“It’s ok to be white” 4chan campaign.

[Heraclius]

Identity politics is pretty hot on the West Coast. I take it Florida is different?

I go to a university in Chicago and this is the general sense I’ve gathered from conversations. The Midwest has always been the Midwest and the people from there are pretty apathetic towards racial issues for several varying reasons.

The West Coasters are extremely sensitive to anything that might stray towards being offensive to groups of people and you always had to self-police your language around them.

The interesting thing is that the East Coast, whether NJ, CT, MD, or NC, tended to enjoy more offensive humor and you could often get a good sense of whether someone was really from the area if they were willing to laugh at a joke that might get you in trouble with other groups. The best example might be a retarded or autistic joke, I think.

I imagine if these posters were seen around my campus, you’d get eyerolls and the occasional person being upset but nothing that would be considered that big of a deal. We got to deal with the city’s socialist party trying to convert students so political screeching just ends up becoming white noise. Most people don’t identify themselves with their color and those that do, whether left or right, tend to be ostracized by those who just want to have a good time. Even the politically active focus more on economic-based issues and see race as more of a red herring rather than the actual issue in society.

[The Conservative]

Did you really get trained on "privilege" at work? SMH.

How is the MSM covering this nonsense? I really haven't been watching any cable news since election night.

"Stay tuned, white people. Coming up next, we're going to tell you why you suck!"

In many ways, yes the Corporate America is starting to become where it's bad to be white and male. If you are female and of color, you have the right to snitch on your white (especially male) counterparts if they are doing something you don't like or "think" is inappropriate.

Not doing something inappropriate, think... and that is a very dangerous slippery slope to stand upon.

Don't work for large corporations.

I don't. I work for a start-up company, as a Director of Infrastructure/IT.

[Viktorthepirate]

In many ways, yes the Corporate America is starting to become where it's bad to be white and male. If you are female and of color, you have the right to snitch on your white (especially male) counterparts if they are doing something you don't like or "think" is inappropriate.

Not doing something inappropriate, think... and that is a very dangerous slippery slope to stand upon.

Don't work for large corporations.

I don't. I work for a start-up company, as a Director of Infrastructure/IT.

Nice, congrats man.

I hope it works out.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Identity politics is pretty hot on the West Coast. I take it Florida is different?

I go to a university in Chicago and this is the general sense I’ve gathered from conversations. The Midwest has always been the Midwest and the people from there are pretty apathetic towards racial issues for several varying reasons.

The West Coasters are extremely sensitive to anything that might stray towards being offensive to groups of people and you always had to self-police your language around them.

The interesting thing is that the East Coast, whether NJ, CT, MD, or NC, tended to enjoy more offensive humor and you could often get a good sense of whether someone was really from the area if they were willing to laugh at a joke that might get you in trouble with other groups. The best example might be a retarded or autistic joke, I think.

I imagine if these posters were seen around my campus, you’d get eyerolls and the occasional person being upset but nothing that would be considered that big of a deal. We got to deal with the city’s socialist party trying to convert students so political screeching just ends up becoming white noise. Most people don’t identify themselves with their color and those that do, whether left or right, tend to be ostracized by those who just want to have a good time. Even the politically active focus more on economic-based issues and see race as more of a red herring rather than the actual issue in society.

Then there is still hope.

[Speaker to Animals]

Chicago wasn't like that when I was in college. Depends on the campus, though. UIC is fucking ridiculous. University of Chicago doesn't care about PC one bit. Everybody else is in between those two extremes. You have some of the smaller liberal arts colleges in Chicago now churning out SJWs. It's their main source of revenue.

I was there during the Finkelstein affair. I thought it was ridiculous back then. But then I watched a bunch of black alumni physically assault a guest speaker last year for criticizing identity politics and realized it's a lost cause.

Universities are not great places for students any longer in general. For most people they are a massive waste of money as it is.

[Heraclius]

Chicago wasn't like that when I was in college. Depends on the campus, though. UIC is fucking ridiculous. University of Chicago doesn't care about PC one bit. Everybody else is in between those two extremes. You have some of the smaller liberal arts colleges in Chicago now churning out SJWs. It's their main source of revenue.

I was there during the Finkelstein affair. I thought it was ridiculous back then. But then I watched a bunch of black alumni physically assault a guest speaker last year for criticizing identity politics and realized it's a lost cause.

Universities are not great places for students any longer in general. For most people they are a massive waste of money as it is.

Unfortunately my post got deleted, but the general point of it was that I wouldn’t qualify UChicago as “not caring about PC one bit.” It’s more of the sense that people don’t care for fallacious or deranged reasoning from either side. Whether it’s PC people and their boogeyman in society or the opposite “brown people” boogeyman. People tend to stray from the extreme PC and anti PC because they’re just opposing sides of the same coin.

Also I would disagree with your assessment of universities, I find the quality of discussion at mine to be something to cherish.

[Fife]

[SuburbanFarmer]

Not sure whether lawl or facepalm...

[apeman]

I don't think it's that many. I think most people don't pay attention to this nonsense.

What about your anarcho-marxist offspring? He's gotta be in on the white-people-bad train.

[K@th]

What about your anarcho-marxist offspring? He's gotta be in on the white-people-bad train.

That was so last year. He voted for Trump. I can't keep his views straight. He calls himself a fascist, but when he starts to talk policy, it sounds socialist. He hates SJWs and gets along with everybody. (Except me and Nerd.)

Yesterday, he told us that since Youtube has a monopoly, the government should force them to publish any content users want to put out there. I'm not even sure how to classify that sort of opinion.

Let's not get into the fact that YouTube isn't a monopoly.... he's an Aspie. Think a younger version of TC. Crazy ideas, all the time.