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@tim said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
@frank said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
Our very own Massey university.
https://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/expertise/profile.cfm?stref=402040
Institute of Education
Often the worst part of any university.
Correct if me if I am wrong but Massey has been falling (and gutting themselves) for some time. I imagine their land holdings in Palmie are pretty good, and their land in Albany is a goldmine (waiting for it to be a transport hub? Not sure what they are doing there). Own a lot of land but seem clueless on good use of their assets (or staff, although I imagine agriculture could still be doing ok).
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@williethewaiter said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
this weeks big corp update. Usual restructure bollicks going on.
co-worker spoken too by manager. They'd made someone in their team feel uncomfortable - because they asked that person "are you ok?"
I have zero idea of the mindset required to complain to your manager about those 3 words.
I could imagine it said in a certain way to imply someone isn't normal (add air quotes) but out of context it sounds a bit weird.
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@victor-meldrew said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
I’m going to keep on keeping on, and if anyone questions me I’ll explain to them that I have lapses of clarity due to too many concussions
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@williethewaiter fuck all those restructures, we deal with them as a 'customer' of your company and seriously they have overloaded the staff something stupid, given roles to people jot properly trained or incompetents who have been there for years and this causes us headaches and having to fix errors they make.
Then there is the outsourcing too 🙄
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@taniwharugby said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
@williethewaiter fuck all those restructures, we deal with them as a 'customer' of your company and seriously they have overloaded the staff something stupid, given roles to people jot properly trained or incompetents who have been there for years and this causes us headaches and having to fix errors they make.
Then there is the outsourcing too 🙄
But are they diverse?
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This is a real course at Cornell University - and is one of the weirdest things I've ever read.
Featured Course - Black Holes: Race and the Cosmos
Conventional wisdom would have it that the “black” in black holes has nothing to do with race. Surely there can be no connection between the cosmos and the idea of racial blackness. Can there? Contemporary Black Studies theorists, artists, fiction writers implicitly and explicitly posit just such a connection. Theorists use astronomy concepts like “black holes” and “event horizons” to interpret the history of race in creative ways, while artists and musicians conjure blackness through cosmological themes and images. Co-taught by professors in Comparative Literature and Astronomy, this course will introduce students to the fundamentals of astronomy concepts through readings in Black Studies. We will experiment with what it means to engage with astrophysics concepts both inside and outside of the disciplinary framework of astronomy—for example, in genres like film, afrofuturist science fiction, and critical theory. Do astronomy concepts lose coherence outside of their scientific contexts, or do they acquire a different kind of sense? Why are humanities scholars everlastingly drawn toward the stars? In particular, what do artists and theoreticians of color gain from turning identity politics toward cosmological reflection? Texts will include works by theorists like Michelle Wright and Denise Ferreira da Silva, authors like Octavia Butler and Dionne Brand, and others. Astronomy concepts will include the electromagnetic spectrum, stellar evolution, and general relativity.
https://complit.cornell.edu/featured-course---black-holes-race-and-cosmos
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@sparky said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
The crazy PC Brigade (in Scotland again) want to take on The Tiger Who Came For Tea. My money is on the tiger.
Righto, so seeing as this book was read to me multiple times as a youngster I’m going to become a rapist.
Gotcha.
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@sparky said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
The crazy PC Brigade (in Scotland again) want to take on The Tiger Who Came For Tea. My money is on the tiger.
I have zero tolerance for her shit.
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Brilliant!
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She did a tremendous job of calling them Nazis without calling them Nazis
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@mikethesnow Someone once asked Judith Kerr if her book was a metaphor for the Nazis or for adultery.
"No, it's about a hungry tiger who came to tea."
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@antipodean What they hate about The Tiger Who Came To Tea is that it's fun, it's laugh.
What Puritanism, Islamism and Woke all have in common is that they can't stand other people having fun.
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@canefan said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
FFS
the All Pakehas? Doesn't have that ring.
What about the Whitey Tighties?
F off with the damn PC Brigade