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  Speedy Gonzales and Pepe The French Spunk And Others Are Offensive!

  by minimus in

  1. jw
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  these cartoons have been labeled by the venerable new york times newspaper as offensive.

  they offend mexicans and pepe is a womanizing french skunk too handsy enabling the “rape culture “.

  this stuff is getting so ridiculous it isn’t funny.

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  Oh, a personal attack. What a surprise. But try to be cleverer please.

  Funny how attacking a cartoon character is a global tragedy but attacking actual people is fine. 🤦‍♂️
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  Speedy Gonzales and Pepe The French Spunk And Others Are Offensive!

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  these cartoons have been labeled by the venerable new york times newspaper as offensive.

  they offend mexicans and pepe is a womanizing french skunk too handsy enabling the “rape culture “.

  this stuff is getting so ridiculous it isn’t funny.

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  Jeffro

  minimus:

  Jeffro sees no real evidence of anything really happening here. It’s just “nonsense” .

  There you go manufacturing my position again. But I actually said that both sides are trivial divisive nonsense. Obviously this includes the assessment of harmless tropes as ‘offensive’. A cartoon from the 1950s, that you otherwise rarely think about, falling out of popularity in itself is indeed trivial. It is the divisive nonsense itself that is harmful.

  It is telling that a single paywalled opinion piece in one newspaper is trumpeted worldwide by the Murdoch press though.
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  Ban on Independent Meetings

  by lssjr in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  source - march 2021 announcements - - https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5085868283920384/2021-march-147-english-german-announcements-reminders.

  this is a sobering reminder of what happened some 40 years ago when raymond franz and others were literally kicked out from the jehovah's witnesses for having pre-arranged private spiritual discussions.lesson: paragraph 7 is another example of the i and t in dr. steven hassan's bite model of the 21st century cult - information and thought control at its best!!!!

  "my gosh, there must be a lot of independent meetings these days.

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  Jeffro

  Drearyweather:

  In our congregation, our elder used to conduct a weekly session to understand the Pure Worship (Ezekiel) book, every Saturday, which sometimes used to run to 3 hrs! Ones who didn't attend were even counseled.

  Material to help people understand the Pure Worship book is available here.
  
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  Ban on Independent Meetings

  by lssjr in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  source - march 2021 announcements - - https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5085868283920384/2021-march-147-english-german-announcements-reminders.

  this is a sobering reminder of what happened some 40 years ago when raymond franz and others were literally kicked out from the jehovah's witnesses for having pre-arranged private spiritual discussions.lesson: paragraph 7 is another example of the i and t in dr. steven hassan's bite model of the 21st century cult - information and thought control at its best!!!!

  "my gosh, there must be a lot of independent meetings these days.

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  Jeffro

  There a few things in that batch of announcements suggesting JWs are increasingly ignoring ‘theocratic direction’. A fairly predictable outcome of less direct coercion at ‘meetings’, hopefully a trend that will continue.
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  Speedy Gonzales and Pepe The French Spunk And Others Are Offensive!

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  these cartoons have been labeled by the venerable new york times newspaper as offensive.

  they offend mexicans and pepe is a womanizing french skunk too handsy enabling the “rape culture “.

  this stuff is getting so ridiculous it isn’t funny.

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  Jeffro

  It’s interesting that a lot Murdoch news is also generally paywalled but this trivial divisive nonsense is openly available.
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  Speedy Gonzales and Pepe The French Spunk And Others Are Offensive!

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  these cartoons have been labeled by the venerable new york times newspaper as offensive.

  they offend mexicans and pepe is a womanizing french skunk too handsy enabling the “rape culture “.

  this stuff is getting so ridiculous it isn’t funny.

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  Jeffro

  The original op-ed piece is behind a paywall and not worth my time or money. Though it seems this thread is based on responses in the Murdoch press rather than the original source. Both sides of the ‘debate’ are trivial divisive nonsense.
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  Try To Be Less White

  by minimus in

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  that’s what coca-cola is telling their employees.

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  this is ridiculous!.

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  Minimus:

  Maybe Jeffro works for Coca Cola?? Or has a lot of stock in it. He can be shown all types of sources and he still says the same thing. So be it. So if he has a stake in Coke it all makes sense. Or if he loves the taste of Coke he doesn’t want the whiteness thing to affect his enjoyment of the product.

  I suppose in your mind your own nutty speculation about me counts as ‘evidence’ 🤣 The only thing I have ‘stock’ in in relation to this trivial matter is a rational approach to assessing claims. This matter in itself is unimportant, but the propensity for people to not only just accept a story, but to belittle anyone who disagrees with unsubstantiated claims is a much more significant problem. It is not surprising that some people who once accepted JW claims are still falling victim to the same kind of faulty thinking.

  The only position I have taken in this fiasco is that no evidence has been provided that a specific LinkedIn Learning training course was mandatory. I haven’t said it definitely didn’t happen. I haven’t endorsed the training course in question, or ‘diversity’ training generally. I’ve been told that there’s pictures and screenshots proving it was mandatory but on requesting that evidence, it is not provided. The only sources are resyndicated versions of the same story, repeating the same original claims. And yet I’m the one who is attacked because I don’t just ‘listen and believe’. All hail the Murdoch press! 🤣
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  Try To Be Less White

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  that’s what coca-cola is telling their employees.

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  this is ridiculous!.

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  Jeffro

  Yep, downvote the presentation of evidence including links and screenshots if it doesn’t fit the narrative. 😂

  
  

  Sums up these guys’ level of respect for facts pretty well.
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  Try To Be Less White

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  that’s what coca-cola is telling their employees.

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  Jeffro

  Orwell’s books are also still on the Kindle store.

  
  

  What was previously removed were copies of the books provided by an unlicensed publisher.
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  Try To Be Less White

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  that’s what coca-cola is telling their employees.

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  this is ridiculous!.

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  Another screed of text without the claimed evidentiary screenshots. Instead you fall back to ‘well some employees said so’. Because disgruntled employees never make things up or exaggerate. 😂 (Also, eyewitness testimony is one of the weakest forms of evidence.) So... no actual evidence then. But you said there were pictures and screenshots proving it. Was that a lie?

  Oh no, they won’t ‘mention dr Seuss’ at a specific event. How dare they (though that decision actually predates Biden’s presidency). Totally sounds like the same thing as a ban. 🤦‍♂️ Read Across America indicated in 2017 that it planned to phase out mentioning Dr Seuss. https://www.slj.com/?detailStory=cat-hat-racist-read-across-america-shifts-away-dr-seuss-toward-diverse-books