Where is the social media outcry?, I wouldn't bet on it... Options

[TallDarkAndHands...]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-38826211

Women are treated like slaves and animals in some countries. But lets all pretend its not happening. Im just surprised Trump the bogeyman has not been blamed. Just whatever you do don't say his name 3 times.... Trump, Trump, Trump....

Candyman....

[Turin Machine]

The impartial view of the Guardian even extends to the TV! Here's the word on last night's BBC drama SS GB,

"Part of me wonders if, in adapting this 1978 novel now, the BBC is unwittingly supplying Brexit propaganda. SS-GB may seem to be counterfactual history but it serves, too, as allegory of the all-too-real German domination Theresa May will trigger article 50 to escape."

Excuse me while I go and giggle behind the sofa!

[Simon Kirby]

The impartial view of the Guardian even extends to the TV! Here's the word on last night's BBC drama SS GB,

"Part of me wonders if, in adapting this 1978 novel now, the BBC is unwittingly supplying Brexit propaganda. SS-GB may seem to be counterfactual history but it serves, too, as allegory of the all-too-real German domination Theresa May will trigger article 50 to escape."

Excuse me while I go and giggle behind the sofa!

Do you see a correlation between Brexit and the prejudiced media coverage of stories with an Islamic angle?

[TallDarkAndHands...]

Do you see a correlation between Brexit and the prejudiced media coverage of stories with an Islamic angle?

The Rupert Murdoch owned press? Why do his papers sell more than the guardians of the world? If people didn't want to read a lot of the sensationist garbage in these red tops they wouldn't. They buy them because they don't want to read about how JC is saving the labour party (LOL) but they do want ro read about some terrorist thats living in the UK on benefits that they contribute towards. And it makes them cross and they vote brexit.

[Simon Kirby]

The Rupert Murdoch owned press? Why do his papers sell more than the guardians of the world? If people didn't want to read a lot of the sensationist garbage in these red tops they wouldn't. They buy them because they don't want to read about how JC is saving the labour party (LOL) but they do want ro read about some terrorist thats living in the UK on benefits that they contribute towards. And it makes them cross and they vote brexit.

Yes, but why the conflation of Brexit with anti-Islamic propaganda? The two things have nothing directly in common so to segue from one to the other is curious.

[TallDarkAndHands...]

Yes, but why the conflation of Brexit with anti-Islamic propaganda? The two things have nothing directly in common so to segue from one to the other is curious.

You are being facetious. You well know that snowflakes link brexit and islamophobia. Its a bit like saying you like Trump and are a remainer. They dont have anything to do with one another but ive not met a remainer who is pro trump? Have you?

[Andy Capp]

You are being facetious. You well know that snowflakes link brexit and islamophobia. Its a bit like saying you like Trump and are a remainer. They dont have anything to do with one another but ive not met a remainer who is pro trump? Have you?

I'm a Brexit and am 'anti-Trump'! Mind you, my Brexit vote had next to nothing to do with immigration.


Interesting passage discussing the merits of 'snowflake':

"So if the right are calling the left snowflakes for being liberal, and the left are calling the right snowflakes for expressing offence, and the old are calling the young snowflakes for being too thin-skinned, and the young are pointing out that the older generation seem to be the most offended by what they’re doing, then the only winner is the phrase itself. It’s particularly effective given that there’s really no comeback to it: in calling someone a snowflake, you are not just shutting down their opinion, but telling them off for being offended that you are doing so. And if you, the snowflake, are offended, you are simply proving that you’re a snowflake. It’s a handcuff of an insult and nobody has the key."

I'm also led to believe it was a phrase originally used to describe people who were against the abolition of slavery!