Nutty News Stories...

[MikeMcMann]

Don't pick up a news paper very often any more but sitting on the airplane now I am going through one. Here are just 3 articles from todays National Post.

I can't decide which one is he nuttiest. Can you?

Barbara Kay: Delaware students can now choose their own race. This should end well

Are they really going there? Yes, they apparently are. Too late for Rachel Dolezal, alas. Dolezal identifies as 'transracial' a belief that would have been affirmed if she were a Delaware student today.

Rachel Dolezal, a former leader of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) in the United States, has white parents but identifies as being transracial. She is seen on the set of NBC's Today show on June 16,

The state of Delaware is poised to adopt what is known as “Regulation 225.” Approved both by the Delaware State Education Association and Gov. John Carney, Regulation 225 would safeguard children’s “protected characteristics,” such as gender, age, race, sexual orientation and gender identity. Section 7.4(1) of 225’s Prohibition of Discrimination Code states, “All students enrolled in a Delaware public school may self-identify gender or race, which is maintained in the school.”

Gender isn’t news. But race? Are they really going there? Yes, they apparently are....

Canadian airlines’ rules on comfort animals range from dogs to miniature horses
Miniature horses, monkeys and pigs can legally fly as emotional support animals on at least one Canadian airline...
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Unusual animal encounters at the airport have been making headlines in recent weeks.

United Airlines turned away a passenger who tried to board a flight with an emotional support peacock last month, and a Florida woman claimed last week that an airline employee told her to flush her dwarf hamster down a toilet after refusing to let the pet on the plane...

Vancouver man banned from club for 'mansplaining' denied human rights hearing

The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal won't reconsider its refusal to hear a Vancouver man's complaint that his dance club banned him for being "creepy'' and discriminated against him on the basis of age, sex and race.

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Gichuru claimed new evidence from a club member's March 2017 Facebook post supported his request for reconsideration because he said it revealed the swing club refuses to consider harassment complaints raised by men and won't listen to "a man's side of the story.''

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Gichuru alleges 'blatant stereotyping'
Gichuru initially complained that he was accused of "mansplaining,'' or explaining something in a condescending way, and was unfriended on Facebook by a club member after posting an opinion about United States politics, but the exchange degenerated to complaints he had harassed a female club member.



After those details surfaced, Gichuru was banned from volunteering or attending swing society events for the rest of that year,
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(this article (a variant), was in the National Post but I could not find it online so I posted this CBC one instead)

 

[KILL KILL]

Well that's dumb. Doubt it passes.

 

[Rational Poster]

 

[tonni]

"The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal won't reconsider its refusal to hear a Vancouver man's complaint that his dance club banned him for being "creepy'' and discriminated against him on the basis of age, sex and race."


Stop creepshaming 2K18

 

[FrontNakedChoke]

Welcome to 2018

 

[BudKing8806]

Hahaha! Fuck, this is funny but also quite sad.

 

[redwire]

I find it wonderful that we as a society have solved all the important issues that have plagued this world and we can now sit around discussing fringe social issues.

There was a time when these would have all been in the point and laugh "News of the Weird". Now it seems like they're mainstream and 'important'.

 

[Gregolian]

I... I have no words.

 

[nac386]

Race has always been self-reported. I'm not sure why this seems like news to anybody. When you entered school, did they test your DNA? No, odds are you just checked off a box. You probably never thought twice about it unless you were bi-racial and did not feel like the boxes accurately applied to you at the time.

 

[MikeMcMann]

Race has always been self-reported. I'm not sure why this seems like news to anybody. When you entered school, did they test your DNA? No, odds are you just checked off a box. You probably never thought twice about it unless you were bi-racial and did not feel like the boxes accurately applied to you at the time.

I think you missed the defining difference here.

While race has been self reported that has been done on the basis of the person actually being of that race and not just identifying with that race.

See the example of the white women who identified with being a black lady above and how just a few years ago she was outed and shamed for having no black ethnicity in her family line. Today that woman would be celebrated as brave.

 

[tonni]

lol @ transracial. I mean, transgender was bad enough and a mockery but this is probably peak transactivism.

 

[tonni]

Today that woman would be celebrated as brave.

That's taking it a bit far. I haven't seen any sign of transracial being acceptable let alone celebrated, apart from the link you just showed now... Maybe I've been out of the loop, but I'm damn sure this is not going to sit well with POC.

 

[MikeMcMann]

That's taking it a bit far. I haven't seen any sign of transracial being acceptable let alone celebrated, apart from the link you just showed now... Maybe I've been out of the loop, but I'm damn sure this is not going to sit well with POC.

isn't there a massive hypocrisy if the same people who supported the transgender idea don't support the transracial one?

 

[nac386]

I think you missed the defining difference here.

While race has been self reported that has been done on the basis of the person actually being of that race and not just identifying with that race.

See the example of the white women who identified with being a black lady above and how just a few years ago she was outed and shamed for having no black ethnicity in her family line. Today that woman would be celebrated as brave.

Of course people typically self-report their actual race. They still do typically self-report their actual race.

But I'm saying that it has never been regulated. People have always just self-reported whatever they want without any confirmation from a credible source. That is the same way that it has always been.

I guess you are making the argument that people may start reporting that they are a different race more often now? That would be a strange thing to do, but it's not like we've ever really prevented that in the past.

 

[tonni]

isn't there a massive hypocrisy if the same people who supported the transgender idea don't support the transracial one?

I wouldn't say hypocrisy, more a very real mental and logical conflict. But yeah, if you accept that you can identify on the other race based on feelings, it leads to people identifying as the other race based on feelings.

In both cases, the person "transitioning" has no way of knowing how it feels to be the other sex or a different ethnicity.

 

[tonni]

Of course people typically self-report their actual race. They still do typically self-report their actual race.

But I'm saying that it has never been regulated. People have always just self-reported whatever they want without any confirmation from a credible source. That is the same way that it has always been.

I guess you are making the argument that people may start reporting that they are a different race more often now? That would be a strange thing to do, but it's not like we've ever really prevented that in the past.

True, you can put down any race you'd like, but the fact that it's been promoted/accepted is kind of the issue. The affirmation of the logic behind transracialism is very much unneeded anywhere.

 

[nac386]

So I can declare myself to be black. Time for some food stamps, preferential hiring, and the ability to let all white devils know they are racist while I sagged my pants below my knees and cat call white bitches from my 86’ Chevy with 26”s on it.

Well, this is a post full of racial stereotypes. It's funny that people who complain the most about being called racist, are usually actually racist.

 

[nac386]

True, you can put down any race you'd like, but the fact that it's been promoted/accepted is kind of the issue. The affirmation of the logic behind transracialism is very much unneeded anywhere.

Obviously trans-racialism is a ridiculous concept. If you enjoy another culture and feel the desire to be a part of it, then go be a part of it and show you're appreciation for it. You don't have to claim to actually be a different race to accomplish that, what an absurd notion. But it has generally been treated as an absurd idea, I've never heard anybody promote being trans-racial. The only popular case involved a woman who was thoroughly shamed for it.

 

[tonni]

Obviously trans-racialism is a ridiculous concept. But it has generally been treated as such, I've never heard anybody promote being trans-racial. The only popular case involved a woman who was thoroughly shamed for it.

That's how I experienced it also.

 

[Staph infection]

Well, this is a post full of racial stereotypes. It's funny that people who complain the most about being called racist, are usually actually racist.

I have never complained of being called racist so don’t just assume things. The post was meant to be a smart assed post about stereotypes. Sorry if it hurt you maybe you want to take Twitter or other social media about how a post on a karate four
Was hurtful and racist.