts of wisdom dropped mid-rumble. "You know, psychologically speaking, vengeance rarely brings us the catharsis we hope for," says Harley at one point, lest we forget that, before her life of crime, Ms Quinn was a decorated Arkham psychiatrist.

If anything, you could argue that Robbie's performance is equal to the pained method man exertions of Phoenix — the emotional gestures are certainly harder to pull off, given the material's limited dramatic scope and zippy pace, but Robbie makes it look easy.

And when things do pause for dramatic breath, as in scene where Harley drunkenly confesses her fears, there's a real sting of sadness that lands amid the crackle and pop of the movie around her.

And while Birds of Prey suffers from some of the usual aesthetic decisions that afflict these kinds of pieces — the endless, lazy needle drops to goose the slow-mo action, "punk" titles splashed across every character introduction, and an insistence that terms like 'badass motherf***ers' somehow aren't worn out — it's an entertaining ride that's hard to dislike, and one that should please fans and Warner Bros' accountants alike.

The Joker might be the one on the Oscars podium this weekend, but Harley Quinn and her girls seem poised to have the last laugh.

Birds of Prey is in cinemas from February 6.

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These superhero movies need to die off already. Seeing as Hollywood lacks creativity, however, it won't happen. They'll just keep pumping out this shit, rife with oppression olympic propaganda, and the sheeple will lap it up.

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Post by The Reboot » Sat Feb 08, 2020 12:35 pm

Funding for women's group under review after call for ban on man-woman relationships

MONTREAL -- The Quebec government says it will re-evaluate the $120,000 annual public funding it gives to the province's biggest women's federation after its president suggested that heterosexual relationships should be banned.

Gabrielle Bouchard, president of the Federation des femmes du Quebec, made the controversial comment Tuesday on Twitter, before issuing an apology on Facebook and during televised media interviews later in the day.

Bouchard says her original tweet was in reaction to news that a man out on parole after being convicted of killing his female partner had been arrested in the slaying last week of a 22-year-old woman in Quebec City.

In it she said heterosexual relationships were violent, mostly based on religion and possibly should be banned.

Labour and Social Solidarity Minister Jean Boulet said he will analyze whether the organization still qualifies for its annual subsidy in light of Bouchard's comments.

He said in an interview that Bouchard's words were unacceptable and lacked respect, but that he felt her apology was also sincere.

Les relations de couple hétérosexuel sont vraiment violentes. En plus, la grande majorité sont des relations basées sur la religion.

Il est peut être temps d'avoir une conversation sur leur interdiction et abolition
— Gabrielle Bouchard (@__Gabbrielle___) January 28, 2020

The outcry that followed prompted Ms. Bouchard to back off. She publicly apologized, calling her statement "extremely clumsy."

The Federation des femmes du Quebec said its presidents tweets did not represent the position of the organization.

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Re: What a crock of shit - the oppression olympics thread

Post by Black Orchid » Sat Feb 08, 2020 12:41 pm

The apology only comes after they get criticism so it's hardly sincere. Kick the moonbat out and keep the funding.

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