Oh, ok. I haven't seen the footage. This changes things for me.This guy was right in his face. Not somewhere up in the stands lost in a sea of faces.
I'm happy for jerk-offs to get evicted when they cross the line.
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Oh, ok. I haven't seen the footage. This changes things for me.This guy was right in his face. Not somewhere up in the stands lost in a sea of faces.
I'm happy for jerk-offs to get evicted when they cross the line.
Mm, depends. More broadly - and shifting away from the original point, granted - it reminds me a lot of those who get *very* heated under the collar about "snowflakes".
Same here. God we can be insufferable at timesI'm left-wing myself btw. I just tend to criticise my own side quite a bit lately as I find certain aspects of the modern left frustrating. I disagree with the right on most major issues but some of their criticisms of the left are accurate.
As in, the phrase "people getting offended about people getting offended" attempts to suggest there is something inherently ironic or contradictory about complaining about excessive offense-taking. To me the supposed irony being alluded to by the phrase is quite obviously non-existent. It's just glib wordplay masquerading as a serious point.
I assume you disagree so I guess we'll just have to agree to differ there.
No, no, I was ironically questioning whether your post (no.44) was itself an example of pseudo-irony.
Anyway, there's nothing pseudo about the irony on display in this thread. Mainly, posters are offended at not being able to cause others offence, and alternatively, offended that the AFL is concerned with people being offended. The irony gets thicker with the resultant victim narrative about the Left taking away 'free speech' (which is then discussed freely on the internet, or freely anywhere one likes really.)
Amazing that people continue to trot this out. 65% of Australia's media is owned by News Corp., which is decidedly right wing and campaigns heavily for against the Left. Much the the same holds in the UK. Fox news is the most watched network in the US.
Reality doesn't confer with your opinion.
. If you think there isn't a culture of excessive offense-taking on the left, then fine
Again, this is all just inane wordplay used to create a pointless logical paradox. It's not a valid argument.
Channel 7, Channel 9 and Channel 10 are the major media outlets in Australia.
None are owned by News Corp.
I am the same actually. I also disagree on the right on many, probably most things and until recently have been in a union my whole working life.Absolutely, there's obsessively over-the-top anti-SJWs too. And they can be awful as well. Don't think that makes any difference to my overall contention though.
I'm left-wing myself btw. I just tend to criticise my own side quite a bit lately as I find certain aspects of the modern left frustrating. I disagree with the right on most major issues but some of their criticisms of the left are accurate.
True. Though I was referring to print media and their connected online platforms that the majority of Australians use. I should have been clearer about that. Still, commercial television networks aren't without their own biases.
Channel 7 in particular are very right wing.
Bawls.It doesn’t get much more extreme left wing than the ABC/SBS in terms of bias
The right holds political power but the left has power over culture and the media. It's a divide you see across a lot of the Western world.