http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/09/0...fire-after-take-knee-billboard-backfires.html A jewelry store in Massachusetts has come under fire after their billboard showing a man proposing to a woman on the football field was called racist. The billboard advertising Garieri Jewelers in Sturbridge, Mass., reads: “If you’re going to take a knee this season, please have a ring in your hand!” He said the reactions to the billboard were at first positive until one driver, traveling down Route 20, took a picture of it and posted it on Facebook, calling it racist. "Someone saw it, pulled in off Route 20 and took a picture of it and then went off about how racist it is," Garieri told Boston 25 News. "Then they started attacking us, they wanted to come in and vomit on the [jewelry] cases, they were going to urinate on our sidewalks." Comments flooded into social media including one that said Garieri’s daughter, Alexandria, who manages the store, should kill herself. ————————— Everyday new levels of insanity from the left. Everything is racist. Everything triggers them. What a sad spineless bunch.
A person call him racist after the board being up a good while. False flag trolling from the alt-right just a likely. It is a jokey funny ad, nobody would take offense unless contriving to. That leaves nutters/pure trolls and alt-right weaponised autistics like Poindexter. How's your Qanon getting on?
Says the guy who quotes Infowars. The reality is that colleges are still very diverse places where plenty of robust arguments go on. Some of the air is getting sucked out of the room by the a descent into idiocy in the US. Outliers are takes as mainstream and this does not reflect reality. Alex Jones ballwashing Scataphagos types being a perfect case in point of how the US fringe is taken too seriously. Why does Scat believe in looney conspiracy theories? Because like all of these guys he has little sense of control of his life. When a Scat is late he blames the alarm clock for not waking him, he blames the slower than expected traffic on other people's bad driving. Everything us about what somebody else, the "they", have done to him. A person who has control in their life just thinks, ok hit snooze once too often. Damn I forgot about the road works or just accept increasing cars, I will have to leave earlier in future. Why listen to mental cripples?
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/ne...g/news-story/67fc216175551872c8f123061e3c07cd technology and good intentions undermine mental health of young Protesters gather in California to disrupt conservative provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos. Protesters gather in California to disrupt conservative provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos. By CLAIRE LEHMANN 12:00AM SEPTEMBER 8, 201820 Facebook Twitter Email When I met professor of psychology Jonathan Haidt in June last year, he spoke about his latest book project in tones of quiet despair. He was worried about the campus unrest that had been making headlines around the US, but he was also concerned that efforts to try and stem the problem were just as likely to make it worse. Co-authored with Greg Lukianoff — a civil liberties lawyer who represents students and academics who have had their free speech curtailed in the US — The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting a Generation Up for Failure has been released in the US and Britain this week to an overwhelmingly positive reception. Yet the information that the book presents is not positive at all: it is alarming. It documents a trend of deteriorating mental health in young American adults — attributed to technology, helicopter parenting and a range of misguided ideas that have permeated the American education system as well as the broader culture. The bizarre behaviours seen on college campuses such as the “no-platforming” of speakers and demands for safe spaces and trigger warnings are explained through the lens of a decline in psychological resilience. For Australians, the book should serve as a cautionary tale. While there are protective factors that prevent us from having the same problems as the US, there are also parallels. This week at La Trobe University, Bettina Arndt was prevented from taking questions about the apparent “rape crisis” at Australian universities when students outside her lecture theatre banged loudly on doors and set off the fire alarm. Last month the University of Western Australia cancelled a talk by a critic of transgender activism, Quentin Van Meter, because of “safety concerns”. Sex therapist, journalist and clinical psychologist Bettina Arndt is confronted by protesters from the Victorian Socialists at La Trobe University before her talk on campus rape culture. Picture: David Geraghty Sex therapist, journalist and clinical psychologist Bettina Arndt is confronted by protesters from the Victorian Socialists at La Trobe University before her talk on campus rape culture. Picture: David Geraghty Lukianoff and Haidt identify what they call they call the “three great untruths”: fragility — what doesn’t kill you makes you weaker; emotional reasoning — always trust your feelings; and us versus them — life is a battle between good people and evil people. They explain: “While many propositions are untrue, in order to be classified as a Great Untruth, an idea must meet three criteria: it contradicts ancient wisdom, it contradicts modern psychological research on wellbeing, and it harms the individuals and communities who embrace it.” They cite the shocking statistics to undergird their claim that mental health in teenagers and young adults in the US is in decline. After 2007 (the year smartphones became ubiquitous), rates of anxiety and depression increased sharply, while rates of suicide doubled in boys and tripled in girls. (Haidt told me earnestly: don’t let your daughter use Instagram.) Infantilising parenting styles also come under fire. For some watchers of campus culture, the explanation that the demand for trigger warnings, safe spaces and disinvitations is driven by psychological problems is incomplete. Heather Mac Donald, a scholar at the Manhattan Institute, who was escorted from theClaremont McKenna College in California by police last year because of a threatening student protest, argues that these behaviours arise primarily from ideology and a hunger for power. Other scholars such as Christina Hoff Sommers have been sounding the alarm about illiberal ideas at universities for decades. John McWhorter of Columbia University has made the argument that anti-racism is becoming the new American religion. Yet these explanations are not mutually exclusive. Not all young people are the same. Some will naturally be followers, while others will lead. It is perfectly reasonable, then, to apply Lukianoff and Haidt’s analysis to the followers of these new illiberal movements while applying Mac Donald’s insights to its instigators. When a high proportion of young people are depressed and anxious, it makes it even more likely that megalomaniacal leaders will be able to manipulate them. Only time can decide which explanation is most penetrating. In the meantime, Lukianoff and Haidt’s book is a lesson in tactical communication. As they wrap their defence of Enlightenment values in the language of compassion, progressives will find it much harder to ignore. It will also be much easier for bleeding hearts to digest its more challenging propositions: that the world is not made up of battles between those who are on the right side of history and those who aren’t, and that privileging emotion over reason can, in fact, harm. Claire Lehmann is the founding editor of Quillette. 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Jonathan Haidt is a sharp guy, in the Daniel Kahneman school on many things. His work on the politics of disgust should be widely read. I'm afriad however the US far-right somehow has a delusion about using reason. What I see is people who make their minds up using pure emotion and then seek to justify this. The looneys on the far left are not much to sing and dance about in this regard either. Scientists Slowly Reintroducing Small Group Of Normal, Well-Adjusted Humans Into Society 3/25/16 9:22am SEE MORE: Science & Technology A member of the endangered subtype of human, who possesses the unusual abilities to calmly reflect on situations and view the world from others’ perspectives, is reintroduced into the population. ITHACA, NY—In an ambitious attempt to revive a population long considered to be on the brink of extinction, scientists announced Friday they have slowly begun to reintroduce normal, well-adjusted human beings back into society. According to officials at Cornell University, where for the past 18 years conservation researchers have operated an enclosed sanctuary for humans who are levelheaded and make it a habit to think before they speak, the endangered group is being cautiously reintegrated into select locations nationwide in hopes that they can reestablish permanent communities and one day thrive again. “We’ve worked for years to stabilize our society’s dwindling population of sane, generally reasonable people, and within the safe confines of our refuge we’ve finally seen their numbers start to bounce back a little,” said Josh Adelson, head of the Cornell research team, which moved the remaining members of the group into a protected habitat in 1998 to keep them from dying off completely. “Now, we can very gradually begin to release this rare breed of rational humans back into the general public. With luck, they can survive and prosper.” “Even if this small group of humans able to deal with their negative emotions in a nondestructive manner manages to flourish, there’s still no telling whether the next generation will be able to survive.” “Our hope is that within a century or so, the traits for making sound long-term decisions and being able to tolerate people different from oneself will propagate and begin to reemerge within the species at large,” he continued. Prior to the conservation efforts, it is believed that even-tempered people with sound judgment and the ability to put the needs of others before themselves had dwindled to less than 150 within the country’s borders, and had gone completely extinct in the nation’s businesses and civic institutions. Experts widely agree that without isolation, protection, and captive-breeding programs, the remaining thoughtful, foresighted individuals would have been totally wiped out. While admitting that the project’s reintroduction phase would be complex and its success far from assured, Adelson stressed that such measures were nevertheless absolutely necessary if responsible and emotionally mature humans able to see beyond the immediate gratification of their basest desires were ever to reestablish a foothold in society. “Obviously, we have taken great precautions before releasing these individuals into an environment where demonstrations of good sense, open-mindedness, and basic human empathy are perceived as signs of weakness and quickly preyed upon,” said Adelson, who noted that to ease the transition during their first month acclimating to society, the endangered population would be kept away from television, the internet, advertisements, and all other forms of media. “For example, we’ve trained them for the inevitable encounters they will face with large groups of people incapable of separating emotions from arguments.” “It hasn’t been easy,” Adelson continued. “Last month, members of our trial group were confronted by several aggressive and predatory individuals, and another was nearly torn apart by angry hordes on social media within just 48 hours of being reintroduced into a metropolitan area, forcing us to bring them back to our refuge immediately.” Though researchers have expressed cautious optimism for the reintroduction program, many leading scientists have noted that the number of areas in the U.S. capable of sustaining well-adjusted humans has drastically decreased. According to experts, there is almost no chance the population will ever thrive again anywhere in the state of Florida.
This particular story is goofy, but do you ever wonder why most of the educational institutions with the smartest people in the world lean left.....
I've always enjoyed this scene. My father was a chartered engineer and my mother an artist. Instead of a smooth blend of the two I have both running in parallel. I think this how most are, juggling traits to some degree. The difference between a psychopath and a sociopath they say is a psychopath is born that way, a sociopath is made through experience. There is a born and trained equivalent in both extremes. Always a good scene to consider how the sides behave.
You are such a microbrain Another one of the stupid poor here like Optionspro007. Anyone who writes "LOL" with a joke is a cunt. It is either obviously funny or it is not, we know you find it funny, you posted it.