Worst of Social Justice

[Askold]

Mozambique still has the best "flag with a weapon" https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Flag_of_Mozambique.svg/2000px-Flag_of_Mozambique.svg.png

"Green stands for the riches of the land, the white fimbriations signify peace, black represents the African continent, yellow symbolizes the country's minerals, and red represents the struggle for independence. The rifle stands for defence and vigilance, the open book symbolizes the importance of education, the hoe represents the country's agriculture, and the star symbolizes Marxism and internationalism."

Or as I would have put it: "AK47s and hoes for everybody! ...Also books."

[Ultimate Paragon]

First Joss Whedon, then Nolan North, now Stephen Amell:

http://hollywoodlife.com/2015/09/17/stephen-amell-ahmed-mohamed-twitter-stereotyping-texas-clock-bomb/

[Even Then]

The tweets aren't actually visible in the article.

[Ultimate Paragon]

The tweets aren't actually visible in the article.

Funny, I can see them.

[Even Then]

I tried again and they're there. Huh.

Anyway, I honestly think they have a point. Talking about the issue with Texan schools is not the same as "stereotyping" Texas.

[lord gibbon]

Yeah, Texas is powerful. It has massive economic, political, and educational (many textbook companies are based in Texas, and so are influenced by state policy) influence. And most of the impact has been negative. When a kid in, say California if arrested for being a Texan with a clock, then the comparison is valid.

[guizonde]

quick question about the flags. in the lower right-hand corner, there is this:
 

i plan on making a separate list for, bdsm and fetish, as well as furry terms and their flags.

my question is: why? bdsm practitioners already have their own symbols, including but not limited to the d-ring and the tryskellion, most fetishists prefer that their preferred kink not be known to others, and furries... well, they already have fursonas. whaddaya gonna do? put a beefcake fox on a flag? it would be (even more) ridiculous than furry orgies in their costumes, as parodied by csi: las vegas.

perhaps i'm missing the point. perhaps this is a waste of time.

maybe it's stupid, maybe it's maybelline (you can blame my sister for that one).

[Sigmaleph]

I tried again and they're there. Huh.

Anyway, I honestly think they have a point. Talking about the issue with Texan schools is not the same as "stereotyping" Texas.

No, but stereotyping Texans is still something that happens?

Like, I'm pretty sure I'm not the only person who has seen knuckle-dragging redneck stereotypes being brought up every time something like this happens in the South. Which is kind of fucked up.

I don't know what Stephen Amell was responding to, but at least taken as a bare statement, he was absolutely right. Stereotyping people over their race is bad. Stereotyping people over where they live is also bad, and some people do the latter in response to the former, pretending it's somehow not bullshit when they do it.

And bringing up whether Texans are oppressed or not seemed kind of a red herring. Two things can be bad even if one is worse than the other.

(EDIT: not that you said anything about that, I'm thinking of some of the tweets in that article)

[Even Then]

Fair enough. Still, the article came across to me as "wah people are talking about Texan systemic racism, stop being mean to Texas". Then again, I'm not American, so feel free to disregard me.

[Sigmaleph]

*shrug* I'm not an American either.

[Even Then]

Well, you're South American at least, so you're at least marginally closer to the issue XD

[Svata]

As an American (even a southerner, but not a Texan) it's annoying, but not more than that.

[Eiki-mun]

To be fair, though, Texans don't exactly do a lot to fight the stereotype. I mean, just look at their recent record in governors. Or how pretty much every Texan I've known (spoiler: two people) wears a cowboy hat and makes their drawl as obvious as possible.

[Sigmaleph]

To be fair, though, Texans don't exactly do a lot to fight the stereotype. I mean, just look at their recent record in governors. Or how pretty much every Texan I've known (spoiler: two people) wears a cowboy hat and makes their drawl as obvious as possible.

There's 27 million people in Texas. About ten percent of those voted for the current governor.

[Eiki-mun]

To be fair, though, Texans don't exactly do a lot to fight the stereotype. I mean, just look at their recent record in governors. Or how pretty much every Texan I've known (spoiler: two people) wears a cowboy hat and makes their drawl as obvious as possible.

There's 27 million people in Texas. About ten percent of those voted for the current governor.

Wait, really? That's it?