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Beer name deemed offensive
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Torontoblue
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Such a cop out by Earl’s. This brand has been in production for 25 years, and yet it's only now deemed "offensive"? Give me a break! PC gone absolutely, stark raving F*****g mad!!!!!
Think I’ll start a suit against Fat Head brewing in Pittsburgh, seeing as I have an unfeasibly large fat head, and feel sad when people point and tell me so
Think I’ll start a suit against Fat Head brewing in Pittsburgh, seeing as I have an unfeasibly large fat head, and feel sad when people point and tell me so
Well yeah. I think they should go to the next level & re-name the beer LesBino Bionic Rhino. To accord equal cultural relevance to lesbian albino women (and people that may be cybernetically enhanced.)Torontoblue wrote:Give me a break! PC gone absolutely, stark raving F*****g mad!!!!!
That's pushing good taste of course. But really... doesn't equality in a culture recognize, include & celebrate everyone - rather than exclude mention of 'special' groups?
It's hard to celebrate diversity when we're walking on eggshells. I guess no party yet for humanity.
In Beerum Veritas
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Ale's What Cures Ya
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This is the kind of hollow, politically correct victory fringe leftists revel in.
It doesn't matter that the corporate banking system is robbing us blind at every turn, our governments are inching us closer and closer to "1984"-style surveillance, our economy is an artificial construct propped up by Wall and Bay Street thugs easily blown out with a few clicks of a mouse, or the fact that "free trade" agreements are gutting access to respectable work, because hot damn they got the name of a beer changed.
Most people that hide behind the shield of political correctness are simply trying to hide the fact they don't have a real opinion.
It doesn't matter that the corporate banking system is robbing us blind at every turn, our governments are inching us closer and closer to "1984"-style surveillance, our economy is an artificial construct propped up by Wall and Bay Street thugs easily blown out with a few clicks of a mouse, or the fact that "free trade" agreements are gutting access to respectable work, because hot damn they got the name of a beer changed.
Most people that hide behind the shield of political correctness are simply trying to hide the fact they don't have a real opinion.
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JeffPorter
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Sorry, but you're generalizing and oversimplifying. People from all sides of the spectrum are shaking their heads at this.Ale's What Cures Ya wrote:This is the kind of hollow, politically correct victory fringe leftists revel in.
"What can you say about Pabst Blue Ribbon that Dennis Hopper hasn’t screamed in the middle of an ether binge?" - Jordan St. John
(EDITED IN THE NAME OF GOOD TASTE. THANK YOU DIRTBAG MCQUAIG FOR MAKING ME A FINE GENTLEMAN) I'll just say I disagree.Ale's What Cures Ya wrote:This is the kind of hollow, politically correct victory fringe leftists revel in.
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"A good light beer is one that doesn't taste like piss!" - Frank d'Angelo
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Ale's What Cures Ya
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No doubt people on both sides of the spectrum are shaking their heads on this, because there are reasonable people on both sides of the spectrum.JeffPorter wrote:Sorry, but you're generalizing and oversimplifying. People from all sides of the spectrum are shaking their heads at this.Ale's What Cures Ya wrote:This is the kind of hollow, politically correct victory fringe leftists revel in.
But the fringe left clowns that get up in arms over pointless BS like this certainly don't qualify as reasonable.
Their right wing fringe equivalents would be the yahoos bothered by "happy holidays" over "merry Christmas".
sprague: cheers to you too.
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mintjellie
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Everyone knows the real leftist fringe would wish you seasons greetings.Belgian wrote:But "holy days" also implies a devine entity, which is still a suppressive idea to those who like to make a stink over things.Ale's What Cures Ya wrote:Their right wing fringe equivalents would be the yahoos bothered by "happy holidays" over "merry Christmas".
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Ale's What Cures Ya
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Fair enough. I'm not up to date on the "correct" way to greet someone during the month of December.Belgian wrote:But "holy days" also implies a divine entity, which is still a suppressive idea to those who like to make a stink.Ale's What Cures Ya wrote:Their right wing fringe equivalents would be the yahoos bothered by "happy holidays" over "merry Christmas".
I usually go the opposite of what I think the person would like to hear. So a person open to "merry christmas" gets a "happy holidays" from me and vice versa.
I lean somewhat left, and I think it's Political Correctness gone too far. Ditto the whole Rhino controversy. People seem to go out of their ways to get offended by things. I'm just waiting for some old muskoka-area hipster to get pissed off over the Mad Tom name.
AWCY, I apologize - rough day at the bargaining table.
AWCY, I apologize - rough day at the bargaining table.
"A good light beer is one that doesn't taste like piss!" - Frank d'Angelo
An albino is an organism without melanin.
This beer referred to a rhino, not a human. I guess it was nice of Earls to drop it, given that:
But I still don't see how a HUMAN rights tribunal deemed the name offensive.
I'm not saying that albino people haven't endured ridicule, it's just that this beer is not related!
Honestly, they should change the name to "Black Rhino". I seriously doubt any black people would be offended, or any human rights tribunal would have anything to say.
This beer referred to a rhino, not a human. I guess it was nice of Earls to drop it, given that:
many persons with albinism are genuinely offended and feel that their dignity is negatively impacted by the use of the word ‘albino’ in our marketing.
But I still don't see how a HUMAN rights tribunal deemed the name offensive.
I'm not saying that albino people haven't endured ridicule, it's just that this beer is not related!
Honestly, they should change the name to "Black Rhino". I seriously doubt any black people would be offended, or any human rights tribunal would have anything to say.
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icemachine
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