Gettleman the Harriet Tubman of GMs?

[CatofWar]

Ah ha, hush that fuss

Everybody move to the back of the bus

[MCC]

This thread delivered. 

[KendrickPanther]

I remember back when Vampires road dirt bikes and listened to 80's hair bands. You know, back when vampires kicked ass.

Now they hit the sun and they twinkle? What the fug is wrong with the world?

 

It's called PROGRESS.

[KendrickPanther]

  1776+500 = 2014

 

I think the problem is that you need to have a 3rd grade level understanding of both History AND Math.  That's a tall order around here.

 

Maybe he meant dog years. We need to send this to MIT

[tiger7_88]

  1776+500 = 2014

 

I think the problem is that you need to have a 3rd grade level understanding of both History AND Math.  That's a tall order around here.

 

 

Common Core Math FTW!!!

[xerxes]

Okay I personally didn't find the OP offensive because I've read a bunch of SCP threads that are pretty hilarious, and I took in the good natured fun that it was intended, but I'm going to take an attempt to explain why people may have been offended since I try to understand the perspective of other people. 

 

Comparing David Gettleman to Harriet Tubman and by extension being in the CFL to slavery is insensitive because it makes light of the atrocity of slavery. This is in the context of a society that increasingly seeks to marginalize the role of slavery in our history and the lasting ramifications today. Recently the Supreme Court ruled against affirmative action basically saying it was no longer needed despite a continued disparity in both college access and success, which is a year after the Court struck down key provisions in the voting rights act (in fairness to the Court on that one, Congress should really step up and update the law). 

 

Increasingly racism is scene as a "thing of the past" despite the clear difference in outcomes for people of color and the white plurality. People of color have higher rates of poverty, higher rates of incarceration, longer jail sentences for the same crimes, lower graduation rates, etc. And no having a black President does not magically make all of this better. In fact, hate groups have increased in membership significantly since Obama took office. The refusal to take collective action to solve these pervasive problems would be bad enough if it weren't also in the context of a culture that has never really dealt with the legacy of slavery. 

 

In Germany, every one is taught how the German people are to blame for the Holocaust. They take responsibility for their terrible crime. Heck they even removed the first stanza from their national anthem because it was considered too jingoistic. In the South, we still have a confederate flag flying in front of the state house in South Carolina, and we make up a white washed (wording intended) version of history where the Civil War was about "state's rights" when in fact the state's right narrative was only introduced AFTER the Civil War was fought, and pretty much everyone at the time agreed it was about slavery. 

 

So yeah, if I had to deal with all that bullshit and some glib comments on the internet about how I need to "lighten up" (which is pretty ironic directed at a black person), I'd be pretty "sensitive" too. 

 

[PandaPancake]

Maybe he meant dog years. We need to send this to MIT

Don't send it to an engineer we'll just ask, what do you want the answer to be?

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[MV%doe]

[IGSaint]

Okay I personally didn't find the OP offensive because I've read a bunch of SCP threads that are pretty hilarious, and I took in the good natured fun that it was intended, but I'm going to take an attempt to explain why people may have been offended since I try to understand the perspective of other people. 

 

Comparing David Gettleman to Harriet Tubman and by extension being in the CFL to slavery is insensitive because it makes light of the atrocity of slavery. This is in the context of a society that increasingly seeks to marginalize the role of slavery in our history and the lasting ramifications today. Recently the Supreme Court ruled against affirmative action basically saying it was no longer needed despite a continued disparity in both college access and success, which is a year after the Court struck down key provisions in the voting rights act (in fairness to the Court on that one, Congress should really step up and update the law). 

 

Increasingly racism is scene as a "thing of the past" despite the clear difference in outcomes for people of color and the white plurality. People of color have higher rates of poverty, higher rates of incarceration, longer jail sentences for the same crimes, lower graduation rates, etc. And no having a black President does not magically make all of this better. In fact, hate groups have increased in membership significantly since Obama took office. The refusal to take collective action to solve these pervasive problems would be bad enough if it weren't also in the context of a culture that has never really dealt with the legacy of slavery. 

 

In Germany, every one is taught how the German people are to blame for the Holocaust. They take responsibility for their terrible crime. Heck they even removed the first stanza from their national anthem because it was considered too jingoistic. In the South, we still have a confederate flag flying in front of the state house in South Carolina, and we make up a white washed (wording intended) version of history where the Civil War was about "state's rights" when in fact the state's right narrative was only introduced AFTER the Civil War was fought, and pretty much everyone at the time agreed it was about slavery. 

 

So yeah, if I had to deal with all that bullshit and some glib comments on the internet about how I need to "lighten up" (which is pretty ironic directed at a black person), I'd be pretty "sensitive" too. 

 

This. I didn't find the OP offensive either I just don't like the role of our leaders in human rights from the slavery dsy marginalized to the roles of puns and or simple comparisons that have nothing to do with actual human rights. I have nothing against the OP either. I just found it funny though when a couple of people had to jump on me on the first page for something like that. 

[Brooklyn Bully]

Ah, only in the South ... or Boston.

[Porn Shop Clerk]

is it cool if we compare gettleman to a porn star, like he's jenna jameson and our hog mollies are the premier starlets of wicked pictures?

[SCP]

Yeah this is a very good comparison because there were people that were enslaved by vampires and told that they were less than human beings and Abraham Lincoln was there to save them. That was the problem I had with this thread, it trivializes a serious dark past that will forever be a blight on humanity.

On a positive note look at the discussion it created and we got 3 CFL players to boot.

[Jon Snow]

Don't send it to an engineer we'll just ask, what do you want the answer to be?

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Hey! I'm an engineer and I resemble that remark!

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[SCP]

This thread is Al Gore's fault.